Topic Ads placement suggestion

Heather

I'm still rather new at the ads game, but I noticed an interesting phenomena on my own site a coupla months ago.

For a long time I had my google ads in the same position as the ones on datalk. I put them at the bottom and now they get more than twice as many clickthroughs. Go figure?

I had a hired gun tell me that top-of-page ads have become so commonplace that they're almost invisible; that folks are more likely to click the ones at the bottom while they're deciding where to go next.

Anywho. Thought I'd pass that along!

-HAL-

I'm already aware of that, but thanks for the tip anyway..

I just don't want to "flood" the forum with ads, since we don't have many members yet.
I think that the top placement looks rather nice (it's "supposed" to be an add there), and there's also a large banner visible under the first post in each thread visible to guests only.
But I'll probably add a large banner at the bottom later when we get some more members.