I have heard of people experimenting with affiliate ads as well as private advertising with good results. The best option depends on the topic of the forum and the size of the forum. .
Personally, I am reluctant to have any ads on the forum part of my site until the traffic is substantial - which at the moment seems many years away. However, every now and again you hear rumors of forum owners making substantial sums from their forum.
For example going through the forums for...
Anyone making money from their forum?
If yes, how much, roughly? - I don't need to know the exact figure, though....
Anyone making a living from their forum?
I've just set up my forum - no income yet:crying:
.la is the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Laos, in the Far East. But is 'marketed' as a Los Angeles extension, in the same way that .tv is marketed as a television industry related domain even though it is the ccTLD for Tuvalu, an island in the Pacific Ocean.
Here is what I would do........
I would put Google adsense on your blog to begin with. I would use the tracking feature that Google Adsense has to track how much each ad earns each month.
Then after a few months try swapping in one affilliate ad from somewhere else, and see if that earns you...
This seems like the right place to post.
Like you I would be concerned about whats happening.
Difficult to be sure how any possible scam might work though. If the clicks on ads to your site were originating from the same IP address your account might be suspended. If this has not happened...
I hope you are still around...............................
No this is UK Reg - ukreg.com , and 123 Reg can be found here - 123-reg.co.uk.
I have only really used 1and1.co.uk and 123-Reg.co.uk - and I found that they were easy to use and had no problems relating to registration.
Ning.com is a site where you can set up you own social networking site for free.
Some Ning sites are pretty big and you can add your own ads (I think) so I would have thought there was a money making opportunity there.
Anyone got any experience of this site?
Well, I think,
1) Labour and Conservative policies are so similar that there is little to choose between them
2) We are about to enter a long period of economic uncertainty - some say as bad as the depression of the 1930s.
So, we need the politicians to pull together not score political...
I've not used any other forum software. However, I did a lot of research on a number of webmaster discussion forums and the general consensus was that SMF was better than other free forum software because it was harder to hack and more resistant to spam. :good:
Having said that, I'm getting...
Juggling webmasters? You don't see that very often!:no:
I like your site. I think the forum would look much, much better if you changed the theme - I think the default theme puts people off.
Good luck with the site.
I'm using SMF for my first forum.
Very easy to use. Installed correctly first time. Themes are easy to change. It is early days but I've got only one or two relatively minor complaints. No software is perfect but SMF does well and its free!:good:
I have just started a new site and I have followed a lot of the advice the 'experts' give about developing websites and forums - I have some inbound links, web pages with content and a forum with a little content, but traffic is still negligible!
My question is - Is there one single thing I...
I have got over 350 domains with 1&1 and I have had no trouble from them, really.
I like the fact that they have a UK presence so that if something goes badly wrong I can sort it out through the UK courts, rather than in the US.
I also have used their 24 hr helpline quite a lot, but I feel...
The forum looks good and you seem to be dooing all the right things.
This is a nice wordpress/ bbpress integration. I really think bbpress has a lot of potential and will only get better and better.
I have been looking for a UK based webmasters forum for a while and this one seems to be the best so I decided to join.
I've been dabbling in website development for about 5 years now. However, my main area of 'expertise' is domaining.
I'm currently developing a Manchester visitors guide...
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