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Below the Fold Bonanza
12:28 PM on Sep. 15, 2008
Filed under: Content Development
I just reviewed my Adsense stats and am seeing a counter-intuitive pattern emerging.I have a few sites where I am putting all my adsense blocks below the fold. And these are turning out to be my highest converting sites!I think this must be due to my style of copy. This is something I have been struggling with for a while.Most adsense targeted articles tend to be perky and vague. Loaded with enough keywords to get the search engines' interest, and topped with a great attention getter, they are then filled with pap. This gets the reader clicking in search of more. This has posed a bit of an ethical dilemma for me. Play the game and get the clicks, or write something I can be proud of and have a longer copy.The problem with "above the fold" placement of adsense is that it is out of site by the time the reader gets to the end of my articles. And yes I'm assuming the reader actually get to the end of them. A lot of long copy articles are engineered to bore the reader early on. I try to keep the flow going and the interest steady.I'm going to play with this for a while and see if the theory holds. This way I can write something I am happy with and still get the clicks as the reader continues their research.Colin


Comments (4)
colinjn - 8:20 AM on Oct. 2, 2008  [ message ]
Love that clicktale but it is humbling as well. Above the fold continues to be red hot on the heat maps. So I'm moving my adsense back up there. People are ignoring the widgets, so they are heading south. Embedded video attracts'em like flies to...whatever, but I'm not sure if the clicks will follow. My adsense videos are not doing much. Time to rethink a few things.
colinjn - 7:31 AM on Sep. 22, 2008  [ message ]
just installed clicktale and will monitor the sites. I'm also thinking of putting in a new channel in every area. Just one more thing on the to do list.
colinjn - 1:32 PM on Sep. 17, 2008  [ message ]
Thinking of learning how to use heat map software.
JoelOwnby - 9:33 AM on Sep. 16, 2008  [ message ]
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