by UmiNoor

Created on: April 04, 2010   Last Updated: April 05, 2010

To get rated to the top at Helium you must consider the most important factor in the equation and that is the raters. Here is a group of people whose judgement will determine the fate of your articles at Helium.

After writing for a couple of months at Helium I can safely say that there are two types of raters at Helium. The first type is what I would call the responsible rater and the second type is the speed rater.

In order to get your Helium articles rated to the top you have to be able to please both types of raters. To do this you need to know how these raters rate.

The responsible rater

This rater would read your article from the first word to the last and sometimes he would read it twice to be certain.

To be rated positively by this type of rater your articles must be free of any grammatical and spelling errors, have quality and well-researched content and above all your articles must never be off-topic.

The responsible rater will also not hesitate to flag your articles if he thinks you've committed any of the cardinal sins of writing for Helium like plagiarism, off-topic, wrong fact and self-promotion.

Responsible raters will rate your articles highly if they have all the characteristics of a good and well-written article.

The speed rater

On the other hand, a speed rater aims at rating as many articles and as fast as he can and thus the term speed rating.

Helium rewards raters who have five rating stars at the end of the month and to get these stars, raters need to rate at least five hundred articles and have a rating score of 75% or more. It's no wonder some Helium members turn to speed rating.

The following information about how speed raters rate articles is taken from an article where the writer who shall remain anonymous boasted at having rated more than one hundred articles in a day.

As much as we like to believe that Helium's rating system is infallible, we cannot deny the existence of speed raters.

Imagine having to subject your well-written articles to a speed rater. What will the outcome be? Your well-written articles can go either way; up or down.

So how do you get speed raters to rate you positively? By knowing how they rate.

Firstly, you should know that a speed rater wants to get through your articles as fast as he can so he'd normally just skim through your articles.

He would rate down articles written in the following manner:

1. Articles that are written with long block of paragraphs and with very little white space.

2. Articles that

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