Hi,
Administrator at http://forums.build-reciprocal-links.com/ is looking for forum posters.
Criteria & Payouts:
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They will pay flat $10 fees for this.
Need 100 postings + 15 new threads at http://forums.build-reciprocal-links.com/.
Each post must be 30 words minimum.
25 Posting a day allowed.
Payment through Paypal.
Apart from this you will be rewarded BRL$ for your posting at the forum. The BRL$ credits will be added as following.
Induction Credit [Forum Registration]====> 15 BRL$
Reputation Granting Credit ========> 3 BRL $
Referral Credit ================> 25 BRL $
Activity Credit ================> 1 BRL $/ Day
Positive Reputation Credit =========> 3 BRL $
Starting New Thread Credit =====> 2 BRL $
Rate Thread Credit ==============> 1 BRL $
Posting Credit ================> 1 BRL $
Post Size Credit ================> 0.001 BRL $/ Word
Poll Created / Vote Credit =========> 1 BRL $
You earn BRL $ and REDIM them to BANK Exchange at BRL. 1 BRL$ == $0.011 USD. So, they will offer flat $10 for 115 posts + You can redim your BRL $ earned at forum.They allow selling / renting signature space. Payment through Paypal only.
If you're interested, Get yourself registered at http://forums.build-reciprocal-links.com/ and PM ENROLLING REQUEST to administrator of the forum.
The offer is open for the members registered before 31st march 2008.
Thanks,
Jason
Michelle posted this at 16:25—30th March 2008.
She has: 71 posts
Joined: Nov 2007
Wasn't this already posted and deleted?
Michelle
caffinephil posted this at 09:32—31st March 2008.
They have: 100 posts
Joined: Feb 2008
I'm interested PM me if this is still available.
JeevesBond posted this at 10:04—1st April 2008.
He has: 3,465 posts
Joined: Jun 2002
Hmmm, haven't seen it myself. If it got past Megan it must be ok.
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Michelle posted this at 15:27—1st April 2008.
She has: 71 posts
Joined: Nov 2007
Well, I commented on it the last time it was posted and the next time I looked it was gone from my tracker so I assumed it was deleted.
Same comment as before. $10 for writing 115 posts is nuts. You get better pay at McDonalds.
Michelle
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Megan posted this at 15:46—1st April 2008.
She has: 9,953 posts
Joined: Jun 1999
Oh, sure, blame it on me! I can't recall if I removed that or not.
Paying people to post on forums is kinda lame anyway.
Megan
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JeevesBond posted this at 22:41—1st April 2008.
He has: 3,465 posts
Joined: Jun 2002
Alrighty then, this time we'll just openly ridicule the spammer instead of deleting their posts.
Michelle's right, that is a pretty awful rate. Although maybe it's possible to live on that in places where the cost of living isn't so high. 115 is a lot of posts though, and are they really going to get good content for that. No.
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greg posted this at 05:09—24th April 2008.
He has: 365 posts
Joined: Nov 2005
Yeah, and in the places where that is a decent wage, the English is often, erm, shall I say "broken".
I can just imagine the posts now.
"hello.
This site very much happys me. It transfers me huge pleasure, and I speek here every often.
If there is a item you want to communicate with, please speak it here and we can speak it together.
I will say a reply to your speaking and we can have a deliberation of the upmost pleasure.
I thank you please for read this post"
Mind, I feel sorry for people in those circumstances. Most developed countries, including my jolly England, take advantage of this. Pay someone $20 a week to answer phones all day long because over here they would have to pay someone $400.
Should be illegal!
And, why is the user called racheldarcy, yet he/she signed it Jason.
Maybe it was the weekend when he signed up !
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Michelle posted this at 13:02—24th April 2008.
She has: 71 posts
Joined: Nov 2007
You almost made me choke on my water with that post!
I used to get annoyed at the people in those countries charging those rates and undercutting the people in other countries. But then I "met" someone in Drupalland who lives in a poorer country. His English is fine and he is very good at his work. If I didn't know what country he lived in, I'd say the US or England or something similar. And yet he isn't able to charge a normal rate because the people that hire him expect him to work cheap because of where he lives. I find that very sad.
