Earning by Forum Posting

You probably have one or two forums that you enjoy frequenting, where you read and post about issues relevant to you. Have you ever noticed that some forums just aren’t worth looking at because they are so slow moving? You could write a question and not get an answer for days! This is where a great business opportunity comes in . . . paid forum posting.

Basically, paid forum posting is just that, the forum owner pays one or more people to start new threads, keep older ones going and to basically maintain some movement in the forum. It is one of the easier online jobs you can get and if you join forums that are interesting to you, it can be useful as well!

There are two ways to go about getting a forum posting job. The first is to do it yourself. Find stagnant forums by doing a quick search on Google for the type of forum you are interested in. Go directly to page ten and continue from there. These are the less popular forums on that topic and the most likely to not have much activity.

Once you find a near-dead forum, write the administrator and let them know that you are available as a paid poster if they are interested. Offer to write quality posts, responses and start a minimum of two threads per day, for a fee. Although you can set nearly any price you wish, you will have a better response if you stick with the norm for forum posting which is between twenty and fifty cents per post.

To find a forum posting job with a company, do a search on a search engine like Google for forum posting jobs and you will come up with quite a few options. Check out two or three to see which ones pay the best and then ask on a forum or two (these sites often have their own) what other people think of the service. It is usually best to start with just one until you have an idea of how much work will come your way. Otherwise, you could end up with more jobs than you can comfortably do in a day!

You will be given assignments based on preferences and interests, usually. Any special instructions will accompany the assignment, along with how many posts you are expected to do each day. In general, you will be required to write high quality (not spam) posts that are at least 25-50 words long and spread over the different categories on the forum. Some forums will request four or five posts per day, with a couple of those being new threads and the rest replies, while others will only want one post every other day.

The nice thing about working for a company is that you can easily have up to 50 posts assigned per day without having to search for them. Although the pay is slightly less (usually between ten and twenty cents per post), you will be paid by the company, which means higher amounts in a shorter period of time. For example, you might earn only two or three dollars on each forum in a week, but the company will pay you the twenty-five dollars total from all the forums you worked on.

Forum posting can be a good way to get paid for what you enjoy doing anyway. So why not start looking for work in this area?