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Monitizing massive forum?

by lutherlars
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Hey Warriors:
I own a massive forum that gets on average 20,000 impressions daily. Right now, Adsense is the only form of ads on the site, and for the impressions the site receives, the earnings are pathetic. Forum is in the gaming nich.
Anybody own a big forum and if so, do you have any monitization tips?
Ideas I have come up with include:
Selling banners to advertizers in my nich, as well as turning the forum into a subscription to join, but the last thing I want to do is piss off my user base.
Ideas? Suggestions? Cheers.
#forum #massive #monitizing
  • Profile picture of the author AnilK
    Gaming is a huge CPA niche. So you could have a go at marketing these offers yourself using banner ads/email marketing/messages on log in/log out pages. Or sell banner ads to other affiliates. You could sell solo ad slots. All depends what your set up is - for example do your have members email addresses and permission to email them.
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    • Profile picture of the author lutherlars
      Yeah I do have the option to email all users, and before implementing any change, I would deffo run it by my user base. CPA does sound like an interesting way to go, and I honestly would rather go that route than turning the forum into a subscription only...
      Originally Posted by AnilK View Post

      Gaming is a huge CPA niche. So you could have a go at marketing these offers yourself using banner ads/email marketing/messages on log in/log out pages. Or sell banner ads to other affiliates. You could sell solo ad slots. All depends what your set up is - for example do your have members email addresses and permission to email them.
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      • Profile picture of the author AnilK
        Check out the CPA section of the forum, alot of good information in there for ideas.
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      • Profile picture of the author PushMania
        lutherlars, can you post the link to your forum here or PM me? (can't send PM yet). Thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author Amitywill
        What about advertising the latest game releases with Amazon.

        Many games get released with a huge amount of hype, ie Call Of Duty,
        Gears of War etc etc.

        When there's a lot of buzz about a game going on put up a banner
        ad so they can buy the game or reserve it on Amazon.

        Or even contact the game developers and let them know about your
        forum and sell them ad space. I know for a fact that many Gaming
        companies buy ad space on forums and blogs when they're releasing a
        new game.
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  • Profile picture of the author lutherlars
    Fantastic idea keep em coming!
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