I have been getting many hits and some steady member sign-ups on my new forum. I put a lot of time and work into making it really nice looking as well as feature intense. I was curious if anyone knows if there is a "Plugin" or something I can use to allow the adsense ads to show up such as on this forum. Since my forum will probably be growing very rapidly and very large, I would not mind monetizing it. I figured adsense ads could help with the hosting and such... Thanks everyone!
You will have no problem integrating adsense into your forum. Also there are VB templates out there designed for adsense. You may want to view a few other forums and see how they have integrated adsense into it. I owen several forums and can say that they really do not bring in much cash. You should be able to recover all your hosting fees with ease.
take a look at vbulletin.org, they have some plug-ins. I've heard that many times, too, that forums don't bring much revenue.