Making average 20-25 per day with adsense only.

Average Unique visit per day - 7500
Average Page View per day - 60k

I don't own a big board, yet anyway ;), but I remember my friend (He owns a 30k member forum) Saying that with ads and donations he still doesn't break even.

I on the other hand. own a small 500 member forum, and I break even with adsense :)

serious would`nt know how to make money from my forum.I have about 8000 users but i tried google ads and only made about $22 per month so i removed the code as it was`nt worth having adverts everywhere.I know google does work and it proberly me not being good at placing the ads in the correct space but running a site to me is not all about making money but it does help if one manages to earn something back from all their hard work etc.

Yes Lasto, but when you find yourself spending USD 500 or more each month for housing costs, then you cannot go philantropic any more. The board should at least pay its costs.

I've been in this side of the situation too. The money I get from AdSense were few and I opted to remove the Ads and do what ehere in Brazil we call "vaquinha" (little cow, in english): every month each one give the $ ammount he could. Worked for a while...

... until the costs get over $100/month (the visitation, users and posts increased too). Then I put the AdSense back and it worked.

so without hijacking the thread (i have an adsense account) where is the best place to put it etc and ive seen a program called SEO or something - is it worth purchasing this as well ??

In my forum the best places, by far, are the archive and below navbar.

vbSEO? There are mixed feelings, but the consensus seems to indicate that it do not help your pagerank but the human readable URLs are very atractive. Something like it. Anyway, too expensive to my pocktes :)

VBSeo is more than just nice urls.

In my forum the best place for adsense, by the way, is a 720x90 leaderboard below navbar. That one alone has more than 100 clicks a day. Latin surfers are not so eager when it comes to adsense.

i just cant get ppl onto my site...there are never guests and its empty i have put int in hundreds of searches aswell....im losing a few hundred a year :-( sigh

I?m far away from being an expert, but it seems that your forum needs a little more content so new users and google :p feels interested.

Pretty nice Lineage 2 icons, i love that game