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.

Thanks,

Justin Brand
admin@ruleoneforum.com
http://www.ruleoneforum.com

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.

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)

Was probably on the won li do show

Originally Posted by netizen-x

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.

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?

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!

Instead of the Google adsense on top of every page I would alternate pages with banner ads from investment realted afilliate programs using clickbank

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?

www.phpAdsNew.com might be useful.