by Mike Mccarthy

Created on: July 15, 2009   Last Updated: August 29, 2011

So, you have joined www.helium.com , and are now wondering how you can maximise your earnings now you are here. Of course you have to write some articles otherwise it's like wanting to win the lottery without buying a ticket. But before you do write anything you need to be aware that some articles earn more than others so one of the first things you need to do is find out which writing channels and type of articles are the better earners.

Firstly, you need to look for titles that have less than five articles written to them that are non creative writing titles as these pay an up front payment for publication. Also to earn the most you need to search for empty, non written to articles as this will earn you an additional dollar on top of the up front payment.

This means you are now to search for articles in non creative writing channels that have less than five articles to a title with a preference for a title that has no articles attached to it at all. You should be looking in channels that are associated with finance, business, autos and any other channel that you think may be not only a common search on line but that has advertisers that pay the most to have their adverts viewed.

Why is it important for high paying advertisers? This is because another way to earn at Helium apart from the up front payments and new title bonus is by having your article viewed as this produces incremental small payments each time the article is viewed. You can help here as well by making sure your article is well written and is optimised for search engines.

This is done by making sure you use the title of the article somewhere in the first paragraph and then by using variants of the words in the title elsewhere in the article. You can also add other words that would feature in a persons web search into the article as well. Do be careful not to over repeat the words and do make sure they are in context otherwise your article may look a little odd and not be read.

Another way of maximising your earnings at Helium is to promote your writing once you have published to a title. This can be done by linking on web link sites such as Digg and Delicious and also by placing links on social network sites such as facebook and myspace. There are some handy links at the bottom of your article once you have published it to facilitate this.

Twitter also seems to be a good place to promote and because of a character limit of 140 characters you can reduce the size of your link by using www.tinyurl.comor

• 1
• 2
• Next Page >>