How To Make Money Off a Forum
Forums typically generate some of the best return visitors ratios and when cultivated ultimately generate a tremendous amount of page views. However, many webmasters have trouble earning reciprocal revenue from their forum. The obvious solution is to advertise, but simply advertising alone will not create enough money. Maximize your message board into a money forum by adding adsense into the equation. When you do this, make sure to change the format every one to two months so you’re members don’t become trained to immediately ignore the tailored PPC links. Another way to make money is to showcase product features and charge an affiliate rate. Often times, your own members may be supplying these products. WarriorForum.com is successful at this. In this scenario, you have the community involved and there is less emphasis on “selling” a product.
A creative ideas from NamePros.com was selling their forum skin to Rick Lotana. This undoubtedly received paramount attention and at the same time generated more money than casual advertising. Another idea is charging for membership of a forum. This is a controversial technique, but with a year long renewal rate at just $5, you will constantly make passive income from your forum if you have the requisite members. If you would like to keep your forum free, you can implement a hybrid to this idea and charge only for a special, members only board while keeping the rest of the forum free.
