Advise on site structure for future plans of a site

Hello Everyone,

I wanted to share a scenario and get some advice from everyone on how I can go about the best way..


I have a fan-game site that posts news and guides and gets around 3-4k visitors per day (70% Organic 30% Social Share)
The site posts about 10-14 articles a week and its been active for the past two years.

Now I would like to add a Forum to the site and also a wiki type database.

My question is, would it be a bad idea if i were do have the forum and the wiki on two separate domains and link the three sites throughout articles, forum, shares, etc.? So it would be News, Forum and Wiki.

or would it be better if I have them on subdomain and make all three categories under the same domain.


Second Question:
Scenario: Its a pokemon fan-site which contains news and guides. Gets about 3-4k hit per day. 3-4k social media followers (FB,Twitter,Tumblr,Youtube)

It also makes gameplay video guides for youtube. Getting from 10k views per month

What would be my best monetizing option?

Its a fan site and has a good community and fanbase.. I dont want to annoy users with too much ads.


I would appreciate it if someone can advise on point me to the right direction and any other advice i can do to better the site.

Thanks in advance.