best place to put adsense ads on my site?

Hi everyone

i was wondering where is the best place to put adsense ads on my site?

i have put a screen shot of my site below, could you please tell me the best and most strategic place to put them?



Also a link if the screen shot does not show enough.

http://tinyurl.com/6d2g4y


Thanks,

Aaron

 

In my forum (link in my sig) I put them in the index page directly above all other forums, with 1 link unit and 1 text ad unit. I also have them in other places, like after the first post in each topic.

 

more deep red = the best area
next
orange area
yellow area
white area = can't suck more

for forum

official page:https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=43868

 

I would suggest you try out with leaderboards placed in between your forum main sections and see how it goes

 

use leaderboards, put it under your menu tabs, just carefull blend the ads to your page, Good Luck!!!

 

under the header menu

 

I would be carefull with using AdSense in forums. Forums are visited by a more or less closed usergroup and theres a good chance, some users might click just to do you a favour and raise a clickfraud alert by doing so. The other problem with forums and AdSense is, that you'll have to do some heavy moderation to make sure, you don't get threads/posts, that violate the TOS.

 

I try and run experiments with mine. On my most visited pages I change my adsense location and color untill I find one that works the best. I've only had my site for about 3 weeks and it's the first one I've ever made so I'm new to most everyhthing. But what I found so far is that if you have them at the top of your page in a horizontal leaderboard that blends with your site it works the best.

 

For your forums, I think a ad unit below the main menu will look good. Also, add a link unit after the first post like DP.