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Do Forums really make money?

Discussion in 'vBulletin' started by MammaRose, Oct 9, 2007.

  1. MammaRose

    MammaRose Banned

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    #21
    Another question..is it better to make 1 large broad forum..ie Football, or several smaller forums (more targetted) ie.. Dallas Cowboys.
     
    MammaRose, Oct 10, 2007 IP
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    icekid Well-Known Member

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    #22
    I would say a 1 large forum
     
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    DaStarBuG Peon

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    #23
    You can earn very good with a Forum and Adsense but it depends on your niche and how much visitors/members you get.

    My income is decent even with "only" 700 members because I have a high paying niche.

    The start will be tough and it will take some time (depending on your promotion skills) till the forum develops and money comes in, but it is doable.

    Good Luck

    StarBuG
     
    DaStarBuG, Oct 11, 2007 IP
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    ProxyEffect Banned

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    #24
    Worthless advice. Always pick a niche. If you decided to make a large football forum, do you think you'll succeed since there are already so many established forums ?
     
    ProxyEffect, Oct 13, 2007 IP
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    ascensions Active Member

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    #25
    IMHO, forums require some technical expertise, modification, and consistent work to compete with out of the box CMS systems. It is however an easily manipulated and often highly lucrative way of creating content and revenue.
     
    ascensions, Oct 14, 2007 IP
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    I own one and make $5 - $20/day from 1,000 visits. =/
     
    ForgottenCreature, Oct 14, 2007 IP
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    Notting Notable Member

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    #27
    Then you're doing something wrong!

    Notting
     
    Notting, Oct 15, 2007 IP
  8. MammaRose

    MammaRose Banned

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    #28
    Do you earn that from Adsense or some other source?
     
    MammaRose, Oct 16, 2007 IP
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    #29
    Yes forums can make money. Look at DP for example, it is making over $10,000 per month and that figure was claimed around 2 - 3 years ago and DP has grown quite a bit since then.
     
    john269, Oct 16, 2007 IP
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    SGTScripts Peon

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    #30
    I would work on getting the forum up and running first then worry about the money making.
     
    SGTScripts, Oct 16, 2007 IP
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    #31
    Adsense. :) It's a low-paying niche.

    Wrong.
     
    ForgottenCreature, Oct 17, 2007 IP
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    Hey, there's nothing wrong with that sir, $20/day combined with government aid will give you a 4 year college bachelors degree, all costs paid with no debt! :)

    That's one positive way to look at it.
     
    snappingpig, Oct 18, 2007 IP
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    #33
    I seriously doubt webmaster forum make money from adsense. You can make money selling text links on a good pr, entering TextLinkAds and similar networks. Adsense failed miserably on me on my webmaster forums. My biggest earnings are on sites from other topics :)
     
    dojo, Oct 22, 2007 IP
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    #34
    I am considering putting up a forum in a rather low paying niche, but it has the possibility to explode in terms of traffic. What I really worry about is hosting though. I am with hostmonster, and I worry that if I have say 200 people on at the same time that my forum will crash. Dedicated hosting is like $300 a month, which is insane.

    Anyone with a forum care to comment on who they host with, or how much they have to pay a month?
     
    Methane, Oct 22, 2007 IP
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    kollam003 Well-Known Member

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    one problem with with forum is that the members will be figuring out ad places quite well so they care not to click on it and adsense is not so bad nor good with me not tired anything else its only 5 months only with 1900 members may be it will improve
     
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    A webmaster forum should be high-earning. Did you have adsense placed in the right spots?
     
    ForgottenCreature, Oct 23, 2007 IP
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    Forums can make money. My forum is about two months old, has about 100 members and makes $150/week. By the time I reach 1,000 members I will earn over 5,000/month
     
    Betias, Oct 25, 2007 IP
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    #38
    Providing you don't overload you visitors with different affiliate programs below each message, then yes.

    Choose one, and have that product as the ONLY thing being advertised for at least 1 week.

    A simple ad like our signature below, will yield results.

    If you have no sales, choose something else. reason is, the more people see the same product being advertised, more likely they are to buy.

    A simple text ad, no bigger than our signature below, will yield results.
     
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    #39

    ROFL..LOOL

    man focus on ur design
     
    kateido, Oct 25, 2007 IP
  20. ForgottenCreature

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    Well, is that from advertisements or?
     
    ForgottenCreature, Oct 25, 2007 IP