Site News – Paid Writers Area, Captchas Installed
Chris McClelland | RSS | 4 CommentsCaptchas – We have added another level of security to help prevent spam comments as well as email. Captchas have been installed on comments, as well as the Contact Us, Services, and The Pitch submissions page. While the number of spam that gets through the system is a relatively small percentage of overall comments/email it is a growing number that we wish to make as small as possible.
Paid Writers – We have started looking into various implementations for the paid writers program that will be coming soon. We have not decided fully on the compensation amount or type but it will be one that rewards experienced and repeat writers over one time writers.
The paid writing program will also be a restricted one, in which it will not be available to everyone. Writers will first have to pass a screening process in order to be allowed into the program. The program is being designed to reward quality over quantity.
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Mike Bern from tax accountant uk | Sat, Sep 26 2009
Hey Chris, its really good that you taken more safety measures against spammers. It’ll surely help you to protect your site and get rid of unwanted emails and comments on your site. Well this paid Writers program seems quite interesting and competitive. And competition is very healthy in any field so i liked the idea. Post up when you are ready with the program.
Chris McClelland | Sat, Sep 26 2009
Thanks Mike, I really hope the program will get a good welcome among people. We’re not looking to make much money off of it, and will be giving the bulk of the revenues to the writers. We are tossing around rates as high as $4.00 CPM to writers. The only problems we have is deciding on is the implementation and possible required writing.
We also only want to include select writers to help promote themselves and help them earn more overall. I believe if we let everyone in, although the site would receive more traffic the quality of work would decrease. The point is to create quality work that would be read by an interested group of people, not a shotgun approach where we just let people write about anything. One bad article would make everyone’s work worse in the eyes of possible readers in my opinion. A lot of other sites use this approach and most people don’t really read what people have written, just look over the information, much less have a true readership base. Any suggestions?
Gourit from Ezaroorat | Thu, Oct 01 2009
Your writers program looks interesting. Will it only be finance related writing or are you planning on some other topics as well? Further, will you be focusing on global readers or only on US?
Chris McClelland | Thu, Oct 01 2009
The optimal writer would be someone who is finance, business, and internet marketing savvy. However, it is tough to find people that are truly experienced in all three areas.
We want to build a site where people can be able to find out specific information about these three areas because this is the areas that we care about the most. Now we don’t mind if someone writes something about say health care because it does affect business, articles just have to be in some way related to the three main topics.
We will primary foscus on US readers, but as you know these subject matters can be applied worldwide.