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From: DigitalLeo

Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 05:03:23 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Thurs, Apr 17 2008 8:03 am

Subject: Re: Optimisation tip of the week #6

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Adding ads between posts is quite disturbing for regular members. Thus
I don't do that.

However, I'm trying to find out a code to display ads for certain
groups only (guests, trial members).

An affective way I think are ads directly in threads. I have made a
BBCODE for that and add them manually when I think the specific thread
is worth it (Half Banner ad). What do you think?

I used to have an Ad Bot that made a post after the second post with a
rectangle, which was quite effective too. It was for guests and trial
members only and it displayed only on forums I chose and if there were
no other replies. As soon as someone else replied, the bot post
disappeared. I have reinstalled the board now and don't have the Ad
Bot Mod anymore...

On Apr 16, 5:49 pm, Dan B. wrote:

> I have not had that experience. My embedded-in-forum-thread channel is
> continually in the top 3 channels of my site.

> I like to take in the whole threads content to let Google target, as
> the thread conversation wanders, so do the ads, it's cool...my forum
> is for musicians, it's mostly gear ads and whatnot, yesterday (and on
> a regular basis) some member starts a thread about quitting smoking,
> drinking or some such thing...the ads flip to help info on
> quitting...totally off topic of the site but on topic of the thread.

> I have found it very effective and quite cool.

> That said, I seem to be in the minority, as more people have
> difficulty with forums, I have found it awesomely effective.

> On Apr 15, 2:53 pm, Spanner wrote:

> > Adverts on forums are hard work

> > One of the most difficult is getting good targeted adverts. The
> > adverts themselves are easy to add, but the SEOing the board is a long
> > term activity.

> > I have spend a long time stripping back and optimising my board to
> > take out any text that dilutes the article topic and takes the adverts
> > off topic..

> > Also members don't click adverts, so I have taken them off when a
> > person becomes a member.

> > On Apr 15, 10:03 am, Dan B. wrote:

> > > a leaderboard right under the first post usually performs quite well
> > > for me, and a rectangle right by the reply box (assuming it's on the
> > > same page as the thread itself) works well too.

> > > I've seen some forums put link units between the first 3 threads too,
> > > not sure how well it works, but I've seen it a bit.

> > > On Apr 14, 12:16 pm, AdSensePro Ashley wrote:

> > > > Hi all,

> > > > This week I'd like to talk about implementing ads on forums.

> > > > We already provide our placement and format recommendations in our
> > > > Help Centre here:https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43868

> > > > Have you already tried out these forum tips? How did they work for
> > > > you?

> > > > If you have other forum tips that you would like to share with other
> > > > publishers, we'd love to hear from you.

> > > > Ashley- Hide quoted text -

> > - Show quoted text -

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