Do Post Exchangers Ever Stick Around?
- Thread starter Cosmic
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This is why I don't do post exchanges anymore. It's just not "organic". The only reason the person is posting, is because I'm posting on theirs. I don't think I've ever had anyone stick around after an exchange has ended. 🙁
I think most people forget what a post exchange is or don't understand the concept of it.
A forum post exchange is a mutual arrangement between forum owners where each participant agrees to make a certain number of posts on each other’s forums. The goal is usually to boost activity, make the community appear more active, and help with member engagement or search engine visibility.
The mutual arrangement is finished when either one of the forum owner does no longer want to participate.
If you're expecting people to do more posting while you don't do your end, then that's completely on you, not them. It's not the responsibility of the other party to stay active. There is nothing organic about it, it's a setup. Nothing more, nothing less.
A forum post exchange is a mutual arrangement between forum owners where each participant agrees to make a certain number of posts on each other’s forums. The goal is usually to boost activity, make the community appear more active, and help with member engagement or search engine visibility.
The mutual arrangement is finished when either one of the forum owner does no longer want to participate.
If you're expecting people to do more posting while you don't do your end, then that's completely on you, not them. It's not the responsibility of the other party to stay active. There is nothing organic about it, it's a setup. Nothing more, nothing less.
Post exchanges help boost your forum, and if the other person decides to stick around after they're done then cool but it's not expected.
Exactly. I use post exchanges to help give my forum a boost when we need more content. I don't expect post exchangers to be returning members, and stick around after the exchange/agreement.
Yes, I get what you are saying. I've been doing post exchanges for years. But do they ever stick around? Which is the thread's topic.
The answer is almost always no. As for activity, I can post a bunch of stuff on my forum to boost activity. But exchanges to me have become meaningless if it's just a "business transaction" and the exchanger doesn't really care about my forum.
That's why I stopped doing them.
An exchange is always a business transaction. You give and receive.
If you’d receive only, you’d be a charity. 😜
That’s exactly why having friends in the forum community makes a huge difference when it comes to post exchanges.
They’re way more valuable than standard, one-off exchanges, especially when they’re genuinely interested in helping your forum grow, not just posting for a return favor.
That kind of support goes way further than any “business transaction.”
Every effort matters when it comes to building a community, which is why post exchanges don’t have to feel transactional, unless one choses to treat them that way.
Yes, good point. 🙂
Yes indeed! 😀
Demon_skeith
Paragon
I have a few that stick around, some that stop and come back. Overall they have helped my site 🙂
I come and go. I don't even remember where I found your forum. lol
Demon_skeith
Paragon
Most likely on here lol. Let me know if you want to do more? 😅
I closed it recently. Needed the active license for another project, and it was pretty dead TBH!! 🙁
That's a good thing in the end! Post exchanges do help in some cases, it helps to see there's at least one other member logging in and posting which is especially great for new forums. Again though, it's rare that members stick around after doing one post exchange.
I know I did stick around and checked from time to time some places that I started out as a packager or through the exchange thread. Back in the day I really wanted to help younger communities to grow and I found it easy to get carried away. I know as a packager I had regulars and I was itching just as much for them to order the usual package, haha.
I think the exchange between forum owners can be as tight or as relax as you want it to be, you are in control of what is what you want.
I am a slow poster so any sort of ongoing agreement to help our communities was pretty lax, like at least 5 posts per week and from there whatever got our attention. Next week, repeat. As long as we were at least once a week on each other's place it as enough to feel a constant presence without stressing. I had some deals that lasted me a good while because we were both connecting with each other's place.
I think the exchange between forum owners can be as tight or as relax as you want it to be, you are in control of what is what you want.
I am a slow poster so any sort of ongoing agreement to help our communities was pretty lax, like at least 5 posts per week and from there whatever got our attention. Next week, repeat. As long as we were at least once a week on each other's place it as enough to feel a constant presence without stressing. I had some deals that lasted me a good while because we were both connecting with each other's place.
It depends. If you do an active for active exchange, then the other person will hang around for as long as you're doing the exchange for. If you don't do an active for active, then they usually don't hang around........not unless you do another exchange with them in the future anyway.
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