How one can make money online forums effectively: 4 options

1. Contextual advertising.

It’s as an advertisement, which corresponds the content of your forum pages or search query of its users (Google Adsense). Contextual advertising usually images into the text blocks. The placement of ad units plays the key role. The frequency of users clicks on ads and your making money depend on its placement.

Let’s turn to the aspects of the forum search promotion. The visitors of your discussion board from search systems often turn to a specific topic and less to the homepage. Better to place the ad units directly within the topic itself.

The types of placement:

After the first post on the first page. Before the first. After the last. Before the first and after the last posts.

2. References sales from the forum pages.

You can sale references on your discussion board as on any other web site. You can do it both manually and automatically.

The footer is a typical place of the selling references on forum. There are a lot of pages and they are quickly generated. So there will be more than enough platforms for the references.

But be careful and sale not more than three references from each page. Otherwise you will get under filters of the search systems.

Here everything depends on the design and forum makeup. The typical places for big banners sale are:

forum header directly under header footer

Also you can sale banner-buttons in the forum list. Such banner placement is called sponsorship or support.

You decide the cost for banner placement on your discussion boards. But you should understand that the price depends on its popularity, attendance and authoritativeness.

4. Close forums.

You can also think about such specific type of making money as close forums. They are simple enough.

You make your own one for your conference representatives and set the payment for its access.

But then you will have to make the entrants interested with more developed functional opportunities or something useful and tasty.