Adblocker didn’t destroy Helium.   Helium did it all itself.  Who wants to waste time on such a site?  Imagine researching some topic, writing, posting….and your item is discarded. Nah.

HubPages is still ‘active’, term used loosely.   It once paid fairly well, had many good writers, and had Twelve MIllion Hits a Month.   Twelve Million.   Getting 1k hits on an item was minor, as many writers got so much more.

The site demanded long articles with lots of images.

Then, in 2010, something happened.

The Top Writer stopped re…[Read more]

There were so many sites; and a great deal of quality items were published.  The quality kept Factoidz and Helium alive.  They had many hits.  Writing on Blogjob and not being paid is ridiculous.  It hasn’t starting paying yet, and it has been a long time… I think a year…

Helium was another site.  In this one, you had to write on a set topic.   After you wrote your item would be ‘judged’ in comparison to other items on the same topic.  To submit an item one had to judge other items…

It was a ridiculous site which lasted way too long.   I  used it for ideas.   Often, if I had writer’s block I’d log onto Heliu…[Read more]

One has to be alert.  When one sees a manipulation or a trick, they have to know what to do.  When a site is in America then one can contact a law enforcement agency which will shut them down.  With Bubblews, the two thieves who ran that one lived in America so they were a few steps from jail cell when they were shut down.

Like Quac, the Fa…[Read more]

What was the worst part was when he dropped one to ‘member’ the article was earning.   He was pocketing the money.  So you could see your article earning… but he would keep your money.

There are many interesting events in Greek history and mythology, this is one of them.Yes it is an interesting ploy applied to enter the enemies ranks and win the war. Whether it is true or not one has to speculate. But my take on this is something of that sort has happened at that time may be on a smaller scale.

Later as historians and story…[Read more]

To get the ball rolling I want to discuss a site that went down perhaps ten years ago.  A site called Factoidz.

If you get on the wayback machine  (archive.org) you can take a glance at what it was when it was what it was.

There were many good articles which were well received.  Originally, Factoidz paid very well.  Then, the Owner got gre…[Read more]

This only makes me think what would happen if some other predator or species existed and if it had treated humans with the same methods which these companies are adopting. It would be called violation of human rights which we all value, cherish and would want to be respected and safe guarded. But we do not know how to value life of others living…[Read more]

I have heard and read about the above words for the first time in my life and was happy to gain the knowledge. As the same can be shared with others as and when it is needed to  be. The other thing is that we can use the words to condense a sentence having a particular meaning which is specific to a topic or a word or a place in one go. That’s a…[Read more]