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I don't want to discuss CTR here, but it's low. But our impressions are high enough to get a return from it, providing the contributors have enough threads active.
I understand what you're saying. And I thank you kindly for taking time out to write such a lengthy details response. I still don't see how DigitalPoint get away with it, and searching the net for 'adsense revenue sharing forum' gives you forums and lists of forums with such a thing in place, some dating back quite some time, some being very big forums, some even having SEO/SEM guys from within the industry on them, even Google / Yahoo emplyee's from what I can make of it.
As for the three blocks rule, we have some pages within our forum that produce 4 or 5 blocks of CODE, though google stops the code running once it has three running already, therefore it doesn't produce more than three blocks.
I still think it's a goer. I'm certainly up for it.
To add to this, on our tileforum I have configured a design that is set on accounts that are used regularly which serves NO google ads at all, aiming to increase CTR and decrease ad-blindness somewhat, and it works well. Members can switch to and from the googleless design as they please, so they can get ads served should they want to on a page they feel will give them ads they want to see, though generally perhaps a regular wouldn't have them served primarily.
I've spent a couple of years configuring that one forum, and of the 12 million hits per month, with an average CTR (optimal being 10% (given the fact that if you have 10% or more CTR you should really server more ads on 'those' pages), poor being 0.01%) it give me a decent income. My heavy contributors of that forum will get a fair decent income themselves if we roll this out well, and we find it doesn't breach the TOS of google.
I understand what you're saying. And I thank you kindly for taking time out to write such a lengthy details response. I still don't see how DigitalPoint get away with it, and searching the net for 'adsense revenue sharing forum' gives you forums and lists of forums with such a thing in place, some dating back quite some time, some being very big forums, some even having SEO/SEM guys from within the industry on them, even Google / Yahoo emplyee's from what I can make of it.
As for the three blocks rule, we have some pages within our forum that produce 4 or 5 blocks of CODE, though google stops the code running once it has three running already, therefore it doesn't produce more than three blocks.
I still think it's a goer. I'm certainly up for it.
To add to this, on our tileforum I have configured a design that is set on accounts that are used regularly which serves NO google ads at all, aiming to increase CTR and decrease ad-blindness somewhat, and it works well. Members can switch to and from the googleless design as they please, so they can get ads served should they want to on a page they feel will give them ads they want to see, though generally perhaps a regular wouldn't have them served primarily.
I've spent a couple of years configuring that one forum, and of the 12 million hits per month, with an average CTR (optimal being 10% (given the fact that if you have 10% or more CTR you should really server more ads on 'those' pages), poor being 0.01%) it give me a decent income. My heavy contributors of that forum will get a fair decent income themselves if we roll this out well, and we find it doesn't breach the TOS of google.
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