Google Adsense Placement - Web Devlopment in Reverse

I don’t have much experience in Google Adsense placement other than hearsay from some expert friends.

Not really hearsay, second hand information. Credible info from those who make a great living with Google Adsense checks.

Something I have repeatedly heard is just how well ugly sites work.

Sites people want to leave and instead go to the Google Ads.

I can immediately spot Made for Adsense sites, because they are not built for people to spend a lot of time on them.

One pagers with only adsense links being outbound, blogs “malfuctioning” where none of the top links work and the only ones that do are Adsense Ads looking like they are a part of the site.

I personally am not really into this. I will be playing around a little bit in the next few weeks and get an idea on what works best, but since Adsense is not my main income, the last thing I want to do is take people from my sites to another if I think there is a chance that they might hire me for our services.