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Liked the blog. I have always believed a click from a visitor on your adsense ads is to show appreciation of the site you have just viewed and of course because the ad was of interest to me.

Thanks Jon! I really appreciate your encouragement!

I know I sounded very cynical, but I really do enjoy blogging and would continue even if there weren’t such things as Adsense and other ways to monitize it.

You mentioned hardly noticing my ads and believe it or not, that’s intentional on my part. I am focusing on traffic first; once I get it I’ll start tweaking the ads around.

I also have realized that the majority of Adsense clicks come from people who are just passing through my site as opposed to regular readers. Most of these people find it by search engine and only read an article if it is what they were looking for. If it’s not, I give them some Adsense options to find another article at the top.

Most of my regular readers are probably immune to the ads I place on my posts next to the picture, and that’s fine with me. I used to sprinkle ads throughout the post, but I found that the CTR was so low that the loss of aesthetics outweighed the benefits.

A regular reader would be surprised to know that my CTR is actually very competitive, although I am loosing clicks by not placing ads on my home and support pages. I noticed that I get a much larger percentage of serious readers on those pages as opposed to the post pages, so the ads are less effective anyway.

What I am interested in is the fact that John Chow (link in this post) gets the MAJORITY of his income from non-Adsense sources! In fact, it’s something like 80%. I will definitely look into diversifying my income streams and report back to everyone on the results.

Thanks again for participating in my blog!

Brian

Brian,

I like your blog a lot and I hope you keep it up.

maybe you should try experimenting with ad placement more. For example, I’m a regular reader of Steve Pavlina’s too, and I was often dragged into clicking adsense ads on his blog. On your site, I almost don’t notice them. Sure, I know the ads are there, but I can’t recall being pulled into any headline. Perhaps it’s the picture. I don’t know. Experiment! Wishing you all the best. Let us know what works

Jon

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