May/070
Adlink Success – A New Advertising Style From Google Adsense
There is a new advertising style from Google Adsense that is available in your Adsense panel, it is called “Google Ad Links.”
This new ad system presents a list of 4 or 5 vertical links(you can pick either 4 or 5 and Google will supply the actually links) to your site visitors, when the visitors click on one of the targeted contextual words it displays a results page from Google listing ten Adwords advertiser’s ads for this related topic.
Here is what Google says Adlinks are: “What are Ad Links by Google?
Ad Links are a new form of text advertising that we're offering to our AdSense publishers. Using the same contextual targeting algorithm that targets Google ads to your content pages, Ad Links units display a list of topics that are relevant to your page. Each topic, when clicked, brings the user to a page of related advertisements.
The result is advertisements that are closely targeted to the interests of your users. By selecting the topics through interaction with the ad unit, users are presented with useful information in the form of related advertisements. Their direct involvement with the evolution of the ad unit guarantees an interest in the ads that are presented.”
Positive Aspects of Adlinks:
They allow you to blend this in with sections of your links which will get more visitors to click on them, inevitably increase your Adsense revenue.
The Adlinks ads display 10 ad results when clicked without cluttering you page.
Google’s rules allow you to place three Adsense code block on a website. If you are doing this near say a 500 word article it can distract the visitor from viewing the article. With Adlinks you can still display 1 block of normal Adsense code and the Adlinks block and it keeps your page relatively nice looking while still giving you revenue potential.
Negative Aspects of Adlinks:
Adlinks requires your visitors to make two clicks. One on the original Adlinks block and one when they view the Adlink results. As any marketer knows the more actions you need a visitor to take the less the response rate.
Where are the best places to display Adlinks ads?
The best place to display them are within your navigation menu. Try to make them blend in as best as possible.
Another great place to put them is at the end of an article suggesting an interested reader view these resources. When doing this the reader is very targeted since they red your whole article and if they are likely leaving your website, why not let them leave through Adlinks and make some money?
Are Adlink ads as effective as the normal ad blocks?
Well some have seen positive results while other have not. Personally I am going to test it some more to see what kind of results and make my decision then.
May/070
A temporary room with a view
I've settled into the chalet up the hill. It's very calm and quiet and the dogs are very well behaved. Even Otti the pupster recognises that I'm the boss and what I say goes. I took them for a walk up to the Heidi village in the rain yesterday which wasbeautiful . With full waterproofs on I only got wet boots and a few hours on top of the oil burner sorted that out. Only problem was on the way backOtti disappeared . I waited around for her, and Bubba waited with me. At least I could still see Bubba. When I finally decided to walk back up the hill a bit to see what the score was,Bubba didn't come. When I got back neither dog was there and I walked back to the chalet with a heavy heart imagining the phone call to Corin I'd have to make telling him I'd lost his puppy.
Of course both dogs were sitting in front of the oil burner getting warm and dry by the time I got back.
This morning I've set up a temporary office for myself to use until Tuesday when the owners are back. It's a basic desk made of trestles and chipboard nicked from the work going on, but look at the view. Stunning.
