New Google Ad Techniques And A Note From A Reader
Two quick topics today.
New AdSense Style
First, as I was going about my business in the SEO Philippines forums, I came across an interesting Adsense Ad. The following is a screen shot.
Notice the use of a separator bar between the words. -> |
If my guess is right, this Ad is disguising itself as a menu. Some websites use the separator for navigational menu items. In a small banner Google Ad, this ad could definitely mistaken for a web site’s menu. Perhaps that is the intention - so that users would click on the ad, thinking it was a menu item.
From A Reader
And now, something from one of the comments on the my last post about making money while keeping users happy.
Dear Tita Charo,
have you come up with a recommended lay-out?
I’m having a problem with adsense right now. I thought this might be caused by my sucky lay-out. Help!
Sucky lay-out guy
My response:
Dear Sucky Layout guy, I recommend we follow Google’ suggested layout and then test the hell out of it.
- Jozzua, designer-pretender guy.
MAGNIFICENT ELY The Technopreneur: This is my blog on usability, design, technopreneurship - with a dash of love, life and success thoughts. (Jozzua was my old 'telnet days' chat name).
dear designer-pretender guy,
thanks for the advise.
i tried to re-do my site’s skin. when shit hit the fan. i had a hard time recovering the pieces (sniff) could you post a for dummy’s guide on blog skin modification? and please recommend sites with simple yet classy (?!) blog skins.
(still) sucky lay-out guy
Eman, hello. Do you use wordpress or blogger? It depends on what platform you are using.
Eman,
You may want start looking here: http://www.osskins.com/main/ found some really good and free themes there. If you are using wordpress, there also some good Joomla and drupal templates there. although not all of them are free.
Cheers!