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iakulchen @iakulchen (615) • Singapore 6 Mar 09

Well, one of my articles has been sitting at rank 2/5 for quite a long time. The other articles under the title were : 1 off topic article which never even covered the title at all, sitting in 1st place. An article which didn't...

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iakulchen Oh hi Canellita, didn't realise that someone had posted on one of my discussions, it's been quite a long time since I started one... Oh, and rest assured I always flag the off topic ones, the ones that ARE ALL IN CAPS AND SAYING THE SAME FIVE WORDS OVER AND...

13 Aug 10

mimpi @mimpi1911 (25464) • India 29 Apr 10

I just received a mail from AC which clearly states that we are no longer entitled to enjoy the performance payments which we have been. We need to be Featured Contributors which means we have to submit United States W-8BEN tax...

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helium

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iakulchen Actually scheng, it just says that you have to publish once a month to your own category. it doesn't say anything about not being able to contribute to other categories. That being said, I do agree that the number of hoops to jump through doesn't make it...

2 May 10

SydneyHazelton @SydneyHazelton (4586) • Singapore 26 Apr 10

Hi myLotters, Alright, I know many of you are writers out there, generating many articles on a daily basis. The last time you wrote an article would probably be yesterday, this morning, a few minutes ago or a few seconds ago....

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triond

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iakulchen Oh, it's just that I seldom come on MyLot nowadays, and when I do it's usually just to check the "writing" section. Have been busy with a number of non-writing related stuff. Organise chess tournament at Bedok, help with chess tournament in Jurong, and so on....

28 Apr 10

sirnose @sirnose (2436) • United States 25 Jan 10

There are a lot of websites looking for Essay Writers. Some of these paper mills websites have very strict guidelines for who they hire to write for them, and there are a few who just want writers who can write the essay...

freelace writer

writing

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iakulchen Well, I wouldn't exactly call it writing. I only have that single lens with the list of writing sites, and there's more "updating" involved than "writing". To answer your question though, I have seen my earnings slowly increasing for that single lens. The...

29 Jan 10

sirnose @sirnose (2436) • United States 25 Jan 10

There are a lot of websites looking for Essay Writers. Some of these paper mills websites have very strict guidelines for who they hire to write for them, and there are a few who just want writers who can write the essay...

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iakulchen By scams, I mean that quite a number of them don't pay you, fine you for plagiarising even if you haven't, only pay x out of 10 writers, and so forth. As in scams where you, the writer, get much less than what you think that you are entitled to. And check...

27 Jan 10

Iram786 @Iram786 (498) 16 Jan 10

I really want to join a website where I can post articles and recently I had a discussion on myLot about where I could write these articles and a lot of people said Associated Content or Buksia. I only want to choose one, so what...

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iakulchen Hi Scheng1, haven't talked to you for quite a while on MyLot :) And yes they did, but it took ages before they did so. Meanwhile, they still have that tacky (and not very well written) writing that looks like a script for an infocommercial on their site. They...

17 Jan 10

Iram786 @Iram786 (498) 16 Jan 10

I really want to join a website where I can post articles and recently I had a discussion on myLot about where I could write these articles and a lot of people said Associated Content or Buksia. I only want to choose one, so what...

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iakulchen Her user profile says she's from the UK, so I don't think she's eligible for upfront payments from AC

16 Jan 10

sirnose @sirnose (2436) • United States 8 Jan 10

Article writing seems to be what's hot these days for online earnings. There are new sites popping up every day hiring writers and most of these writing jobs are from India. Today I got a pm from someone from India offering me...

article writing

freelancing

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iakulchen Yes, that's exactly what I was asking for. Knowing that they're from India doesn't really say anything, except that well, they're from India. :P I have come across perfectly good legitimate sites based in India hiring writers. I also know of sites in India...

9 Jan 10

macleto @macleto (45) 19 Oct 09

Hi everyone! I have a day job but my salary is not really able to compensate for all my needs and more--wants, thus, I have searched for online jobs. I love writing so most of the sites I visited were those that hire freelance...

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iakulchen *grumbles about not hitting 500 posts and being unable to copy and paste links* http://www.writinghood.com/online-writing/academia-research-exposed-as-a-scam/ I should get the link correct this time. It's not hard to get accepted by Academia-research at...

20 Oct 09

Canellita @Canellita (12029) • United States 5 Oct 09

I am curious about something. I understand that when multiple people submit articles to helium's Marketplace the ones that are not chosen eventually make the transition to being competitive titles on helium. Does this mean people...

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iakulchen Probably all the articles that haven't been taken off for violations are shown to the publisher, lol. So that's 92 articles that publsiher had to look through for that title you wrote to. And yes, I know what you are saying. But I just don't see a cost...

