Can I place my google ads in a custom island? What size do I need to create with google? Also, when I click on the custom island do I erase what is in the box and simply copy and paste the google script into it? When I did this it said "syntac error". What am I doing wrong? Was it wrong size ad? Thanks.

Place the adsense code between the "eof" lines.

Yes, I did that, but I'm wondering what size I should make the ads? I did the "small box" option from Google Adsense but it still came up with errors.

What kind of errors? Be sure you don't just "throw it in" it must be between the eof lines (There are two of them)

As seen below, I'm using 120x90 ads. The code should be placed as follows:



In control panel, the cache time should be 0 (zero) for this custom island.

Sweet, I've got it figured out now. I'm running some small square ads as well as a vertical ad along the left column. Thanks for the help!!

In this same vein, would you recommend running them as islands or putting them in each forum, etc.

Also, toying with the idea of having those who "donate" to the site's upkeep don't have to see the ads, so would the subcription option be a good way to do this....and with that, do I need to mod my forums to do a group check or whatever to know if the ad should be displayed or not.

Definitely keen to hear some options and suggestions around ad placement, straddling the fine line between pissing your user base off and getting decent revenue to support the site.

The subscription option only covers the ad island in forums.

Google allows up to 3 ad units, plus 2 link units; so you can come up with many options...

I have one side island, one footer island, one post island, then one link island at the top...

Hmm...guess I'm not clued in to the ad units vs link units part....guess I need to go read up.

Look at my forums for an example, link units are simply a plain link; ad units are a link and an ad.