Recently, there has been a popular trend among Adsense publishers to display images next to their ads in order to attract more clicks but the question of whether they are against Adsense TOS is never really answered/understood very well. Generally, the rule followed by many is to not attract
direct attention to the ads (e.g. an arrow pointing to the ads or an image with Click Here) and some have claimed that Adsense support said images with a light border around the images are fine.
So will they really improve your click-through rate (CTR)? Well, these are some responses I gathered visiting various sites:
Increased CTR by 400%, but only worked for a very short period of time before your visitors wisened up and start ignoring it.
Putting images next to ads that are NOT relevant to your sites content will only produce short term gains. Smart pricing will kick in and reduce the value of the ads.
People are prepared to click advertisements that are supported by whacky images. The crazier, the better
So far, they are mostly positive, but note the relevant images idea suggested. However, to implement that into your site would be quite difficult for a noob like me, so an alternative way would be to randomise the image so your visitors won’t be too used to a static image to ignore it. So how do you do it?
Well, here are a few methods from Digitalpoint forums:
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