Not to be too intrusive but does this work?

I put adsense back on my forum after a long time because i believed that the ads ruined how the forum looked but that was back with SMF. I converted to vbulletin lately and I have implemented the ads again. I wanted to see if what i did was a good placement because I don't want to be too intrusive to the website content but also want some revenue made out of this.

http://www.gamers-forum.com

The front page has two ad units on the bottom and every other page has one ad on the bottom.

Responses is appreciated!

 

Did you take them off? I didn't see them...

 

no they are not off, they are like all the way at the bottom of the forum

 

i only one ads unit at the footer of your site and one link unit on the rigth side of your site.

i think you must add one ads unit inside your first post and one after the first post

 

why do you say must add in the first post and one after? i think that'll be very intrusive

 

If you're going to run ads, I think you need to have them above the fold - unless you know that a good proportion of your visitors are going to scroll all the way down. You can find ways of incorporating ads without letting them overwhelm your content. For example, you might perhaps redesign your page to have horizontal adlinks below the menu bar.

I would have thought most users of a free forum would accept the presence of some ads near the top of the page - and personally I would find an ad block above all the posts or in the top of the sidebar less intrusive than in between individual posts.

 

i think i'll move one to the side bar, near the top but not between the posts, that looks ugly to me

thanks! im gonna implement that into my blogs as well

 

Your forums look great. I bookmarked them since I am an avid gamer myself. Your ads look great, but could match the grey background little more. You could also probbally add another google ad below your side bar

 

which grey background?

and thanks for comments i cant add another google ad - max is 3 and the one on the right panel already, the little text, im thinking of converting that into a whole vertical ad

thanks!

stll could use a bit more feed back