I own a sports forum and I am not satisfied with the revenues. I will not say how much I am currently making but please tell me if you think I am capable of making more. Include placement suggestions and recommends so I can achieve more revenue. There are 3 ad locations: Main Forum Page Header ad only Forum View 2 image ads Topic view 1 header ad, an ad inside the first post, & an ad at the bottom of the thread. The forum averages 2,000 posts per day. Significant traffic. So how is my ad placement? How much money do you guys think the forum should be making? What do you recommend I do to achieve higher profits? Thanks!
Well, i think it will be around $500+. You haven't mentioned about clicks. Are you getting good clicks?
I think your data is not accurate according with the ranks of the most common use ranking sites, like alexa and cubestat, I know you know these site because you have 3 reviews en alexa! moreover your site is new really new it only is 8 months old, maybe most of the posts are created by you or people who work with you. I'm not an expert but you must be earning 5 dollars at day and max 15 in ads no more. The only thinks you can do is keep working your work seems good to me and but you're trying to pup your site too fast that is always expensive. regards
I am getting good clicks. The activity is very high on the forum. Over 2,000 posts daily, 10-15 new members daily. We have plenty of page impressions. I won't give out my adsense stats but I want to know what you guys think I should be making? How would you better monetize the forum? Looking for more opinions thanks.
Forums are notoriously poor paying, in part because you get lots of return visitors who visit many pages on your site. They become "blind" to the ads and even those who aren't are more likely to continue hanging out in your forum than click an ad to go to a different web site.
I rotate the ad placement every couple of days for precisely that reason. Are monthly averages for December were 28.51 page views per user. So people are staying on the forum. We average 10-15 new members daily as I said so the new visitors is high.
you own a sport forum Then you can make 750$+ per month if your getting good clicks then you can easily make 1000$= per month
I'm no where close $750 per month. Any tips on ad placement or what I can do to achieve a figure like that? The traffic is there, I get around 10-15 clicks per day, with earnings but I am no where close to making $750 a month
My forum has gotten 70 new members in the last 3 days and still no major revenue jump. I move the ads around every once in a while so users don't get use to their placement. Any suggestions to make more money? Are there any other programs I should be using? Yesterday I got 34 clicks for $10. That's not very good. My earnings should be much higher for that amount of clicks.
Why don't you go for a CPM ad network? I have one up on my forums. That way you will be a lot happier if you get higher page views and more users. I am using adbrite right now and making pennies because my forums are still growing, but I am sure that if you are getting 70 new members in 3 days then you will get a lot more!
If you can find decent CPM network that serves contextual ads then go for it! Tribal fusion are contextual I think and they pay like $2 eCPM so you would be making a killing!