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The only thing is that my site is a Forum.
Does Google allow Adsense to be placed on Forum sites (non gambling, non adult, etc..)?
If so, what has your experience been with Google's abililty to feed the right target ads on a forum site?
Do the keywords get all messed up because of the content of the posts within the forum?
I hope someone can answer this.
Thanks to all... Webmasterworld is a terrific resource!
As for feeding the right target ads on a forum site, I've had no problems what so ever.
It depends on the forum software you're using, how engine friendly it is and last but not least, your content.
Good Luck! :)
I've tried everything. Small ads, Big ads, bright colors, subtle colors, top placement, side placement, bottom placement, rotating ads with images, single ad units, multiple ad units, ads mixed in with text, ads seperate from text, banners ads, box ads, with AdLinks, without AdLinks - makes little difference.
CTR is awful. Well under 1%.
If anyone has any suggestions, I'll listen, but the readers of my forums just don't want to click on Adsense ads. The rest of the site does quite well.
I'm also using phpBB. One important caveat if you integrate in AdSense. Don't put it in the overall header and footer template files. This causes the ads to be included in the administrative and index pages, which would be a violation of the AdSense ToS. Try just putting it in the "viewtopic_body.tpl" file so that you only serve ads on full content pages.
Yes and thatīs a fact? I have tried AdSense on many forums with no good results. On forums people like to discuss things - not click on ads. I would recommend not using ads on forums. The income is very small and ads could have other negative results on a forum/online community.
It can be done but it takes alot of studying what works and what doesn't. Knowing php or whatever language your forums use it a must to be able to show ads in such a custom way.
It's always sucked and despite all the variations and changes I've made, it still sucks. Nothing I do results in my readers clicking on Adsense.
I think this is normal. Forums tend to attract the same people back again and again, and those people have probably clicked all they're going to click. They also don't go to the forums to buy things. The you have to add in the fact that one reader might load 10 or more pages while viewing threads and responses, so bumping up the pageviews.
My forum does generate a few dollars, enough to pay hosting I guess, but compared to the rest of the site it greatly underperforms in terms of revenue per pageview.
