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I've been messing about with Adsense on my Forum for quite a while and looking for the best position. I've now started to display the ads 'in-thread', after the signature. This puts the ads on the first 3 messages (max) in a thread and I have blended the colours to look like part of the board.

Take a look on The North East Forum and see what you think.

Dave

You will have to test each placement, and each ad format, to see which performs best on your forum.

I did take a look and it looks fine - except that the middle ad doesnt blend in well on the 2nd post (which has a white background).

Hi Lynn, thanks for taking a look. I have tried other positions before, and have a note of how they have performed, but this is the only position I haven't tried them in yet.

The middle ad is always going to be a problem when the theme uses alternating background colours in threads, i don't know a way of interactively changing the background for that post, and it may contravene Adsense TOS anyway. The only way would be not to alternate post background colours in a thread, and I don't really like that idea.

However, if anyone has any ideas, please feel free to pass it on, for both my benefit and for others.

Dave

I would try running the "banner after first ad" post next in your run of tests to see which performs better. I have it set up here at this forum, which you can see above (currently displaying a 728 static banner).

While you arent getting three ads per page, you may find that it actually converts better for you... or not. Only testing can tell.

Just a liitle update on this. The forum now typically pulls in $30-40, so it's worth it. Before the ads were 'in thread' it was generating c. $20 for a similar amount of traffic.