Posting
The idea of paid forum posting is easy from a posters point of view. Get a job, the company I was working for you did this by picking your own jobs from their control panel. Once you were assigned to a job you signed up to the forum and posted away. The jobs tend to be structured by the number of new threads and number of replies you post.
I was picky about what kind of jobs I did but it quickly became apparent that most of the posters weren't. The quality of those posting from the same company was very variable from those who could barely string an English sentence together to those who were just in it for the money.
Posters just in it for the money?
Quite a few of my fellow paid posters just weren't worth the money they were being paid, most of them ticked most of the problems I found with posters below on a regular basis.
The idea of paid forum posting is easy from a posters point of view. Get a job, the company I was working for you did this by picking your own jobs from their control panel. Once you were assigned to a job you signed up to the forum and posted away. The jobs tend to be structured by the number of new threads and number of replies you post.
I was picky about what kind of jobs I did but it quickly became apparent that most of the posters weren't. The quality of those posting from the same company was very variable from those who could barely string an English sentence together to those who were just in it for the money.
Posters just in it for the money?
Quite a few of my fellow paid posters just weren't worth the money they were being paid, most of them ticked most of the problems I found with posters below on a regular basis.
- A large number of posts every day
- Posts that added nothing to the thread being discussed, often just a repetition of what had been said above without the detail
- Short posts. This company had a minimum word count for posts, partly to cut down on the "Me Too" posts but a longer post should have more SEO value than a short one. Quite a few posters often posted shorter than the minimum.
- Contradicting posts, for instance one posting asking for advice in one post on why their broadband supplier was rubbish, and in another post (On the same day) why their broadband supplier (a different supplier) was wonderful.
- Cut and pasted posts from other forums they were working on, and not always their own.
- Little or no subject knowledge. Posts would contain wildly inaccurate information
- Jumping on to a job because its open not because they could add value.
