Empty titles that are not empty Grrrrrr!

Hi Canellita, why dont you go to the category directly? At least the empty titles post there are really empty titles. If you really want to focus on a particular sub-category, you can even subscribe to the RSS. In that case, you get the notification whenever a title is added. The title finder is really useless when comes to empty title hunting.

Hi Canellita...congrats on the half-way mark to 100. And yes, since I began writing to "empty titles" my own numbers of articles in the competetive section dropped from 93% to in the 70s. I will no longer follow that strategy. Sometimes our own understaning and instincts are best after all. Twice now I've followed what I thought might be good advice only to have it backfire. Karen

Hi Canellita! It is great to know that you are an author on Helium. May please send me the links of your article(s), if possible. Keep writing and Keep enjoying. Helium has disallowed many of us from posting articles, as we belong to different countries. I sometimes write on Associated Contents.

Good way to boost writing score. And thanks for sharing there dude. Cheers.

I am a member of Helium and have written a couple of articles, but I enjoy Mylot much more. I am very please to meet someone who is doing well on that site. Kudos!

I am thinking that the keywords you are using are different from what others have used, though I would assume it'd then be under a whole new title thread. I'd contact helium to make sure they know of this or can help you figure this out. If the search engine isn't bringing back what it should there will be a lot more unhappy strategising helium writers!

Helium has a reputation for trying good ideas, but they are not too sharp at getting it right without several tries. Many of the these later features have bugs. I have actually hit a few in the empty titles with 5 or more articles. I think some of the problem is coming from the title splitting that is going on now. They post new titles and then before anyone can write to them, they fill them with extra articles from a similar title that has too many articles.

I have seen the same kind of thing. Using the title finder it always seems that there is one more article than is listed, and when looking for empty titles within the subjects they appear to be only updated every twenty four hours. Don't let it worry me too much although as I have already written my article and so whilst it is worth $1 less than it was it is still worth some money. As I am still on 40% competitive I don't worry too much about the competitiveness either, will start to worry when it gets down to about 25%.

Helium functionally is a Database. If you are searching so are others. What you see today may not be updated, that is someone could have found the same title and written an article to it today and it would not show up in the search engine until tomorrow. The thing to know though is there must be three articles in a title for it to be considered competitive. So it isn't a bad thing if there is already an article there, this will in fact help since it is more likely to attract additional writers if the next article will make the entire title competitive. The empty title issue is one that all the Stewards are currently dealing with by the way. There are hundreds of them across the site and many that will be showing up in contests soon I suspect. If you are writing primarily in one or two channels you might want to reach out to the Channel Steward who can assist you with finding titles also. The Stewards have access to additional tools and can search the channels for "competitive" titles very easily.

I have had the same issue. The only thing I can think of is that the title finder is not keeping up with the speed articles are being submitted. The lag between articles being submitted and the title finder realizing they are not empty anymore is causing the title finder to show titles as empty that are not. I totally agree, it is very annoying.