I MUST be doing something wrong with Google/Yahoo.

We get on average:

• 2500 Uniques per day
• 25,000 page views
• 110K hits

google is giving us a whopping $1 per day....:tired:

Hi!

Contact me for monitizing solutions for your forum!

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

site makes about $1000-1400/month but we also pay our members to post but that only costs about $50-$100/month typically and it's not even out of our pocket, we've got a site sponsoring that pays for member posts.

I make about 75 cents a month

Hi!

Could you please show us your site? As it's probably not talkonlinepoker.com?

Best Regards,
Jan Jaap

My forums ads are very often custom made - just to run on my forum. The CPM is VERY high.. its not competitive with other Internet banner opportunities. we run NO generic ads, no ad agency's serve our ads we serve them ourselves. We reject ads that aren't specific to the core topic of the forum..

If you are in a NICHE market as I am, perhaps start by giving AWAY ads to key players to make your self look cool and attractive to other potential advertisers in the same NICHE MARKET.

or use your banner ad area to run competitions - give aways - that might make people pay attention to the banner area.

As more (paying) folks come aboard slowly creep your prices up... start to charge the freebie customer..

We try to stay number one in our topic field but it is hard...

I find things snowball, success breeds success..

I do a LOT of hard sell work to get the ads to come in.. I pound around on foot at 3 & 4 days trade shows twice, sometimes three times a year in the USA and Europe to sell ads for the forum.. most of the work is persuading folks to drop print ad budget to come and spend it with us instead.

That's my story, I am sure everyones' is a different one..

it feels good to give something back...

I've just been take, take, taking on this forum...

doesn't matter what i make.. it goes back to the gov during tax time anyway

I make enougth to cover the cost of my vB license, domain rego and hosting.

Ive often wondered about making a bit more from the site but Im really not sure where to start.

Sorry Jan...haven't updated my profile in a long time I guess. the one in there now is the correct one.

Lowered to 500 on my board a month :(