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Avoiding accidental clicks Pt. 2: Use the right product

We hope you found our last post on invalid clicks useful. Today we wanted to give you more advice on this topic and talk about ads on pages containing interactive media, such as videos and games.

We understand that video content pages aren’t as easy to monetize as regular text-based pages and that publishers are interested in experimenting with different ad placements, but we’d like to clarify some of our policies addressing AdSense for content ads in interactive media environments:

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Change my ad-formats for forum showthread pages – Urgent.

(written by SaN-DeeP)

Hello,

I need immediate help to change advertisement format on our forums showthread pages..

I have attached the screenshot.

Our Setup: Using three leaderboards on showthread pages.

  • 2 below navbar
  • 1 above footer

I need to remove 1 leaderboard which is positioned below navbar and add a large square box just before the first post.

What should be best placement to make most out of our forum showthread pages

Please help.

Regards,

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Less is more?

(written by PJS1984)

I just wanted to ask what people thought about whether it’s a good thing to use the maxium of 3 banner ads and 3 link units on every page.

From my cursory research the consensus seem to be not to use all 3 banners as it dilutes the quallity of the ads and reduces cpc.

However, I keep getting messages from google encouraging me to put more ads on a page.

What does everybody think?

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Navbar Ads in Vbulletin???

(written by Keynes)

Hello mates,

My first message in this great forum. 🙂

In my first message I want to discuss about navbar ads in vbulletin forums. As far as I can see, most of people use those square ads on navbar template of vbulletin.

Frankly, that’s what I did also. But from this day on, I removed the ads on navbar.

Because navbar template is a global template, and these ads are showing up everypage of forum. That’s of course a nice thing for more clicks. But what about impressions???

Navbar ads shown on homepage, category pages, error messages, member pages!

And when I checked my analytics stats about adsense, I saw that category pages get most impressions but almost none clicks. Please look at below image (this is a small part of my adsense stats from yesterday):

White lines for thread link, and yellow lines are rest of forum(most of them category pages) (By the way, I use vbseo)

Even on this small part of stats, for yellow lines there are 8504 impressions and only 10 clicks, which means 0,11 Ctr!!! My general ctr was 0,72 yesterday!

Can you believe it? 7 times lower. So I said bye bye navbar ads!

From now on, my adsense codes will be on thread pages only. I started just today, I’ll inform you about my experience.

Greetings…

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