Ever wondered where your website visitors are clicking?
Every webmaster should be optimizing each page to attract the most attention to their sites ad’s, converting the highest possible click rate on these ad’s therefore maximizing the money making potential of the website.
Here we have assembled The Affiliate Secret’s top 5 tips to influence where your visitors click:
#5 Tune your ad’s to suit your post - This is pretty self explanatory, if your talking about shoes then show your visitors ad’s for shoes.. be specific, search your affiliate partners and find the exact model you are talking about and advertise it!
#4 Encourage your user to stay awhile and return often - Oviously the longer your visitor’s spend at your website the more chance of converting them into a ad click you have. Providing a good looking blog with valuble well-written content will capture the users attention when they first visit (remember first impressions last). Encouraging comment’s, running contest’s and updating often are other ways to avoid bounce traffic.
#3 Identifying stop zones - After a user reads a post they are left to contemplate your article, do they read another related post? (keeping them on your site) or can you provide them an alternative product/service which may help them solve their problem or help them research their interest further. These points on a web page yield a higher amount of clicks so utilize these areas to your full advantage. (for best results try to provide links relating to the above post)
#2 know the successful click map zones - Know where to place your Ad’s in the first place to ensure they are seen, in general at the top of the page is clicked more often than below the fold, and the left side is more often clicked than the right. Bear in mind each website and niche can be different, this image courtesy of Problogger.net display’s the general click map zones as collected by Google.
#1 Crazy Egg! - The number one tip to influence where your visitors click is use the Crazy Egg tool. With the handy heat map overlay you can map the most popular zones on your website, placing ad’s in these hot map zones can greatly increase the all important ad clicks. If you don’t already use Crazy Egg go get your free account now and find out exactly where your visitors click! (shown below is a example of The Affiliate Secret Crazy Egg heat map).
The Affiliate Secret .com is sure you will find these top five tips to influence where your visitors click useful when planning how to monetize your website and deciding where to place your ad’s to maximize the potential of your ad revenue.
