Making money with a forum

Well many people start a forum like a simple and fun way to share with your friends, however over time the forum can get to become very popular, and that can create some problems, you may need a larger server , or maybe you decide to have your own domain, in any case it is quite possible that what started as a hobby and not as easy to maintain, but do not worry I assure you that is no way to achieve a lot of money to get that old or new project.

How to make money with a forum?

Then I will give a series of steps that I think are the best ways to monetize a forum.

 1) Choose the platform: If your forum is new is important to start with the right foot and for me is to choose a platform that allowed you to grow, I personally believe that there are only three platforms you should use Xen Forum, IPB and Vbulletin, although 2 are extra are large platforms that allow you to grow and get very good users, and all have great support, a lot of updates and of course a great community, unlike the free versions often have large problems Security and updated once or twice each year.

2) Choose the domain, to really make money with this system you need to have your own domain, finding the ideal can be tricky but a good way to do it is to find one related to the theme of your forum. I recommend Namecheap to buy mainly because they have very good prices and services.

3) Choose a server according to your expectations, if you have few users share as Hostgator server may be sufficient but if you expect to earn thousands of dollars a month, maybe you should consider a dedicated server or at least a VPS.

4) advertising system to use, definitely should use Adsense, not only because it is the highest-paying system but it has a lot of sponsors so I always find some related to the theme of your forum.

5) The place where you place the ad, it is shown that just two ad units, one in the header (below the navigation bar) and the other integrated content are the best places, but there are many points of Heat where you can try and see what results you get.

6) Who would you show advertising: The best segment are those who come from search engines, like vbulletin forums let you make that distinction with a simple code, so it is not very difficult to achieve, however if you can not , dealing with users who are not registered, I have tried many forums and I'm sure you all have a code to differentiate, ultimately the users who are part of the community suffer from a phenomenon called selective blindness, this means that as interested in. both the community, and know where the ads and simply ignored, is something like if you do not see, if you heard someone complaining about a bad CTR on forums is because they show your ad to all people and as many ignore, CTR gradually falls and start to earn less.

7) Original Content: This is a critical part of having a successful forum, if you do to copy the contents of other people simply will not achieve anything and end up wasting your time and money, you must be special forum should address a topic that no one else try so that you can win many users and not have to compete with other forums.

8) Optimization and Testing: No one can claim to have been successful if you have not made ​​one or two mistakes and has learned from them, and here is no different, is try and see what works for you, little by little you will find the way and you'll have better profits.

Undoubtedly Adsense is the most important part of this system, manage and optimize knowledge will make a big difference, that's why I recommend that you download this ebook, not only help you earn more, but it will give you many Tips to make your forum and other successful Internet project.