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Did it significantly helped your earnings/clicks?
Plus, I'm not sure how Adsense works on Ikonboard or if it will even work at all, but that's a whole 'nother topic.
I do have a loyal community, which visit the forums numerous times per day, so this might have affected this low CTR. But even then, the actual earnings were not enough that made it worthwhile, especially with the extra vigilance that should be required when any forums are running AdSense.
However, that is just my experience, others may have had great success with it on forums ;)
Put lot of contents and ad your google adsense code in all your pages. See the results. It will be very wonderfull.
But I also wondered, since I've never had ad's on the forum before, if the members would object to it, if all the sudden ad's appeared now, and if people generally click on ad's when they're at a forum.
So it's interesting to hear you didn't have much success with adding adsense to your forum, and it turned out being not worth it.
The forum on my site is starting to take up so much space on my server, that I have to buy more disk space, so I thought maybe adsense would offset the cost.
Be sure to think about other things that can affect AdSense on message boards - primarily session IDs.
You will probably have a few vocal members not like the ads. You will find that the members will get used to it over time.
If your site is the Pink Floyd site, I have to be blunt and say that I don't think you're going to get much out of adsense in your forums. I don't think that you will find a lot of high dollar keywords.
Don't let me discourage you from trying though. :)
It's a little OT for this forum, but have you considered a premium member program? With vb 3.0 you can setup an easy to use system for members to contribute to the site to get extra goodies.
Check out the ikonboard's support site. Most support sites have information for using AdSense, removing sids or making URLs bot friendly. I am pretty sure Ikonboard is one of them.
I couldn't see giving up, say, $500 a month, purely to go from a 1.0% CTR to 3.0% CTR. It makes absolutely no sense since, as a publisher, we're not tied to maintaining a high CTR, but rather high $$$.
[edited by: Sunflux at 3:11 am (utc) on May 15, 2004]
i removed th ads from my forum cause it's dragging the ctr down.
I understand what you are saying, but have you really thought about your statement. Unless absolutely no one was clicking on those forum ads, you are giving up real income just to improve a meaningless number.
Like most, my forum ads only generate on average just a few dollars a day, but over a one year period it adds up to almost $1,000. I'd rather have cash in hand than a CTR I could brag about.
Just my humble two cents worth.
a. how much bandwidth your forum is taking! if it's taking a lot of bandwidth, you are paying $$ to run a free forum...so why not put ads?
b. how tolerant your forum community is. some forum members juz don't like ads and when you do put ads on ur site they become ad blind :¦
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I understand what you are saying, but have you really thought about your statement. Unless absolutely no one was clicking on those forum ads, you are giving up real income just to improve a meaningless number.
