Anywhere from $5 - $70 dollars a day depending on how good my search engine placements are.

Usually I average about $10 - $20 a day.

But it's a smaller forum - around 2k members.

im losing also, but its worth it hehe

i earn 100USd perday from ads

lauxanh.us/diendan/

check it out

Ok, ok, ok... how can you enter to the www.big-boards.com ranking?
Want to beat #10 [Fok.nl] everybody say I can't but my Mom say I can :D

Im no were near a big board, but I has a phpbb for about a month. Made enough to get a Vbulletin and pay for hosting for 2 months. (Just asking members to buy premium status) Hopefully I can start it up again on my Vbulletin now. Good thing in my hosting is $12 a month, so not to much.

200,000 pages per day, 4000 uniques per day, and I make negative $440 bucks a month.

Stupid $440 buck server fees. :D

I get around 8000 landings from search engines each month.

Wonder how much I could make with ads? Not that I would do it, I'm just curious....

I'm a huge fan of an Ad-Free environment.

Great Thread!

Its amazing how much some of you guys are making from running a VB site.

How did you go about building up your members? What sort of marketing did you use and how long did it take before it got to the level where you have stats that sponsors might be interested in?

This has really got me thinking, but clearly there has to be some marketing investment in order to get people in. Why would people sign up to an empty site?

Intrigued as to what you all did.

Are you guys using Ad Units or Link Units? Or both, and how many of each?

I currently am using 1 Ad Unit for my header, image only. 2 Ad units, text only, inside the threads, and 1 Link Unit at the footer...

out of interest, to all of those who offer paid subscriptions to their members, what added features or incentives do you give them to donate? I imagine that this will depend on what market you're in, but surely there must be some generic options that can be offered?

I'm nowhere near a big board and have had Adsense for about a year and have yet to hit the $100 limit to release payment. I have two people subscribing at $10 per year, and that was only beacuse they were my mates who didnt mind throwing me a few $$. Recently i've been thinking of trying to pursue donations as opposed to adverts, but i need to be able to sell the idea to my members. So far the only things i can think of are offering e-mail addresses, viewing the forums ad-free and a monthly raffle to win back their subscription for the month once i ahve enough subscribers for that to be viable).

Any help on that would be greatly appreciated.

I tried donations in the beginning. And that was such a bust. Just a few buds of mine would donate, which wasn't nearly enough. So I added Adsense on April 3rd, and right now I am nearling $90. It is way better than donations. But... I do offer a membership, for a few bucks, you get a special colored name, and the ads are disabled. Also, you have your own section of the forum for the donators, and I usually put some special stuff in there, such as a certain account to a website, that costs a few bucks...
But yea, just donations, I would get nowhere at all... But most of the people on my site are younger viewers, usually around 15-16...