Comments on: Adsense Tips: No border = more money?

By: Adsense Tips: Make It Unobtrusive « Sabahan.com

Adsense Tips: Make It Unobtrusive « Sabahan.com — Tue, 09 May 2006 18:57:08 +0000

[...] This may be common knowledge to some of you. It’s the one about blending and removing Adsense borders to make more money which I’ve written about recently. [...]

By: Gaman

Gaman — Sun, 07 May 2006 18:23:54 +0000

Great find korokmu. BTW, your blog is down when I tried to visit it.

By: korokmu

korokmu — Sun, 07 May 2006 06:50:52 +0000

i’ve found the mod and it works great. http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=306680

By: Gaman

Gaman — Wed, 03 May 2006 07:48:27 +0000

korokmu: I am uing IPB v1.4. This mod is for 1.3 but should work with 1.4. You can find the mod here. You might want to check the official PHPBB forum to see if anybody has done this on a PHPBB forum. emptyspace: Just make sure to make a clear distinction between the images and Adsense ads. You can read more about this here.

By: emptyspace

emptyspace — Tue, 02 May 2006 15:47:30 +0000

I use no border and use 2 in a table.. see my result.. one I put images and the other, google adsense.. pixel2life.com teach me to do that http://imherenow.fwenz.info/site/go/malaysia-fwenz-blogs/

By: korokmu

korokmu — Mon, 01 May 2006 09:18:43 +0000

can you tell me how to do that on IPB forum? Maybe I will get some idea how to put it on phpBB forum.

By: Gaman

Gaman — Mon, 01 May 2006 08:01:00 +0000

korokmu: I am not sure how to implement this on a phpBB forum. If I got the chance to work on my phpBB forums later, I’ll let you know. The screenshot was taken from my IPB forum btw.

ShaolinTiger: Yea I kind of know that too But many Adsense newbies have no idea about it right?

For this particular forum though, the members are not tech savvy, most are young adults and teenagers so the CTR would be different. My aim is to serve contextual ads which do not look like ads. Personally I feel large rectangle ads are a little bit intrusive especially when positioned as part of a forum thread. It doesn’t guarantee double CTR too as I’ve experienced in three of my forums. But the key here is to experiment to get the best CTR for the audience we have.

Anyway, there’s another article I’ve found recently (can’t remember the URL) where such subtle integration using Chitika has generated over $700 per day for the webmaster!

By: ShaolinTiger

ShaolinTiger — Mon, 01 May 2006 07:47:45 +0000

Well we all kinda new that anyway

I would recommend putting large rectangle in the forum too, rather than 468, can double your CTR.

You can set it so it doesn’t show for members too, as members are ad blind, you want to aim to get clicks from search engine referalls.

By: korokmu

korokmu — Mon, 01 May 2006 07:00:37 +0000

i’m interested on the way you put in your ads in the forum. I’ve came across the same idea, but i don’t know how to put the ad, so that it looks like a post. I only manage to put the ad above the signature of a post. Could you help me? FYI, I’m usisng phpBB board. Thanks in advance