Some points are
Keeping the ads in hot spots (like the places where the user attention goes directly, like left side).
Merging the ads with the content.
make the ad look like part of your content (optimize the background and border colour of your ads, matching colour of url, text and links).
This is anyway a hit and trial. Do track the conversion and settle on one..
All the best.
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