I'm bored right now (need to start some more projects I guess) as there is a hurricane making the day quite unuseful. I'd like as much constructive critism on my sites and what I can do to help increase the revenue as it has been declining slightly. First site: Saltwaterflyfishers.com PR 5 Google Sandbox What can I do to increase my CTR here? What about encouraging members to post and participate? My demographics are a middle age males without much computer knowledge so many of the tips seen here won't work. Carcommons.com PR 4 A forum I set up, with many imported posts, news etc... 95% of traffic comes from google for various key prash search terms. May click through ratio kind of sucks on this site. Where would you stick the ads? How about random rss feeds on each page for more search engine traffic and better chance of getting a wider variety of various search engine traffic (stuff like "toyota hybrid replace bulb to reduce gas mileage" and weird stuff like that). Remember most of my vistors are one time views, I don't care about them posting, I'd just rather them click an ad to leave my site then hit the back button. SportsCommons.com New Site A new forum of mine, following the same plan as car commons but with vbulletin. What template/style has the best ctr, where can I find it, and how much? This site still requires alot of work, just trying to build up the post count right now. How about rss on this site and how would I go about doing that to help with seo purposes? All posts/replies are appericated. Hit me with everything. Thanks
Drop he border/cange the border colour to white so the ads fit in the site more naturally, older less computer savy people may be more likely to click on your adsense as they would see it as a link to relevant info/resources rather than an advert.