Originally posted by gulp
If you want my advice.
Do not even bother putting "pay per click" links on your forum.
There is no guarantee anyone would click unless you give them incentives.
And if you do that, then that is against the pay per click links terms & conditions.
Frankly, I think it is better to put cpm banners in rotation.
Because then, the banners would load ever-time some-one visits your forum or posts a message or logs-into their accounts.
And every-time a banner loads, you earn some-thing.
Usually, cpm banners pay you $1 per 1000 impressions or loads.
That is poor rate but if you get lots of users then you earn some-thing.
I still think this is better than putting a pay per click link which hardly ever gets clicked.
But if you insist putting links that pay you per click then put "blind links" that pay you to send them any kind of visitors.
These visitors do not have to be targetted.
And you are allowed to make visitors click any-how.
As-long as a real person is clicking, you get paid.
When users log-out from their accounts, you can show them a blank page with the following text :
"click here to log-out completely from your account"
(just like yahoomail does).
And when your users click the link, they will be sent to your sponsor' web-site and you get paid some-thing like 3-5 cents.
I, in the past gave this idea to free web-hosts and 2 of them liked the idea. One said they will implement it.
If all free hosts did this then they could have earned more than they do with those silly banners and popups they put on users webpages.