very nice stats :)

Looks like hard work is what that looked like.. awesome though

I frequent the mainstream boards pretty often and on the topics of forums one of the issues is getting initial interest and enough members to post before it really just takes off by itself. Any tips for new forum owners?

Make multiple logins for yourself and fake post. Just an idea.

(Roy orbison) pretty woman

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

If you have a solid readership in form of a blog, you can feed in traffic pretty easily. And if you have a pretty enthusiastic crowd, you can achieve quite the amount of contributions...

http://promogrid.com/postcount.gif

You're so dead nigga. :ak47:

Equinox can you please contact me

madawg at gmail dot com

120594593

I don't do business with people who have 99.19 posts per day out of principle.

Very nice... forums and the like make very good sites as far as AdSense goes... I just AdSense'd my most popular forum... a single text ad at the bottom of the page (damn near hidden) is making me $100 a month. That prompted me to start a redesign of the whole site so that I could put the ads in optimal placement... I'd love to get it to where its making $500 a month without any babysitting... once you get a site like that... youre made cause all you have to do is rinse, repeat and next thing you know you have a nice income and you're not doing a damn thing other than a weekly bank run.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh

why not?

Because I seriously doubt that you could offer me anything to make me any more money when you post on GFY all day.

Or you do don't rinse and repeat but work with what you got and then bank 5 figures a month. An excellent how-to on forum integration is posted here. Modify it to your own liking.

Nice results.

2hp

You're cold blooded EQ. :upsidedow

Congrats on the beginning of your empire though.

I've got 9.67 can you hit me up? :winkwink:

Hey guys... hit me up on ICQ and let me take a look at your page templates. You should be getting at least 12% CTR but more like 20% on average...

You can hit me up. 155421 (and please... noobs, don't bother to ICQ me asking for tips, thanks)

Bwahahahahaha!

pretty good for it id say

Not even close. I have a very big, fluffy and warm heart. I just don't want to waste my time on folks whose reputation as GFY sig whores preceds them. :error

That is awsome, teach me how :)

what if I'm not a n00b? Can I still pick your brain?

Equinox, thanks for the answer.

just curious, do you have paid or volunteer moderators/admins for the forum? how much time would you say you spend managing it yourself a week?

great results :thumbsup

I have a bunch of volunteer mods. Pay them? Nah, they are doing a great job as is, they are happy to have the colored nickname and being given some authoritaaaaay. I eventually may pay someone, but for now, there is plenty of addicted volunteers that'll do it for free.

Sadly, I am too enthusiastic about the success it's having, so I spend quite a bit of time improving the forum to my member's liking. Sure, I could let it just float away and do its thing, but then surely the stats and income graphs wouldn't look the way they look. As my dad used to say "without work there's no bread buns". :upsidedow

nice job equinox, i am always looking for more projects to take on mainstream wise. just finding the idea is the thing.

i guess you know what sells ;)

on another note, people posting their adsense stats, its against their tos. and you can get your account terminated.

Update for the end of September. The graphs will spike a little more, as there is still 2.5 days left in the month.

http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/751/server1br1.gif

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/7932/serverfp1.gif

http://www.gfy.com/images/smilies/love-smiley-086.gif

do the sales come from the blog, or the forum though?

congrats... that's amazing

If anyone have mainstream forum and it would like to exchange traffic/link/post or anything else contact me on icq.

not bad at all .. but you are still at the beginning :thumbsup

nice thanks for the link :thumbsup

Awsome stuff man.:thumbsup

you're pretty good at the interweb. :)

Both.

Updated graphs. :321GFY

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/6525/server1he1.gif

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/8031/serverzd3.gif

Equinox, Whats your ICQ???

all i can say is: a way to go! :thumbsup

is one the blog and one the forum? cant tell which is which

Uniques in green, raw in purple.

My ICQ is 155421. Please don't bother to contact me if you are trying to find out my site(s) or want to ask on how to do it. I've posted enough about how to drive mainstream traffic in the past.

very nice :)