Monetizing My PR4 Forum?

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I started a forum a long time ago and it was a great learning experience.

I learned never to start a forum ever again.

Anyway, now the forum is a PR4 and has done OK--but it doesn't really make much money from Adsense and there are no related digital products to sell and I can't see any room where I could make my own.

Any suggestions on how I could monetize this? What I'm thinking right now is a pretty solid idea: use the forum like an article directory, except fill the posts with Amazon associate links going to related products. Posts made on my forum are now ranking insanely well if I do keyword research before making a post, so that's one option.

Anyone else run into this before or have any ideas they think might apply?
#forum #monetizing #pr4
  • Profile picture of the author Marko Vel
    Try with banners, if you have enough visits per day you can make some really good money from banners.
    Adsense simply don't working on forums.
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  • Profile picture of the author Audrey Harvey
    I had a forum that did very well with adsense ads. It may depend on your niche though.
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  • Profile picture of the author Social Experts
    PR4 doesn't mean anything. Get some traffic.
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    Chill.

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  • How much traffic are you getting? Using banners for CPA offers is good for forums.
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