forums earn less OK so how does google detect this?

and why does it do this?

[NewSkool]

well i hope i was clear if i was not clear you can ask me here.

[jema]

Forum users are there for the forum, not searching for something, hence have little interest in the adverts.

They are alos likely to develop "advert blindness".

[endomorph1]

And you can help blindness by using diversification on your ad layout, position, and colours.

I have a very successful forum ($2k+ per month)

Remember all the fresh in bound traffic though, they are your earners. Develop your forum to stop showing the ad's to members, this also helps the Smart pricing.

[Nitrous]

It also depends on the users. Techies and programmers, etc dont click. Women who knit jumpers, pet owners etc do!

[londrum]

don't you worry about repeat clicks, though?

presumably you have the same people use your forum day after day, so if they all click on an ad a couple of times a week, won't google pick that up as suspicious? -- they would be coming from the same IP addresses all the time.

[hunderdown]

so if they all click on an ad a couple of times a week, won't google pick that up as suspicious?

Well, yes, they would, but unless you have a VERY unusual forum, one which people are just looking for any excuse to leave, they won't. Regular users of a forum, like regular visitors to a web site, are just not going to click on ads.

Unless, of course, you are encouraging them to do so.

[kingkong]

Adverts on the forum archives instead of the forums themselves perhaps?

[jema]

Adverts on the archives do much better with clicks and you can place adverts more aggressivly.

But do the math. I get 10 million hits on the main forums compared to 20,000 on the archives! Nothing is going to bend those figures to make the archives a great success, unless you can SEO your archives effectively.