Hi, I run a forum which gets around 2,00,000 page views everymonth with around 40,000 visits and 20,000 unique visits everyday. Out of which 40% traffic is from google search and 50% direct and rest are referrals. I want to understand what is the best way to earn money from it. Apart from adsense what all options do i have? I am very new to advertising world. Thanks,
You can try bidvertiser.com as your PPC alternative to AdSense and cj.com ads as your PPA source of income. You can also experiment with having some parts of your forum open to paid members only. With 20,000 daily visits, I am sure you will have a couple people every day who'd want to pay a small fee to check those sections out. Also, you may want to consider having your own paid advertising program. Let visitors post their own banner or text ads above the fold for a fee.
On the low end our publishers with this kind of traffic are earning around a minimum of $40 per day, it would take about a weeks worth of testing to truly evaluate your earning potential on our network.