Using Adsense in Your Community

[Nomad]

Do you use Google Adsense in your community? How many posts did your community have when Adsense approved your site? I run adsnese in a community, it was approved with just 500 posts. Currently, I am trying to get Adsense approved on a community with more than 3000 posts but it has been rejected. This community was actually running Adsense ads, but I decided to change domain and when I started using a new domain, I also had to get is approved by Adsense. It is funny that Adsense rejected a community that it had previously approved.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I use it on my blog. I make quite a bit with it each month as well.

However, I don't like it on forums unless you can control where it is as the forum owner.

A banner in between posts or boards would be okay. A lot of forums turn on the "overlay" or "popup" that takes over the whole screen. I hate that so much!

In reality, I tried using it and I can attest that it made me more money when using it but do I really want to be the guy that would rather take more money than not annoy the heck out of my members?

To be honest, forums that use that feature turn me off. I visit them less. I'd imagine I'm not the only one who does that.

 

[Nomad]

I understand having ads every where on your web page or having ads that creates problems while interacting with the content are certainly detrimental for your community. Having too many ads or intrusive ads are certainly turn off for members but I believe a few ads on header and footer and sometimes on the side bars or between the posts, would be fine. I think community owners who do not use ads on their community find it distasteful to visit communities running ads, where as people who run ads on their communities wouldn't mind it.