0.1% AdSense CTR- HELP!

[sleepysentry]

My websites below are getting a very low CTR:
www.pcfastlane.com
www.gsreview.com

I need help desperately improving my CTR! None of my visitors seem to like clicking on ads, even though I get 600-1000 ad impressions a day!

A good deal of my traffic comes from news websites. These visitors do not click on ads.

What are some tips for improving ad performance and how can I get visitors who do click on ads? What am I doing wrong? I'm very frustrated here.

 

[iMersky]

Mix them in with your content.

Yours looks like this
Ads
Article
article-article

Try arranging it like this
Article
Ads
Article-Article

or

Article
Ads-Article

or

Article
Ads-Article

Well you get the point. Try re positioning see if you get better performance.

 

[Epic]

Don't use 468x60 ads.

Those notoriously have low CTR.

Use one of the square ones and put it in the middle of your article.

 

[sleepysentry]

How does pcfastlane.com look now?

I made it so I have articles on the left side and ads on the right. Both the articles and ads look similar.

 

[Epic]

Its a little better, but try to put some square ads in the middle of your articles. Also remove the borders.

 

[sleepysentry]

How does this look:
http://www.pcfastlane.com/joomla/content/view/77/37/

 

[sb225]

i think this thread should be in goodleadsense forum because of topic is adsense ctr

your site is good but as imersky said use like that to get better clicks

 

[Epic]

How does this look:
http://www.pcfastlane.com/joomla/content/view/77/37/

Yes that is good. Maybe move it up a little bit in the article though.

 

[aotgroup]

there are some interesting articles on google adsense site by existing users that say how they mix there ads into their websites. This might be of use to you.

 

[admans]

I would suggest, blending your ads to look like a part of your article with titles of Google Adsense having same color and size as that of any link in your site. This should be enough to give you a needed CTR boost. Also, using square at top and text links ads in articles will give you good CTRs IMHO>

Regards,

Admans.