7 Great Things You Need to Know About LiteracyBase

Every writing site has its ins and its outs. The rules for posting differ – word count varies, for example, as does the tools provided for formatting and editing your text. What types of activity are compensated also vary. And of course, the places where your information on the site can be found are different too.

In my previous post I looked at things you can do to help boost your post earnings. In this post I’d like to talk about where to find your information on LiteracyBase, and how to do basic things like tagging friends so they’ll be able to see your messages to them.

How to Know if a Post Has Published

You can see the status of all your submitted post in the dashboard. Posts titles and images display on this page, along with the status of the post. When you forst submit, the status reads “Awaiting Moderation.” Once approved the blog is marked as live, and there is a link so you can see your post on the site.

To access the dashboard, go to “Blog” in the menu at the top of any page on the site. Select “Dashboard” to access the list of your posts and post statuses.

How to See All Your Posts Together

Would you like to see a list of all your published LiteracyBase posts? Go to “Blog > Dashboard,” then scroll down the page until you see “Author Info.” You will see your profile pic and display name. Click on that display name: it’s a link to your author page.

The author page URL will be structured like this: site URL/author/yourusername/

So if you ever need to get to the page quickly, go to the home page of the site and click in the address bar. Add “/author/” to the end of the link, and finish off with your username. This also works if you want to see what posts a friend has published on LiteracyBase. If you know her username, just add it to the author page link. You’ll be taken to her author page, where you can see all her published posts for the site. This is a great page to share on social media too!

How to Tag a Friend on Literacy Base

You can tags friends and fellow users on LiteracyBase. Tags will show up in status updates, forum comments, and in posts too. It’s especially important to tag other users if you are replying to them in the forums or in post comments, as it’s easy to miss notifications for that.

To tag another user on LiteracyBase, use the “AT” (@) symbol and then type in their username. You can see their username by hovering your mouse over their name anywhere that you see it linked on the site. The very last part of the URL you see in the bottom left of your browser when you mouseover is the person’s username. In my case, the correct way to tag me on LiteracyBase is “@Ruby3881.”

You’ll notice that very often the username is not the same as the display name. Sometimes even just adding a space to match the display name can mess up the tag. So always go with what the username says.

How to Find Your Referral Link

You can use your referral link to help a friend sign up for LiteracyBase. You can also share the link in your social networks, or add it to your posts with a call to action for readers to join the site. Even more importantly, you can take the referral code and append it to the URL for any page on the site.

This means you can add it to your post links when you share them on Facebook, Twitter, or Google+. You can also do the same with your author page, or with a page from one of the forums or groups on the site.

You can find your referral link on your profile page. Just click your avatar or profile pic on any page of the site. This will take you to your main member page. In the menu just under your photo and latest status update you’ll see a link for “Profile.”

Under “Affiliate Program” find your “link.” This full URL can be given to anyone who wants to join the site. Or you can take the part that starts with the question mark (?) and add it to any other link for the site. If you add this bit that reads “?mref=yourusername” to links for your posts before you share them in your social networks, you’ll get referral bonuses when visitors come to read your posts.

How to See Your Visitor Referrals and Signups

Just under your referral link, you’ll see the tally for how many unique visitors you’ve referred to LiteracyBase, as well as how many new user signups came through your referral code.

LiteracyBase pays $0.0010 for every unique visitor. This is similar to other sites that pay for page views to a post, except you will be paid no matter what page the visitor lands on. You don’t have to be the author of the page: it could be the home page, one of your own posts, a forum page, or even a fellow writer’s post. Any link that has the referral code will earn money for you. The bulk of all the entries in my points history come from visitor referrals. They do really add up, and represent passive income for you.

How to Know How Much You Post was Paid

As I mentioned earlier in this article, every post gets paid a different amount upfront. Longer posts tend to be given a larger upfront payment. They will also tend to rank better with search engines, which means more traffic to the site. Longer posts are now the preference of all the SEO and blogging experts, so it’s great that LiteracyBase does compensate uses for writing these more substantial posts.

To see how much you were paid for a post, navigate to “Points History” from your member page. Then look through the entries in your history until you see one whose description is simply a number. That number is the word count for your post. If you aren’t sure you have the right post, check the date and time of the entry against the publication info for your post.

When you find a match, you’ll be able to see how much that post earned upfront. Remember that it will continue to earn passive income for you if you add your referral code to the link before you share it to your social networks!

LiteracyBase promises to reward you up to 10% commission on the site activity of anyone who signs up under your referral link. So once your friends or family members sign up, encourage them to be active!

How to See your Total Earnings

This is probably the easiest piece of information to find, as you will see your “Available Balance” at the top right of each page on the site. You can also view your total earnings on your profile page. Look for the “Coins” rubric under your affiliate program information.

You can request payment on LiteracyBase as soon as you have $10 available balance. When you are ready to redeem, you must make a request. Go to “Rewards > Redeem” to request your payment. Once your request is entered, it will be processed by the 10th day of the next month. So if you request payment any time between May 1-31, you’ll be paid by June 10th. If you can’t make your request until after the first of June, you will wait an extra month for payment.

Are you looking for a place to blog and get paid? Check out LiteracyBase!