$3.00-$4.00 pre click?

Is this correct?

[Allie_Mae]

I recently added AdSense ads to my discussion forum. The site itself is pretty new, but I am so far pleased with the amount of traffic it has gotten. Most clicks are paying $3-$4. Is this correct? How can they afford to pay so much?

[irock]

Well, that really depends on your industry. Is it?

[level80]

Is this correct? How can they afford to pay so much?

Yes, however the advertiser pays more than that as Google takes a cut. They can afford to pay so much as they make more than that amount per a visitor to their site. What particular topic is your forum on?

[Retalin]

I'd be interested in seeing your site. Forum integrations have always interested me.

Thanks,
Ryan

[Allie_Mae]

It's nothing special. Just a mod version of phpBB with google ads running in the footer. The site itself is mortgage related.

[kyrkesmith]

That's why then. Mortgage as a keyword is high paying.

[go4ram01]

Some time you will get more then 10$ per click. I was having some X dollars for N clicks. After 2 hours I checked and now the clicks are just N+1; But the earnings showed X+17 dollar. It means 17$ for that N+1 th click?

I relay wondered.

[mquarles]

I'd be interested in seeing your site. Forum integrations have always interested me.

Yes, me too. Please sticky me, as this is very interesting.

MQ

[Fiver]

The site itself is as Allie stated, very basic forum (looks good btw) and ads right at the bottom. If you get good traffic you're in for a fine ride. If you start messing with the positioning, you may find your profits double overnight.

[march83]

Allie_Mae,

I haven't seen your site but just in case you haven't already realised you can't just put the ads in the footer of the forum as they will display on every page. This includes the search page, member profiles etc, and google doesn't like this. Many people have had emails from Google requesting them to change the site or they will drop it.

[Retalin]

Wierd, maybe because of the volume my ads do google doesnt care.

I've had google ask me to make changes, as my ads are in the navbar of my forum (on all pages). My checks are delivered by Fedex (we all know what that means) so maybe google doesnt care because of that... but I am pretty sure they dont go after everyone ;)

[Allie_Mae]

march83,

I understand about not putting ad in the footer because it will show up on profile pages, login pages, etc.

I emailed Google in response to this and here are the results:
<paraphrase>You can place your AdSense script on any page you would like AdSense on. There are no guidelines for forums.</paraphrase>

[edited by: Jenstar at 5:29 pm (utc) on May 13, 2004]
[edit reason] No email quotes as per TOS, thanks! [/edit]

[ChrisKud5]

If you were interested in putting it only on content pages you can put it in a seperate file. I recall that PHPbb splits things into like 3 files, overallheader, body, and overall footer. If you put it at the top of the body part, i think your CTR may go up, as mine did quite substantially when i moved mine. A skyscraper is more of a pain in the ass to do in phpbb, i have seen it done and i imagine it yields pretty decent cash.

[ogletree]

Shhhhh

[ignatz]

I still can't get over these over-a-dollar clicks... congrats!

[Freedom]

EPC can fluctuate a lot. I remember being floored the first time I saw one click worth almost 2 digits. Other times, it can be quite low. EPC is up and down, up and down.

Not much is permanent about AdSense. Don't get used to anything.

[expert_21]

Not much is permanent about AdSense. Don't get used to anything.

That is so true!

[Leosghost]

You ought to change the PRE to PER in the "description" of this thread ....I just split my coffee ....

[wonderboy]

I just realised one of my sites I forgot all about gets $3-$4 per click. Quite an obscure site with VERY little traffic, any tips on how to get people on, I have not got any back links and google just doesn't want to rank me despite following the classic site structure. It has been up a couple of months now. I want those big clicks!

W.

[BennyBlanco]

I thought I should note that discussions such as this with specific numbers and $$ are no supposed to take place. Be careful with what you say as the Ts & Cs are specific.

Congrats though.

[nuevojefe]

Anyone have any experience with trying different ad formats in a forum? Which one turned out to be the most profitable?

[BRasCO]

march83,
I understand about not putting ad in the footer because it will show up on profile pages, login pages, etc.

I emailed Google in response to this and here are the results:
<paraphrase>You can place your AdSense script on any page you would like AdSense on. There are no guidelines for forums.</paraphrase>

Well this totally contradicts what google emailed me, I was told to remove adsense from login, search pages etc, anything without content on directly, which does make sense anyway.

I had it in the footer but was explicity told to remove it, it is now in viewforum, viewtopic and index pages

[Allie_Mae]

Well I think you're right. But I am going to leave it in the footer until they tell me otherwise. I'll keep their email as proof in case there are any problems.