Make Money From Forums

**Brandon Sheley** · 09-09-2006, 11:56 PM

If you have a website about a topic you enjoy, you can make money from discussion forums. Talk, post links to your site, get traffic. Traffic means money, right? If not, try different affiliate programs or Google Adwords. The worst sites should get a couple cents per visitor. Now here's how to talk and make money.

Search "forum" plus the topic of your site on Google or Alta Vista. For my first site, I searched "backpacking + forum" and in the pages of results I found several good forums. I also searched related topics like "hiking" too. You can also check about.com, and other sites that have forums on many topics.

Registration is usually giving your email address and choosing a password. Some forums allow guests to post without registering. Once registered, browse the forum topics, and post a response to anything, just to "learn the ropes".

Income From Discussion Forums

The point of posting in forums is to get readers to come to your web site. Sure it's fun to give advice and discuss things of interest to you, but that's secondary. With that in mind, do the following:

1. Always link to your site. If they don't allow any links, find another forum.

2. Don't "spam." Sales pitches will be removed. Offer honest advice, or express an opinion, then sign off with your name and the link to your site.

3. Ask for help from others. This is an effective and acceptable way to "advertise." Enter a topic like "Can I get some advice?" and post something like, "I just started a meditation site. If some of you would visit and tell me what you think, I'd really appreciate it." Have a link to the site. People love to help, and to give opinions, and they'll click on those ads while they're at your site.

4. Look at total "views." Many forums show the total times each "thread" has been viewed. When you see some with many more than others, get in on those, or start a new thread on the same topic. Go where the traffic is, and get some of it.

I didn't like the idea of forums until I made a few posts, and saw my traffic and revenue climb for days afterwards. That convinced me. Just be polite, offer some value to others, and always have a link to your site. Many other secrets of using forums are covered in my newsletter, but this should be get you started. Talk and make money today.

**Walkr** · 10-09-2006, 04:45 AM

If your forum has posts with links to files on file hosting services like rapidshare.de, I recommend to use this program -
easy-share.com revenue program
These guys work with forums and pay them for downloads.
There are many similiar services but they all reward uploaders of files, not sites who send downloads.

**Brandon Sheley** · 10-09-2006, 07:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Walkr

If your forum has posts with links to files on file hosting services like rapidshare.de, I recommend to use this program -
easy-share.com revenue program
These guys work with forums and pay them for downloads.
There are many similiar services but they all reward uploaders of files, not sites who send downloads.

hmm, I've never heard of this program..

Is it something you've used or had experience with ?

**Walkr** · 10-09-2006, 07:24 AM

I found this program just a couple of days ago and made an account with them.
They are heavily advertising in google adwords (I found them thru google) - I think they have just opened.
Possibly a good startup. I like their business model.

big-ah · 11-06-2006, 05:27 PM

what i can us to make money with an arabic forums ?!

**il-logical** · 11-06-2006, 05:33 PM

Good post, where can I sign up for your newsletter?

**brandondrury** · 01-11-2007, 10:03 PM

Great title, but I think this is the wrong article.

With a title like "How To Make Money From Forums" you'd think they'd talk about how to actually make money off the forums.

Oh well. It was still more productive than dieing.

Brandon

**Brandon Sheley** · 01-12-2007, 09:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by brandondrury

Great title, but I think this is the wrong article.

With a title like "How To Make Money From Forums" you'd think they'd talk about how to actually make money off the forums.

Oh well. It was still more productive than dieing.

Brandon

have you seen this post
http://forum.vbulletinsetup.com/f16/...-1-a-1294.html

I agree that building niche sites is where it's at.

**Barry** · 02-17-2007, 08:03 AM

Any one use affiliate programmes I have some on my site 88x31 buttons I heard some preople say that they dont work with vb site's is this true?

**Joy** · 02-17-2007, 12:31 PM

I've recently set up a forum affiliates section at my forum where visitors can advertise for a small fee. It seems to be quite popular at the moment and I got the idea from this forum and others.

03-09-2007, 03:04 AM

it is really good idea how to create backlinks

**Caddyman** · 03-09-2007, 03:42 AM

i have been doing this for a longggggg time. its a great techinque, good article Brandon....

vikram · 04-11-2008, 09:18 PM

it surely is a gr8 learning place, it will def. help an unemployed person like me. as iam looking to make some money from the forums

vikram
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