hi see... 1% ctr generally means 10% CTR. Because user on forum refresh or goes to other threads atleast 20 times for once. So 1% is too good . Jen
I don't know what forums you have run in teh past but I reckon forums take twice the effort to run as a site or blog does with half the financial rewards. Well this has been my experience anyway - running a forum is all about people management and people are pains in the arse at the best of times.
Burta: I didn't mean that running a forum was low maintenance but that if you already have a forum, adding your Adsense code to the template is low maintenance. There is definitely maintenance involved in running a forum but most good sites are constantly adding new content to non-forum areas as well, which also requires a lot of work. Possibly even more work than the forum.
Exactly, that's what i did. I also thought that it's possible that when showing ads to logged in users as well, the members could click too many ads which would raise a flag @ google.
Forums definitely take a lot less to maintain them. The only thing I do on my forum is clean up topics, move them to the correct forum, etc. And yet I still get $5/day for doing that.
Unless the forum is targeted to a fairly specific keyword, or set of keywords, and it attracts a good percentage of new members (aren't ad-blind), chances are not good that you'll make any significant money from Adsense.