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[glen]

Hi everyone,

I have been reading on a few threads discussing the possibility of increasing click through rates when the Adsense Ads are accurately aligned with other elements within your website.

For example, you might have an image gallery and have a row of 4 photographs or pictures. Below that you can have a row of 4 Adsense Ads (in leaderboard format) that are perfectly aligned with the 4 columns.

So the code you might use could be as follows -

<table border=&#34;0&#34; cellspadding=&#34;0&#34; cellspacing=&#34;0&#34; width=&#34;728&#34;>
    
    <tr>
        <td width=&#34;182&#34;>Image/Picture<br> and Text here</td>
        <td width=&#34;182&#34;>Image/Picture<br> and Text here</td>
        <td width=&#34;182&#34;>Image/Picture<br> and Text here</td>
        <td width=&#34;182&#34;>Image/Picture<br> and Text here</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td colspan=&#34;4&#34;>
            Adsense Leaderboard Code Here
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

Image/Picture and Text here	Image/Picture and Text here	Image/Picture and Text here	Image/Picture and Text here
Adsense Leaderboard Code Here - Adsense Leaderboard Code Here - Adsense Leaderboard Code Here - Adsense Leaderboard Code Here - Adsense Leaderboard Code Here - Adsense Leaderboard Code Here - Adsense Leaderboard Code Here - Adsense Leaderboard Code Here

Depending on how you go about doing this, I think it would not breach the Adsense Program Policies. However, you should double check with Google before using this method just to be safe.

I think the relevant passages of the Adsense Policy which you must be careful to adhere to are those relating to "Incentives" and "Labelling Ads":

https://www.google.c...dsense/policies

Quote

Incentives Web pages may not include incentives of any kind for users to click on ads. This includes encouraging users to click on the ads or to visit the advertisers' sites as well as drawing any undue attention to the ads. This activity is strictly prohibited in order to avoid potential inflation of advertiser costs. For example, your site cannot contain phrases such as "click here," "support us," "visit these links," or other similar language that could apply to any ad, regardless of content.

Labeling Ads Publishers may not label the ads with text other than "sponsored links" or "advertisements." This includes any text directly above our ads that could be confused with, or attempt to be associated with Google ads.

[glen]

Here are a couple of sites that are using this technique -

http://drawapig.desktopcreatures.com/

[glen]

here is another good example -

http://yirmumah.net/

[glen]

I found another brilliant example at

http://www.123promotion.co.uk/ppc/

This example is something I will try to mimic. I especially like how the images (either side of the links) change each time the page is refreshed.



Cheers, Glen

[NeoGen]

Even I am using this tip at one of my site:

WebHostRank

[glen]

nicely done NeoGen! welcome to the forums

i noticed you have the same ad "wiggle/jiggle" issue on your site (when viewed with the firefox browser) that was previously discussed in the following forum thread -

Adsense "jiggles" In Firefox Browser

cheers, glen

[NeoGen]

Interesting, even I am using Mozilla, in fact I only use mozilla and never noticed this problem.

I am using version 1.0.4

Thanks for the link. However the question is, can we alter the google code as suggested there. Will it be ok by the TOS.

Regards

[lytrix]

WOW! This is some really tricky method. I have to look really hard to be able tell the contents apart from the ads. Crazy!

[glen]

I found a site that provides a fantastic variation on the "images near ads" routine.

When someone types in a search term, the images dynamcially change to the that topic! This guy must be a very good programmer and has managed to extract the relevant images directly from the Google cache! If you do a search for "golf" as I have done in the attached screenshot you will get gold related images...and some of the ads dynamically become "golf" ads. If you use the google image search you will find these same images in the first few pages of the search results.

I don't think the execution was good as it could have been but the concept has great potential!

Cheers, Glen

http://www.123promot...k/ppc/index.php

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[Joseph]

Here is another nice example -



Cheers, Jo

[glen]

Here is another nice example I found...The images of the phones change from page to page.

Here is the code that is being used to generate the ever changing images

	<TABLE width="728" border="0" align="center" cellspacing="0" cellspadding="0">
  <TR>
 	 <TD width="182"><IMG src="http://www.free-ringtones-nokia.com/rotator1.php">
 	 </TD>
 	 <TD width="182"><IMG src="http://www.free-ringtones-nokia.com/rotator2.php">
 	 </TD>
 	 <TD width="182"><IMG src="http://www.free-ringtones-nokia.com/rotator3.php">
 	 </TD>
 	 <TD width="182"><IMG src="http://www.free-ringtones-nokia.com/rotator4.php">
 	 </TD>
  </TR>
  <TR>
 	 <TD colspan="4">Adsense code
 	 </TD>
  </TR>
	</TABLE>

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[Kevin]

Have to say I don't like the images aligned either side of the ads, it's puts to much in the way of the actual ad.

