Look at the number of people on this forum struggling to even make $1 a day - and you want to make $20 or so? Forums are very hard to start unless you have a group of people all ready to go to sign up, or you pay for seed posters. I vaguely tried to start a forum on a site with 2000 visitors a day, I got zero real posters and shut it down. The other two forums I have were both started when another project forked, so there was a reasonable size group of people looking for a new forum. One of those forums has since died, as the posters have moved elsewhere. I'd say most newer forums start when a group of people on a larger forum decide they hate their old forum for whatever reason and want to start a splinter one. And there's a LOT of webhosting/webmaster/seo type forums out there already, yours would have to be REALLY good to take off.
i think you shouldn't start with forum just choose a niche which is less competitive and have at least 200k searches per month you can see it from google keyword tool
Think you should do it as a blog/site. Personally I love Drupal CMS since I can do whatever style I want with it.
JamesColin I have almost zero experience with CMS, I used joomla in other sites for few weeks and I didn't like it, used drupal and seems much better, now for this site for adsense I'm using wordpress. The good thing about wordpress is the big variety of plugins and themes, drupal don't have many of them. My main doubt is if blog style or static website makes any difference in terms of earnings?
Forums are a bit difficult to take off with initially, you will need to spend a good amount of money and time on it. Comparatively blogs are easy to start and maintain.
Cleberl1 blog or website can mek a difference in earnings yes, but in a subtle way, that's the way content is organised. A blog format can be boring to say the least and annoying to find additional info. On a well organized site visitors can easily read more pages. more pages = more money. As for drupal 7, i would recommend you invest the time whenever you can, in drupal, I'm glad I did, but millions live well without knowing how to use drupal.
to add forum on your site is always a very good idea because this is the best way to stop your visitors on site
Yep, that's exactly my doubt, the difference between a blog or static website is on how the content is organized. I'm using wordpress now, but my fear is that will be harder for people find all my content, lower visibility of all my "articles" and so my earnings will not be so good as a static site using drupal or joomla.