Paid-to-Post Forums

[Nomad]

I am staff on two paid-to-post forums, I also post on a paid-to-post forum sometimes and make a couple of bucks once in a while. Do you think running a paid-to-post forum is sustainable? For non-paying forums bringing members and building content, also generating traffic and revenue can be really difficult. However, people are very eager to join a paid to post forum (because of incentives). These people also bring traffic, and thus generate revenue for the form, What do you think?

 

[Cory]

How does the site generate revenue when they are paying people to post, via ads?

 

[Nomad]

How does the site generate revenue when they are paying people to post, via ads?

They are running ads on their forums but they don't tell us how much they are generating. If they were not generating enough, I don't think they would be able to continue paying for posters.

 

[Shortie]

I have looked into running a paid-to-post forum myself but with not having any disposable income at the moment or any money I could put towards setting something like this up to start it, I feel it would not work out too well unless I found an incentive for people that would be interested in a new paid-to-post forum that wasn't money related at first whilst we generated income to start using money as an incentive. It's a great idea if you can get it going and keep it going but you would definitely need the money to be able to start it out.

 

[Heatman]

How does the site generate revenue when they are paying people to post, via ads?

Yes, they make use of Google Adsense or Infolinks or some other kind of ads set up. Some forums are too popular they don't use Google Adsense but sell ad space on their forum for others to run ads on the community.