Make More Money Writing on Helium.com

Helium.com may or may not be the forum for serious writers that it claims to be, but it is still a place you can make some money writing online without too much work. If you follow a few basic rules of thumb you can avoid wasting a lot of time and creative energy writing articles that will never make more than a few cents on Helium.com. Moreover, even short and simple articles without much content can earn you quite a bit of cash. The following tips are presented in order of importance: if you have less time to contribute you may want to only use first one or two suggestions, but with more time you could implement all of these:

1) Stick to the front page: front page articles each day get read by more people - simply because they are featured prominently on Helium.com. Try writing a short article for each front page story, whether or not you are knowledgeable on the subject. Alternatively, save time and make more money (per time spent) by writing on subjects that few people have written about. My own highest-earning article at Helium.com was a website review that sat constantly in 4th place out of 4 articles. Due to the formatting of the site, articles ranked 5th or better receive considerably more hits than other articles. While I was writing for Helium.com, most of my high-earning articles were front-page articles - and few of them concerning subjects I knew a great deal about.

2) Pick popular subjects: you may be a saxophone enthusiast, but writing about hot issues will simply get you more hits (views) and thus make you more money. Technology, business and other subjects that are commonly searched for are your best bet. Obscure subjects simply aren't worth the time you spend writing on them and Helium.com is not the place for creative-writing exposure. In addition to picking popular subjects in general, be sure to write articles to the front pages of sub-sections of the site - such as Computers & Technology, Jobs & Careers and Entertainment (for the same reasons you should be writing on the main front page of Helium.com).