Forum Moderators: martinibuster
The highest-paying areas are also the hardest ones to get much relevant traffic to. In terms of overall revenue the best strategy is to build a useful site related to something you know and care about.
Since the site already exists and the community is established, I'm not sure how getting a list of high-paying subject areas will help you. If you try to futz with your pages to show higher-paying but nonrelevant ads, your CTR will simply drop even further.
Instead, I would read a few of the many threads here related to optimizing AdSense for use on forums.
Earlier tonight, I posted a link for reference and discussion purposes, to a database of all of the top-paying keywords (a goldmine!), and for some reason, it was removed?!
There have been times several of my posts have mentioned specific high-paying keywords, and these mods have removed them. However, there have been other posts where this hasnt happened.
Because of the overly restrictive TOS here, it is impossible to post URLs to sites which have good, legitimate reference material for our purposes. I mean I can see censoring self-promotion of ones own site URLs, but to censor it all, plus--to censor the mere mention of specific keywords is counter-productive IMHO.