Forum Revenue

**LeeD** · 10-19-2009, 02:02 PM

CPM ads have always done well on our communities.

Forum sponsorships, newsletters, and programs like Kontera and Vibrant Media are nice as well.

CyberWizard · 10-19-2009, 02:21 PM

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Originally Posted by LeeD

CPM ads have always done well on our communities.

Forum sponsorships, newsletters, and programs like Kontera and Vibrant Media are nice as well.

That is what I am more into as well. I tend to stay away from Adsense, AdBrite, etc. because there are way too many other ways to make a lot more money from ads than using them.

pvignola · 10-19-2009, 03:17 PM

For you folks that are making any money from your forum how many post are in your forum and how many do you average a day also how much traffic do you average? I am trying to figure out where I need to be as far as post / traffic to make any money at all via any of the methods described in this thread.

CyberWizard · 10-19-2009, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by pvignola

For you folks that are making any money from your forum how many post are in your forum and how many do you average a day also how much traffic do you average? I am trying to figure out where I need to be as far as post / traffic to make any money at all via any of the methods described in this thread.

I would not worry as much about posts as I would traffic. SEO is the number one tool for getting traffic to your website. A lot of people worry about the number of members on their forum when worrying about money. However, if you take a look at v7n right now you will see that their are about 100 members and about 8000 guests online. That is because they are well-indexed in search engines and have good keywords, meta tags, etc.

pvignola · 10-19-2009, 05:23 PM

That's a good point. I am just trying to get as much info as I can about generating dough. I think it would be best to keep the site free of adds for a while so as not to annony the potential members.