Comments & Suggestions

[easttech]

Hi,

I started a website http://www.dxout.com and like so many of us, have put AdSense ads throughout it. I tried all the tricks to try and blend in the ads to the content, mixing in real ads with them. color etc. and I haven’t seen a great increase in clicks. I’ve notice my money per click has been less lately and my content hasn’t changed, but that’s another story.

I would appreciate if some of the users here who have a great record of AdSense revenue form their sites, could pop over and take a look to see if I can do anything better to help increase click thru. I use the same layout for all my pages so if you can just look at the homepage and then the forum, to see what I’m trying to do.

Thanks and all comments, suggestions and constructive criticisms are all welcome.

easttech

[Matthew]

The site looks generally good, but I have a few suggestions.

The first is to remove the right bar as all it contains is a Google Ad and another smaller ad below it. Removing this bar will give more room for the content that you have provided.

Also, I would remove one of the box units and move it to the bottom of the page so that the users have something to click on when they are done reading.

The last thing is to increase the line spacing of your paragraphs as it seems to be a bit crowded. You can do this in your CSS stylesheet. Instead of putting:


.whitetext1 {
font-family: Tahoma;
font-size: 11px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-align: left;
padding: 7px 5px 7px 8px;
***** line-height: 11px; ******
}


you could put:


.whitetext1 {
font-family: Tahoma;
font-size: 11px;
font-weight: bold;
color: #FFFFFF;
text-align: left;
padding: 7px 5px 7px 8px;
**** line-height: 1; ****
}


without the stars of course. This will give you more even line spacing. You may even consider 1.1 or 1.2 to give even more white space. This will eliminate the crammed look on your site.

[easttech]

Thanks Matthew,

I understand the sytle sheet change, but are you suggesting I remove the AdSense ads that are in the middle right of my content and relocate them to the end of my pages?

Thanks.

[Matthew]

Your welcome!

Actually I only suggested to move one of the ads to the bottom as you have two box ads in a row.

[ross]

Just a minor comment but i'd rather not provide my complete birthdate when registering.