In article , Owain
wrote:
Of course there has been. If the knowledgeable people here were
commissioned to write an article for Avenue Supplies' website,
they would expect to be paid for it at normal commercial rates.

Perhaps, though you might well do it to improve your own name
recognition. You can argue that Avenue are exploiting the members of
this group, but equally they may well be bringing its existence to
people who previously didn't know about it.

The other user I quoted, the Laminate Flooring forum, is also using
this group: if you look at the top of the page they carry Google ads
and get paid by Google for doing so. People only go to that page
because of what we have written.

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