Hi,

I hope this is the right forum. One thing I forgot ask about when I submitted my site for review is the placement of my adsense ads, particularly on the pages where my articles are. www.gardenlistings.com/Perennials.htm for instance. I'm trying to avoid looking like one of those made for adsense sites. I know when I end up on one of those sites I instinctively hit the back button. Of course I want people to see them but I'm just wondering if I should keep them out of the article itself. Any thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
www.gardenlistings.com

Why not put them under the article? You'll have room for a few more and viewers will only get to them by reading (or at least scanning) your article.

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No matter where ads are placed on the actual site, in the html they should be placed near the bottom as they typically do not add to the keyword mix or content of the site. Search engines want to see the content as early on the page as possible, which is why css should be used to limit the amount of styling in the html.

You can use <div></div> tags with css style "position:absolute;" to place it anywhere on the page. Just specify the width, height, margin-left and margin-top.

I don't know how much it really matters but just a method to get the main content closer to the top...

Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

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Another one: again I am not sure how much it matters, but from looking at the source code of your website I noticed a ton of white space in the html. Just for fun, check the size of your page, then remove all the white space between html tags, and check the size of your page again. I think you will be surprised how much smaller it is.

Just my thoughts... again I would see what other people have to say...

This may be taking it to the extreme but on our product pages we remove pretty much all white space between tags, such as:

http://www.fondriest.com/products/fspi_hs71512.htm

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Thanks for the help. I'm going to play around with the placement. I'm put a 120x160 skyscraper to the to the right beneath the photos.

About the excess white space in my code. Is there some sort of tool which will help optimize or is this something I need to do manually.

Thanks

I have my own script that does it when it generates the html files...

I found this just by googling around, but have never used it so I dont know how well it works:

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/W..._Compress.html

One thing to note is to keep two files, one with and one without whitespaces. If you ever want to update the page it is nearly impossible to do if there are no white spaces...

So it adds extra work, and like I said, I don't know how much it helps.

From the link above:

"Compression of HTML allows it to download faster, display faster ( the parser does not have as much junk to deal with), take less space on web servers and end users system, decrease loads on a server."

But they are trying to get ppl to use their product. If it does nothing else I do know from personal experience that it significantly reduces file size.

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