Monetising a forum is a balancing act. If you are too aggressive with showing ads, you will scare away your visitors which will result in a pretty dead forum. On the other hand, if the forum is not generating much in the way of revenue, then it may not make much financial sense to keep going with it if it’s not a real passion of yours and more a business. Hey, even if you originally started the site because it’s a passion, there ain’t anything wrong with trying to pay for web hosting expenses and make a few extra bucks. Overcoming Low CTR with Forum Websites Let me know if you found the article useful. It encourages me to blog more.
Thanks. There's probably lots of gramatical errors cause I sucked at English in school, but hopefully I still got the message across
Thank you for the article Dcristo. The part from here onwards uses a font that isn't installed on my computer: I'll like to add one more thing here: Select multiple palletes for your forum's adsense code. The changing color will attract your members towards the ads.
Changing the ads positioning, look and blend can also increase CTR by a lot. Forum users become ad blind very quickly, and by doing this you can ensure that they'll take notice of your ads.
Thanks for the heads up. I am still getting familiar with wordpress It appears copying and pasting from ms word transfers all the style code aswell.
I have tested ad placement on the main part of the forum as well. Never experienced the same kind of results though.
No, lacking grammer skillz, it doesn't put your information as Authority. If you can't spel things right, then why can we trust your info~?
I don't think you need to be an English grad to be a good web marketer, meh. Spell check always helps though, which I didn't use for this article just quietly
Yes, wordpress has a WYSIWYG editor that can catch all of the copied html stuff. You can turn the WYSIWYG editor in wordpress though.. or try pasting the text in notepad and copying it from there to your wordpress editor. It will work like a charm.