Making money off your forum
- Thread starter TheDon90
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TheDon90 said:
Google Adsense is simply a banner ad service where you put advertisements on your forum or website and you get paid when someone clicks on it. You can put it anywhere on your forum, either footer, header or below first post etc. Chitika is an alternative to adsense so they are pretty much another ad services. Basically people buy advertisement from adsense and adsense puts ads on your forum and when someone clicks on them, adsense would pay you.
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Making money of forums ? Yes , you can but it is really hard to do. Ok lets get into the detail how you make money. You subscribe for google adsence and they put add on your forums ( webpage) people see this add and you get paid for showing the add. There are two way you earn
1. Impression , that the people see the add on you page and you are paid
2. Clikc, that people click on add and than you are paid
so this means you make money as people visit your forums ( webpage) and the more visitors you get, the more you earn.
Now I come back to my comment "its hard to earn from forums". The reason being is the visitors, you attract most of your traffic from search engines e.g someone types cars in google search box and various links shows up and you barely visit the second page you click one of the top ranked links or links on first page and that is that. So the majority of traffic you get depends on your search engine ranking and the process is called SEO and forums are notorious for SEO. The explanation of this is long so I'll skip it and come to point.
You wanna make money from your content I suggest add a WordPress main page to your website and put your main content on that also your adds and integrate your forums with WordPress and exclude the forums from the Web Spiders log this way you can increase your search engine ranks.
Hope this helped
( and yeah do read TOS of google adsense before signing up its a very critical step)
1. Impression , that the people see the add on you page and you are paid
2. Clikc, that people click on add and than you are paid
so this means you make money as people visit your forums ( webpage) and the more visitors you get, the more you earn.
Now I come back to my comment "its hard to earn from forums". The reason being is the visitors, you attract most of your traffic from search engines e.g someone types cars in google search box and various links shows up and you barely visit the second page you click one of the top ranked links or links on first page and that is that. So the majority of traffic you get depends on your search engine ranking and the process is called SEO and forums are notorious for SEO. The explanation of this is long so I'll skip it and come to point.
You wanna make money from your content I suggest add a WordPress main page to your website and put your main content on that also your adds and integrate your forums with WordPress and exclude the forums from the Web Spiders log this way you can increase your search engine ranks.
Hope this helped
( and yeah do read TOS of google adsense before signing up its a very critical step)
It's very hard to make an appreciable profit off of a forum, unless it's around the size of a site like FP. You can make some cash, but I think it's more in the realm of a hobby, like growing and selling tomatoes is for most people who do it.
I tend to agree, that with the newer realm of ad blockers and how people browse the web these days. You would really have to look into getting creative to make a forum really profitable, but I wouldn't let it discourage people.
I mean small communities tend to fund themselves, sometimes even by donations. With small niche communities, if the forum is good, users tend to chip in to help keep it going.
I mean small communities tend to fund themselves, sometimes even by donations. With small niche communities, if the forum is good, users tend to chip in to help keep it going.
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