I'm considering starting up a forum for my site and plastering it with ads, but I've hit a snag. I've been on tons of forums over the years, and they're generally split into two camps: forums with relatively few subforums (YpayZ is a fairly good example - I count thirteen) and forums with dozens of subforums. I can see the appeal of having as many potential pages as possible, but unless you have hundreds of regular users a lot of the subforums on the more populated message boards wind up empty, which looks bad.
Forum owners, I ask you, which generally winds up being more profitable? A forum with a select number of subforums, or a forum with tons of subforums?
Forum owners, I ask you, which generally winds up being more profitable? A forum with a select number of subforums, or a forum with tons of subforums?