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Gamer Brief – The Drudge Report for Gamers

(written by BattleStrats)

I am one of the Drudge addicts that keep a tab open almost all day watching for breaking news. The site isn’t fancy and is meant to be something simple and easy to read.

I would like thoughts on my adsense placements. I have been reading a lot lately – followed some tips here from the experts.

I will be writing some stories and publishing them but the majority of my stories are basically a gaming news aggregator and just show people the top stories of the day.

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I’ll point out what I have so far.

Only Adsense is being used:

  • Above the top featured story is a leaderboard text/graphics image Above that leaderboard is a 728×15 Link Unit
  • 1st Column on Left side is Large Rectangle 336×280 text/graphics
  • 2nd Column 2 Linkunits placed side by side
  • 3rd Column Large Rectangle 336×280 ONLY TEXT

I have another site that is similar to this so I won’t ask you to help with both of them. Since if I get this one customized just right I can duplicate it there easily.

I do have another site that is completely different that I will ask for input once I feel I am finished with the first complete setup.

Thanks in advance

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I feel so defeated about losing CTR battle with some sites..

(written by JamesColin)

On some sites I can’t get to 5% CTR and it’s very annoying.

1.2% on one, less than 1% on two others..

While on the other hand, on other sites I have better results, in french one at 3% and one at around 20% !

Yes, I should be able to have CTR from 5% by ad placement, most of the time, no? But I can’t reproduce the ctr of over 10% on other sites..

I feel I have lost a global vision of ad placement to increase ctr, what works really? Not increasing from 1% to 2% but really rising the ctr to a minimum of 5% it’s not that hard?

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Intellitxt vs Kontera vs Adsense

(written by lifeinitaly)

I have been trying for a while to monetize better my site adding some other revenue streams to adsense.

After some research on the web I went with Intellitxt since basically all posts were declaring Intellytxt a clear winner in revenue so I tried Intellitxt in text ads for about 6 months. Recently a Kontera rep emailed me and offered me a good revenue split if I switched to Kontera.

I decided then to try Kontera since the implementation of in-text advertising is very simple – ( quite the opposite than implementing Ad Manager ) –

Anyway I was surprised to see a much better revenue from Kontera ads, which during the first 10 days of implementation are bringing in about 16.5% of Adsense revenue.

I will do more experimentation but the 16.5% seems just to be on top of Adsense (I mean it does not seem to take away from Adsense clicks).

My suggestion is anyway to test in text advertising and test with both Kontera and Intellitext – Also if your site interests the advertiser you might be able to get a better split than 50:50

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