Is it too into your face? For the last week I Was running just links under the search box. Now I changed it to a big ad, let's see how it turns out. What do you guys suggest? URL is GetSong.net
If you are talking about getsong website, it looks very good, but maybe the banner should be at the top and not at the midle. Cheers.
I think it is good placement for a search based site, however, with the sign up link right under and then the bookmarking icons makes it look over cluttered. You should keep the ad placement but definitely move the signup link to maybe the top right or so. You could probably do without the sentence explaining the site too, less is more!