New Google Ad Techniques And A Note From A Reader

Posted by on May 9, 2008 in Random Blabber | 3 comments

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.

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  3. Make Money While Keeping Users Happy
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  5. Why Apple Keeps Secrets

3 comments

  1. Eman
    10 May ’08

    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

  2. Jozzua
    14 May ’08

    Eman, hello. Do you use wordpress or blogger? It depends on what platform you are using.

  3. Business Technology Blogger
    21 May ’08

    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!