Michelle
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Michelle posted this at 17:56—2nd April 2008.
She has: 71 posts
Joined: Nov 2007
LOL!
Actually, paying for posts isn't a horrible thing in itself. I don't think it's any different than paying someone to write articles. But 115 quality posts would take quite a while to write so I can't imagine doing it for $10. And who wants 115 crappy posts? I could do that myself if that's all I wanted.
That said, if someone really wants to write 115 quality posts for just $10, I'll pay.
My poor forums... So dead. Sigh.
Michelle
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Check out my Drupal articles and tutorials.
JeevesBond posted this at 05:16—3rd April 2008.
He has: 3,465 posts
Joined: Jun 2002
Awww, poor forums.
Forums are difficult. Think they only really work, these days, when attached to a site that already has a large user base.
Also, I know you're not actually going to pay for posts, but the ones on offer probably wouldn't be relevant to your site. Is the rest of your site generating any traffic? Maybe the people in the Coulee region just aren't searching for what's on your site?
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caffinephil posted this at 10:05—3rd April 2008.
They have: 100 posts
Joined: Feb 2008
If you add in the fact that each post you write could also provide one or two links back to your site as well as the $10 at the end it isn't such a bad deal. Not when I go to similar forums and post for free, lol.
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Megan posted this at 13:20—3rd April 2008.
She has: 9,953 posts
Joined: Jun 1999
Except that most of those links probably don't count for much. These are probably new sites with low value + other factors that SE's take into consideration.
I don't actually think that paying for posting is all that horible. Just lame
Especially since most of the places pay in peanuts and often have people who don't write english or know about the topic. It might be useful if you could get people who actually know bout the topic and can write genuinely valueable posts. You'd have to pay them more than $10 though.
I think it is different from writing articles because it is sort of misleading to the community. They think that these are normal people who are actually participating of their own free will. I'd be disappointed to find out that they were paid to do that. Paying for moderators wouldn't be as misldeading.
Megan
My web design blog
Michelle posted this at 19:00—3rd April 2008.
She has: 71 posts
Joined: Nov 2007
Yeah, it's a chicken/egg thing. There's not much going on in my forums so new people don't want to stay but nothing will go on until I get new people to stay.
Well, I wasn't going to take on the offer in the OP but I have considered paying someone to post. I really need to find someone in the Coulee Region, though, not just some generic post-for-pay site. Mostly for the reason Megan touched on. I want real people who actually have an interest in the Coulee Region that my non paid readers would have an interest in talking to. The pay would just be a little extra incentive to keep things going. I don't think that's realistic, though. The little I could afford wouldn't be enough to be worth it to anyone to do for pay. So I'm trying to think of other ways to encourage participation. I already use userpoints and have been thinking of attaching prizes of some sort. Humans like to compete and I'd likely have more luck getting people to compete for a $10 prize than offering to pay $10 for X posts.
To be honest, I don't know what people in the area are searching on. I've tried keyword tools and none of the ones I think would rate high do. It's odd.
As for content, right now, the site is mostly the forums. I have an area directory and event calendar but both are under construction. It's an ongoing battle to try and carve out time for both the architecture of the site and adding content to it. Whenever I focus on one, the other suffers.
It's a slow process, but we'll get there. I'm hoping in a few years my site will be the place to go online in the Coulee Region.
Michelle
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JeevesBond posted this at 04:59—4th April 2008.
He has: 3,465 posts
Joined: Jun 2002
Your post is a good read, it's good to know others also find this difficult. Maybe you need some conventional advertising along with your portal, maybe people aren't searching for a regional site because they don't realise any exist.
I would think that building up content would probably be the most important thing you can do. The forums will surely lift-off if they compliment lots of good content.
Just some thoughts, you're right though: it is hard!
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Michelle posted this at 13:44—4th April 2008.
She has: 71 posts
Joined: Nov 2007
I do plan on doing some "real world" advertising. That's another chicken/egg thing. I don't want to advertise until there's more content there but until I get people using it, I'm the only one adding content. LOL
I need a clone...
Michelle
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Check out my Drupal articles and tutorials.