Author: ZacFields » Tue Jun 06, 2006 2:40 pm
Just a tip for you guys about this :
I had this mod installed for about 2 months and to be honest I never thought it was worth the time and effort to install it.
The problem is that if your forum is big, the ads won't show up right away. In my forums, most topics are opened, responded to, and forgotten about before the google ads start showing up on that inline block. For some reason the google spiders have always had problems getting ads in that spot for me.
You can have 3 ads on a page, my suggestion is one on the left side of the page directly underneath your navigation menu. (I just added the ads into the code for that block) Another good spot is directly above the first post and directly below the last post.
9 times out of 10, a user reads the top post and the first thing they want to do is read the replies of that post. I have found that my site's members usually skip right over that inline ad, so it's much more effective at the bottom of the last post on the pages. This way, while they're typing a reply in the quick reply box and they hit a pause in their thinking they might notice the ads placed there.
that is my rationalization for this. My advise is to save yourself the time and just use the banner mod that comes with the forums.
The best thing to do is just think of yourself as a regular user and think of where you could place your ads to make them actually visible. Just remember, among your content isn't always the best place unfortunately because people tend to skip right over it.
Zac
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