GET PAID FOR POSTING ON FORUMS - I DO! (paidforumposting.com)

Member Name: Skyedame

Product:	paidforumposting.com
Date:	06/08/08 (164 review reads)
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Advantages: You actually get paid, it can be interesting and fun.

Disadvantages: The money isn't great

If you're like me, you're always looking for websites who pay for comments or something similar. Well, quite by chance, but after months of searching and coming up against obvious scams or just sites that just didn't inspire me, I found a couple of websites which pay writers for posting on forums. I know there are more but I selected two that had received good reports from other writers.

These are American-based forums and I don't think there's anything similar in the UK - certainly, I haven't come across anything like them here.

What are Paid for Posting websites?

Perspective 1: The client:

If you own a website, chances are you will have some form of advertising within it, even if it's only links to other websites which might be of interest to the visitors to your website. The more people who visit your website the more likely they are to click on one of those advertising links. As webmaster, you will be paid by the advertisers each time a visitor from your site clicks on one of those links.

If you are a new site, you will want to get it up and running to look busy and attractive before you go 'live'. Alternatively, your website might be ailing and you want to breathe new life into it. Whichever is the reason, this is where websites like PaidforPosting.com come in.

Perspective 1: The writers:

So that new websites can become established one of the things these paid for posting websites offer, as the name suggests, is good writers who will go in and start posting on these forums. The client pays them and then they pay us.

How to get started:

The two websites I work for are paidforumposting.com and KickStartYourForums.com. I've chose PFP simply because, of the two, it is easier for newbies to start working (you only have to make 7 sample posts as against KYF's 15) and it is a less cumbersome site to negotiate. But I would recommend you look at both. There is work to be had on both of them and they pay the same rate.

To register for paidforumposting.com, go to their front page. This page is aimed at their potential client-base and not at recruitment of new posters so I found this confusing at first because I couldn't see any mention of how to write for them. However, if you look at the tabs at the top, one is marked 'Forums'. Click on this and you will see you can either log in or register. I'm sure I don't need to tell you how to do that.

Once you've registered, you will be able to see the forum threads. The first of these is called 'Proving Grounds' and this is where, after you've created your username and profile, that you must make 7 posts. The purpose of these initial posts is for the administrators to get to know a little about you. They will be able to judge by your response to threads within the Proving Grounds how well you write. Once you have done your 7 posts, you 'pm' the admin to let them know you're ready to start work. I found posting within the Proving Grounds a lot of fun and did my 7 posts within about half an hour.

What happens next?

Once you've pm'd the administrator, you await a reply. I got a reply within minutes, but I don't know how usual this is. I do know that it's more likely to get a quick response when you are working in the UK in the evening because in America, of course, it's the daytime so there's always someone about. But once you've received a message back from the administrator that you have been accepted then you are good to go and look for available jobs in the New Jobs thread. Until you are accepted by the team you will not be able to read any of the jobs threads.

What's expected of you:

All jobs I have worked on so far have had one thing in common: you must complete 25 posts and create 10 new threads for the forum you choose to write for. Generally, you are given a month to complete your postings. You must heed the rules and pace your posts naturally over the month. All posts must be of 25 words or more. If a posting contains less that 25 words it will not be counted.

You can write for as many forums as you want but you must complete all jobs within the specified time frame. Do not over-stretch yourself in the beginning by taking every job you see. Sometimes, it's not as easy as it looks, especially if the forum you are writing for is 'quiet'. It's difficult to get a good pace going when you don't get an immediate response to something you've posted.

Payment:

Payment is $5 for each completed job. Not fabulous money by any means but once you get the hang of how it all works, it is possible to work three or four jobs at once, which means that you will be paid $15 or $20 at the end of the month. Some of the more experienced posters work a lot more jobs. I have a daytime job so I choose only to write for a couple of forums at a time but if I was at home all day I know I could establish a good working pattern and earn more on PFP.

Payment Method:

Payment is made via PayPal and I have always been paid very soon after I have requested payment. You can request payment on the completion of your jobs or you can choose to save it up.

Tip:

Mostly the jobs are snapped up quickly so it's advisable to ensure you activate your preference for immediate email notification within the new jobs thread.

What kinds of forums will you write for?

The types of jobs available are diverse. I have written for websites for Equestrians (in reality I don't know one end of a horse from another), a website aimed at young mums (I'm soon to be a grandmother), a website for people setting up their own websites (I tended to stick to the general forum on that one). Just now, I am writing comments for a film/movie website and a website concerning HIV/AIDS.

Not all the jobs are easy and to be honest, they do encourage you not to pick and choose. But I think it goes without saying that there are some jobs which are made more difficult because they are particularly American-based. For instance anything to do with sports or betting.

Whilst I am on the American slant, I would also recommend that you spell the American way. This is easy enough because if you do spell something the British way, just like Word's spellechecker you will get the red way line beneath the word in question. For instance, I use the letter 'z' in words where we in Britain normally use the 's'. I also call myself a 'Mom'. You don't have to do it that way, by any means. I just feel it makes it easier for the target audience to read.

I am willing to research on most things but for the rate of pay per posting, I am not willing to spend too long trawling the internet for snippets of information to give me ideas for posting. For me, writing for sports or financial forums would take far too long to research and I know the money paid is not enough for me to go that extra mile! But generally speaking, people are the same the world over and we worry and laugh at the same things so you should find a forum you'll enjoy writing for.

Advice:

Follow the rules. They will not allow writers to pick a job and then give up halfway through. That will ensure you being banned from the site. They are a business enterprise and cannot afford to have their writers letting them down halfway through an assignment.

Finally, I would recommend that you look at both sites, read the rules and start posting in their newbie forums. You will soon get the hang of things. I found both sites a little confusing to navigate at first, but eventually got the hang of them.

Go to:

www.paidforumposting.com
www.kickstartyourforums.com

I have given a quick rating of 4 stars - I'd have given 5 stars if the money had been better!

Thank you for reading and I do hope you find something of interest there.


© Louise Saunders 2008.

Summary: An excellent way to earn pin money if you enjoy writing on diverse subjects