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From my experience, sidebar ads have almost zero click rate, the best performers are in the middle of the text.

Only clicks pay?

Yes, google pays only for clicks. There are other networks that pay for visits, but usually they are not worth the effort.

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We for sure are very open to what placement will be best. Meaning what's worth it, what's going to be the least obtrusive. If ads don't get clicks then at some point it may be not worth having them, the juice may not be worth the squeeze as they say.

i've turned on ads for a couple weeks now during testing. I find that at some points google adsense even stops giving me the ads and the last one to go is the top of the post ad they seem to like that one.

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