Duplicate contents in Helium

I have joined Helium a few weeks ago, and have earned more from AC in two days. The this with Helium, you are limited to the titled articles you can submit...they provide the titles, and you have to keep rating lots of other authors before even having to start earning...but I suggest give it a go, maybe you can earn through the merchants looking for writers....I haven't gotten into that yet....

I would advise you to not sign up at Helium....they are stricter than AC...and you have to abide by some very strict guidelines. They have a low tolerance level for infractions and also plagiarism. The only good thing about Helium was the money that you eventually get. You have to rate articles, and if you want good money, you need to write as many articles as you can between the 25th of the month to the 24th of the next following month. They do have marketplace and other ways to make money but you have to be really lucky and one of the best writers to get picked by whoever the publishers are. You have to have at least 2 or more stars to even get some decent money. No stars, no money. It took me close to two years to get anything decent and that was when they changed the way they did things. They do not pay on the first of the month...you have to wait until the 10th of the month before payout and then it goes to Paypal...which usually takes three days to get to your account. I like AC and many others better. It got to be too stressful and frustrating at Helium....the money was good when I got it...but other than that...having to write within a specified time to get any amount of money was too stressful. So I would advise against joining them. You can write your own articles but you have to submit it to them before writing. They have to approve it before hand.

Well, looks like scheng1 already answered your question. I'll just elaborate on it. You choose the level of rights you grant to AC when you submit your article. There's exclusive(meaning it can only be published on AC), non-exclusive(meaning you can publish it elsewhere) and display only (meaning you can publish it elsewhere and can take it down from AC whenever you like). Only the exclusive and non-exclusive options are eligible for upfront payment, but since those are only available to US residents and I gather from your profile that you are from the Phillipines, the best option for you to choose is "Display Only" You can choose to grant AC exclusive rights if you ready want to for some reason, but you won't be getting any extra benefits out of it. At Helium, the level of rights you grant Helium for your articles are non-exclusive, which means you can publish them elsewhere. There are exceptions, like the Marketplace articles, but generally, you still retain the rights to re-publish your articles elsewhere.

Hi Abbypringles, unless you give AC exclusive rights to the content, you can post the content in other websites. For us as international writers, we can only opt for Display Only, which means that the content is not exclusive to AC, we can post the content elsewhere. Helium does not require exclusive rights, you can repost the same article from AC to Helium

Abby, Helium's terms of service state that they realize that you may post a piece under the same subject, on other sites. They do want unique content, or unique enough that search engines see it as unique (i.e. use synonyms, rewrite the sentences, etc.

I am not 100% sure but almost that you can not use already published material in the marketplace, although as far as I know you can post already published stuff in the writing section that has nothing to do with the marketplace. Although they do recommend original content, and the way it's set up they give you ideas to write about then I think what they want is spur of the moment kind of stuff on the actual site.

I have not submitted any to either of the writing sites. I have however signed up for both. I have just not buckled down to write yet. I should. I am just worried about spending time and energy on this and it doesnt get anything at all. I am no help as to your question, but am surprised to see that you are not happy with associated content. I have heard okay things so far about them.