Follow the AdSense Heat Map

I’m barely making a few bucks off AdSense. So far I’m lucky if my monthly end balance tops over $100, otherwise I’d have to wait another month before I get another check from Google. Last time I got my check it was my first check. It took about a month and a half to get here by regular mail. The check is still being processed now, my bank said it’d at least take a month before the dough hits my account. I have to wait almost three months for a hundred dollars.

Some people have better luck than me. You’ll find a lot of them at the Webmaster World AdSense Forum, which I didn’t find out about until today.

There’s a thread there with a bunch of tips thrown out by the forum members. They’re calling it “Share 3 AdSense Tips” and it’s a gold mine for new publishers such as myself. Many talk about colors, layout, traffic and a myriad of other useful information. But what hit me the most is the truth about Google AdSense Heat Map, that it actually works. I took a look at it a few times in the recent past, mostly ignoring it because I thought I knew better. After all I’ve designed web pages for over five years now. I should know where people look, how their eyes follow certain rules and guidelines thrown before their eyes by the website designer. Stupid. If someone wants to smack me in the head this is a good time. Apparently Google was accurate about the heat map. People have reported that they doubled their CTR after relocating their ads to follow the heat map. I guess I’m not that much off, but I do have ads thrown out in cold zones. I guess it’s about time I redesign my blog. This current design is already over seven months old now. Yikes.