Adsense placement help

[LTR450HQ.com]

Hey, I just started (trying) to use adsense recently. I had tried it before but it would take almost 5 months to get a check, but now I'm getting serious about it.
Here's the site.

LTR450HQ - Home

As of a few days ago I made a portal on my forum to act as a homepage so I could use more ads without disrupting the forum experience having ads everywhere on the forum.

Right now ads display

-Under the "sponsors" box on every website page, (link units).
-On the homepage all the way to the right.(sky ad)
-Also after every post made a googlebot posts ads. (box ad, only GUESTS can see this ad.)

And that's all I have so far, if anyone can give me some better recommendations on ad placement, or tools I can use, that would be great. I would like to get publishers to advertise, I have opened up the channels to them, but I'm not sure if they will come.

Yesterday I got about 12 clicks, with over 7,000 impressions in one day. Today I have 2 so far with close to 7,000 impressions. I'm pretty sure it should be doing a lot better than this.