Do you think there are people here who get paid by outside interests to post on the forum? Just curious what you think.
I think it's more likely people are paying others to write hubs (which can be a part of SEO practise for a website). But the forums? Not sure why anyone would care that much about the HubPages forums to pay for it.
Being a "newbie" to hubs, I never even thought about it. However anything is possible and you know people can do some pretty off the wall things.
probably. it could be part of a social media budget to post on high trafficked forums.
or to keep the forums buzzing to bring in traffic.
I was thinking about this the other day.
I think they do.
If there is a market for it, then you can bet that those who have the funds/resources to pay market value or set market value will utilize it.
I've been wondering the same thing since I saw this thread - thought I was missing something ...
Maybe a thread about hair products? And then the paid poster writes.. I love x brand because of x, y and z. Just a guess, lol.
I keep seeing ads on oDesk and other places for people to post on forums to promote something or other.
As a matter of fact specific governments hire people to promote government agendas
on forum sites.
I see recurring spam posts for shoes and for how to burn to DVDs.
I would think it is more than possible. If I were going to pay someone it would be to make hubs.
For at least a decade, my impression is that there is paid-to-post.
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