Post 2 Host Forums - Are they Profitable?

[Fergal]

What's your opinion on the potential profitability of post 2 host sites? Do you think there are many of them making a profit of $1,000 + per month?

 

[death180]

Hmm, i like the idea behind them i don't think they earn that much.. At least not 1,000 +

 

[David]

SiteFrost could possibly be earning that amount.

 

[death180]

Well sitefrost is also the most commonly known p2h and i think they have the most customers. I have seen a dozen other p2h, but none have the user base like sitefrost.

 

[Ascent]

I can't seem them being that profitable, to be honest. If they're not charging money for hosting, then they're probably using their own money to cover it, if not revenue from the forum. And I'd assume that a forum makes little money, unless it was getting huge traffic.

 

[David]

I can't seem them being that profitable, to be honest. If they're not charging money for hosting, then they're probably using their own money to cover it, if not revenue from the forum. And I'd assume that a forum makes little money, unless it was getting huge traffic.

SF has Google Ads and they sell their own advertisement spots.

 

[Ascent]

I can't seem them being that profitable, to be honest. If they're not charging money for hosting, then they're probably using their own money to cover it, if not revenue from the forum. And I'd assume that a forum makes little money, unless it was getting huge traffic.

SF has Google Ads and they sell their own advertisement spots.

Yeah, was just viewing their advertise page when you posted that.

Think about it though. They use Google AdSense only if they don't sell any ad spots. If they're using Google AdSense, it means that they're not making the type of money from the advertising they seek. And how much money do you really think they'd make from AdSense? Even if they make, as an example, $100/month from AdSense, some of that would go back to covering hosting and server hosts.

 

[David]

Spyka makes about $600 per month according to this thread. I'm sure SiteFrost can manage to reach that amount as well and thus pay off hosting and still manage to make a decent profit.

 

[Ascent]

Spyka makes about $600 per month according to this thread. I'm sure SiteFrost can manage to reach that amount as well and thus pay off hosting and still manage to make a decent profit.

Spyka owns a large network of sites.

 

[David]

Spyka makes about $600 per month according to this thread. I'm sure SiteFrost can manage to reach that amount as well and thus pay off hosting and still manage to make a decent profit.

Spyka owns a large network of sites.

He owns 6 sites (that I know of), but traffic is what is more important. SiteFrost is a fairly large site in terms of members and how well known they are.

 

[Ascent]

Spyka makes about $600 per month according to this thread. I'm sure SiteFrost can manage to reach that amount as well and thus pay off hosting and still manage to make a decent profit.

Spyka owns a large network of sites.

He owns 6 sites (that I know of), but traffic is what is more important. SiteFrost is a fairly large site in terms of members and how well known they are.

Traffic = money. Spyka owns a network of sites that I'm sure are getting traffic, otherwise he wouldn't be making $600/month. I'm sure SF gets good traffic too, but not as much as the total cumultative amount from Spyka's network.

 

[David]

Traffic may equal money, but CTR is much more important. SF may have less traffic, but a higher CTR, ie. earning more than sWG.

 

[Ascent]

Traffic may equal money, but CTR is much more important. SF may have less traffic, but a higher CTR, ie. earning more than sWG.

CTR essentially goes back to traffic though, does it not? The higher your traffic is, the higher CTR you should be getting. Afterall, the formula I've read was always 'traffic = money,' as opposed to 'CTR = money'. With that being said, I really don't believe SF is earning more than sWG.

 

[Fergal]

Thanks everyone. I wonder how much of that ad space SF actually sell and what their total profit per month, really is.

 

[David]

Traffic may equal money, but CTR is much more important. SF may have less traffic, but a higher CTR, ie. earning more than sWG.

CTR essentially goes back to traffic though, does it not? The higher your traffic is, the higher CTR you should be getting. Afterall, the formula I've read was always 'traffic = money,' as opposed to 'CTR = money'. With that being said, I really don't believe SF is earning more than sWG.

That's not necessarily true. CTR is dependent on the actual people who search your site. If I were to look on sWG's sites (mainly themes), I would be looking for a theme, not a chance to click an ad. I would be going through each theme, whereas on SF, it's only forums and may become repetitive, so seeing a certain type of ad to relieve boredom would render to a click.

Traffic = Money is a misleading statement. I own a website with traffic like FP (for example). Without ads, I am not gaining money. I place one Google ad but I don't necessarily gain money. It's dependent on if the user is interested in that ad. I place an ad I sold (ie. direct money) and thus I do gain money regardless of if that ad is being clicked or not.

So, since sWG sells adspace for a relatively low cost, and SF at a much higher cost, I would assume SF would gain more on adspace than sWG, as not many sWG websites have user adspace, only Google Ads.

From my experience, I've seen more people talk about SiteFrost than any of the sWG websites, ie. it's more known.