Are you using posting exchange often?

[Ja sa bong]

Posting exchange is one of ways to freely add contents to your community from other forum owners. How it works is that you receive what you give to others. If you agree on 5/5 or 10/10 posting exchange, it means you'll make the same number of either 5 or 10 new contents in another person's forum for them to do the same on your own.

How often do you use posting exchange to add new contents to your board?

 

[Cpvr]

Post exchanges are something I frequently like to do with other forum owners. It’s a good way for both of us to build our forums and expand our content offerings. I’ve been doing post exchanges for a long time, and I do daily exchanges and weekly post exchanges with a couple of forum owners.

 

[Naza]

Post exchanges are something I frequently like to do with other forum owners. It’s a good way for both of us to build our forums and expand our content offerings. I’ve been doing post exchanges for a long time, and I do daily exchanges and weekly post exchanges with a couple of forum owners.

The best part of forum post exchanges is that you get organic content from each other with less pressure attached to it. I encourage a lot of site owners to take the path of post exchanges as it can be helpful.

 

[Ravenfreak]

Yes I am currently doing a post exchange with another forum right now. I should look into doing a bit more though, it really helps not only you out but other forum owners as well! I've done daily in the past, as well as weekly but with my schedule weekly is the best for me. I also don't mind doing one time exchanges, but weekly/daily work out better for both websites.

 

[Cory]

I don't do post-exchanges a whole lot, at least I generally don't go searching for them. I'll usually create a post-exchange thread on some forums and let people come to me. I don't often request post-exchanges from other users unless their board looks interesting to me.

 

[Ja sa bong]

Post exchanges are something I frequently like to do with other forum owners. It’s a good way for both of us to build our forums and expand our content offerings. I’ve been doing post exchanges for a long time, and I do daily exchanges and weekly post exchanges with a couple of forum owners.

It is one of the best ways for you to add contents on your community. It gives you a certain kind of guarantee that you will be getting something of a high quality because you are getting it directly from another community owner.

 

[Shortie]

I do post exchanges as much as I can depending on how much time I have to dedicate to the post exchanges. They are a great way to be able to get content on your forum and to also help others with content on their forums in return and ideal for those who don't have the means to pay people to post on their forums for content.

 

[InMyOpinion]

When I was an admin I would use posting exchanges however I never felt like they would really work because though there would be someone posting on the forum they would only post for the exchange and then go MIA so it didn't really bring in new members though it would help with a bit of threads and posts. I would also find I would then have to spend time on someone else's forum instead of focusing on mine and working on my forum. I'm not saying that post exchanges don't work, they just never worked for me.

 

[Nomad]

When I was an admin I would use posting exchanges however I never felt like they would really work because though there would be someone posting on the forum they would only post for the exchange and then go MIA so it didn't really bring in new members though it would help with a bit of threads and posts. I would also find I would then have to spend time on someone else's forum instead of focusing on mine and working on my forum. I'm not saying that post exchanges don't work, they just never worked for me.

Post Exchange is I post on your forum and you post on mine; I will make 10 post on yours and you will make 10 posts on mine. Apart from the person who is doing post exchange and apart from the number you have agreed, you will not get other people to post or more posts on your forum. Yes, I agree you end up spending more time on someone else's forum rather than yours. But a forum needs users and these users need to create posts, forum it is not like a blog where only the owner posts, forum needs user engagements. Therefore, if you do not have any one posting on your forums, post exchange can bring in activities. However, being depended on it will be boring and also tiring. I do post occasionally but I am not too depended on it.

 

[InMyOpinion]

Post Exchange is I post on your forum and you post on mine; I will make 10 post on yours and you will make 10 posts on mine. Apart from the person who is doing post exchange and apart from the number you have agreed, you will not get other people to post or more posts on your forum. Yes, I agree you end up spending more time on someone else's forum rather than yours. But a forum needs users and these users need to create posts, forum it is not like a blog where only the owner posts, forum needs user engagements. Therefore, if you do not have any one posting on your forums, post exchange can bring in activities. However, being depended on it will be boring and also tiring. I do post occasionally but I am not too depended on it.

I understand that some forums need users or posts but I feel as though post exchanges doesn't really resolve the issue, it's just putting a band-aid on it for a temporary fix. Most times once someone is done a post exchange they don't return to the forum unless they are doing another post exchange so I really don't see a lot of value in it. Yes, you do get more activity for a bit but the poster is only there because you are also posting on their forum, after that they don't really care about your forum. I'd rather have a genuinely interested forum user who posts because they want to not because we have agreed to do a post exchange.
As I've mentioned, it may work for some people but it's never worked for me.