May 21, 2016 at 4:38 pm

How much do we get per blog post, based on a new paying model?

I got 15 cents for  300 word post, 22 for 700… so how much I can expect per 1000 word long publication?

Because that is no longer an article it is a small chapter of a book. LOL

May 21, 2016 at 4:56 pm

I am curious to know too.

I have just submitted two long articles.

One is a ghost story of 1700 words, and another is a silly article of 2200 words.

Once I get the two approved, and have the earnings, I will share with all of you.  I think not many people here have submitted articles that are more than 1500 words under the new earning model.

May 21, 2016 at 4:58 pm

I don’t know if we are allowed to discuss this thing. The respective earnings we may get as to the number of words our post may have. As far as I could remember @support has made mentioned about this. He said that there is a special algorithm for this. He advised just to post more articles for they get paid.

May 21, 2016 at 4:59 pm

Personally I think the pay rate per article is based not just on the word count.

Perhaps it is based on the keywords and subject matter too.

If I write about insurance or banking products, the advertising revenue will be higher, so I would expect the rate to be higher than that of personal blog that talks about feelings or food.

I guess you get 15 cents for 300 words and 22 cents for 700 words, probably due to the topics.

Perhaps the 300 words post has higher commercial value than the one that has 700 words.

May 21, 2016 at 5:04 pm

@nakitakona13 with all due respect my dear owl friend, but others discuss it long and wide, I have no idea where do you get an idea that we are not allowed to discuss it?

I don’t understand the second sentence in your comment, can you please elaborate?

If support may explain what are the parameters of the algorithm, so we can adjust to it and earn more for our effort?

That would be much appreciated.

I also don’t understand the last sentence, did  you meant to say that we should post longer articles or more of it? For they got paid… Like paid more..? Whatsy?

May 21, 2016 at 5:10 pm

Discussing about earnings does not mean we have the intention to scam the site owners.

I think once we have more articles, and especially from a variety of topics, we can see what topics earn us more money.

It will be fair to submit a few blog posts of the same length, and at the same time, and when you get differing amount for each post, you can see which topic makes the most for you.

Since time is limited, it is best to focus on the topic that earns the best.

May 21, 2016 at 5:10 pm

@scheng1 I don’t know and I don’t find my posts that much different, but it was not elaborated or explained which topics will deliver more and how much, what are the parameters, what they expect us to do…?

I would like to know these things, because I don’t like to drive drive on blind hoping I would pass with the benefits only based on the luck.

If we could have some pointers, it would be a great thing. So far I don’t see any indications why one post has been paid more or less besides the word count.

Yesterday I found out that only a few authors show a little higher level of the writing skill, so the rest of us in here are pretty much on the same level right now. So much about the qualitative measurements.

I see a point in making the specific niche posts more valuable, as they are after all much bigger value then plain rants, but if I have to speculate it’s not very grateful thing to even start to write.

How about some transparency?

May 21, 2016 at 5:54 pm

From what I have observed, there is a range for words for the pay rate. Perhaps less than 500 words will be 15 cents, 500 – 800 words will be 22 cents, 800 – 1000++ will be 35 cents. I do not know exactly what the range is, as I usually post 500++ word posts, and I get the same earnings for different topics. Of course, it might depends on my writing skill as well. :p

@scheng1 It’s good to know how much you will earn for such long articles. Do remember to update us on those two, perhaps tomorrow. 🙂

I haven’t read any warnings from support or admin that we are not supposed to discuss about our earnings or pay rate here, though we are told our earnings are based on quality and quantity of the posts. I just think this might encourage and help each other to write or earn better. We do not spam or encourage others to just write some poor lengthy articles in order to earn more. With these discussions going on the forums, I can see these actually encourage more members to write more blog posts too, so I do not know this is bad for the site. Also, since the blog posts will be reviewed by the moderators, I believe we will always have good quality posts.

I personally prefer more transparency, especially when it’s to encourage and help each other, and it’s helping the site too. I believe @support will let us know if these topics shouldn’t be discussed, since he has been watching our forums and quite responsive too. 🙂

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May 21, 2016 at 6:15 pm

Yes, @kaka135 @rapidblue, I agree that there should be more transparency.

