Elements of My Ideal Writing Site

I’m not going to talk just about a bag of money for an article, or weekly payments, although that would be nice, but living in reality,  I’ll stay there.

One of the pluses of Triond was its subtopics.

If you wrote about cars, or sports, or health or a short story, or a topical issue, whatever topic you picked there was a sub heading which matched.

These sub headings appeared as if separate websites.  The benefit of these different sites was that if you were published on authorspot that meant you had written a short story and people interested in short stories would go to that section and likely read different short stories.

The benefit of this can not be over-stated.

If one is interested in Crime, for example, it is likely they would read more than one item, especially if the item was good.  This means that internal views would mount.  You might be attracted to an item written about an abduction, see a link to an item about serial killers, click on that, read it, maybe note an item on Forensic Evidence, and move on to read that.

Each writer gets a view because one item attracted your eye.

So sub-topics which appear to be individual sites get more views than an omnibus site where one might see only one item of interest on a front page.

Mentioning front page; this should have the absolute best items on the site.  There should be a number of them, in different genres so that a visitor would find something of interest.

Front pages are vital.

On my Ideal site, the front page would have a number of excellent items.  Each article would have been carefully chosen by the Mods.  There would be at least sixteen different items.

Joining the site would not be pushed in your face, as if that is the most important thing to see.   The most important thing is to get views.  And the only thing that gets views are good articles.

To get good articles there needs to be human intervention.

New Writers can be vetted, those who can write would move to a different level, those who have problems with language would have their items rejected to be redone.

The best writers would be published, and then, read by a Mod for the purpose of Front Page.

Front page items attracted more payment then those not featured.  This would encourage writers to do their best.

There would also be an ‘edit’ button so that the writer could easily correct errors, change information when or if it became erroneous.  The articles would be ‘live’ and able to be updated if necessary.

Moderation is always an issue. Where there is none, anything goes.  Where there is too much, the writers go. Where the mods are slow, items are published elsewhere.   Where there is no moderation; back to start.

When it comes to pay, there are those writers who can present good pieces that people want to read. They should be encouraged.  There are those who do not write as well, and so need to have their skills honed.

The Owners must be ‘hands on’ as are the mods.  There must be enough persons in Admin so that emails or PMs are rapidly answered, and there is a near ‘personal’ connection so that the writer can feel more than just an ‘app’.

The Mods and Admin would network the writers articles.  In this way there would be no ‘self-spamming’ and the fact is, the Mods and Admin would ‘work’ for the money they receive.

Ads would be of a better quality than the usual ignorable rubbish so that there would be clicks.   And clicks are money.

The Admin would work out how much money is needed to keep the site running, double it for his/her take and pay accordingly.

Items would continue to earn based on hits and clicks.

The copyright would, of course, remain with the writer.

This is my Ideal site