Optimize Adsense on your Forums
January 15th, 2007 by Scott W
From back in 2005, but still useful, Adsense posted very useful tips for use with Forums.
As forums can be difficult to place ads into, this post is especially helpful for all of us trying to earn a few bucks from these projects.
Read more about ad optimization for forums at Inside AdSense: Six AdSense optimization tips for forums.
To your left, you will see a heatmap for the ideal positions for ads in your layout. As always, the top left spot is the hottest and it gets gradually colder from there as you move to the bottom right.
Additionally, they advise the use of image ads as well as text ads, rather than just using the latter.


January 16th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
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