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12 Mar
How is it easy to make money from an active forum?
Making money online from an active forum is easy because once your forum gets the exposure and you give are able to call it an “active forum”, then it is upto you to advertise or build links for your forum more or leave it just like that, the forum will continue to grow on it’s own. Your forum members will themselves refer to their friends and bring in more members, you will continue to get visitors from the search engines who will register and increase the member count and also the activity in your forum. The biggest benefit of the forums is the ease in getting content. It is not you who get the content for the forum, but it is the members of your forum who bring content to your forum and that too free. They make posts in your forum, make new threads and add content to your forum which gets indexed in search engines and ultimately bring traffic. You can make money from your forum even without visiting your forum for a month or more. Isn’t it awesome?
Is it really that easy?
Well not at all haha. If it was that easy as it looked above, everybody would be making good sums of money from their forums. It isn’t that easy actually because making your forum active isn’t easy at all. Not everybody knows the right strategies to make a forum active. There are millions and millions of forums on the internet but only a handful of them are active. “Giving Up Easily” is the biggest reason why most of the people fail in making their forum active. Forums cannot become active overnight, it can take upto a year or more to make one active. Ask the people who own an active forum and they will tell you. Making money from a forum becomes easy only when you have worked enough to make it active. It is risky also as there is no guarantee that the forum will become active even after your extra hard work and without making that forum active, it is nearly impossible to earn much money from it. It’s better with a blog that will get traffic easily by adding content on a regular basis and a blog can start generating money even with little traffic because of it’s great ad placements unlike forums. However that is a different issue and will be covered in later posts.
How do I know all these?
I know all these because I own an active teen forum community and I know what it takes to make a forum active. And today I can proudly say that my teen forum is “active” and making money from it is just so easy. However I agree that if my blog would have had that much traffic as my forum, I would be making much more money than what I make right now but blogging wouldn’t be as easy as teenhut forum administrating today. Sometimes I don’t even visit the forum for a week(like gone for a holiday), I still make money. Moderators take care of my forum in my absence which makes my work even easier.
Yes, it’s very hard to build an active community on your forum, but to make a blog which will have at least 100-200 visitors per day it’s also not so easy. I just want to say that if you want to make money online, you have to work hard, no matter what it is!
Both are difficult.. but its true that at least when it’s a forum then you have mods taking care of it rather than blogs.. that is until you hire people to take care of your blog as well
Forums are more difficult than blogs. You do some link building for blogs and write for sometime daily and you start seeing traffic. Happened with my magazine blog. Didn’t update for months, but still find traffic everyday there.
Forums, even if traffic, no members if its a dead forum. Visitors bounce rate is very high, so less chances that an ad is clicked.
Quoting: Giving Up Easily” is the biggest reason why most of the people fail
So… damn…true
I agree with you that an active forum really helps in earning more money online.But making our forum active will take some time and we need to have patience.We will even get money by not visiting our forum regularly once it becomes active since moderators can take up the work.
reading your posts make me feel building forums with 20000 members has been very easy for you. And same with the blogs. i gotta blog for sometime now, which takes lotta time to build links and stuff. but to no avail.
Just work hard and you will definitely benefit from it. Try anything, everything. Something will work out.