Adsense In Forums.

You may already be aware but just to be sure everyone is, forums and community websites have notoriously horrible clikthrough rates. The main problem we're being faced with is that the majority of our traffic is coming from repeat visitors. They've been lurking around on the site long enough to have become "ad-blinded" to it. So, what can we do about taht?

The logical solution is to try using very strategic ad placement techniques to improve the click through rate.

Below Buttons

Where are all the click taking place on forums? Well, by far the most popular place people click in a forum is the post and reply button. So, that's where our ads will go. This is invaluable data nonetheless.

Below Quick Reply

Another prime piece of real estate on a forum site is a below the quick reply box. (If you don't have one in your forum, hurry up and get one). I also heavily suggest only using a half banner 234x60 here for best results.

Below Signature

The best location for our ads is going to be directly below our members signatures. Again, we suse half banner 234x60 or even just a button 125x125 but prepare for the results to be much better. This suggests that the ads below the posters' signatures are the recommended or favorite websites, which is misleading but powerful ad revenue.

If you missed last blogs on how to place Adsense (page 1, page 2, page 3)