Comment on SEO AdSense WordPress Theme by Erik.

AdSense Publisher ID Hi Dave,

I thought I’d throw a few Adsense customization ideas into the pot. Just wondering what your ideas are on these. Apologies in advance if some or all have already been addressed elsewhere. Maybe there’ll be something useful:

1. Randomized placement– A feature that would randomize ad locations, say the in-text ad positioning could be randomized over 3 or 4 set spots across the site’s posts. I understand the automation could create issues regarding aesthetics/placement if you have images in posts (ie a large image may push the ad down, or vice versa, creating a large and ugly empty gap), but all things considered might be a good automated idea that could combat ad blindness.

2. Delay feature–The large in-text 336 x 280 ad block performs among the best, but I don’t necessarily want regular readers to have to see it on every new post. Could there be a way to have automatic time-delay control over when this ad gets inserted in the post, ie after a week or month?

3. Control panel ad exclusion/inclusion feature–ie a checkbox or drop-down in the WP WYSIWYG that lets you insert or omit an ad on a given post? This would allow easy control over which posts got ads, and let you easily leave them out on some posts and pages (ie About, etc).

These basically address ad blindness and aesthetic issues and to some extent overlap in what they are trying to accomplish. I currently do some manual ad insertion at present to address some of these issues and wondering if there would be value for others as well in automated solutions. Again you may have hit these already (I haven’t had a chance to read through the entire thread) but thanks as always for having a look.

Cheers,

Erik