I have never considered ads... but I get about 1500 unique hits a day. I dont like ads.. but could I earn some money to pay for hosting with this? I havent considered it before but times are getting tough :/
lots of factors at play - type of ad unit - your vertical market - geo of users let's say you have a 5% ctr on cpc ads of your 1500 uniques or 75 clicks and your vertical might fetch a penny or a dollar cpc depending on your vertical, and so you might be looking at $0.75 or $75 or anywhere in between for usa traffic then your ctr might be 3 times that or a fith that or less, as is frequently the case with forums or if each user has a high number of pageviews you may opt to serve cpm banners that pay per thousand views or you can serve both babnners and cpc text ads. Hope that helps, Worthen
I've seen a few posts like this, I would not clog up the Joint with Pay per click. I've suggested this elsewhere too. Affiliate with a company that sells similar products to the subject of your forum. You obviously have credibility so every now and then recommend a product or service that will benefit members. 1 or 2 a month is heaps, the post stays there the whole time so most will see it. Just make sure the product/service is relevent and your Loyal members will look after you, Pound them too much and they will all run away. Hope that helps some. Just-In
Here is a trick you will make money with. Place adsense or adbrite or both inside your post/thread. So when there reading the content they will give your ad a click. Definetly use adsense and adbrite or both as starters. If you have vbulletin forum then read http://www.duoblogger.com/vbulletin-adsense-placements/ Code (markup): . Goodluck