by Cody Hodge

Created on: October 16, 2009

How can you increase your writing percentage on Helium? This is a great question, and luckily it is fairly easy to get your score up there. Sure, you need to write some quality work, but you know that writing is a process, and you always have a shot at getting better. The good news is that Helium encourages you to get better, and to increase your writing score to get some really cool perks. However, what should you do to get your score up?

The first thing you can do is to leapfrog your old articles. There are many reasons why should leapfrog old articles, and you don't always leapfrog because an article was a poor one. The articles that you write do tend to slip in rank as they get older. The reason is that people add new articles, and this resets the rankings, or other people leapfrog their work. This means that you have to leapfrog from time to time to keep your article where you want it.

A good strategy to increasing your writing score is to simply write what you know about. If you are willing to write about what you know, you are giving yourself a chance to be an expert. This makes you writing more fluid, and there is a good chance that you will write something good, as you are writing in your own voice. You know all the details, and how you want to explain it as well. This certainly comes across better to an audience.

If you are writer who tends to write a lot, you should take a day off every so often. This doesn't mean you don't write at all, you just don't submit anything to Helium. This won't hurt you because you can just submit the next day and get your upfronts and other earnings from your work. What this does do for you is to allow your articles to settle a little bit in terms of ranking. It can take time for articles to go up from where they enter which is always at the 50th percentile.

I tend to have better luck with articles that have larger amounts of articles. I don't know why, but I always have my articles rank higher when there are more writers in the title. However, keep in mind that you are actually giving yourself a better score if you write to shallower topics. If you are 2/5 on an article, you are in the 80th percentile, but if you are 21 of 80 you are in the 79th percentile, even though more articles are rated below you.

As you can see, there are many ways in which you can increase your writing score. Empty titles do not hurt your score, or help, and you always get the bottom 10 percent of your articles discounted from your score. Always strive for good quality, and ask for help if you need it, but if you think you can do it alone, those are ways that certainly won't hurt you.

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