Perhaps @support can consider a tier payment scheme for blog post.

Many years ago, Helium and Associated Content have such tier payment schemes.  It is a source of great motivation and stress.

In Helium, the writers are paid based on the number of writing stars.  If you are 3 stars writer, you get $1.50 upfront per article, on top of passive income from that article.

If you are 4 stars writer, you get $2 per new article.  All articles in the same topic will be rated by fellow writers.

That is a very complicated scheme, and very time-consuming.

I suggest something simpler that includes:

– Total blogs published

– Grand total words written

– Quality (based on the discretion of the moderator)

multiply by the 15 cents per 300 words

That means a writer with 200 blog posts, and a grand total of 200,000 words will get more upfront for a new blog post than a new writer.

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May 21, 2016 at 7:26 pm

@scheng1 tier and rating based payment actually provoke conflicts and sooner or later there will be a lots of negative repercussions coming from the  disgruntled authors who will have something to say.

I though about the quality rating system as a gameware, or as a mean to support writers to write better – not as a mean of the control or the punishment.

Also letting the rating that could influence earnings in any way out of control you will soon have a ‘war’ on your website. But, if we can have that without the influence on our earnings , I have nothing against it.

May 21, 2016 at 7:35 pm

@rapidblue There is a difference here compared to other writing site.

In nearly all writing sites, page views is more important than quality or quantity of content.

You may have observed that many bad writers who cannot piece a sentence earn more than good writers.

They are simply good at getting views.  They have millions  of followers in all social networking sites, and they can get in million of views to their lousy blogs.

LiteracyBase does not have this problem, because we are not paid based on views generated on our content.

If I get in visitors to your blog, I get paid, not you who are the original writer.

In this case, having a tiered system that links upfront rate to both quantity and quality of content will not caused conflict.

It will favor the existing prolific writers who have earned their rights to more upfront pay by their sheer number of content and word count.

May 21, 2016 at 7:40 pm

@Rapid Blue I wanted to know the answer of this question too so I posted one 1000+ words yesterday and found out it was 33 in my case but I do not know about others so I will keep my posts limited to 300 and 500 words.

May 21, 2016 at 7:55 pm

@scheng1 I know what previous websites were doing to their members, the tier by user rating system is obsolete as from the standpoint you get rated by the users who don’t need to have a single post published or not even understand English to start with. I don’t need that.

If you are using the Tier system per editorial rating  all your articles are rated based on the middle quota, so if you flunk with 2 posts the worth of others will be influenced as well, that’s unfair.

Systems that failed in now dead pages really do not interested me at all.

May 21, 2016 at 8:37 pm

@rapidblue, sorry. If it is clear as mud. I am not certain either for I said I don’t know if we are allowed, and I don’t either know that you have been discussing it here “long and wide” for I have just joined. It is just my point of view.

I have just related it here my experience on the other site It so happened that I discussed in details how the rating had been done based on the algorithm I prepared. It was deleted by the admin. When I asked the admin he told me that algorithm is not discussed on the site.

Thus, I also threw this situation here which I clearly made in the first place that “I don’t know“. So what’s wrong with that? I just mentioned a “special algorithm“. It is up to you on how you understand that.

May 21, 2016 at 9:55 pm

@nakitakona13 no idea what are you talking about that’s why I said that you should clarify or elaborate, because I don’t understand your premise, I just said to you that others discuss it freely for quite a while now, and I think that another member also clear up the suspicious about the potential dangerous posting.

I just opened this topic because a price per blog post is still inconclusive to me.

@kaka135 has a lots of posting so she can say a thing or two about word to pay ratio.

I saw that @sunil lately has a lots of posts as well, so maybe he can compare those too as well.

I didn’t discuss this at all, so I don’t know. That’s why I am asking.

So, if you don’t know, now you know, as we all know – support is not hostile towards the discussions about the site’s gains, losses and rules.

Now, if you still have any doubts, please direct it to the @support, I am sure they will answer that question for you.

I don’t know about what site you are talking about, but by your story I think you are better here than there.

Specially because it is quite obvious that you are highly disturbed and tense, so why don’t you just forget all about that admin who banned you and that horrid page which is I am sure not worth of your attention anyways…? Huh?