How much money do an average niche forum make...?
At what point do sponsors normally get interested in investing money...?
Is it possible to make a living out of a free/template forum...?
Most people visiting forums visit the community regularly and use features they are unlikely to click ads. If you build a strong forum you can always charge for access or run ads they pay per impression. Good Luck to you!
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Forums can do well, but they have to be large. It's not nearly as easy to grow a forum as it is a good website and it really gets more difficult to raise revenue from ads in the early stages. If you're looking to create a forum solely based on making money, I'll save you the time and say it won't work. It has to be something that you feel fairly passionately about or enjoy talking/doing it.
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Some forums make money, but like the others said adsense most likely won't work for revenue. You have to build a strong user and base and provide memberships or sell products that you produce through your forum, etc... Also to sell ad space to individual companies will boost your income. Like crazytech said, you need to be passionate about that site/forum or it won't work. If you really cared about the site, making money should come last. Serving the people should come first hand. Just like in any other business.
Yeah, but they can't be as bad as what video and free online game sites are. The earnings are low and the bandwidth is high. I know from having one.
Also, forums that have less people posting and more guests may perform better on the ads as they are more likely to click I guess. But saying that, don't go ahead and start banning all your posters as you will then have no new content and people go turn away that way anyway.
Avoid starting a forums to make money. Make one because you are interested in the topic. Also the money made from forums depends greatly on the subject matter. Webmaster forums make more than video game forums and financial forums make more than both. Forums are communities. How you evolve your community into a money making enterprise is up to you and can be done in dozens of proven methods.
forums don't really make a lot of money, i have a forum and it has about 300+ members, and it is pr2, still i can't make a discussion going and keep the forum active!
i guess monitarizing a forum is not all that easy
I would love to see the layout and design of the forums that are generating some revenue. I just plugged up ours but have been looking for ideas on how to launch it and get some members let alone earn money from it. . . .
Thinking about getting it skinned up to. Design Im sure comes into play later. Tieing to the site will help too? Weddings411.ca Forums
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Yes the bandwith is high and the earnings at start but a good forum +3000 members is a very well market...for example namepros with 55,197 members you can get a very good click rate in your ads,banner impresions ,email adverts,dials with other sites and of course sister sites....and come on every successfull site have a forum based situation...
actually i have a forum, in which most of the time of mine is wasted fighting spam! so i guess managing a forum is a though work, and you have to pay some money to the mods perhaps to get some decipline!
What scripts you using? I had a phpBB forum and it got hit by spam even though I had the some spam mods in place.
I then shut it down as I was getting to much spam signups and posts.
phpBB is the one of the worst that you can use for a forum though unless you do quite a bit of moderations to the forums.
I may start again, but use the same script as what this forums uses instead and also add alot of spam mods to it to help prevent spam signups and posting.
Yes, but something people foolishly neglect is that in forums..... is that the email addys you get to send out to are worth 25x+ the amount of money you will make through ads.
Its all about the kind of forum you want to run. I have had niche forums where i have made over $500 per month from them. Just get a good niche and you will be Ok.
It takes time to build a forum so you have to be willing to spend the time on making the forum
Forums do quite good if you have a good amount of traffic. Take NP for example, it has implemented adsense revenue sharing and people have reported to make 5-10 bucks monthly based on their activity so imagine how much the owner can make if an average user is making 5-10 bucks monthly.
