what is your opinoin about Helium.com
By mohitraj321
@mohitraj321 (496)
India
April 28, 2011 11:47am CST
Friends today I heared about a paid to post article site named Helium.com has any body works with it, Is it worth joining or not and how can i earn hear what is the work. Is it better than Mylot .
4 responses
@SpikeTheLobster (6403)
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28 Apr 11
Helium is one of the major "article directories" on the Internet. You earn money by writing articles, with revenue share judged by the number of people who view them and how high they're ranked on quality (by other users). I think that's right - I haven't been back in a long time (so bear in mind some of this might have changed).
There are a few "problems" with Helium for the average person looking to earn a quick buck. Firstly, you don't earn unless you maintain a rating level - in other words you have to read and rate other writers' work as well as produce your own.
You also have to maintain a relatively VERY high level of quality in your writing. Content that would be accepted without question on AC, Triond, HubPages and other sites will get panned on Helium.
On the up-side, they have (or had when I was still writing there) an excellent marketplace that pays very well for articles on demand.
I'll have to go back some time and see if things are still the same.
@SpikeTheLobster (6403)
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28 Apr 11
I just popped back and looked: the average article quality (judging by the 10-15 I read) has plummeted, which should make it easier to get stuff accepted. The marketplace has absolutely gone through the roof - when I was there, I was lucky to see a dozen titles on offer; today there were 43 pages of them...!
It looks like it's still relatively tough to get published and keep your rating high (and thus get your hands on the lovely $100 article deals), but I suspect you could make a really nice bit of cash there now.
Glad I went back, too - there was still $28 in my earnings there from about 18 months ago, so I whipped it out to PayPal...!!
@aprilsong (1884)
• China
29 Apr 11
Hi, i joined there one month ago, i think it is an excellent site for article writing. But compared to other sites, such as Triond, it requires more skill and effort on your writing. If you can write out some good articles, you can easily to earn good sum of money. Or else, join triond is a good choice, because your articles can be published much easily, and you can earn more with just view others articles,then they will give theirs to you.
@greenline (14838)
• Canada
29 Apr 11
Helium is one of the popular writing sites on the internet. I had joined the program some months ago, but have not been active with it, busy with many other sites. But, I do have confidence in the site, and I should get back to it when I would have the time.
@sisco100 (2338)
• United States
28 Apr 11
i think that its an ok site. i joined it and did some work on there, but my typing and grammar skills weren't good enough to make it worth while for me. its more like writing reviews and opinions on certain subjects. the way that you make money on there is by getting good ratings. you have to be active on there or you'll lose any money that you've made.
personally i think that mylot is a whole lot better. there's more freedom about what you can write about. plus here you can make money for more then just writing.
