Hey All, I just relaunched my website with a brand new look and feel. Its a Joomla site with phpbb integrated into it. Its a big improvement over the old site. I got some tips from here telling me that I should rotate colors on the inline ads in the forum, and I can already see that its working. Woohoo! Please check out the site and let me know what you think about the ad placement/blending. Thanks! www.fatsmashforum.com
Everything looks good! You placed and blended your ads well. You could try putting a search bar on the front page somewhere, that might contribute a bit to your earnings.
I wouldn't have those 2 placement on top of each other (the one in your content area). Try changing the top ad to an image only ad and leave the bottom one has a text only ad.
the ads do fit in really well...a perfect match to the site... also...not about the placements...but i really like the double tabs navigation you have...it's quite unique and looks excellent though i think you should probably remove the tabs on the 'home' and 'links' at the top right...make them just regular text and it would look better in my opinion (too many tabs with those there...)
your placement looks good but there is nothink on the footer. adding one link unit to the footer may be good for you
i don't suggest placing two ads on same place,change the simple templates styles and custom it,your templates won't show much in IE.
Thanks for the feedback everyone. The reason that I have the 2 468 ads on the front page because I found that my clickthru rate went up with 2 ads (as opposed to one). Changing the top ad to "image only" could be a good suggestion. When it comes to the search boxes, I've found that they don't bring in much on my site. I've had them up before and there will be alot of searches but no clicks. The same goes for the link units. Thanks again everyone!