Also, anything above the fold (the portion of a page that is viewed without having to scroll down) has a higher click-through rate as well.

On the pictures thing, I thought there was some controversy over that based on the Adsense TOS?

Anybody hear about that?

Michael

Don't ever tell people to click on your ads unless you want to get banned.

I also suggest that you set up your page with a logger, in case someone tries to get you banned by repeatedly clicking on your ads, you will have proof to google that it was one person.

I know a lot of people who have got banned for no reason of theirs, and they had no log to show google.

The only option after that was to go to Yahoo.

Chamel, this sounds like good advice. But what is a "logger" and where does one get one?

Thanks,
Bella

A website logger is a tracking program that you install on your website that tells you the Ip of your visitors, what browser they are using, what part of the world they are coming from etc...

It really helps you as a webmaster to get the data from your visitors. There are many website logging programs on the market.

One free one that is quite good is Stat Conter at http://www.statcounter.com

I'm sure there are others here that can tell you which ones they use.

Hope this helps

Charles

Great tip until Adsense announced this today. Google clarifies policy regarding images surrounding ads.

Looks as if Google is protecting their Adwords customers from any unintentional clicks

Looks like we have to go back and place the ads back in the hot spots and to be sure not to lead the vistor and tell them to click the ads.

Post edited by: dahost, at: 2006/12/19 10:22