TECH Making money off of adsense on a forum...

[Naturally Baked]

I have 1 ad at the bottom and I am only making about .10-.25 cent per day. If I place more ads does that increase my revenue? Do they only pay based on clicks or page views as well?

 

[biawokauns]

forum traffic is garbage

 

[nucklearknight]

I've been thinking about adding adsense to my page. I would also like to know what revenue is based on and is it worth it or not?

 

[Pepsi1975]

I've been thinking about adding adsense to my page. I would also like to know what revenue is based on and is it worth it or not?

with your site i would wait till you get more content and a better host

and Naturally Baked how many times do you have to go over this?

this is like the third time you have asked this

 

[Naturally Baked]

with your site i would wait till you get more content and a better host

and Naturally Baked how many times do you have to go over this?

this is like the third time you have asked this

Ill probably only ask like once or twice more

 

[pkr]

Man paid sponsorship ftw on places like forums. No recurrent members will click your ads.

 

[Naturally Baked]

Man paid sponsorship ftw on places like forums. No recurrent members will click your ads.

yeah thats my only income and at 1.50 and around 40-50 subscribing users its not much money

 

[nucklearknight]

Link to your forum?

 

[PBX]

forum traffic is garbage

Ditto - if your trying to make money off adsense with a forum you aint going to make much. Unless you have a highly trafficked forum. Most successful forums have anywhere from 4-8 different revenue streams.

 

[Phasm]

adsense is the past...it pays out way to low and converts lower

 

[Pepsi1975]

adsense is the past...it pays out way to low and converts lower

then whats the future?

 

[nucklearknight]

then whats the future?

In for answer

 

[DnA02]

then whats the future?

bailout money

 

[Drowned]

I make $500+ a month on my forum using adsense with an average of 100K+ pageviews a day... I positioned my banners on the second post of each thread and below the "post quick reply" button... I also have a 720 banner in the forum index and forum display below the navbar... that's it...

My forum is in spanish, and from what I've read, ads in spanish are worth less than ads in english...

I don't recommend using image ads... only show text ads, they're worth more. I changed to image ads the last couple of days and I got more clicks but each click was worth shit...

Date Page impressions Clicks Page CTR Page eCPM [?] Earnings
October 22, 2008 116,672 217 0.19% $0.21 $24.36
October 23, 2008 116,113 239 0.21% $0.20 $23.05
October 24, 2008 110,285 158 0.14% $0.23 $24.98
October 25, 2008 64,354 141 0.22% $0.30 $19.31
October 26, 2008 74,256 164 0.22% $0.29 $21.28
October 27, 2008 116,466 377 0.32% $0.23 $26.67
October 28, 2008 112,891 295 0.26% $0.14 $15.26
October 29, 2008 109,541 269 0.25% $0.15 $16.43

 

[kingtoad]

then whats the future?

obama

 

[Finest]

100k page views/day? GOOD LORD!

 

[PBX]

I make $500+ a month on my forum using adsense with an average of 100K+ pageviews a day... I positioned my banners on the second post of each thread and below the "post quick reply" button... I also have a 720 banner in the forum index and forum display below the navbar... that's it...

My forum is in spanish, and from what I've read, ads in spanish are worth less than ads in english...

I don't recommend using image ads... only show text ads, they're worth more. I changed to image ads the last couple of days and I got more clicks but each click was worth shit...

Man you should atleast have 5 different revenue streams. With that kind of traffic you should be in the mid to high 4 figure range.

 

[Drowned]

Man you should atleast have 5 different revenue streams. With that kind of traffic you should be in the mid to high 4 figure range.

What kind of advertisers can I use? The problem I've found is that most of the traffic is from central and south american countries... I think most advertisers and not interested in that kind of traffic

1. Guatemala 193,889 51.01%
2. Mexico 43,293 11.39%
3. United States 25,741 6.77%
4. Spain 22,693 5.97%
5. Argentina 13,706 3.61%
6. Colombia 12,852 3.38%
7. Chile 11,704 3.08%
8. El Salvador 10,677 2.81%
9. Peru 9,338 2.46%
10. Venezuela 8,943 2.35%

 

[PBX]

What kind of advertisers can I use? The problem I've found is that most of the traffic is from central and south american countries... I think most advertisers and not interested in that kind of traffic

I would at least try in text ads, member subscriptions, link sales, affiliate offers.

 

[transistor]

my adsense revenue has plummeted the last couple days. i hope it's only because it's then end of the month and adword advertisers have reached their monthly spending allowance

 

[Jesse]

forum traffic is garbage

If you do adsense after first post it's decent.

 

[PBX]

Also adsense at the bottom of the thread is a good spot. 300x250 usually has the best payout.

This is how I have mine setup and it works pretty well.

 

[Phasm]

then whats the future?

The way it's been looking i'd say internet marketing

 

[Pepsi1975]

The way it's been looking i'd say internet marketing

more info

 

[pkr]

The way it's been looking i'd say internet marketing