Adsense Heat Map for Blogs and Forums

Adsense Help Center has released a new heat map to blogtimize or optimize Adsense on your blog.

See sample heat map below:

Remember that maximum number of Adsense ad blocks per page is 3 for content ads, 1 link ad unit, and 1 ad for search. Bear in mind that your blog’s layout will ultimately dictate how ads should be positioned.

For people running forums, here’s the suggested heat map:

See explanation here. Forums are inherently harder to monetize with Adsense because users have already gone accustomed to the ads and eventually become ad-blind so it’s good to change ad placements once in a while.

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