btw Garry, Thank you very much for the information and tips you share with us. I am learning many things from them.

Position comes secondary. Right side has more chances to be clicked (intentionally or by mistake)

I use FireFox for most of my surfing as well, but I nebver turn off ads … I read them the same as I read other parts of blogs that interest me … and click on a ad occassionally which interests me. I found several blogs I currently read from ads they had placed on other sites. I click on ads for items I think I may want to buy or to learn more about something I am curious about.

Ads are an important part of newspaers and magazines that I buy … I certainly don’t sit down and cut them out with a razor blade before reading *smile*.

Off topic, I have not been posting the past two days as my mom is in a bad way. I am mentioning this because I read about you and your family caring for your dad. We did that, too, and he passed away last year. We are now caring for my bedridden mom. Working at home is really a blessing in that it allows us to care for our family.

Ok, all kidding aside, here is an article direct from Google that might help you with improving the relevancy in your ads in your Google Adsense ad units:

https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=23168

Good luck with that, and let me know if there is anything else I can do to help you.

If you don’t mind me offering a suggestion to you, I think you should make a choice between Google Adsense or Amazon.com affiliate program. I feel that running both is somewhat a conflict of interest.

I have experience with both programs, and both can make you a great deal of money online if used correctly, but I have had terrible luck running both at the same time.

I would run nothing but Adsense for one month and see how it does. then I would run one month using Amazon and see how that does.

Let me know these ideas interest you and then I can give you more detailed suggestions based on the choices you make. I can help you make an attempt to make Google Adsense more effective on your site for you and or offer advise on running the Amazon ads.

Overall, you are spreading yourself too thin on the site. There is too much to click on your site and unless you have thousands of visits per day, it is probably hard to see the overall growth of your income in all these programs combined. Where if you exercised focus and effort towards one program solely, you could visible see better results.

Again, just some helpful friend to friend suggestions… If you want some help, I will be happy to provide more details.

I am curious as to why you participate in a program on your site that you feel is so offensive that you take these extreme measures to block the ads that appear on other sites?

I can understand why someone would want to block the ads… but I am more curious about why you block the ads on other sites but run the ads on your own site. I would guess it is about the money. But then I have to also ask, if it is about the money, why not run with a different business model, something that you personally buy into yourself.

I am not trying to create controversy, I am a pretty open minded guy, but it almost seems like a one way steet here. I am not trying to offend you, I am just curious to hear your response to this becausee there are people that actually click on ads that interest them and do so knowing that it gives the site owner a little bit of a “reach around”.

I would imagine that it is against Google TOS to discuss how much money I make per day by participating in Google Adsense, but I can say that after running Google Adsense for 48 hours so far on this site, it has done pretty well. And I would imagine everyone that clicked on these ads did this knowing that they were helping me out. But also they know not to abuse the system and only click on ads that truly interest them. This makes me feel real good knowing that people want to help me and also have trust in the program I choose to run on the site. If I didn’t support Google Adsense and if I didn’t buy into the program, I wouldn’t participate in it. And I surely wouldn’t present these ads to my trusted readers. Naturally I have other sites that run Google Adsense and they do very well, but these are sites that are designed to target “Click Happy” traffic (as we are calling it that on this thread).

Within the last 48 hours, because of my reader’s support and desire to investigate the content within Google Adsense, I can take my kids out to Dairy Queen for a special treat! I love it and appreciate the help. I am also confident in Google ability to provide my readers with excellent resources. I believe that if I continue to write excellent content then Google will provide my readers with excellent links.

Now, depending on how well the end result of this test is, will determine if I will continue using Google Adsense on this site. As I have mentioned before, I am all about making money online, but this site is more focused on helping others do it creatively and not the other way around.

I am taking into consideration the amount of money I make and I am weighing it against how relevant and useful these ads are for my readers. I want to use Google Adsense to assist me in providing my readers with advise, tips and tools on being successful online.

As for how do I rate the ads, lately all it is are those darn ebooks for making millions of dollars. Or helium of course and I’m already a member there.

I tend to actually click on the text link ads inside a paragraph that I’m reading to see where it takes me. Normally I avoid those giant ones that have the one picture on them. Well not sure if this helped or it was what you are looking for.

Typically, I think that the targeted ads in adsense works very good. However, as some users have pointed out, there is always that weird one that on the surface doesn’t appear to have anything to do with the site.

As far as the content of links provided by adsense, it varies. I would have to say that I have seen a lot of sites that are clearly SEO optimized. They are rich in content but aren’t really appearing to the eye. However, I have also seen pages that are very appealing to the eye, and I have actually favorite’d and gone back to some sites I found via adsense ads.