How are we doing?

here is my site http://www.350z-tech.com and its a nissan 350z enthusiast site. we have a forum with over 11,000 members and incorporated teh mediawiki software so we could list all the aftermarket products, tutorials, etc. We have ads up at the top of the forums, also after every post in each thread, on the main page of the site. i read on here that forums are difficult to make money, how true is this? based on my stats what should i be making, round about figure?

how are our placements of ads? are thay bad, do we need to change them, etc etc

here are our stats for JULY

Total Hits 10150830
Total Files 6144401
Total Pages 2998153
Total Visits 169116
Total KBytes 74889319
Total Unique Sites 37618
Total Unique URLs 54833
Total Unique Referrers 18076
Total Unique Usernames 1
Total Unique User Agents 1905

how do they look?

 

Looks like this is a thread to bring attention to your website. If you have such amount of traffic as you claim, I don't know why you would need to post your URL here to adversite your site.

 

bring attention? why would i want to advertise my site to people discussing google ads? my site is a specific car site and i get plenty of traffic. all i want is some reviews of my ad placement as the title says.

 

I think the ad placement on your homepage is really nice. I think you have a pretty decent CTR from that unit?
You might wanna experiment with the link color though.. my finding is that an outstanding color works better (haven't tried that in combination with images though)


On the forum: just experiment a little with link colors and formats, but I think your ok there as well

 

nikao, so you mean we should use like a bright red for the link? thx for the response

 

Your ads look fine to me. Perhaps you should change the colour of the ads on the home page and make it stand out a bit. The forum segment is nice.

 

thx gwest, i will change that and see how that goes

 

yeah, or blue. It is commonly assumed that blue works the best, cause that's the default link color.
I'm testing that out right now.. ( http://www.seo-portal.com/category/adsense-integration-test/ )

 

ok let me know how it goes for you!!