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Here's a tutorial on how to get the most out of advertisements that you may put around your site. It doesn't matter what type of ads your using (adbrite, bidvertiser, google ads ect.)

Whatever ad your using, try to place the ads on every webpage. Putting the ad on your homepage is not enough, because most people do not spend their time on your homepage, but on separate subdirectories

Ads on the bottom of your page doesn't do much. Most people won't even see the ads on your footer, and they will go unnoticed most of the time. Try to put it above the scroll so people see it before they scroll down the page.

Don't click on your own advertisements, or encourage others to do so. All this does is makes you more prone to getting your account terminated, as it is very easy to detect when somebody clicks their own ad, by their IP address. Also, if other uses begin clicking on the advertisements a lot, the company may thing that this is you on a proxy, or another computer, and terminate your account for that reason. So overall it is not worth it.

And last but not least, try to blend your ads with your site. One way that is easy to do this, is if you use the inline ads mod by Labrocca. This is so your ad is shown after the initial post, or after an x amount. Most advertising programs also give you the option of choosing the colors of the advertisements. Try choosing colors that fit your site, so they look more apart of your site, then a distraction.

Hope that helps with advertisements

Well well, this is quite good. Thanks for the great tips Killz, I'll definitely use this in the future

I never understood where you getted ads from? You just sign up somewhere and then whenever you get a click you get money??

Google Adsense, Bidvertiser, WidgetBucks, stuff like that

Are there any particular themes that you know of that will also help with ads? Like any with side boxes? I have the side box plugin installed but it is only for the index (home page). I also have the inline ads installed...great plugin.

I am trying to find the best way to present ads to users and the best use of the "space" on my site.

Use Inline Ads, Labrocca's mod. It's great because it puts ads in between posts, and this is especially good if your using Google Adsense, it will posts relevant links in posts. You also can make it so only certain groups see the ads, so you could make incentive groups so you won't see the ads.

Nice one but almost every forum owner know this!

Labrocca offers his plugins exclusively on his forum now. I have removed the invalid link.

That is not necessarily true.

Good tips ..although all seem Obvious Enough..

But yea when you read it ..it is obvious but when practiced ..you make mistakes

Wow, thx for the tip, never knew they could terminate your account