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

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.

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 )

For the last point, sometimes I activate comment form, sometimes not. it's up to you

Hope it is worthwhile.

Sorry if my language is not right. I am from Indonesia. But I hope you got the point!

My Custom Ads:

Proof:

You rock!! Khalid Abdullah..
your share can improve my ctr..
keep sharing..

Originally Posted by aladiw

You rock!! Khalid Abdullah..
your share can improve my ctr..
keep sharing..

thanks sir

Nice share but I found some many people scared about getting high CTR. From many sources I’ve read normal CTR would be 2-4% only, so if you’re exceed it then your account can be suspected. What do you think?

Originally Posted by akira07

Nice share but I found some many people scared about getting high CTR. From many sources I’ve read normal CTR would be 2-4% only, so if you’re exceed it then your account can be suspected. What do you think?

I think, if we still do the right thing ( do not break the T.O.S, ), we will be save forever. ( read adsenserecipe.com by corry. he gets ctr 20% )

Awesome tips man.Keep it up! Do you offer this as a service? l am interested!

Great tutorial, thanks!

I know you mentioned the color of your ads, do you match your website theme to blend together with the ad colors, or do the ads stand out on purpose?

Also, what ad sizes did you find most effective under the header and after 3rd paragraph?

Originally Posted by phobia170

Awesome tips man.Keep it up! Do you offer this as a service? l am interested!

No sir this is just a tips from me

---------- Post added 12-24-2011 at 09:29 AM ----------

Originally Posted by burgers

Great tutorial, thanks!

I know you mentioned the color of your ads, do you match your website theme to blend together with the ad colors, or do the ads stand out on purpose?

Also, what ad sizes did you find most effective under the header and after 3rd paragraph?

I use my custom themes actually sir.

but for your info, my themes dominated with blue.

"Also, what ad sizes did you find most effective under the header and after 3rd paragraph? "

for under the header, I never use it. for after 3rd parahraph, I use custom setting like in this thread

Originally Posted by Khalid Abdullah

I think, if we still do the right thing ( do not break the T.O.S, ), we will be save forever. ( read adsenserecipe.com by corry. he gets ctr 20% )

Wow that's a high number of click through rate.
OK, in case you can guarantee you're playing in white area then it's no problem.

Originally Posted by akira07

Wow that's a high number of click through rate.
OK, in case you can guarantee you're playing in white area then it's no problem.

yap! that's conclusion

What themes you using, if not a secret?!

Thanks!

Originally Posted by vectevs

What themes you using, if not a secret?!

Thanks!

Hehehe, I custom the themes which I use myself.

thanks sir keep sharing. very nice

Originally Posted by shinjukusamurai

thanks sir keep sharing. very nice

you're welcome sir

This is super helpful. Even just the first point--single column layout--blew my mind!

Originally Posted by matt33138

This is super helpful. Even just the first point--single column layout--blew my mind!

heheh let's try sir and you will see which I said is true.

I'm definitely going to try this out on the next site I build. Just to test your theory in the crucible of real world experience.

My CTR has never remotely approached 10% on a consistent basis, so I'm definitely excited to experiment with your ideas.

Originally Posted by matt33138

I'm definitely going to try this out on the next site I build. Just to test your theory in the crucible of real world experience.

My CTR has never remotely approached 10% on a consistent basis, so I'm definitely excited to experiment with your ideas.

I test this theory with my custom wp themes sir

let's chek the screenshoot to prove my theory is right ( screesnhoot above )