Earning money with a forum???

[Faldegort]

Hello, I recently started building a forum, and obviously I want to see a way to earn money to be able to pay for my server.

I was reading this and other forums to seek ways of advertising, but I have not found any, in my view, good enough to use:

The forum, among other things, will serve to file sharing what we like (games, movies, books, etc., etc., etc.). This leaves Adsense discarded for me.

My original idea was that before each download there will appear a pop-up or a page with banners, or forcing them clicking on ads, but I think that most companies prohibited this.

So, please, if anyone knows any kind of publicity who thinks that can adjust to my needs, I would be most grateful!

[MrCat]

Before you can actually earn big with your forum, you should first be able to draw a lot of traffic and members to it and encourage them to participate regularly. Remember to provide useful and informative content so as to entice your traffic to sign-up and participate.

You can start by building quality links to your site and promoting it through the following:

Directory Submissions - targeted links at high PR directories
Blog and Forum Postings - to high PR and frequently crawled sites
Social Bookmarking
Classified Ads
Article Marketing - submit to high PR directories, could also serve as link baits
Link Exchange - with relevant and authority sites
Link Baits - for organic linking
Etc. etc.

Monetizing it will be a lot easier once you have established a good member base