You may want to try textlinkads.com (no I don't work for this company). I have them on my site and it's pretty decent.

TLA doesn't harm your Google PR?

just about cover costs through adsense but ad blockers are a major issue these days. Not a big board as such more a busy board.

what annoys me is some advertisers supplying graphical ad units only. A text link that I can pimp is far more worthwhile.

Anyone combine site sponsorships with google adsense or other such 2nd source advertising scheme?

I'm finding a lot of claims made by some people to be crazy, especially the ones with only ~500 members.

Currently, I run an ad-free forum, and use a very good host (unlimited bandwidth for about $20 a month). Some people are claiming hosting costs 200 a month for 500 active member forums (how?). The server has gone down maybe once in 2 years, and otherwise runs very smoothly.

Really, I'm just wondering how much people think I could make if I added some moderate ad-hosts. Maybe a single banner on the side or top, I'm not really willing to make the site ugly for profit.

Here are some stats:
2,500 unique hits a day
50,000 page loads per day
3000 member forum

Since july 2007, we've had 42 million hits, 88 million page views and 412,000 unique visits.

Any modest estimates of possible revenue based on these statistics?

I think the best way to find out is to test it yourself....whatever people tell you could be right or wrong each person is different. I have someone with the same amount of traffic killing his site with adds and making triple what i make while i have less making (fair) not enough but i rather that way then filling up a page. Best way is to try yourself each person is a different case

I suppose I really could test it, but I've always been anti-ads. I think they kill the visual look of sites. To test them I'd have to leave them up for about a month and I'd rather not put my users through that if it won't be worth it.

I make $1500+

its 20,000+ member forum

www.teenhut.net

:D

<font color="darkgreen">Whats the best source of revenue for you? Ads or member subscriptions etc?</font>

I don't make anything yet. I'm trying to get members to donate or subscribe. Also, I'm trying to find an ad system