Put ads on my forum with my stats or no?

[Goodman_2020]

Hello

I got around 10.000 members on one of my forum after 9 months and now between 1000-3000 unique visitor each day. I still don't have any ads on my forum, but i'm thinking about putting some to pay the server etc. In your opinion, with those reasonable stats, how much can i hope to win monthly (with adsense or affiliaites, sponsors). i already hear "it depends" etc. but I m not asking more than an estimation.

Thx

[Bradley_Wint]

Start off with Adsense and see if that covers the bills. If you are looking to just break even to pay bills, Adsense is great.

[Goodman_2020]

yeah but i would like and estimation about what i can hope more or less with that kind of stats. i don't want to bother my members if it's to win just 50 - 100 dollars each month

[SEOvB]

assuming 3k unqiues daily and a 1% CTR you could expect to make roughly $30-50 a month, depending on traffic quality, and how well you manage to get the ads targeted

[davide101]

For AdSense, it really depends upon your topic. If it's a pop culture forum, $.50 per thousand impressions may be reasonable. If it's a highly targeted and profitable niche, than $3.00 per thousand is very possible. These numb

If you can sell ads directly, you can get anywhere from $3 to $35 cpm. I would recommend trying to find one monthly or yearly sponsor to cover the whole site if you just want to cover your costs. $250 a month for a few hundred thousand pageviews is dirt cheap for most advertisers.

[Goodman_2020]

thanks for the help