Do you have a profitable Real Estate site?
 

I'm looking for ideas to monetize a domain. I just put a forum on it for awhile and it has a lot of pages filled with people swapping information about long-term home rentals, houses for sale, and swaps at the moment. About 500 users. There are no ads, and posting is free. I hadn't bothered to develop it as I'd planned on flipping the domain but the market isn't so hot for that right now. I may as well do something with it in the meantime.

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I bet you're one of those guys people just go ahead and put on ignore?

tried adding adsense on it?

No, I dislike adsense and almost everything else earned more in the past. I suppose I could revisit.

Putting an AdSense ad between the OP and the first reply converts well.

I would be interested in the forum as a new member anyway to share? :)

You could throw up some ads for Clickbank real estate products?

The best way to make money off of a real estate related website is to sell leads. They'll probably have to be geo-targeted, though, so that might be a little difficult. I'd keep the forum as they are great for SEO, but add a CMS and start creating content and showing listings for houses in a specific area.

You could start by, say, doing counties in New York with lots of keywords for specific towns and whatnot. Then just expand until you cover a large geographic area.

If I remember correctly, you should be able to sell decent leads for a few bucks a pop.