About to Give up on Helium

I feel your frustratiopn with Helium. I only earn pennies off of my articles. Sometimes feel like I have to babysit my articles and others with the rating and writing stars. If I don't read and rate other persons articles I will not get paid at all. If I don't keep leaping my own articles to keep my stars I will earn pittence for upfront payments if I submit anything. My writing stars keep fluctuating. The most I can have right now with the amount of articles is 2. I have had 2 many times, but then I loose one. I leap it goes back up for a long while and then I loose it again. It is rather frustrating feeling like I have to babysit my articles and leap just to keep the stars I deserve. I wish you luck on getting your rating stars back, soon. You probably are not being paid anything because you don't have any rating stars. I think it is wrong for them to keep money just because someone takes a hiatus from the site. They are still making money with your article, so they should pay you. Well, in a perfect logical world. :o)

it's been so long since i last went to helium, and i don't even have that many articles there. i think i'm gonna close my account there and shift all my articles there to hubpages. it's doing ok there, not as good as other people but at least i know that there are people viewing there and all. what's more i don't even have any stars at helium, neither rating nor writing ehehe because i've been either too busy or lazy. i can shift my articles can't i by the way

I am starting to write articles for Associated Content too. I wrote on Helium but like you never noticed that I was earning anything. I am slow earning on AC but I am not sure how to get more page views.I would like to know more about them. If you have any suggestions, I will take them.

I hear ya! One of the reasons I haven't been all that active with Helium is that it seemed pointless to just get paid via page views and I've never had a star rating. I don't have quite as many articles there as you do. So many of the writing sites have become real major disappointments with me, so I'd rather stick to Associated Content where one can opt for upfront payments and page views--I've gotten more money via AC than ALL the other writing sites combined 20 times over

They recently upgrade the rating system. I had lost my rating star as well there for awhile. I finally got it back this week. Yeah, I was mad at them for awhile as well. Have you tried writing to the Marketplace yet? That is where most of the money I made off of Helium came from.

Hi Byfaithonly, so sorry to hear that. It's painful to put in so much effort and not seeing the result. Fortunately Helium does not require exclusive rights to the articles, you can repost the articles elsewhere to earn income. There are a lot of writing sites available. Some are rather unique, ehow.com is one that I like to read, but I'm not writing for them, I'm not good at writing instructions. Hope you can find a writing site that allows you to earn a reasonable return on your articles.

Personally for me, I was Never impressed with Helium and now mostly do my Writing either here or on AC. I actually one of these days have a ton of stuff I would love to see if I can publish sometime on AC, but due to having our Condo for Sale this has been a set back for some of my other routine as well. But seriously maybe your Best bet is to concentrate on myLot and forget about the other as have Fun as well. Wishing you the Best.

I understand your frustrations with the site. I only have one star for writing (even though I have plenty of #1 articles). I don't spend nearly enough time on there leapfrogging. I would rather write new articles. So many times it seems a waste to have to change a perfectly good article to get it to move up. The rating system frustrates me to no end because obviously a lot of it is skewed. What can you do? I am always nervous at the end of the month to have my one star for writing. No star = no payment, so I don't even like to write anything at the end of the month, jeopardizing the work I have already done. Yikes. One thing you can do is repost your articles from Helium to Associated Content for page views only...it's still extra cash in your pocket! Good luck with your writing, for Helium or otherwise!

That's a shame...I read some of your articles recently and they are very good...heaps better than those of certain people who go round claiming they are "published authors " or "writers". It must be frustrating to work so hard and then get no where like this...just don't give up your day job....OK?

Iam from India and helium not allow us to join and create an account.But i heard from many peoples who are earn huge amount on helium. Sorry i cannot support you because iam not a helium member because it does not allow us to join. But good luck and keep mylotting..........

On May 19 the rating system at Helium was given an upgrade. Rating scores have been much higher since then, and almost everyone can hang on to their rating stars now. The rating system is completely random and anonymous and anyone trying to cheat will lower their own rating score and lose stars. In a group of 40 articles, about 360 rates are required until the articles settle in order, then rating is reactivated whenever a new article is added to that title, or any of the articles is leapfrogged.

I was just wondering if it's alright for me to post some of my articles in my blog on AC.

I was extremely frustrated with helium after just one month. When I signed up I received the welcome email enticing me to post the first article within 7 days to receive the $5 bonus. I wrote two other articles thinking I would get my first writing star and when it didn't happen I was confused. It was in the weeks after I learned about competetive titles and rating stars and now with 22 articles, 2 writing stars and 5 rating stars, my earnings are accruing rather well all things considered.

Faith, I've had that problem also. Today I logged back into my account at helium and added some articles, and was taken back by how many of my stars had twinkled out! Like you, I am trying to work my way back to at least where I was a few months ago. I think mostly the articles at helium that earn the mighty dollar, are the ones that you can earn from publishers that are looking for one outstanding article on a particular topic. This I have tried, including entering a contest, with no luck. All this ranting has makes me want to find my soapbox and my twelve-foot ladder! (The higher they are the harder they fall, umm?)

hi even my gurl has a lot to rant abt helium-she had submitted abt 8 articles and one of them was doing ok as far as earning was concerned.but suddenly there was a bolt frm blue and Helium abruptly decided to freeze the earning and also stop future earnings just bcoz she is citizen of India-so called non-english speaking country. But u can submit ur articles to some other sites which will surely bring u a decent income.