Proper ad placement

For the past few days, I kept on experimenting on my Google Adsense placement. If you are not new here, you will notice that I removed the 160 x 600 Wide Skyscaper ad on my left sidebar. Instead, I used the 728 x 90 Leaderboard now, just below the Google Search box. I just found out that it performs better than the Wide Skyscraper. Maybe because it can be seen easily by the visitors, and it seems to be a part of the content and not an advertisement.

My link units perform the best of all the ad formats. I earned at least 70% of my Adsense income from these link units. I don't know why. =) Maybe because the visitors think it as part of the menu, so they click on them. Good.

As you can see, based on my experience, you can earn a "not that bad" amount of blog money if you blogtimize your blog. Proper ad placement can really make a difference. Now that I feel that my blogs are already blogtimized, the next step is to increase traffic. More traffic = more clicks possible = more blog money.

If you want to see how I properly coded my textmates blog, you can download its template here. You are free to use it anyway you want. You can study it or use it as your template.

That's all folks!

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