I've a Site about mountain biking (downhill, freeride), consisting of a "main" site and the forum. 30,000 uniques/m, 450,000 pi/m, 530,000 posts, 8,600 members, 1200 active.

700 Euro per month by CPM ads from online shops and bike parks. 100 Euro through eBay (I modify links from my marketplace to eBay to go through an affiliate programm. Additionally some eBay relevance ads). 80 Euro paid links. 30 Euro Adsense. Additionally I'm now getting some high priced CPM campaigns from an ad network which concentrates on selected extreme sports sites.

-100 Euro for the server (thanks to the USD/EUR exchange rate). But I need a new one, as it becomes 5 years now.

I just migrated over to VBulletin and had to dump all my users (500+). Bad idea I won't do that again. I used to have SMF but it was garbage.

But my AdSense revenue actually didn't change at all.

My stats are:

+ Average 200 unique visits a day
+ Around 2000 impressions per day
+ CTR around 1.5
+ Adsense makes an average of 3$/day

I looovveee VBulletin. I 'm glad I could finally afford it.

I've really worked hard to "tweak" the way I present ads. It's a really young site but if you look at the ratio of dollars to visits you'll see I'm a fan of making your visits really count.

I'm also a huge proponent of, "don't pay for something you don't need". I only pay like 4$ a month for my hosting service and I'm nowhere close to maxing out on anything. PM me if you want to know who it is. I don't want to post it and it look like I'm advertising.

http://www.AirbrushTricks.com/the-ul...-ab-forum.html

I have about 12000 members on one forum but its still 3.09 because I am no good at code. No hacks :( Your forum may be slow but you have all the stuff on it I wish I could put on mine.

Big Board requires you to have at least 500,000 posts to be listed on their database. I'm about 1/2 way there but I earn a little bit with Google Adsense and Text Link Ads. Text Link Ads require you have a decent PageRank score and Alexa rank.

what's so special in being in "big board" database?

Text Link ads? my page rank are completely 0 i don't even know how to fix that

Bragging rights and exposure I guess. Check http://www.textlinkads.com, and no I don't work for them. I've been there for 2 months, and so far it's performing on par with my Google Adsense.

ah i see Cool Thanks for answering

My forums get around 2k unques per day and 10k page views, but I only get less than $1 per day. Right now I only have ads under the first post that show up for guests only. I don't know why but I can't bring myself to put ads on the forums

I purposely made the postbit visible so I could get more users to register ("Register to get rid of this advertisement") so I guess that doesn't really help. But you'd think it would make more than it does (on some days it only makes less than 20 cents LOL)

That's not the best place: try under navbar and in the archives

i co sign navbar is the best