How To Make Money & Promote Your Blog
22 February 08To be honest, I feel this money making method is pretty much scraping the bottom of the barrel, but it does work and will bring in some pocket change. You decide if it’s actually worth the time and effort. Here goes:
If you’re new to blogging and are in the beginning stages of building a foundation for your blog, you are most likely busy with creating content, handling marketing research, doing blog promotion and evangelism, designing and coding, building backlinks, performing SEO, socializing and networking…and the list can go on and on, but you get the point.
Well, here is an avenue that can kill several birds with one stone:
Paid Forum Posting
Sometimes forum owners will kick-start their sites by hiring people to post and start threads in their forums. The average forum poster makes $0.10-$0.50 per post. That being said, doing this type of work will NOT make you rich.
Nonetheless, it’s a means to make some side income money while you’re already online, and perform some of the tasks on your to-do list of things to do for your blog simultaneously. So, which ‘birds are you able to kill’ by doing paid forum posting?
1. Exposure
Inserting Your Blog URL Into Your Signature will create some exposure for your site. If you are clever about posting, you’ll be able to direct attention to your blog when answering questions and posting topics.
2. Backlinks from Signatures
If the forum is relative to your blog’s niche and lasts long enough to receive a PR, this may also assist you in your link-building quest given that the nofollow attribute is not present in the signature links. (Although I should note that backlinks from forum signatures is a highly debated subject as to how search engines value it).
3. Research
Choosing a posting job for a webmaster or topic related to blogging or your specific niche, will allow you to do research while getting paid to post. Most forum owners will choose a topic that they are knowledgable in to start a forum on. Since forums are designed to be an interchange of knowledge, you can share and receive at the same time.
4. Networking
Forums are interactive sites so it’s a possiblity that you may find other people who you share similar goals there.
Where to Find Forum Posting Jobs
You have two options: 1)Become a freelance writer, search for your own jobs, and keep 100% of your earnings, or 2)Work for a paid posting company, have the company handle job searches, and earn what the company offers you to pay.
You can find forum owners advertising for paid posting jobs at:
- Craigslist
- Popular webmaster forums such as Sitepoint and the Digital Point
- Freelance writing bulletin boards
To find paid posting companies:
- Do a Google search for ‘paid forum posting’ or ‘paid forum posting company’
- Popular webmaster forums such as Sitepoint and the Digital Point
Paid Forum Posting Etiquette
- Do NOT spam. Spamming will get you banned, spamming while doing paid posting will get you fired
Well, that’s was today’s blogging tip. Stay tuned for more blogging tips & blogging guides later…
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That sounds simple and easy enough. Guess that’s why there isn’t much in return, relatively speaking.
Yep…the simpler things have smaller payoffs.