Well I moved my ads around on one of my forums this past week (plus a few days) and boy has it worked out quite well. In the past 7 Days I’ve made 10.79 compared to 2.45 all of last month. I know I wasn’t “optimized” then, but this just goes to show you that it does work.
Some will say that the size ads I’m using, as well as the location is a bit “overwhelming”, but I haven’t had anyone complain yet, and registrations haven’t gone down at all in the week I’ve been using it so far.
Anyways, I’ve got 2 Adsense blocks below the navbar (for guests only of course). I’ve got them split to the left and right, with the left giving text ads, and the right image ads. Both ad blocks are 200×200px. Check the screenshot. I’ve also added a message above to let guests know that if they sign up, it removes the ads from their view. (Thanks to Brent Wilson for the help with setting up the ad location)
Heres a screenshot:
Hey man, i see the ads are working out, you should add a welcome image in between them, that would be nice.
i run one block on left and welcome on right. that works very well too.
yeah, I originally had a larger welcome banner in it, but I think I’m going to make a smaller, more square one like you have and see how that goes.
Thanks for the ideas.
cool man, im thinking about trying a image on the right of mine to make 3 blocks total. see how it works out. might be too much though