9 Oct 09

Canellita @Canellita (12029) • United States 5 Oct 09

I am curious about something. I understand that when multiple people submit articles to helium's Marketplace the ones that are not chosen eventually make the transition to being competitive titles on helium. Does this mean people...

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iakulchen I'm kind of under the impression that the only way for people to read your marketplace article was when they were rating it. There's this button "Praise and feedback for the writer" under the Rating box and I assume that's what they used. Helium does need...

8 Oct 09

iakulchen @iakulchen (615) • Singapore 23 Sep 09

and it's Sharonbucks again. And the next alert is about Sharonbucks again. All saying the exact same thing. Anyone else getting tired of reading all these alerts that are all saying precisely the same thing in such a short period...

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iakulchen Hmm, *tries to put it another way* 1st alert I click (message body saying Sharonbucks has increased payment to 4 dollars) (another message body below that sayng Sharonbucks has increased payment to 2 dollars) the next alert I click (message body...

24 Sep 09

iakulchen @iakulchen (615) • Singapore 23 Sep 09

and it's Sharonbucks again. And the next alert is about Sharonbucks again. All saying the exact same thing. Anyone else getting tired of reading all these alerts that are all saying precisely the same thing in such a short period...

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iakulchen The ones I'm receiving are. For some reason the latest one I click on also shows the previous one, so it's actually showing two messages or more at the same time. I'm not sure if it's something that happens because a task provider was the same one who updated...

24 Sep 09

abbypringles @abbypringles (1613) • Philippines 31 Aug 09

Last weekend, I just signed up for an account at Helium.com after hearing a lot about this site from fellow mylotters. I have been writing for Associated Content for over a year now and is not too happy with my earning potential...

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iakulchen Your articles get published instantly, and they then get rated by that peer reviewing system that scheng1 has referred to as "annoying". If nobody finds anything terribly wrong with the article,like it being just made up of words that make no sense at all,...

1 Sep 09

katerina @thea09 (18305) • Greece 19 Aug 09

I hope it didn't cause offence and I could have chosen someone else at random to pose the question to but I did it. I accepted a friend request last week. As a politeness when I do this I usually go in and respond to a few of...

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iakulchen Lol, I know about that. When the no abusing of tags alert came out, there were quite a number of people who either misread or misinterpreted the alert as violating Mylot guidelines if you did not tag a discussion. They started a discussion about it, half the...

21 Aug 09

AnythngArt @AnythngArt (3302) • United States 18 Aug 09

There's nothing more frustrating than 4th place in a Helium contest because only the top 3 get any cash. Fourth and lower get zip. Over the past two weeks, my articles in the contest fluctuated. One day I would have all number 1s,...

articles

contests

earning income by writing

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iakulchen Opinion seems to be divided on which one is better. There are some who advocate writing consistently to titles over the course of a competition. Then there are others who advocate saving your articles offline and submitting them only on the last day of the...

21 Aug 09

scheng1 @scheng1 (24649) • Singapore 16 Aug 09

Someone is using article spinner to distort many articles from Associated Content. Unfortunately my articles suffer the same disfiguration. One of my article is about Economics on Demand. My original paragraph is: "The study...

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iakulchen Just some other things I ofrgot to add in my previous comment. I checked out the blog and it's true the blog doesn't have any advertisements, but I do know some "I'll pay you to write a blog post with a link to somewhere" services do require blogs to have a...

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mommaj @mommaj (23112) • United States 8 Aug 09

I have a writing star again, for a little while I am sure. I am still at 73% but because I have over 30 articles I get a star. Isn't that nice. I finally got a writing star again! Maybe this month I can keep it.

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iakulchen If I'm not mistaken, creative writing articles do not count for Helium writing stars, Canellita. Your rating for creative writing articles are only used to calculate if you are eligible for the Creative writng badge.

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Canellita @Canellita (12029) • United States 8 Aug 09

I am happy to share that I checked email this morning and discovered a message from helium that payment had been sent to my paypal account! This was good and welcome news especially wiht my computer acting up. (I am using a...

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iakulchen Lol, scheng1, they just started a new contest and the topic is Finance. They do require participiants to be certified CPA or certified Finanical Planners/Advisors though. And no Canellita you don't have to write to 15 titles. That's overkill :P Around 4 or...

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Canellita @Canellita (12029) • United States 8 Aug 09

I am happy to share that I checked email this morning and discovered a message from helium that payment had been sent to my paypal account! This was good and welcome news especially wiht my computer acting up. (I am using a...

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iakulchen Well, it's a different case when the contest topic happens to be something you do know quite a bit about. For example, there's this contest that ends on August 18th and the topic is Asian culture, a topic that I think you might be interested in, scheng1,...

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