monetizing Dolphin

im looking at an interesting project, one for myself rather than a build for someone else for once!

Looking at potential ways to add income from the site, but in a way that is worth paying for and will also give members potential ways to earn should the project be successful.

This would be a high traffic site, with focused interest areas.

What Im initially thinking is offering sections on users profile pages, or within groups they create where they can monetize those pages. 

Either something like they can create a HTML block on their profile page, then put their own ad code onto that page (security issue?)

or similar in a groups / event / article page. 

This could either be set to membership levels, so only users who pay premium site use can do this, 

or anyone can do it but on some sort of split admin / user income  (not sure how practical or doable this is)

Any thoughts on this? The former idea (HTML block) I think is a little more realistic than the 2nd maybe?

or how much do people actually make on google ads direct themselves!..

I´m not sure if I have understand your requirement correctly.

Maybe you need my Profile Designer Plugin? Or maybe a modificated version of this plugin?

maybe something similar. This module looks a little too technical for 99% of my site users.

I was thinking more of a regular 'action button' on profile page of certain membership levels, that allows to create a HTML page block and edit content.

I think I would prefer this was within groups module though, so that a group owner could do this on groups view page, but again, this feature would need to be configurable in membership levels.

Google adsense is worthless; people don't click on adverts and Google bans left and right; plus for most users they require original content.

I'm just wondering what sort of people like to visit sites that are so smothered with advertising, that you can't even tell what the real content is.

 probably people who use facebook ;-)

no really though, Im just talking about one tiny little html block in a group. not quite smothering. Also, then allowing the group owner to decide what goes in it. Most likely something relevant to the group.

There's a catch. Google and most other ad-agencies won't allow multiple accounts to advertise on one site. They want to be able to hold one account responsible for any potential misconduct done by a site. Understandably. 

So, unless you have your own ad-serving system in place that would take care of revenue distribution, I don't think it's that straightforward. One example is YouTube - popular published may get a review cut, but ads are still controlled by Google.

sending you a PM.....    : )

AntonLV has a Group Page Composer here. Link 

This Mod allows the Group Admin to create HTML, RSS, or text blocks that Site Admins can set to be approved. This block will only show on that groups page, but can be shared with other groups on the site. You can also limit the placement of the block on the group's page. Perhaps you should ask him if he would be able to link the mod to a membership level as well as group admin.