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 Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 5:45 am Post subject: Google AdSense and Forum |
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Is Google AdSense a good ad publishing system to use in forums? Is it a good way to generate revenue?
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htmlmaster
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I find it best to make users pay to advertise rather than using Google Adsense. User sites are usually of higher quality and the webmaster usually earns more money.
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Agreed. Adsense is good for most websites, but terrible for forums because of the high number of views and very very low number of clicks. I recommend private advertisers instead of Adsense.
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Zerabira
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Adsense has been the best revenue source for me on games forums. Private advertisers are hard to come by in significant numbers.
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altyfc
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I agree that AdSense works well on websites but performs less well on forums. I have a number of sites (forum-based and non-forum based) which consistently show this to be the case.
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Zerabira
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All forms of ppc advertising perform much more poorly on forums than standard web pages. You really need a lot of traffic to get any significant amounts from it.
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| Zerabira wrote: | | All forms of ppc advertising perform much more poorly on forums than standard web pages. You really need a lot of traffic to get any significant amounts from it. |
I agree, and if you track your CTR then you will be disappointed. On a forum just think about all of the impressions that a visitor will probably check out. That said I have not found any easy way to make money on a forum The majority of ways that I have tried include a lot of time on my part working with advertisers directly.
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contactsonia
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| GTAce wrote: | | Agreed. Adsense is good for most websites, but terrible for forums because of the high number of views and very very low number of clicks. I recommend private advertisers instead of Adsense. |
Ageed 100% on this with GTAce. I have over 1000 members and I get good traffic on my forums but I hardly get any clicks on them. It took my over 7 months what I earned with AdSense while the same amount was earned within one from private advertisers.
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Excelsior
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so how did you get your private advertisers? was it difficult finding them.
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Yep. It was difficult at first but than I sold the links at cheap prices and they were sold in just 2 days 
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iatbm
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What I find to be good is when you have adlink units after first post. Check it out on http://www.istoritve.com how it looks. This is getting much more attention that big visible ads on forums.
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Anything is good for a successful forum. Adsense is a serious network and I have nothing to complain about it yet. The problem is not have even more traffic and activity to increase revenue. This is my battle 
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Camron
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| for one thing google adsense is no good, use bidvertiser since htey pay via paypal! |
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