Writers: Your Experience With Helium.com

Helium is not an easy way to make money writing. I made some $5 wins on the contest that just ended, so I am approaching payout for the first time. I think that, for the money, you would be better off with a site like Associated Content or Constant Content. I use Helium as practice writing. It's shorter and more concentrated writing. Not a quick or easy way to make money. I think you could probably even make more money on MyLot than Helium over the same time period. I am not trying to deter you from writing for Helium, just trying to present an accurate picture of that site.

I haven't tried Helium yet. DO they pay for the articles or just for the hits? I submit to associated content and have made a fairly decent amount of money for only a few articles.

Its not just ranking, its page views. Higher ranking articles tend to get more page views, but if no one is reading it won't matter how high your rank is. :) Market, market, market. Invite people to read what you've wrote. Email friends and family. If you see someone asking about something you've writtena bout don't be afraid to respond and share the link. If you have a blog let people know there when you've got something new published.

Hi explorations. Nice to meet a fellow Heliumite on here! I have been with Helium since November, and with almost 100 articles up, I've reached and exceeded payout. I would love to read your articles that you have on Helium. The only piece of advice that I could give is to be patient. It does come with time. Another thing too is to put a link on your Blog, or MySpace page (if you have them) to Helium. This will help to direct traffic to your articles. Hope this has helped! Good luck to you. :)

Two things: 1) The more you write, the more earning potential you will have. With only 10 articles, the chances of someone reading one of them is pretty slim, but with, say, 100, you increase your odds quite a bit. 2) Rate articles, so that yours will get shown to other people to rate. Apparently you have to do quite a bit of rating of other peoples' stuff to get your stuff seen. At least that's what I've been told. And don't despair. I think the pennies have been trickling in slower this month, and I've been writing and rating a bit more than previously. Either the site is getting more saturated with articles (thus decreasing the chances of ours getting read) or they are paying less for people reading our articles.

I hope everything works it's way out for you. I have not heard about Helium until now. So, thank you! I want to take a look at it. If I figure out how to make it work, I will come back and let you know.

I suggest you try to publish on Hubpages and Triond. I think Hubpages have more traffic than Helium and Triond pays in a more generous manner.

I guess you have already come across the answers for how the earnings work in helium by the previous mylotters. I keep thinking about it just now. I think you have lovely and informative writings at helium. But do you have your own blog or something. If you do, probably you could write a short piece of entry in your blog with keywords linked to specific piece of your helium articles. That would enhance the keyword search for your articles in the search engines too! Just a thought!

Hi, I also am a member of Helium and have been for about a month now. I have 12 articles and have about .48 cents at the moment. I am relying on just getting hits to my pages but there is some good avice here about contests, will have to look into that and hope I am good enough. Don't give up on Helium, I have found it a great place to get ideas out that have been knocking around in my head and getting feedback. If you fancy dropping by to my home page there it is : www.helium.com/user/show/180869 Look forward to seeing you there

Hi, explorations, Don't despair, you are not doing anything wrong. I have been in Helium for about 2 months, had just reached payout and in all honesty, it wasn't easy. Besides increasing the number of articles, you might want to consider introducing their urls in your blogs and e-mails to get as many people as possible to read them. Take part regularly in the article ratings to improve your profile. But most importantly, concentrate on improving your writing and submit stories of good standards. One of the best way to improve your standards is to submit your articles for critique. I did that and the feedback helped me in improving my standards. So, be patient, have fun writing and the results will come.