I had an active forum and never monitized it. I shut it down because of the ceaseless bickering of the members. But I am thinking of starting up again, perhaps on a different site. How much can I expect to make with active forum and adsense? How much do you make?
You can make pennies a day to hundreds per day. There is no straight answer to your question. Part of it depends on activity and the other on content genre. For instance video game forums get very little per click while webmaster forums such as this one make solid income per click. The question arises does your forums make enough to at least pay for it's hosting and your time? Is it a labor of love where revenue doesn't matter or do you just run the site for income?
It depends for me, I have a supporting member group who pays a different amount of money. But from current supporters, I make $15 monthly. Not much, but it keeps our server up
AdSense is not usually considered the best way to monetize a forum unless it is exceptionally busy - and even then there might be more lucrative options depending on the niche. I am assuming your forum is not knocking out high xx xxx impressions per day or greater so you should look at alternatives like affiliates in your niche, and optimising the design and selling your own advertising space? Just a thought.
Actually generating money from a forum depends on daily participation and where the ads are placed on the forum, you must be careful not to annoy members with too many ads. Also create ways for the forum to generate direct ads purchase through banner rotation , static banner placement etc. Generally Adsense is known not to be very successful with forums , you can try out other smaller publishing companies. With a forum, sometimes, the month is good but sometimes its bad but as long as it helps you offset the hosting bills, then its worth it.
Forum does not make much money. People come to forum sites to search for information or get connected with knowledgeable individuals. Build your forum out of your passion - for friendship. Money may come from different channels, not necessarily from ads.
I have a forum myself, and I generally make anywhere from $.10 to $1.00 per day. Not too high considering I'm getting over 1000 visitors per day... Any more suggestions on alternative advertising options.
My forum isn't very active at the moment. I'm making a HUGE 2c a day so far! My goal is $100 a week so I have a lot of work to do!
I made more than 100$ in a month on my site. But afterwards my account was closed. So if you have high traffic than you can earn more than 500$ from it.
I wonder what would happen if you have one panel somewhere on the forum with let's say 4-6 positions that read "Place your Ad Here" You could try to monetize it the blogger way! I have never seen it before but I it is worth trying I guess. This way you will have guaranteed income each month.
well it is quite tough to get monetize through forums.Your forum must be good enough to handle visitors as well as it is typical for forum to be a wise choice due to visitors don't click on ads as they well know that this is a forum and ads dont get mixed up with rest of forum.
When you first start off a forum, expect little to no revenue. But when your forum gets huge, I say it can range from 10-10,000! Example: Plentyoffish.com . They are making around 5-10 million dollars a year from adsense. It all depends on your niche, activity, and your patience.
The thing with forums is very simple.. if someone occupied your forum niche it's almost impossible to start a new forum and make it popular(profitable)... everyone will go to the already existing more popular forums.. Making a popular forum was easier several years ago before adsense appeared.. now almost every niche is occupied and there are many dead forums hoping to make an income with adsense. :\
The thing to make a forum work is, that you love what you are doing and that you offer something, that others don't in your niche. I run a medical forum for German patients (besides others) and even though there are some very big players in my niche my forum is growing nicely. The difference between the big players and my forum is, that my forum is very friendly and open minded. It also is very well arranged and does not use hundreds of subforums as other medical forums do. I do make a very nice income from adsense with my forum (mid 3 digit income) and it is raising nearly monthly. You can check out my ad placements here: www.patientenfragen.net If you like the placements you can find them on vbulletin.org, I published them under my Nick StarBuG