Most of us publishers making revenue with Adsense are very cautious with keeping within the terms of service with Adsense. Since there are publishers making from hundreds to thousands of dollars each month getting your account canceled can be devastating.

Before Google went people on Webmaster forums like Digital Point webmasters would try to not post anything about their monthly earnings for fear that their accounts might get terminated. As of lately since going public it seems like if you stay within the boundaries of making sure you don’t click your ads & make sure you don’t send fake traffic, Google seems to have lightened up on other rules.

The biggest & newest technique seems to be placing static images above the leader text ad, or putting images on the side of the rectangular ad box.

On our site Tokyo Gift Shop our online shop we tested this to see how much better the click through rate is. Our sales were pretty bad so we weren’t worried about loosing sales. That site has the best click through rate of any of our sites with Adsense with CTR in the double digits. Unfortunately though before our experiment we were listed in the DMOZ & after we put this up they removed our site from their listings.

So I must say that the more ads you have make sure you know that some directories may pull your listings…