poor ctr, any suggestion ?

i believe that my website has a poor
click through rate (near 1%) Can someone help me to improve ?
my adress is:
www.mehdiplugins.com
off course i'm not asking for artificial clicks, i'm asking what i've done wrong on my website , i'm asking for good suggestions ...

remark:
i've modified slightly the adsense script so that the format of the ad
change depending on the screen resolution.

thanks ...

I'd test moving the adsense to the top of the page (just under the yellow nav bar) and making it blend in more - remove the colored border.

Click thrus also depend on the market - the page topic, topic of the ads and your client's motivation. 1% could be a good click-thru rate for photoshop plugins - other topics may have better or worse industry-averge click thru rates.

hmmm...I'd agree on the movement of the ads up top....that graphic header imho is more than you need....I'd redo in fact all the graphics to "fit" with the adsense layouts and....wait....this is just me and my own silly opinion. you gotta do what you want....

but do remember, adverts have to appeal to the clicker for both what they offer and as many of us have learned, for where they're placed on the page!

:-)
Jim

thanks this was the kind of advice i was looking for...
i guess that i have to experiment them ....
i have to rethink my template ...

I would suggest placing the ads in an iFrame that is targeting for content.

When I viewed the ads, only 2 of the 5 ads pertained to some sort of Photoshop plugins. The rest were irrelevant.

Can you go into detail on how to use iFrames for such purposes?

I attempted to try it once. I simply added an iframe to my page that only had the adsense + some keywords below. Lets call this iframe.php

When I viewed iframe.php I got much better targetted advertisments for my viewers.

When I viewed index.php with iframe.php embedded I still got the ones I was getting from index.php in the first place.

Should I be more patient? Should I click [x] this add will be on a page with frames(or whatever it says on the adsense login).

ooops! i didn't mentionned that i've updated my website.
it's true that in some page ads are irrelevant. (in particular in home page)

but that's not the case in the whole website, so i don't know if i should worry of that.
a solution could be filtering urls that are irrelevant for my website.
i don't think that using an iframe is a good idea.

notice that depending of the resolution
ads doesn't have the same position!!!!.

with explorer try at resolution 800x600
and then at 1024x768 (ads are completly different!)
do not forget to refresh the page when you change the resolution

it's too early to say if it improves my ctr.

Looks great! Nice choice of colours.
I hope your CTR improves.

My suggestion would be to try colors that "grab" at the surfer, look at DigitalPoint's adsense ads.

They have a "call-to-action".