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Old 10-11-2006, 10:40 PM How to get to the next level?
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Hello everyone, just wanted to see if I could get some tips/ideas for my setup.

My forum is about 6 months old. I have about 1200 members and about 2500 posts. Roughly 4000-6000 impressions per day.

I finally got my vbulletin license just under a month ago. I implemented vbadvanced and optimized with vbseo. I was indexed by google during the transition process, so google doesn't have me indexed as well as I would have liked.

I've done some minor adsense integration that you will see ONLY as a guest. I'm not too fond of displaying ads to members as the regulars seem to tune them out and it just dilutes the page. I launched the ads last night, and have held just over a 1% CTR.

Where should I be looking now to increase my generated revenue. What is the next step I should be preparing for? I'd prefer not to subject my members to ads, as monetizing the website is not my primary focus.

Any guidance is sincerely appreciated.

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Justin Brand
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Old 10-11-2006, 10:58 PM
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have premium memberships, let your users get a free t-shirt when they sign up to have premium membership.

put a small ad, maybe a link unit in for your members to see, nothing too big. maybe take it off if they're premium members.

try some azoogle links.

put text-link-ads in.

if you're big enough, sell link ads yourself.

i just checked your site. You will probably have to wait to get a toolbar pagerank to get decent prices from TLA.

oh, one more thing you could try -- become an amazon associate and have a page where you get the most recommended books from your users, put them all together, and link them to amazon. that way, you're providing a service AND potentially making money doing it.
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Old 10-11-2006, 10:59 PM
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Lee spoke about it before (but I forgotten where).

1. Show more ads to guest (instead of members)

2. Monetize from various resource (contextual, affliates, newsletter, custom ads, sponsorship..etc)
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Old 10-12-2006, 02:47 PM
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Was probably on the won li do show
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Old 10-13-2006, 12:23 AM
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Lee spoke about it before (but I forgotten where).

1. Show more ads to guest (instead of members)

2. Monetize from various resource (contextual, affliates, newsletter, custom ads, sponsorship..etc)



And dont for get the NEWSLETTERS especially with a decent user base you can make some $$$ with newsletters.
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Old 10-13-2006, 12:32 AM
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Your forum has a really nice layout. Excellent ad integration on the home page (right under the folder icon and site name - it looks like a part of the navigation).

By the way, why do you have the guest block as an image instead of text?
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Old 10-13-2006, 09:56 AM
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Private forums for paid up members with a monthly subscription fee.

And yes - newsletters. Everyone that signs up is handing you their email address, so you've already got a list of 1200 emails!
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Old 10-13-2006, 05:47 PM
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Instead of the Google adsense on top of every page I would alternate pages with banner ads from investment realted afilliate programs using clickbank
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Old 10-13-2006, 11:21 PM
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Thanks for the ideas everyone, very helpful!

Lucas>> I used an image isntead of text to try to make my keyword density a little bit higher.

Jerome>> I like that idea, I found about 4 affiliates that would be relevant to my site with clickbank. Do you know where I can get information on setting up a rotating banner as to not violate G's ToS?
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Old 10-14-2006, 11:38 AM
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www.phpAdsNew.com might be useful.
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