LaserPointerForums - Recently upgraded from YaBB

[m0rgulvale]

Hi All,

I recently upgraded my site http://laserpointerforums.com to vBulletin. YaBB was great but I needed to get away from the flatfile storage system.

LPF is the largest laser discussion on the net.


I am enjoying vBulletin so far and this forum is great.

Any feedback welcomed

Peace

-Ave

[lasto]

dont like at all

Reason being : to many google adverts splattered all over the place.
You have a full screen at the top and then a full screen at the bottom and then u even have them in the middle.

Do you really need that many adverts ???

Its obviously not affected your members :

Currently Active Users: 554 (181 members and 373 guests)

But i myself would not even bother even looking at your board because of the amount of adverts on it.

[fanyap]

oh my lol bad adsense integration you could make better money other ways than throwing adsense all over your page. DECENT member base, bad design & ad integration.

[Konstantinos]

maybe the ads show only for guests ? but i agree with the others

[RLShare]

The design is pretty bad.

And from an ad placement point of view what you are doing is horrible, more ads does not usually mean more money. A few well placed ads will equal more money then just randomly throwing a bunch of ads everywhere you can fit them in..

[m0rgulvale]

i find that CPC ads are most effective in those positions

what do you think the click thru rate should be on a site like this?

what would be better locations for a forum?

thx for your honest input

regards,
-ave

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does it look better now?