The thing that must be prioritized when placing AdSense ads is to meet the needs of its users first. Try to think like a user visiting your site. Roughly what you will do when visiting the site. Whether looking for content? read content? find more content? then at what part are your attention directed?
Best and safe AdSense ad placement
Below is an ad placement recommended by me. The advantages of placing ads in this way are that they do not interfere with site visitors, have good visibility, and have a high chance of getting clicks from visitors.
Ad unit at the top of the article
The placement of ad units that are placed at the top of the content is quite strategic. Besides having a high viewability value, the placement above this article also has a great chance of getting a lot of clicks. For sites with the majority of visitors coming from mobile, you can try to place an ad unit with a size of 320x100 under the content title.
For sites where the majority of visitors are desktop, place an ad unit of 336x280 size. Why not use a responsive ad unit? for the responsive size that is placed on top of the article, it is sometimes changed to a size of 468x60, unfortunately this size is too small to be placed on top of the article.
Ad unit in the middle of the article
It may be for some people to think that this ad unit is automatically placed in the center of the article. But what I recommend is to manually place this ad unit in the middle of the article. The advantages of placing ads this way is you can place this ad unit anywhere according to your wishes.
For example, placing this ad in the main part of the article, or placing this ad unit in an important writing section so that the attention of visitors is directed to the article. This ad unit placement is also recommended by Google because it has a very high viewability value.
Ad unit at the end of the article
Placing the ad unit at the end of the article is also quite strategic. Because the content takes precedence so that the ad unit in this section has sufficient time to load. You can use a size of 336x280 or a larger size in this section.
Thus the discussion about the best and safe AdSense ad placement, hopefully it will be useful for you and can increase the number of clicks on your ad. If there is anything you want to ask, please ask via the comments column below and don't forget to share this article. Thank you.