We are looking at building a forum in health industry, specifically cancer. Our question is... how many visitors and registers does it typically take for a forum to make $50 a day in Adsense? I know this is vague but I am estimating about 2000 visitors a day and about 10000 posts with about 200 visitors on the site at all times. Please give your thoughts.
$50 a day from a forum is a large amount, there's alot of good spots you can put your ads in on the forum, although it's hard with forums as to many ads can potentially scare your members off. I think it'd take around 3000 or so visitors to achieve your goal
My forum has generated over $300,000 since i started it back in 2006 but that was through several different monetization methods. I dont think there is any way in heck you could make $50/day with 2000 visitors per day from JUST Adsense. Maybeeee if you combined Adsense and Kontera (how i do it) or combined with some other ad-network - but even then you'll need closer to 7000 - 8000 visitors per day depending on the niche of the content.
Thanks for the first 2 responses, you are helping others. What is your niche? Tearabite? or do you work for Kontera?
but what do you do? I have been on here for 5 years and what impresses me is peoples accomplishments. Give me a site? or... do you work for the man?
"The man" ? no.. i work for myself (besides my 'day job').. A couple of years ago i put all my thoughts of what i did, and why, into an ebook - i sold that ebook here on DP for $10 (sold nearly 1,000 copies), but there is an HTML version in my blog now for free. might give you some ideas - all you have to lose is the 20 minutes to read it.