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Hi,

Originally Posted by Snoop-It

Na forget ebooks.. only do that if you know you got people to check your site... etc...

my experience is that it does make sense. Of course it depends on what the main topic of your forum is. At some time I realized that people started to extract content from my forum and sold it on ebay. I then started to do it myself but with a more professional layout and some add-ons. The improvement of the quality is work but it payed off. You only have to be aware that your ebooks will appear on pirate-sites and that others will just copy them and re-sell them on ebay. But if you have a loyal community, you have an army of people that will sweep those sellers away.

Adsense - every one gets annoyed with it but luckily not 1 person from my forum has mentioned it and i use it twice on every thread / topics /pm's full works of the forum.

again my experience is different. I use multiple adsense blocks in the threads for not-logged in users and one single block on top of the site for registered users. VIP-users can switch off the ad-block. My ad-sense revenue is about 500 euros per month. But I have a long filter list because the quality of ads is not good (casinos, strange job-offers etc.). You can use the experience you make with ad-sense to calculate your prices for banner-ads on your site (monthly rev./PI*1000). As the google-ads react on the content in your public forums, they are mostly on topic. I got a real boost when I added the line "this forum is re-financed by the google-ads on top of the page" to my and my mods signature.

but not a lot straight away.. it takes a lot of hard work & time.

totally agree on that one.

all the best,
Sacha