My forum is adult entertainment and it's been up for about 2 weeks...I've already made enough to pay the dedicated server cost for this month.

I'm loosing $200 a year atleast on my tiny little site. Seems pretty difficult to be profitable at all :(

I run my board for fun, so I make no money off of it. It's a hobby, though, so I could care less if it profits or not.

I've just added some ads onto my site. At one point I had adsense on it but they banned me. I was having problems at the time with a few people spamming abuse on one of my sites and hammering my adsense with repeated clicks so it wasn't good.

If I make $40.00 per year then I'll be happy as that will cover my hosting.
$70.00 covers my hosting and members area.
$100.00 covers my domain name too.

So I'm not worried about being a big earner. A few bucks helps but so far I've not had a cent in payments coz I didn't get anything from adsense when I was with them. I reckon I've spent about $500 on two vB's over the last 2 and a bit years. One's up for renewal soon as it's a leased licence but I'm undecided as to what to do with that.

i make about 1-3$ a day in adsense lol (pays my hosting) and now that i have added the ushop mod to have members buy points im bring in a little more now....enough to pay my car insurance lol

Adsense (avg. is about 400 $/month) helps to cover our hosting costs, but it still takes more money than it generates.

Wait, these things are supposed to make money? Damn, I am doing this all wrong.
My site costs me about $200 a year with hosting, licensing, and addons.
Here I've been doing it for the entertainment and gratitude of my members and I could be getting paid? What'll they think up next?

I don't particularly like it when people have forums solely for making money but it's fine since it's not free to host the forum, buy the software and so forth.

Really, if you're not made of money, you've gotta get some money back from it somehow.

My site (http://ut2007world.com) is my own hobby. I pay .... a lot each month since all server are root. But I always say : Some people smoke and driving boosted cars, and I have my website :D

I have a google search bar, yes (in forum in search and mainsite as modul) but even though it is used, it did not produce any cent so far .. but I don't really care. The reason I signed up for google adsense was not for making money, but for getting the code :)

i dont make a dang penny outta my site..maybe will in the near future if i open up a vb related site :)