The way my new site is laid out it will not take a full 728*90 ad so I'm going to go with the 468 banner. Anyone tried this? What do you think of the results.

Kevin

[Kevin]

Placing images beside or below ads seems to be the in thing at the moment and it does seem to be successful, if you are to believe all you read on the forums.

The quest is where do you find your images, photos, etc. Recommondations for public domain and or royality free image sites welcomed.

Kevin.

[glen]

you might like to check out this site

http://www.kde-look....xcontentmode=22

[glen]

Here is another nice example of a whacky adsense ad -

http://www.preloved.co.uk/fuseaction-forum...9/0d7fb9a1.html

<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
	<td colspan="3"><img src="top.gif" width="533" height="15" alt="" border="0"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td><img src="left.gif" width="33" height="60" alt="" border="0"></td>

	<td>
Adsense Code Here
	</td>
	<td><img src="right.gif" width="32" height="60" alt="" border="0"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
	<td colspan="3"><img src="bottom.gif" width="533" height="16" alt="" border="0"></td>
</tr>
</table>

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[glen]

Another good adsense example -

http://www.osx-e.com/

The following code has been used -

<style type="text/css">
body {margin: 0; padding: 0; background: #fff;}

#adsense {
	width: 416px;
	height: 318px;
	float: right;
	padding: 0;
	border: 0;
	margin: 0;
	background-color: #FFFFFF;
	background: no-repeat;	
	background-image: url(http://www.osx-e.com/images/intro_dotm_right.gif);
}
#adsense .padder {padding: 20px 5px 5px 50px;}

</style>


  <div id="adsense">
  <div class="padder">
Ad Code
</div>
  </div>

The image intro_dotm_right.gif is used to create a background and has the curved edge. So no table is required. Nice approach.

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[Kevin]

glen, on Sep 8 2005, 02:20 PM, said:

Another good adsense example -

http://www.osx-e.com/

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I like it! I like it!
Kevin

[Kevin]

Hi Guys
Hope you can help me out. I've the following code which places images to the left of a 336x280 adsense block.

<table width='100%' border='0' cellspacing='0' cellpadding='0'>
<tr>
<td width='99%'>
<table align='center'><tr>
<td width="55" height="311" align='right' valign='top'><br>
<br>
<img src="http://google.com/images?q=tbn:TEztyErLl6oJ:www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/images/Figure9.jpg
" height="50" width="50" alt='.' /><br><br>
<img src="http://google.com/images?q=tbn:shMVuaVik1EJ:www.angelfire.com/co3/evilstresscow/images/superbanana.jpg
" height="50" width="50" alt=' info.' /><br><br>
<img src="http://google.com/images?q=tbn:TcfodPoTU6IJ:www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/morton/images/Figure10.jpg
" height="50" width="50" alt=' stuff.' /><br><br>
<img src="http://google.com/images?q=tbn:qWFXOkdiwgEJ:www.fountainphoto.com/archives/banana-split-large.jpg
" height="50" width="50" alt='Example of ' /> </td> <td width="34">
<center>
Adsense Code Goes Here
</center>
</td>

</tr>
</table>

But I can't figure out how I can get the text to flow to the right of the ad block. Any suggestions?

Kevin

[glen]

http://home.att.net/...text_table.html

this might do the trick

[glen]

This was a nice example of placing a graphic border around an Adsense Ad block. In this case the ad was 468 by 60 banner.

<TABLE border="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#006699" height="100" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
		<TR>
			<TD>
				<DIV align="center">
					<TABLE border="0" width="488" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" background="http://www.adsenseguide.info/images/468_60_bg.jpg" height="90" bgcolor="#006699">
						<TR>
							<TD>
								<DIV align="center">Google Ad here 468 by 60
								</DIV>
							</TD>
						</TR>
					</TABLE>
				</DIV>
			</TD>
		</TR>
	</TABLE>

Here is what the final ad looked like:



And here is the border graphic (provided for example only please do not duplicate):