Im considering ads for my forum http://planetgamers.info/ and the thing is does ads really help you to make money? And if so what should I use, I am completely new to ads, so some info will be appreciated. Is google adsense good?
Does ads really let you make money
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froggyboy604
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It can make you money, but it is not very consistent like a job which you get paid hourly. Some days you make nothing other days you can make 10 dollars or more. The amount of money you make depends on the category (sports, computers, insurance, law, etc) of ad a person clicks, and how many clicks you get per day. Some ads get a higher price per click. I read on Adsense forum some people get $10 per click, but it is very rare. Most clicks range from 0.25 cents to 1 dollar. I made a few hundred dollars from Adsense. It covers the cost of hosting, domains, and more.
Joshua Farrell
FP's Housekeeper
If you are considering ads, consider this: with your current activity levels, and the amount of posts and topics you have, you won't get the amount of money from ad services like google adsense you would like to get, until you have a larger active member base.
So, the best way to go when you just start out is to let people buy ad space of any type from you till your forum is more active.
So, the best way to go when you just start out is to let people buy ad space of any type from you till your forum is more active.
froggyboy604
Seasoned Veteran
If you post a lot of quality content in a short amount of time like over a few month, you can see a nice increase in earnings with Adsense and traffic from search engines and places you promote your forum on. You'll also might get more members by posting more content.
But, I read some people who obsess over Adsense colours, and positions then suddenly their website becomes inactive because they are spending too much time on optimizing Adsense that their website stop having fresh unique content.
Plus, if you are lucky, someone will click your ads and you make a dollar. I made $3 dollars from my Blogspot blogs with Adsense, but it gets very little traffic.
Selling ads can be tough since most people wants to buy ad space on high traffic sites.
If you sell paid links be sure to make them Nofollow, or Google and other search engines might punish you and lower your rankings or remove your site from its index.
A nofollow link will look something like
More information about nofollow can be found at http://www.google.com/support/webmaster ... swer=96569
But, I read some people who obsess over Adsense colours, and positions then suddenly their website becomes inactive because they are spending too much time on optimizing Adsense that their website stop having fresh unique content.
Plus, if you are lucky, someone will click your ads and you make a dollar. I made $3 dollars from my Blogspot blogs with Adsense, but it gets very little traffic.
Selling ads can be tough since most people wants to buy ad space on high traffic sites.
If you sell paid links be sure to make them Nofollow, or Google and other search engines might punish you and lower your rankings or remove your site from its index.
A nofollow link will look something like
Code:
<a href="http://example.com" rel="me nofollow">Websiteg</a>More information about nofollow can be found at http://www.google.com/support/webmaster ... swer=96569
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Tanks froggyboy604 for info about nofollow links
Cloverfield
Madly Diligent
Just so you know, posts and mebers have NOTHING to do with it. I have over 10,000 members and 670,000 posts but make next to nothing on adsense. If the ads aren't relevent and you are getting hundreds of uniques a day, you aren't going to make much money I'm afraid.
Cloverfield
Madly Diligent
:lol: I want $100 a day too 😛
froggyboy604
Seasoned Veteran
$100 a day online will be nice. But, the most I made from Adsense is about $6 per day with about 500 impressions and a few clicks.
I think blogs and websites can be better for Adsense because you have more control of what the content is on websites and blogs rather then random general chat threads which don't make much money in my experience.
I think blogs and websites can be better for Adsense because you have more control of what the content is on websites and blogs rather then random general chat threads which don't make much money in my experience.
This month I've earned $1,611.88 from Adsense alone (I also use Adbrite, BuySellAds, UnrulyMedia and Kontera) so yes - you can make money by adverts!
Realistically however, don't expect to start earning that overnight. I've been with Adsense for nearly 5 years now and own a network of websites which get millions of impressions.
However there's nothing stopping you from starting right now: choose the best network for your website, pick some good positions and - my biggest tip: experiment. Change adverts around, change colours and keep track of the results in revenue to see what works.
Realistically however, don't expect to start earning that overnight. I've been with Adsense for nearly 5 years now and own a network of websites which get millions of impressions.
However there's nothing stopping you from starting right now: choose the best network for your website, pick some good positions and - my biggest tip: experiment. Change adverts around, change colours and keep track of the results in revenue to see what works.
trickster144
Familiar Face
What we do at UKgamers is piggyback the gameservers.com scheme. If a user signs upto gameservers.com and buys a server , we get money sent to our account to pay for the game servers
example:
user buys 20-slot blackops server £10.00
we get £10.00 off the next months server costs
The banners can only be seen by guests to try and get members to join
example:
user buys 20-slot blackops server £10.00
we get £10.00 off the next months server costs
The banners can only be seen by guests to try and get members to join
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[BL] Briggers810
Addicted
I know from what a lecturer said at ARU, last year, was that using Google Adsence is a relatively free method of generating revenue...
However, what I would suggest, is offering on sites Advertisement spots (places to put a banner) for a price for a week (eg: £5 for a week long advertisement), as that would generate some income. However, your site would need to be getting quite a fair number of hits for ANY advertisement scheme to work.
However, what I would suggest, is offering on sites Advertisement spots (places to put a banner) for a price for a week (eg: £5 for a week long advertisement), as that would generate some income. However, your site would need to be getting quite a fair number of hits for ANY advertisement scheme to work.
:roll: UK-Gaming, not UKgamers, as that's a server hosting company. 😛trickster144 said:
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