Have you heard of Helium? It is an article site, but not your traditional article site. With most article sites you create your article, include a few links in a resource box and submit. With luck, others will pick up your article and publish it, links and all. You can check it out here.
Helium is more like a huge knowledge base. The articles are there for reference, not for reprinting on web sites. As a writer, you submit articles to predefined titles (you can create your own titles and have them approved). Your articles are then available for the world to view. Based on the number of views you receive, you can earn an income from each article.
Some Helium writers have around 1000 articles submitted. I said in the post title you can earn residual income after submitting your articles and you can – just don’t expect to earn a fortune. In fact, top paying articles may pay around $1.50 tops. I have articles that are now earning around the $0.50 per month.
I can hear you laughing. Who wants to write an article that only pays a buck fifty? And you’re right – except I said residual income. The $1.50 becomes $18 in a year – $90 in five years. If I asked you write an article for $90 – what would you say?
Write 1000 article – and I know that’s a lot, but let’s say you wrote an article every day for three years – that 900 articles with time off for Sundays and public holidays. Average just $0.30 per article and you are still receiving $300 per month – virtually forever.
Keep adding to your article numbers and who knows how much you can earn. Don’t image this is a set and forget type process. To earn income you need to maintain your account, ensure your articles rank well, and to undertake a minimum number of quality ratings.
Ratings is the process used to determine which articles are the best quality. Articles from the same titles are compared by members and they effectively vote for one over another. Keep your articles in the top ten percent, maintain at least two or three ratings (that’s about five minutes work each day) and your income will keep rolling in – not enough to retire on – but it sure makes for some useful pocket money – actually, really useful residual income.
Disclaimer: Although I am a member of Helium and the graphic links to my user page, Helium does not have an affiliate program as such. You can invite writers and if they join you can earn 5% of their income. However, the links on this page do not provide any financial reward for me nor is this a paid post – this a review and hopefully a helpful guide to earning a few extra dollars legally and morally.
The principle’s sound, but you should be able to make a lot more writing 1000 articles for your own sites, don’t you think? That way, you’re not splitting your adsense revenue with anyone else.
Rod – you are right of course, however, there is no harm in rewriting what you have on your own site so that it passes a unique content test and publishing them on both.
It takes ten minutes to do the edit and from one article you have double earner. Do another rewrite and you can submit to article directories to help drive traffic.
les
@Les: I have used Helium and other sites like eHow etc. A lot of article directories share adsense revenue with writers but ‘no reprints’ is definitely a feature Helium can boast. Your article will remain unique and is likely to get more search engine traffic.
What type of articles make 50 cents per month? Is it true for all articles that are accepted by Helium editors? Because otherwise, I will probably start another blog and daily updated blogs can probably earn much better revenues.
Have you been consistently getting the same profits from the articles? If the revenue decreases; residual income part goes away.
very well said Les, it just takes a 10 minutes to edit and post your own article, i also suggest you to fetch some article from weblinks such as Wiki,eHow, HowtoGeek. They not only provide you tips, but also provide you some more links to go deeper into to it, and however, there is no harm in rewriting what you have on your own site so that it passes a unique content test and publishing them on both.
Of course, writing a thousand articles for your web site can earn good money = however there are two points I would like to make.
First, what if you don’t have a web site? Helium offers residual income without the need to optimize, pay for hosting and pay for domain names.
Secondly, and most importantly, why not both. A quick rewrite to make the article unique – then publish on Helium. If you are smart enough, you can do a couple of rewrites and publish each on a variety of sites – nothing like multiple income streams.
les
“Helium is great article site. I have get inbound link from there.
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As you said that we get paid on the basis of number of views, I think one of the other site I know is associatedcontent.com which also allows people to earn money through writing articles and getting page views. As it’s based on views, so the earning should be variable? What say? If in August there are 2000 viewers for 1 article then the person should earn more than $0.30. Let me know about it.