I have a general mixed proboards forum i running. its active and running for over 3 months now. i was wondering if any of you can give me tips and ideas of how to start making some money off my forum.Thanks all help is greatly appreciated.
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- Thread starter TheDon90
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dragonborn99 said:
www.swctheresurgence.proboards.com 3 months active mixed general forum
Kindle said:
Yeah but at the moment i dont have any funds for google ad sense.
You're on proboards?
Adsense (or any other context based automatic ad-serving service) is out. Unless you want to pay for ad-removal from proboards... But I really don't recommend it.
Using adsense on free forum hosts doesn't work that well because you have to pay to get ad-free credits (1 credit = 1 raw page view... so each time a bot, guest or member loads/refreshes/changes pages that counts as 1 page view each time.) Sure you might get like 50,000 pageviews for 5$ but you very likely won't earn 5$ through adsense quick enough to recoup what you spent. Not to mention the fact that adsense won't even pay out until you reach a balance of 100$.
You could create two (at most, any more than that just comes off desperate and greedy... especially on a free host) spots for small banners and then rent them out via forum promotion's market place (and collect payment via paypal). I wouldn't expect that much money though. Not unless you were getting a lot of hits.
Adsense (or any other context based automatic ad-serving service) is out. Unless you want to pay for ad-removal from proboards... But I really don't recommend it.
Using adsense on free forum hosts doesn't work that well because you have to pay to get ad-free credits (1 credit = 1 raw page view... so each time a bot, guest or member loads/refreshes/changes pages that counts as 1 page view each time.) Sure you might get like 50,000 pageviews for 5$ but you very likely won't earn 5$ through adsense quick enough to recoup what you spent. Not to mention the fact that adsense won't even pay out until you reach a balance of 100$.
You could create two (at most, any more than that just comes off desperate and greedy... especially on a free host) spots for small banners and then rent them out via forum promotion's market place (and collect payment via paypal). I wouldn't expect that much money though. Not unless you were getting a lot of hits.
Pvcomputers
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Good old Pro boards. I think that pro boards is a proprietor software and doesn't allow for plugins when I last used it. Makes it harder to add plugins which enables post loops, google analytics, etc
Pvcomputers said:
With the release of v5, plugins are the huge thing. They have made it so much more customizable and a lot easier to customize. They have a handful of useful plugs featured on their site also. Members are constantly making new ones and adding them to the database.
THF_Martin
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I do not believe Proboards allow you to have ads like AdSense as there are already ads place and it breaks certain terms of service. The best money making method I can suggest is making paid membership really worthwhile.
Please re-read this reply again. It covers how adsense works on proboards.
(Also if you want proof... Here's that, right from one of proboard's admins.)
(Also if you want proof... Here's that, right from one of proboard's admins.)
To start making money off of your website you could do a few things. Offer premium perks, memberships etc. Allow advertising on your website so long as your host allows. Move your website off of proboards and put adsense on it. MyBB, PhpBB, SMF, and many others have great alternatives. You could also just make a website to go along side it, on the main website you could put related content and advertisements from adsense, buysellads, or something similar.
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