Can we talk about adsense and forums?

I've read loads of stuff on here that adsense and forums dont work. I have a new forum, started off on a free host for 3 months then moved to own domain using vbulletin just over a week ago. I put ads on when we moved over and have just changed them today to just under the nav bar, after first post and bottom of the page. I'm no techy and had a guy do this for me.

So, please be gentle with me - I dont know everything which is why I'm here. What can I expect to earn and what do YOU earn from your forum?

 

i have a forum and i run adsense on it. it works fine... just that the ctr is very low on forums as compared to other types of websites.

 

So, is it a case of getting a lot of traffic?

 

check out this thread http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=37499

 

Thanks SVZ very useful. What kind of forum do you run?