: How to place highest paying AdSense ad in best performing location? So if AdSense places the highest paying ad in the first ad block in your HTML (I’ve read this from multiple sources, if

@Si4351233

One solution is to change the position with css. As you are going to be swapping the ad positions I would rename them in the HTML too to save confusion.

<div id="imagesequence">
<div class="prev">...</div>
<div class="ad_right">...</div>
<div class="image">...</div>
<div class="ad_left">...</div>
<div class="next">...</div>
</div>


Then in your CSS you would do;
#imagesequence {
position: relative;
}
.ad_left, .ad_right {
position: absolute;
}
.ad_left {
left: 50px; /* to account for the 'prev' div */
}
.ad_right {
right: 50px;/* to account for the 'next' div */
}


I havn't tested but you will probably have to adjust the width on the image block, as the ads will no longer be affecting the position of the image. It will probably we as simple as adding margin: 0 160px to the image to account for the width of the ads.

Another option is (as you said) to switch them with javascript. You're already loading jQuery so you could do something like:

$(".ad_left").after($(".image"));
$(".ad_right").before($(".image"));


I havn't tested that, and I would change the class names to IDs or at least something more specific if you're going to use javascript, to avoid any problems.

I wouldn't worry too much about having the ads next to the image, as it's opened from a gallery it's pretty obvious the ads are ads (edit: I am in no way an expert on what Google does or thinks, this is just my opinion). I did notice you're hiding the ad with display:none; with media queries. That is against adsense policy unless you are using responsive ads.


techniques that you’ll want to avoid:
Hiding ad units at anytime (e.g. display:none), unless you're
implementing a responsive ad unit.

support.google.com/adsense/answer/1354736?hl=en-GB
I would implement responsive ad code in place of the two blocks and as long as the containing block (ad_left or ad_right) has width: 160px; height 600px; (or whatever ad size you want), the responsive ad will serve the correct size ad anyway, but you are free to hide the ad on smaller screens.

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@Harper822

You're lucky google hasn't issued you a warning (or have they?).

According to this: adsense.blogspot.ca/2006/12/ad-and-image-placement-policy.html

Google is advising publishers against aligning images to ads in a way where there the odds of a relationship between the two are good.

What I would suggest is have text in-between the ads and the image or at least have the image not attached to the ads. Also, I'd only recommend just one ad unit if the amount of content on your site is small, otherwise visitors might see your site only as a source of advertisements and the overall loading time will be longer as well.

But since you want a good answer, what I'd suggest is to place the ad unit above the fold (meaning where people can see it without scrolling). And place it in such a way where users wouldn't accidentally click on it. Also, try not to make it too small or too large as you don't want users scrolling in order to see content.

You should see google's adsense policies for more info on what you can and can't do with ad placement.

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