My CTR was never GREAT, but it used to be pretty steady at 0.5% (site is mainly a forum so it's never going to be huge). But after redesign it has slipped to around 0.1% and I'm no longer making enough to cover costs, so obviously I need to increase it again. Do you have any suggestions? I'd tried putting the ads back into a similar place they were before the redesign but I couldn't get them exactly in the right place and I am stuck for ideas. http://www.pesgaming.com (also check the forum!)
here are some of my suggestions 1. place a 336x280 block on the front page above the 1st news. make sure you surround the ad block just like a news item. 2. also place 336x280 block after every 3 news item in the front page 3. place a leaderboard 728x90 below the reply button in the forum 4. use the default blue as the link colour
Thanks Vince I am going to experiment with the square ad I think. Any other suggestions/reviews from people?
I have tried changing it - it's been blue for a day now - but today I have so far had 3,207 visits with only 1 click, very depressing.
I cna think of a few ideas for your forum, I think you need to deal with different ad units and better blending on all pages imo
interesting, i thing you have nice advertising placement maybe you can add adsense codes at after first post (inline baner). Mustafa
Use darker link color, like 0033CC for your leatherboard. Put a leatherboard link unit below the forum path (PESGaming Forums > PESGaming.com > Forum Announcements) Just my thought