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How to Maximize Advertizing revenues on phpBB forums

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PhpBB forums are a familiar site online and many popular sites use the standard phpBB code to set up a forum quickly and for no cost. But just because a service is free via the Open Source arrangement doesn't mean that you can't make money from it and this is where a neat new service from http://www.forumadsmanager.com comes in.

What it does is enable you to sell advertising space on your forum automatically so that you get paid by PayPal immediately without having to do anything. You get to set the advertising prices and once you've done that, you pretty much leave the thing alone and bank your PayPal account whenever you feel like it.

Of course, many forum owners use Google's AdSense program to monetize their site but in a test two forum owners discovered that using ForumAdsManager increased their revenue by a factor of 146!

Clearly results will vary dramatically but if you get even close to this number you will be benefiting from direct power and control over the type of ads that appear on your forum and that can both improve the level of income you make from it and protect you from some of the less pleasant or less relevant ads that sometimes appear in AdSense ad blocks.

But think about it: isn't running a full-blown advertising service hard work? Don't you have to process requests for advertising, bill payments and so on and how do you go about placing ads in the agreed spots on your forum?

You don't have to. ForumAdsManager sorts it all out for you and once you've decided what to charge advertisers you just leave it alone.

In terms of the flexibility you have over ad placement, you can create "gold", "silver" and "bronze" category ads as well as text-link ads and so on. Then you just set different prices for each type and let your visitors book advertising time slots. When their slot expires, it becomes free for someone else to advertise instead.

But let's just jump back to that astonishing comparison with AdSense revenues. Clearly the results you might get will vary but in the case of the test I mentioned above, the forum owners were making about $10 a month from AdSense and this jumped to $1462 by using ForumAdsManager.

Not bad!

So if you run a forum and use phpBB as the technology behind it you might be able to boost your revenues on auto-pilot.

William Charlwood



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