The Secrets to Starting a Successful Forum : A Guide

What you have to watch for is giving stuff away randomly. Sometimes it can be considered a lottery, which is regulated like gambling, so you need a license or something.

I've only heard that once, but to be on the safe side, you may want to have the contest based on post count or referrals or "most informative poster" or something like that.

I think the "many thousands of dollars" thing mentioned earlier deals with taxes. Like if you win something real expensive, you have to pay tax on it. (just like lottery and casino winnings)

 

Ah I see where you're coming from, good points.

 

Thanks for the answer. It seems that it will help a lot.

But it looked a little comlex to me . Are you using all features of it? Do you know any alternatives?

 

If 100% of the revenue is shared how will you make money, pay

for server costs etc. ?

 

wow this was very helpful,i'll follow you buudy thankx,hope we make it sticky.just a suggestions.

 

Setting it up can be somewhat complex. Join the Profit Geek forums (http://forums.profitgeek.com) and send a PM to Mystickcal, I believe he set up everything on vbPlaza and he'll help you out.

For starters, not everybody will enter their ID in. Money is made in other ways, like AdSense on the rest of the site, in the blog, money from the directory, affiliate ads, etc.

Plus Profit Geek isn't too worried about losing some money on AdSense, we're all out there to just help webmasters make more money. So as long as costs can be paid for, it's all good.

 

Ok. I will try. Thanks for the tip..

 

No problem any time .

 

thanks

 

great tips and advice, thanks achilles

 

Awesome post. I'm trying to start a forum and I'm sure your tips will come in handy.

 

Thanks for the kind words!

I'm currently writing a PPC guide similar to this article, so keep your eyes peeled for it.

 

Yep, the trick is at the end of each article to make sure you don't forget the [/subliminal message] tag .

 

But how can it be both a good and bad example?

I was under the impression that refferal links were allowed at DP.

 

The example is the wording for the link, not the forum itself.

 

They are, but some people love to point them out.

 

Very good article and very well detailed. Thank you for putting it up, it was very educational.

 

I meant not allowed. Sorry.

I wonder why I got an infraction for one then.

 

Yeah I'm talking about the text, not the link lol.

 

thanks for the link, but i want to ask....i live in outside USA...can i still use this promo code???

thanks