Writing for Helium.com And the Benefits it Offers Writers

This may seem a contentious article to write on a site for writers, though I believe it to have a point. In my writing "career" on-line, I have written to many sites, among them the following:

*Triond
*Ciao.fr
*Ciao.co.uk
*Dooyoo.co.uk
*Trivago.com
*Travel.com (now defunct)
*Epinions.com
*Helium.com

The reason for writing this article is that when you compare all the sites and what they offer writers, there are many areas of weakness in quite a few of the sites mentioned above. Many have tried the community game and it didn't work, grouping those members that were considered elite into positions of authority that affected the whole balance of sites, and indeed discouraging people from writing too many articles. I have highlighted the number of sites I write to in an effort to show I am not wet behind the ears and have been in the market long enough to recognize weaknesses and strengths in the what sites offer.

If you look at on-line sites and the whole concept of making money on-line, what you see is a need for content. Even this site where you are reading this article is called ASSOCIATED CONTENT, and sites like this depend upon content to survive. Checking out the difference between the sites on the Internet, what I found from experience was comparisons that horrified me into submission to demands made by the hierarchy. I was writing small quantities of articles, though by many standards this was still too much content.

What happens when people write a lot of articles on sites like Ciao, Dooyoo, etc., is that other people's work gets pushed to the bottom of the new reviews pile, and that is what is being frowned upon, rather than the fact that you wrote articles of substance in quantity.

That's really where Helium comes to the forefront. They really are not afraid of content, and let a writer decide how much content they submit to the site, and by goodness do they compensate you in so many ways. New members are nurtured, inexperienced writers mentored, and what comes over more than on any other site I have written on including AC is a sense of caring that is lacking elsewhere.