Comments on: Less Options Equal More Clicks?

By: Danger Stevens

Danger Stevens — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Definitely keep us posted with how these work. I’m really interested to see how webdrugdatabase turns out because I’ve got a site with a similar concept (entirely different concept) and I’m not sure how I should be running my layout/ads.

Thanks for this!

By: Eoghann Irving

Eoghann Irving — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I have noticed that on those of my blogs which have “clean” archive pages, the CTR for adsense is much higher than those which are busy with related links, categories, readers comments etc. Most of the traffic going to the archive pages, as opposed to new entries, is coming from the search engines. As a result I’m looking seriously at re-working the designs of some of my other blogs to set up the archive pages similarly.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Paul,

I want to thank you and congratulate you.

Thanks for posting these comments and highlighting their voice. You are on your way to further educating people with your voice and on your way to being duly compensated for doing so.

Your WebDrugDatabase is very informative and full of opportunities to provide educational content to those that are looking for it.

I’d love to take credit for those tips, but the voice belongs to those who have educated me over the years. And here’s a way for you to quickly and easily grab the gist of that education ….go to Paul Short’s site @ BlogLogic, contact Paul and DEMAND that he finish Content Cash Inferno ver. 2.0…I have ver. 1.0 and I incorporated that info along with 2 other teachers, who I will name if you contact me. Those two, along with Paul have enabled us to multiply our AdSense revenues by over 500%, on most days now, as compared to previous to their entrance into our life.

You are a very talented writer and your voice deserves to be heard from here to yon.

Again, I thank you for the opportunity to further express my small voice on such a big venue.

Mike

By: Ryan Latham

Ryan Latham — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think that in theory you are on to something with your less equals more clicks; but I think you have failed to see what you are really looking at. It should be “Less Options Equal More Money?”

The fact is that Google displays higher paying ads first. Why? Becasue the advertisers are paying them more moeny to show them. Running two sets of two may see a higher eCPM and CTR than running 3 sets of 4; but in the end, is it worth it?

Less options means that if they do click an ad you are likely to see a higher denomination for it; however less options means you are also likely to see less clicks. I do not like to be overbearing whti my ads either, but I think that less options may not be an approach that works out as you anticipate.

Although it is clever thinking, and I respect where your thoughts lie; I just don’t know if in the end it will be as beneficial as you hope.

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ryan I think you are looking at it as me saying I am taking away the ads, but leaving all the content that was there before. What I meant was that I am taking away almost everything, including the extra content so there should be more of a chance for the users to click on the ads.