Pay Per Post on Forums
August 14, 2006 by
Adam
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Entrepreneurship
I wanted to start a mini-series on the different types of ways you as a blogtrepreneur can make money on the internet in less conventional ways. We all know that Google Adsense can pay you a few $$’s per day if you have great content and a whole load of visitors, but there are other ways you can put your internet skills to the test and to earn money.
The first of these ways is getting Paid to Post in forums. Now Im touching on this topic mainly because I’ve started my own forum over at ChipandChat.com, and thus am looking for ways to increase the amount of posts and members on my site. With foruming (verb: to manage forums), the more posts you have and the more active members you have, the more likely you are to get more people signing up through your registration. Unfortunately it is a Catch 22 situation, but you have to start off somewhere.
Most Pay-per-Post sites offer to hook you up with experienced writers for a low price. As the name suggests, you pay them a small fee for every post they do. At the moment the going rate is around $0.10 to $0.15 per post on your forum. However, you may write more posts and thus will be able to earn more money.
Recently, I’ve been involved in the Pay-per-Post frenzy in foruming. A new site made by my entrepreneur friend Andreas Bard is up called Forum-Pal. If you are a forum master and want more posts on your site then you can pay in advance for different packages. One such package features:
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3 new members (writers)
15 new threads
30 new posts
Min. 25 words per post
Quality and educated content
This package only costs $9 which I think is very competitive compared to other writers who charge per forum thread.
I have also been involved in writing on other forums. Although the pay isn’t amazing, once you have a few jobs lined up, each paying per article it all adds up. You may have to research as a professional and learn more about the forum niche and topic, but once you have some good information then the sky is the limit. The key here to be a writer, is to provide quality rather than quantity. Forum masters love it when some fun and lively threads are started, which at the same time are packed full of information.
On a final “shameless self pluggin” note, which I will be repeating throughout this mini-series, I am available to write in your forum, so please get in touch! My next post will be on Pay-per-Articles for Bloggers, so stay tuned!
I’ve never been all that impressed by the concept of paying people to post on your forums, it feels almost spam-like to do so. I can’t envisage anyone making much money from it either, unless they only make very short posts and have a large client base lined up.
I don’t think it can really be classed as spam. The main point out of pay-per-post is to hire someone who knows a bit about the forum niche. I’ve made this clear in my listing for posting on ChipandChat.com. I only want people who have knowledge of golf.
I think pay-per-post can be quite profitable if like you said, you have a large client base. The reason why I do it, because I use the profits I make from writing to channel into paying posters on my forum.
But thanks for your views anyway, I appreciate it!
Just to clarify, I don’t think it is spam per se, but when I look at a forum I can often tell when the owner has paid people to post and it just feels a bit tacky to me - the community aspect isn’t really there. That’s the reason why I’ve never paid anyone to post on any of the forums I run. On the other hand, sites like PHP Talk haven’t taken off, so perhaps I need to reconsider that stance.
Hey Adnan– just wanted to say ChipandChat.com looks like its off to a great start. I love the layout. Best of luck with it!
Hey adnan,
I can assure you your paying over the odds there, I do forum boosting for forums i’m currently working on about 5/6 at the moment here is the thread on namepros:- http://www.namepros.com/namebucks-np-sales-and-auctions/228024-excellent-posting-service.html I’ve got most of my service through pm’s and i can show you past work i will do it alot lower then that you will get alot more from me then you will from them, anywaus if your interested contact me on namepros, msn(this email address) or youngentrepreneur!
Thanks
Hi Guys - sorry for not replying to your comments. All will be explained in my next post!
Paul - you may have a point. At the moment, noone has actually been able to stick around with my golf forum and post good content. They just havn’t been up for the job and I only wanted quality. So pay-per-post hasn’t worked out for me yet. But if you can find good posters then it might be a good idea.
Rohail - Thanks a lot for the praise. The layout was done by my partner but still I think it looks excellent. Hope Walamu is doing well - the screenshots look amazing.
And Nick - Im not really sure what the going rate is at the moment. I just assumed that Andreas would be giving me a good rate because he is a friend. I will definitely get in touch with you about ChipandChat because its stagnating a bit at the moment. I’ll reply to your thread as well.
Also, if you’re a golf fan anyway then logon their and talk about your favourite sport with us!
Thanks for your comments guys.
Just wanted to say hi before I read more of the past threads. Looks like there are some crazy people here. ;0) lol
C ya later
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Pay per post for forum is good to make dead forum “alive” and to kick start any new forum. I might consider doing pay per post myself.
I think http://www.discusshub.com is offering 300 posts 50USD and two months banner advertising too..
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It is a great way to make money blogging. Many bloggers made lots of money from it.