How much do you earn on your big board?

Hey guys!
Just out of curiosity i was wondering how mutch you make on your big boards?

Type in forumname, rank on Big-Boards and how mutch you make.

No need to say how you make it.

:banana:

[theChronic]

hey folks,
i don't run a big board site, but i was wondering for some of the other members here who have stated there stats and aren't huge but are paying like $300 / month for hosting, what are you thinking? why would you pay so much?

[MRGTB]

Originally Posted by Ntfu2

Losing tons of money, but just joined with Clicksor and its showing great promise, payouts are already almost twice that of google/ypn. Check it out if you want to test the waters, but i'll warn you know you wont return to Anything else. Clicksor has been the best by far yet.

read this:

http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread24656.html

[GrendelKhan{TSU]

ok. so like everyone's covered most of range of possibilities... which is great and very useful (the point being..it is possible to at least not be in the hole every month).

so let's say someone has a new board and growing with all the required minimum whatever to make money.

HOW would you recommend that person implement their ads for the first time?

two parts:
1. what PLACEMENT are your best performers?

ie:
-- after first post?
-- after last post?
-- top of forumhome?
-- left/right column skyscraper banner
-- header?
-- pay donations? (placed where)
-- etc.

(this is the stuff that I would most helpful and love to hear discussion about at this point, imo)

2. and of course, what ad network do you use?

-- adsense? mirva? YPN/overture? monthly subscription banner ads ? advertising.c0m? other?


3. then we can compare across size and demo stats more meaningfully (imo)

anyone?

I just launched a tiny board for fun and a few friends to do their thing a few months ago, and haven't tried any monetization yet as it was just for fun. but monetizing is fun too. Knowing I'm nowhere near big-baord status yet doesn't mean I don't want to optimizse or ramp-up as best as possible.

so, like.... where would recommend one start?

[bada_bing]

Originally Posted by christianb

I have to hand it to Erwin - he does an outstanding job on his site. I run a similar type of website that handles maybe 1/1000th as much as him. Great job, Erwin! Currently, I am at 1% big board status , but I'm also fairly new - less than 2 years young.

How are you on big-boards with these stats?
Active Members: 74
Threads: 2,026, This Month: 69 (-19%)
Posts: 7,223, This Month: 165 (-46%)
Members: 158, This Month: 7 (7%)

[Shazz]

Originally Posted by bada_bing

How are you on big-boards with these stats?
Active Members: 74
Threads: 2,026, This Month: 69 (-19%)
Posts: 7,223, This Month: 165 (-46%)
Members: 158, This Month: 7 (7%)

Posts: 7,223
Members: 158

WOW

[curriertech]

I'm on track to do about $60 in revenue this month from AdSense - 99% of that being from a single small add in my navbar template. This is my first full month with an ad in that location and my traffic is steadily increasing so hopefully my revenue will also increase.

[Revpolar]

I used to make some money at a big board but sold out and created a smaller private one. The big board made alot of money all by subscriptions. While similar sites were selling subscriptions for alot of money the membership was not growing. I figured that this was due to high subscription prices and started a site purely as a test to my theory. I ran 3 subscription packages at $5 a month recurring $15 every three months non-recurring and a $25 for six month package. The site took off to about 2500 subscribing members in a years time. . It was alot of money. And alot of headaches which I gladly walked away from it. I now have a small site with 180 members and about 145 are paying subscribers. Its private and the members have been together for almost 5 years. I profit about $600 a month and once a yaer give most of it back in raffles.

[Invalid ID]

I don't intend to earn money, Apni Mehfil is just free for all to come and have fun

[GamersHQ]

Well by tomorrow I should earn my first piece of money. $10. Since I only get like 350+ uniqes so my adspace is realy cheap.

[UncoderMom]

I have had a recent jump in members and my google impressions are up to about 30+k a day

I have 172k+ posts and 1100+ members. And since july I have given google over 716,000 page impressions for a measly 133 bucks! 60 of that is all this month and 444,000 page impressions just this month. I really dont think its worth it considering it looks like google puked all over my site lol. I tried CJ briefly but was getting NOTHING.

Im on shared hosting but looking to move to dedicated soon. So when I move Im going add a few more payed mods and start up memberships! That seems to be the way to go!

I only get about 12 clicks a day though.... I need to improve my Meta....I think.

Oooh yeah, my site just turned one yr old and I have been a vb site since may.