Learning To Work Helium.com

I'm always on the lookout for sites that pay a person for their writings. I've found several, but not all of them are as wonderful as their made out to be. One of them is a site called Helium.com. I remember when this site first hit the Internet a few years back, and it had a lot of potential. It was designed so that people could post debates and answer questions.

Now, however, Helium.com is another news article site. You can still create debates and post on existing ideas, but the pay scale isn't all that great. It used to be that you were paid a set amount for your articles, but now you're only paid for incoming traffic. In the four months that I've been trying to make this site work for me, I've made a total of $0.04. Yep, that's right, 4 cents.

I do have to be honest here and say that I would probably have made more if I had added more articles. I've only done 7 articles to date, but I don't want to be one of those people who post simply for the act of posting. I don't know a lot about many of the topics, and the topics I do have knowledge about, already have a ton of posts on them.

I am giving Helium.com a real shot though. I can't say they suck without really giving the site a chance. I can say that I'm not impressed, but I still have to at least try to make the site work. Who knows, maybe I can figure out the formula and make a real go of it.

Joined a new social netowrk

I'm becoming totally addicted to social sites. Not sites like StumbleUpon or Digg, but sites where others can come together and hang out. Now, some sites are nothing more than glorified dating services, and that's not for me. I've joined a couple sites over the past week that I ended up opting out of less than 2 hours after joining. Why? Because every weirdo on the planet decided to come say "HI". Even when I posted that I was a happily married woman, they still kept coming. 15 of them in just over an hour. Screw that.

However, I've just joined a site called Gather.com, that is really a neat site. It's a really neat place for writers to get together and hang out. It's a place to publish your work, make new writing friends, join in writing groups, and a lot more. So far, I'm very happy about this place. I'm hoping it brings in some traffic to a couple of my sites, but even if it doesn't, it's going to be a nice place to get some writing ideas.

Come check out my page on Gather.com. So far, I've only added one story. But, I'm hoping to use the site to further my writing abilities. It's time I stopped pretending and got off my keester and did something for real. The only person I've got to blame for me not making any money with my writings is me.