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ways to monetize phpbb forum

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I have like 800 users per day and I earn nothing. Is there a way i can monetize it? Like maybe do a membership or something?
what is the best way to earn some money from the forum....
it has many thousand posts...
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Google adsence or a other adds program.
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I did well as did many others with Adsense years ago but the profit from that dried up over the past decade. That said If by 800 users per day you mean actively posting that is a lot of traffic and it may not be a bad idea to test to the waters with Adsesne if you want to go the advertising route. You'd have to let it go for a few months before drawing any conclusion, I wouldn't get my hopes up. There is also the privacy issue and ad blockers cutting into revenue.

There is the Viglink extension that comes with phpBB but I have no personal experience with it. I would be quite interested in hearing results from anyone that has.

Whatever the case direct advertising is where it's at if you can pull it off. I directly sell ads as percentage of the available advertising space on annual basis. Renewal time is coming up and I have 5% left. :D It's custom script because you need to track the impressions. One of the difficulties involved with this is tracking legitimate traffic, since I'm not basing it on clicks or total impressions it's non issue. Other benefits include avoiding the privacy issue, avoiding the security issue and adblockers will not block them.

As far as subscriptions they are a catch 22, you can't attract new members if the content is sitting behind a paywall. The approach one very old forum I belong too has taken is a subscription for one forum. Long term members and new users happy to get the information may subscribe.
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800 vusitors per day....not much posting....
it has a lot of good info on bad breath....and i am not getting any money from the site...
i would love to make it membership only and charge like 5 usd per month or something....
but there are no membership plugins for phpbb right?
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garfy wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 9:07 am i would love to make it membership only and charge like 5 usd per month
And at that rate I would make guess that your board would be dead within six months.

You say that you have 800 users per day, let's say 10% are active so you have a potential pool of 80 users and then let's say that 10% of those users are willing to pay $5 a month, that leaves you with eight users - how long do you think that would last?

$5 a year might be more realistic.
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There’s a PayPal extension, not sure if that will do. $5/month? That’s a lot of money, you’ll do well to extract $5/year.

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thecoalman wrote: Sat Aug 13, 2022 9:04 am

Whatever the case direct advertising is where it's at if you can pull it off. I directly sell ads as percentage of the available advertising space on annual basis. Renewal time is coming up and I have 5% left. :D It's custom script because you need to track the impressions. One of the difficulties involved with this is tracking legitimate traffic, since I'm not basing it on clicks or total impressions it's non issue. Other benefits include avoiding the privacy issue, avoiding the security issue and adblockers will not block them.

Looks very nice on your website, where can I find this custom script?
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It's hardcoded modification to numerous phpBB files, sorry I can't distribute it. There is some leeway in custom coding for modifications but it's not intended for full on mods that should be released through the extension process.
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dude how you get that advertising banner between the posts?
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garfy wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:19 pm dude how you get that advertising banner between the posts?
See https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/extension/ads/
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I use google adsense.
My income > 1000 $

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the last I heard you were not supposed to publish your google adsense stats according to google's adsense terms of service.

might want to remove that screenshot.

I could be wrong.

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garfy wrote: Mon Aug 15, 2022 3:19 pm dude how you get that advertising banner between the posts?
If that question is directed at me once again it's custom script and it does a lot more than that. ;)

This isn't what I'm doing but If you simply wanted to to stick some ad code between posts you can do this with template edits alone.

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thecoalman wrote: Tue Aug 16, 2022 12:54 am
Hello, So how can we adjust the ads you put between the topic lines on the forum page?
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Advertisements are the best way to monetize a phpBB board. I think it is kind of silly to charge money for it unless you're selling an ad-free membership alongside a free with ads membership.
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