A tip for forum owners

Discussion in 'Placement / Reviews / Examples' started by neforum, Oct 13, 2005.

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    Are you running a forum and displaying adsense ads? Are they poorly targetted? Assuming you've already sussed out the problems with sessions, have you thought about increasing the number of posts shown on each page? Increasing this gives adsense more text to target itself on, resulting in the chance of your ads being more contextually correct.
     
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  2. Zapita

    Zapita Active Member

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    oh hadn't thought of that, i'll make a test, thanks for the tip n_n
     
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  3. Dio

    Dio Well-Known Member

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    Mind you - one intelligent topic like:

    Reformatting A Hard Drive to NTFS Partitions Under Windows XP

    is worth 10,000

    You Sux!
    or
    Wicked!!!!!
    or
    Help!
    or
    Stroke My Monkey!

    In my experiece... :D
     
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  4. lorien1973

    lorien1973 Notable Member

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    Or put fewer on a page, that way the adsense block is always in the person's eye shot, instead of them being at post 10, with no adsense block in site at all.
     
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  5. aeiouy

    aeiouy Peon

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    I have never really had a problem with adsense being able to target even a single short post... especially with the targetting tags.

    But it is an interesting suggestion.
     
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  6. ElvisFan

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    I would love to set up a forum as many Elvis fans love to chat and exchange news... and of course pepper it with adsense and chitika ads...

    As I have never done this before... what is the best place to set this up as I don't particularly like the yahoo option

    Any suggestions must offer FREE set ups... Do bloggers offer anything like that? thanks...
     
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  7. crazyhorse

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    Thanks. I would like to recommend to use a adsense tracker for each page. Remember this counts only for large forums. Cut down on the low perfermoning pages using a php script that will allow you to block showing ads on bad performing pages ie.
     
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  8. Dio

    Dio Well-Known Member

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    And don't forget there are many pages on a fourm that its against TOS to have AdSense on. :)
     
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    Is there a free server forum where you can have adsense in it?
     
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    ken123 Peon

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    Like what? Can you give me an example?
     
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  11. minstrel

    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    • log-in pages
      registration pages
      post confirmation pages
      etc
    Basically, pages without real content. There are a couple of simple phpBB hacks that will exclude those pages from delivering AdSense ads.
     
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  12. minstrel

    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    Here's the one I use:

    http://www.vierstra.com/forum/forum-subject.php/t/2754

     
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  13. GuyFromChicago

    GuyFromChicago Permanent Peon

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    #13
    They actually took that out of the TOS a little while back. No need to block those pages any more.
     
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  14. minstrel

    minstrel Illustrious Member

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    No kidding? I hadn't noticed... :eek:
     
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    darrenstraight Active Member

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    Yeah it's only this now:

     
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  16. GuyFromChicago

    GuyFromChicago Permanent Peon

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    I don't think it was heavily publisized but I don't see any mention of those pages not being allowed to display Adsense ads in the TOS anymore.
     
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  17. bradley

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    stick it very close to the 'add reply' and 'fast reply' buttons at the bottom of a thread

    works a treat :D
     
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