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Very useful: Amykhar

What I decided to do was use "Text only Banners" and then adjust the border and background colours so they look like part of the page text. This way people don't see them as regular banners and avoid them like the plague, but instead see text links with no background colour.

I 've also placed my Google adds in the Archive and Easy Mod archive, as well as using a hack over from vBulletin.com that allows me to display a text banner after every last thread. Nowhere on my site will you see a Banner (only text adds) made to look as much like part of the site as possible.

On you site, one clever thing I see you have done it move you site links at the very top and then added the adsence banner right below them. I've seen this used before where this is done to try and get mistaken clicks on banner instead of site links by putting the adsence very close to site page links.