CTR - How to REALLY improve it?

[FIRE]

Hi, me again.
Just that question: how can i improve the CTR of my sites in a solid way?
ANd what do you think of techniques given in sites like www.increasectr.com??
Thanks.!!

 

[claudek]

The front page is straight out violating the Adsense TOS. There is no bar or border of any kind between the images and Adsense. If google sees this, the adsense account could be banned.

Kinda stopped looking at that page once I saw that, so no idea on anything else it says.

 

[jerxs]

Im thinking Google is cool with that, I think YPN would be a different story. I may be wrong though

 

[kyleirwin]

some consider the 1px black border around the entire image good enough.

 

[Jon]

There is nothing in Google's TOS that says you cannot use images near your ads. Furthermore, it's only been hinted by Google that by putting a 1 pixel border around your images keeps it kosher. Considering that a 1px border is quite small, then it doesn't really matter overall. But as long as it's not listed in their TOS, then it's technically fine.

YPN is a whole 'nother story. They require publishers to seperate the images from the ads. They are becoming more and more strict about it too. So unless you put a very thick/solid border seperating the images from the YPN ads, you may be in violation, and may lose your account for life. It would definitely suck to be banned before they come out of beta, because I heard there are a ton of new enhancements coming our way this Fall.

 

[hitzatak]

Like hopefully stop neglecting their international publishers?

 

[FIRE]

Like hopefully stop neglecting their international publishers?

Nice point.


ANy other ways to improve a CTR? I am using those images system, but it is not working so fine as expected.

 

[engaged]

Like hopefully stop neglecting their international publishers?

It's not neglect, it's called reduce click-fraud before it happens.

 

[chovy]

a border is not required, why do you think they have a layout called "OpenAir"?