I own a forum. Is there anyway to improve CTR through this? I just added adsense to it about 1 week ago.
Play around with your ad positioning, make sure you are blending it well. Without a link to see your forum, thats all I can really tell you.
What I can see right away is that your ads aren't blended very well. If I were you, I would change the title and url color of the ad to match the color of the title of your forum topics. Also I would change the text color of the ad to match the color of the forum post text. Change the background color of the ad as well to match your forum background color. That would help blend the ads in much better, and people might be more inclined to click them. Right now they kind of stick out in a bad way...the colors are ugly and the background doesn't match. Hope that helps.
Yeah, I was thinking that too. There isn't a way to change the colors for different themes that I have for the board, is there?