Tips How To Get CTR >10% After 6 Months Test And Trial

[Khalid Abdullah]

Before I continue this thread, it is useless if I don’t give the screenshot to prove it. Unfortunately, to give screenshot about CTR that I got means violation to the Google Adsense’s T.O.S.

If you are sitting next to me, I want to open my notebook and log in my Google adsense, so you can see my CTR is above 10%.

SO....., If you still believe what I said eventough You don't see the screenshoot, please continue reading this.

1. Use one column themes

I believe it heard strange (at least there is few people who discuss this idea in Digital Point forum).

For example, have you ever seen mini-site for sales page?

You ever did it, right! When you saw the mini-site for sales page, do you ever look around the page? Of course not, because in unconsciously you will focus to the sentences that the page have.

Truly, those words that hypnotize you make you focus to the sentences there, yet this mini-site with one column has roles to make you read it and scroll it carefully, and in seconds you want to buy the product that is offered.

I got that vision and try to make themes adsense in one column.

What fort?? Of course, it’s to make you focus on one thing. hahahaha.

2. The Placement is below the title and after third paragraph

Point one is the placement of adsense is below the title, so that the visitor will pay attention to the article and start to see adsense advertisement. It is worth enough to click it!

Visitors’ characteristics who will click it are the visitor who is searching in search engine and love to make many tabs. When they wait the loading process, they will see adsense advertisement (the adsense advertisement should have blue color like other link), suddenly they will click it.

Second point, the placement after third paragraph. Actually, there are no special placement standards in paragraphs.
But for this advertisement, this is dedicated for visitor who focuses to read the content.

For visitors who truly have read the article, and suddenly get trapped by the adsense advertisement, they will get tricked! Or if they are not see the advertisement at first time and when they are serious reading the article, the adsense advertisement show off!

I am sure that they will not focus, and by that time, they will click the adsense advertisement.

Note: For setting, I used like this: 336 X 280



3. In the end of content, it should have something which makes the visitors come back to above.

Here, I mean the related article. As we know that the placement of the advertisement is only at above, in 2 spot placements, like I have explained it in second point.

Our efforts are trying hard to make the visitors mind out of control (can only focus to the article), can go back to above! Hope that they will come back again and get trapped by adsense advertisement! hahaha

How to go about it?? I use the related article post. I use Automatic Link & Related Post plug-in by Purwedi Kurniawan.

4. Give link to be shared

For this point, the optimal thing can be categorized as “SEMI”.
What does it mean? You will know it through read more

So, if the visitor success to go out of the trapped in our 2 adsense in above, we tried to trap them with the related post, in order to open new article and hope they will click it this time..But if they don’t interest to click it, they have to share it!

It’s ok the visitor doesn’t click our adsense… but if the article is good, maybe the visitor wants to share it to friends. Retweet or like in Facebook. By sharing, we don’t get SEO point, but we get viral effect. This is important. And sometimes, we ignored it, because we are too addicted with SEO.

Note: just want to share; my friend got 3K – 5K visitors in a day. Where do the visitors come??? It is because of twitter!

Surprise! I also got surprised when I saw the wp admin who take care of it.

There is no traffic that comes from search engine inn his wp status, but comes from referrer site. And the referrer site is twitter.

He is only focus on sharing the nice info in his twitter. And the followers come, so that many visitors come too!

That’s why to set plug-in that has share facility is very important for me. It is like an obligatory.

My themes had been integrated to the share facility in some social bookmark.

Note: Don’t set many share facilities. 3 is enough. Retweet on Twitter, Like on Facebook, and Google+.

But if you want to add more, just add Digg, Stumble Upon, and Delicious (you can replace delicious with reedit) (those three sites are the lesson from SEO Demystified guidance)

Back to “SEMI”

This is why the visitor doesn’t want to share with friends, though all we need is click ‘retweet’. Do you want to know?

How if we are still reading it and got offered to share, but we don’t want it, what should we do?

I have 2 answers:

1. You exit the website.
2. Scroll above and find something to read or click.

Right???

Point one, we don’t expect it!

Point two is clear that our target is the visitor who comes back again and seeing the related post again!

Hope he or she will click it, and when he or she reads the new article, he or she will click the adsense advertisement!

In the end of article, I don’t set the adsense advertisement again. It would give the visitor 2 choices. Read the related article, doesn’t share it.

That’s all!

(The worst thing is the third choices, exit from our website)

This thread is made from my experience during my observation on the adsense placement and kinds of adsense that I set during 6 months.

5. Delete the Comment Form

Please, delete the comment form! Because in the end of article we had made noise with share and related post facilities. Don’t add more noise which can make visitors will not come back again to above. :-)

This is the steps to do it:

1. Go to Appearance --> Themes Editor

2. Go to Single Post (single.php)

3. Delete this part: " <?php comments_template(); ?> " ( no need to worry if it is error. It will not broken )

Hope it is worthwhile.

Proof

[App Developers]

great information. thanks for the post.

[36burrows]

I really like taking away the comment box as well. Serves no purpose if your sole purpose for the site is adsense! Great post

[Khalid Abdullah]

Originally Posted by App Developers

great information. thanks for the post.

thansk for give your comment to this thread sir :-)

[simonbuzz]

nice post dude..

