My Tips for Google Adsense and Forums
 

Hey guys, hopefully this will help out anyone who is having trouble using Google Adsense on forums.

Firstly, I’d like to make some things clear…\r

For the amount of traffic and visits you get, you will not be turning huge profits like a non-forum website. Most of the visitors are returns, and are looking at posts, not advertisements. They don’t like leaving the forum.

Forums do not = money! If you want to make money make an informative web site instead. Create forums because you like and can be part of the community. Use ads to help pay for hosting.

1. Grape Skin and purple/pink ads seem to work the best. I tried different colors and this one had the best results. An extra 30% by using that color. Also randomly rotating colors work well too. Pastels have the highest click through rate. Sharp, contrasting, bright colors don’t perform well.

2. An ad on the forum index works very well. Make sure it is above the fold though. Ads at the bottom of the forum are confusing and seldolmy viewed or used.

a) If you want to place a vertical banner along the sides of your forum, you can do so. But it looks ’spammy