It’s true that the Internet is the best invention since the napkin and one of the best educational resources ever invented by whoever invented it (read the tech history but forgot!). However, as you say it is overloaded with tons of misinformation and even erroneous information and one does have to sift through a lot of it to extract the gold. But I for one am very happy to have an online library right at my finger tips.

So many ads that annoy me and annoy you and others.The ads here are getting numerous and so noisy. I just ignore them and click to kick them away.Maybe thus site would survive because of these companies they might want us too to get into.

For sure ad blockers impacts a site’s revenue stream. But not everybody sets their browsers to block ads. I don’t. I don’t like the way my blog looks when I turn on the ad blocker feature. I’m just hoping other people are not as annoyed with ads as it has been reported. I mean … advertising has always been crucial to any type of media, whether it’s television, radio, etc. Why should the Internet be different? It’s a form of media. I do get that too many ads can be annoying. But ads generate income because companies pay to have their products and services advertised at various websites and blogs. So there is the “push back” that makes me think, no matter what ads are not going away! However, with ad blockers, companies have to get more creative and work around them to get the word about the goods and services they offer to the consumer! Of course, this is just my opinion. I could be wrong! 🙂

You are very right, Grace. Ads are the lifeblood of a site. And not just on revenue-sharing sites, but on all sites. Even huge sites like Facebook or BuzzFeed depend on their advertisers for the revenue that keeps the sites alive. So using an ad blocker on any site can be detrimental. And if we enjoy a site, it’s only right to allow them to display the ads that provide their revenue.

That being said, most site owners are very open to feedback about the quality and placement of their ads. If ads are in some way offensive, if they significantly interfere with use of the site (e.g. pop-up ads that cover every page that loads) or if the ad causes users to worry about their safety or their bandwidth usage (ads that hijack browsers, ads that autoplay video, etc.) a good site owner wants to hear their users’ concerns.

Site owners don’t control what content shows up when the ads are served, but good site owners will usually work with their users and with their advertisers to minimize risks for site users and to ensure that the ads are not posing a significant impediment to the use of the site.

Any site owner that ignores the feedback or refuses to eliminate ads that are repeatedly reported as an issue is asking the users to bear the consequences while he earns the cash. That is not the sign of a responsible site owner, and I don’t blame users who choose to block ads on such a site.

We each must decide what’s best for us. If a site is otherwise pleasant to visit, but the owner cannot or will not respond to user reports concerning the ads, he has only himself to blame for the loss of revenue. Ads are not the users’ responsibility and ultimately, it’s their right to decide the ads are too objectionable on a given site.

I agree that adblockers can be quite a problem on sites which rely on them to feed revenue in order to pay users. It has to be a trust based system. Owners must trust users to not use blockers and users must understand that by allowing the ads to show, they are helping to fund the site.

Writing website should use ads which cannot be blocked using ad blockers like banner ads,text ads

It’s actually the infolinks pop-up here that makes me stay away. I all pop-ups very annoying. People who write for a site put up with it because they want the site to earn. People who have nothing to gain from the ads have no reason to keep being annoyed. They will either block ads or just stay away from the site. Those responses, both of which cut site income, hurt both members and site owners. We want to encourage outside visitors, not discourage them.

Ads as we all know is the mainstay for any writing site. I am not sure if LiteracyBase has any control over, for example, infolinks the way they keep moving as also the FB Ads. This has been brought to their notice. May be later when they have wider and better choices they may drop them.

Of course we are not professionals.
If we are, we will have our own paid hosting, and our own blogs that generate thousands of dollars every month.
Some of the professionals are John Chow, and Problogger.
If anyone wants to learn serious blogging for big money, they have to learn from these ones.

You are right. Almost all of the members are not professionals rather they are beginners and using this platform to improve there English Language skills.

Some are here to just kill there time in a better way. Some take it as a part time job.

I think these sites are not meant for professionals because the rates here are so low and the professionals do not like to work at that rates.

Professional writers do not ignore standards.

Yes, to earn dollars online we will have to be declared ourselves professionals otherwise earning will be slow. One common affliction currently plaguing many aspiring freelance writers is that they start a blog because they’ve heard they should. Next, they fall in love with the blog, and then spend way too much time on it. All at the expense of finding the paying clients they need, and without examining what they’re blogging about or why.

Unfortunately, the typical diary-you-put-online type blog posts rarely attract many readers. And they don’t make a good writing sample for luring clients, either. Businesses want fact-filled posts written on a single topic, not random posts about your personal thoughts.

But it’s so empowering, pushing that ‘publish’ button on whatever you want to say…that it becomes addictive.

With the ongoing efforts of Google to exclude mass-content sites from its search results, the forecast is for less blogging-for-hire work in future. Most of the cheap, SEO-keyword driven, short-post assignments are drying up.

It’s a dying niche because semi-literate, half-baked posts you dash off in 15 minutes for search robots to index don’t work any more. They don’t drive traffic because they’re not turning up in search results. So businesses are not going to pay even $5 for them in future.

If you’re dependent on this sort of work for your living right now, it’s time to make plans to move into a new niche. You’ve got all your eggs in a vanishing basket.

I have to agree very much with you that such terms as “developed” or “developing” have little meaning when we speak of individuals from whatever country. Nor were they ever intended to be used in that manner. The main difference between countries labelled one way or another is the level of economic development and infrastructure has been achieved. A country that is considered developed tends to have a more stable economy, more developed industry and technologies, and offers more services to its citizens (public schools, universal health care, sanitation and transport, etc.) This is no reflection on the character of the nation’s people.

In any country, there are people who are well-off and those who are not. Similarly, there are those who are educated formally and those who have not been fortunate to have the education they would have wanted to have. And in most of the world today, the gap between the “haves” and the “have-nots” is getting bigger by the minute.

The internet is a force for equality, and this has been recognized by some governments who have put specific measures in place to help their citizens gain access to computers and internet connections. The internet is also a force for communication and for the education of people all over the world. It levels the playing field so that our individual personalities become the focal point, rather than our countries of origin.

Today, only those who fail to move beyond their own petty prejudices will hold up a person’s nationality as if it is some kind of a sign for good or evil. Most of us have grown far beyond that, both in terms of assuming that people from a developed country are in some way more aggressive or successful, and in terms of assuming that someone from a developing country is somehow too weak to think for himself.

A person’s nationality has little to do with his character or worth. Some very well educated and well to do people can be incredibly ignorant. By the same token, a pauper may have incredible insight that is sought out by many.

Well said Kyla. I am aware of the parameters that are used to categorise countries and these parameters are old and need to be looked at differently. Having said that I feel there is no need at all in the first place to place countries in categories. So much is missed out while doing this.
Happy that I have my own yardstick to judge and give no importance to whatever statistics that are produced.