[markowe]

Good post. I would mention that although I have had CTRs as high as 25% on a site, I have deliberately deoptimised the page so it would get less, e.g. by flowing text around the ads rather than placing them under the H1 header etc.

I don't want to send a lot of click-happy but non-converting visitors to advertisers. I believe that is a potential way to attract the wrong kind of attention from Google. Others will disagree with this, but I would rather not risk it - I want to hang on to my Adsense account.

So I agree you should optimise your pages in all these ways - just don't overdo it.

[emdubl]

Good info. I also try to remove the comment box from any site in which I do not plan on interacting with the user. It gives them one less place to look at and be distracted from my ads - and it cuts down on blog spam...

[paulgl]

I'm not sure if anyone who replied actually read the post because if they
did, they would all collectively reply, "Huh?"

Paul

[36burrows]

Originally Posted by paulgl

I'm not sure if anyone who replied actually read the post because if they
did, they would all collectively reply, "Huh?"

Paul

Well I think it's obvious his first language isn't English, but I think he did a pretty damn good job and you can make it out at least.

Your post isn't a very good addition to the thread though.

[xxxJamesxxx]

Well I think it's obvious his first language isn't English, but I think he did a pretty damn good job and you can make it out at least.

Your post isn't a very good addition to the thread though.

That's you told!

James

[JoshuaG]

Sometimes its good to leave the comments section.
If people use it for relevant discussion, it will add to your on-page SEO.

[Josh MacDonald]

I got 10% CTR several years ago, after 3 days of testing. It's common sense.

[lexilexi]

Love this post. The main important thing I can think of to add is to be careful not to trick people into clicking. Too many invalid clicks could mean an account ban - and I imagine that the way they may do this is to measure the bounce rate, if everyone clicks the ad and then 2 seconds later clicks back, it's a strong signal.
Sometimes, the kinds of changes that result in a CTR boost are really unexpected. The only way to be sure is to test. It's a lot easier to test on a high traffic page, because you see results fast.

[Khalid Abdullah]

Thanks for positive comment on my thread. yeah, I am not english people. I am Indonesian people. so sorry if there are many mistakes grammer in my thread.

[Khalid Abdullah]

Originally Posted by lexilexi

Love this post. The main important thing I can think of to add is to be careful not to trick people into clicking. Too many invalid clicks could mean an account ban - and I imagine that the way they may do this is to measure the bounce rate, if everyone clicks the ad and then 2 seconds later clicks back, it's a strong signal.
Sometimes, the kinds of changes that result in a CTR boost are really unexpected. The only way to be sure is to test. It's a lot easier to test on a high traffic page, because you see results fast.

thanks for your comment sir. yeah, eventough I always try to converts visitor comes to click on my adsense ads, I always give the visitors valuable article, so they will stay for long time in my blog.

my bounce rate is 50%. yeah not too good,but not too bad either

[Khalid Abdullah]

Originally Posted by JoshuaG

Sometimes its good to leave the comments section.
If people use it for relevant discussion, it will add to your on-page SEO.

yeah, you're right sir. but I hate so much with spam comment! really hate. so my decision is make my comment disable.

[daweelmac]

Nice post! But is it really necessary to disable the comment form?

[bigcaveman]

This is very good basic information, and anyone that wants to make a living with adsense should follow what Khalid Abdullah says.

Another important thing you should do is test everything. A slight change in your header, color scheme, or layout can bring back higher click through rates. It is different for every niche, so you will not know unless you test everything for yourself.

[Khalid Abdullah]

Originally Posted by daweelmac

Nice post! But is it really necessary to disable the comment form?

it depends your attention to your blog.

I have some blogs. so I do not watch my blog one by one. so I disable the comment from. I prevent spam attacks to my blog.

[Khalid Abdullah]

Originally Posted by daweelmac

Nice post! But is it really necessary to disable the comment form?

Originally Posted by bigcaveman

This is very good basic information, and anyone that wants to make a living with adsense should follow what Khalid Abdullah says.

Another important thing you should do is test everything. A slight change in your header, color scheme, or layout can bring back higher click through rates. It is different for every niche, so you will not know unless you test everything for yourself.

thanks for you appreciation in first paragraph sir :-)

and thanks for your additional comment in last paragraph. yeah it depends on our niche too :-) design, and another thing at interface for visitors :-)

[wishfulsuccess]

Interesting post about the single column thing. I'm not sure how to carry out twittering stuff though...

[StoneWilson]

One column theme sounds a good idea, maybe I should check it on new blogs. Hope it works.

[visimedia]

very nice tip..... will see another post of yours when I want to read ....

Keep it up, mate

[Khalid Abdullah]

Originally Posted by StoneWilson

One column theme sounds a good idea, maybe I should check it on new blogs. Hope it works.

please give the result after you have implemented my tips sir :-)

[Khalid Abdullah]

Originally Posted by visimedia

very nice tip..... will see another post of yours when I want to read ....

Keep it up, mate

okey sir.wait my next thread :-)