Blog Forum: 4 Tips on What You Should Do with a Forum with PR6
Imagine that you own a forum that you built from scratch. It is getting popular because you provide a service that the members would love to come and participate and discuss related issues and learn a few things that they really want to know. Little by little your forum comes to a point where you realize that it is now page ranking (PR) 6. You wonder what you would do about it. Here are 4 tips I would suggest along with some of my opinion.
Selling some links: You can sell links to other people including your site members. I have seen people selling with PR 5 site for just $125 per link which will be on the sidebar. You could probably sell each of your link around $150/year or more. Visit Digital Point forum to get a feel of how much your link worth.
With Text-Link-Ads, you are still going to make a good amount of money. If some of your other site pages may be of a high PR, look into selling links on those pages too. I would also reserve maybe a footer link or two for the users. Another good idea is to make a contest where the member with the largest amount of monthly posts will get the link space.
Direct Ads: You can search a bigger website/company, and ask them if they would like to be your site’s sponsor for a period of time. You have to search for the company in the same industry related to your forum and talk to them about having their ads on your site, just to display what their company name, but not about selling their products. They can set the price of the ads. You make more money than the contextual ads. So finding some advertisers should not be a problem.
Displaying affiliate links: Again you must select the affiliate products that are related to your niche. That way it is easier to monetize the affiliate links after you sign up with affiliate marketing services such Amazon, Commission Junction, Click Share, etc…. And you also need to have good keywords that they are looking for in order to have a good click through rate (CTR).
Contextual Ads: This is the easy one to make money after you have a forum with PR 6. It is where the Google adsense comes to play, but remember that you would not make much money as the direct ads or selling links. Google pays you a few cents per click. In my opinion, the revenue from this type of ads is unpredictable. It can go up or down depending upon the traffic, the niche, and the ads.
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