Review my adsense ad placement please

Ok, I asked for reviews before on this site, but it crashed and I rebuilt it with a new design so the ad placements are different. Please give me your thought, advice, opinions on the adsense. Thank you!

http://www.thebasketballforum.com

 

Ad placement on the left is okay... try experimenting with other ad sizes in different places in your blog.

 

Thanks for the suggestions (both of you). I've used the blue because it's the color of my links on the site. This is the advice tubetorial.com (author of the theme) gives for the adsense, but I may try black later on. I will be using black for adsense between the posts, and will add more ads once I have some traffic going. Also, I don't want to scare the visitor with too much ads. How do you decide if it's too much?

Keep the advice coming!

 

I think your add placement is so far, quite ok. I personally agree with zerosleep in that black may look better for the ad links.

Well, the only real way to know if it is too much, is when you look at the page and go "Gah!" I guess its kind of a thing you learn. I think (I may well be wrong, haven't read them for a while) that the Adsense TOS might place a limitation on the number of ad units you can have on each page, so clearly any more than that, would not only be enough to scare your viewers away, but also enough to get you chucked out of the adsense program!

 

Thanks for the feedback. I will reassess the colors later but for now, I'm off to getting some traffic. The ads don't matter if there's no traffic