Suggestions for Ad placement options to improve the user experience

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RBoy suggests two improvements for ad placement to enhance user experience. First, they propose adding an option to place ads BELOW the topic list instead of only above it, to reduce disruption—especially for new users landing on the homepage. Second, they recommend separating ad placement settings for the main/landing page topic list versus category-specific topic lists. This would allow admins to avoid showing ads on the homepage (particularly at the top) while still displaying them on category pages—where users are more engaged—offering separate top and bottom placement options for each context.

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I would like to make 2 suggestions for ad placement options.

Currently there is an option to only place an add above the Topic List (separate for desktop and mobile which is nice), which applies to all Categories and the Main landing page (it doesn’t differentiate).

However this isn’t always an optimal / happy solution for two reasons:

  1. It would be nice to have an option to place the ad BELOW the topics instead of the top. It very disruptive to have an ad for a new user on the top of the landing page (see my second suggestion below on a related to improve the experience which is linked to this)
  2. It would be optimal to have a separate option for placing ads on the main/landing page Topics list and separately the Category topics list. For example, I don’t want to show ads to users who comes to the forum landing page, especially on top (it’s very disruptive), but if they decide to stay and click on a Category, then when the list of topics in that category/sub category are shown, I would to show ads on those pages (top and bottom separate as described above)