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$10,000 + 0 0%
$7,000 - $9,999 0 0%
$5,000 - $6,999 0 0%
$2,500 - $4,999 1 2.78%
$1,000 - $2,499 2 5.56%
$500 - $9.99 2 5.56%
$200 - $499 2 5.56%
$50 - $199 10 27.78%
Less then $50 9 25.00%
I pay each month 10 27.78%
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Old 12-16-2007, 11:23 PM   #1
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Do you Make Money Online with Forums

I didn't start vBulletinSetup to make money with my forums, I started it to help fellow forum owner make the most of their boards.
I've since opened up a businesses and offer online services. You can find a link on the forumhome page if you want to check it out.

In a good month I'll make around $40 online from google adsense and $700-$1300 from client work.. It just depends on how much free time I have to work.

I don't really want to build an online site just for adsense, but I might work on a few facebook apps and add my google code into them

Anyways, Just wanted to start a little discussion about how well some of us are doing with our forums and maybe some suggestions to help the others that are struggling
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Old 12-17-2007, 07:27 AM   #2
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Re: Do you Make Money Online with Forums

Just started monetizing my forum, but I'm at 125-150/month right now.
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Re: Do you Make Money Online with Forums

I am at about -25 a month lol.
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Old 12-17-2007, 09:55 AM   #4
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Re: Do you Make Money Online with Forums

200 to 500ish....depends, lots of factors..
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i am at 200$/month.
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Old 12-21-2007, 12:42 AM   #6
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I guess it depends majorly on your niche and age of forum
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Re: Do you Make Money Online with Forums

After a year of running my forum Im finally making like 20-25 a month. Hopefully it goes up because the way it looks Ill need to upgrade my hosting plan to one thats much more expensive.
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Re: Do you Make Money Online with Forums

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I guess it depends majorly on your niche and age of forum
Do you think there are niche's that are just hard to gain a profit ?
I don't see why any topic wouldn't be impossible to monetize.

ps.. I'm not saying I know how, just that anything should be possible.:elefant:
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Re: Do you Make Money Online with Forums

My forum is based on trailriding and i have a link to my oscommerce site to sell spare parts, and thats basically my living.
seeing i love it, its not really like working

i have a forum on my board called
Dirt Bike Stuff

and people buy parts from there
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Re: Do you Make Money Online with Forums

forums are notoriously low earners in general and if you increase the content nature of your forums you will also increase your ability from the users looking for info.
I am not a big fan of forums per say but realise they have their use if utilised in the correct manner as a service and area to discuss info provided.
Don't know why I went off on this tangent but then again it comes from owning forums

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$50 - $199

Could be alot more if I tired harder
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Re: Do you Make Money Online with Forums

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I didn't start vBulletinSetup to make money with my forums, I started it to help fellow forum owner make the most of their boards.
I've since opened up a businesses and offer online services. You can find a link on the forumhome page if you want to check it out.

In a good month I'll make around $40 online from google adsense and $700-$1300 from client work.. It just depends on how much free time I have to work.

I don't really want to build an online site just for adsense, but I might work on a few facebook apps and add my google code into them

Anyways, Just wanted to start a little discussion about how well some of us are doing with our forums and maybe some suggestions to help the others that are struggling
I'm not sure if Google allows their ad code in a facebook app?

But speaking from experience you cannot code adsense into any app or script it's a violation of the tos and they will kill the adsense account.
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I'm not sure if Google allows their ad code in a facebook app?

But speaking from experience you cannot code adsense into any app or script it's a violation of the tos and they will kill the adsense account.
Hmmm,, I'm not sure but I know I've seen yahoo ad's in facebook aps.
If not, I'd like to place a banner in the app to our forums or who ever we're promoting
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Hmmm,, I'm not sure but I know I've seen yahoo ad's in facebook aps.
If not, I'd like to place a banner in the app to our forums or who ever we're promoting
Its all a matter of going over the tos.

sry to go off topic so to get back to the question at hand I do make a few dollars, nothing to brag about.
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About 100-150$ USD per month only.
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I'm not making any yet, cause I can't get any ads since they require tax id.

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I WAS making when i had google ads on a client's forum
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*spam alert* ?????

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Unless you make enough money to report to the IRS you can use your social security number for this.
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Google doesn't like me They say my forum isn't suited to put adsense on.... So the only money I make are from the few banner ads
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Softdux, add some info in the form of articles which cover technical aspects and it will increase your ability for making an income

Its all about numbers
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Be careful what you post as profits from your Google adsence accounts because if you post your profits it is a violation of your Google adsense contract. If they see it you could loose your account.

I have seen this happen.
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Its all about numbers
It's rather trickey if I'm pretty much the only one making posts..... But I'll start a new thread on that topic
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Be careful what you post as profits from your Google adsence accounts because if you post your profits it is a violation of your Google adsense contract. If they see it you could loose your account.

I have seen this happen.
That is related to displaying your Google stats relating to CTR etc etc not what you earn
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pretty much even...got some nice products tho
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