Helium pays bloggers: reader offer
Most bloggers don’t expect to be paid for what they write (and crueller observers might argue none deserve to be paid) but as with so many new technologies pioneered by enthusiastic amateurs, blogging is seeing an influx of professionals.
Many are journalists whose newspapers rightly see blogs as a quick and easy way to spread the words of their columnists and get them interacting with readers. It’s the kind of thing that sets cultures clashing and makes those who have always earned a living from their words look like Luddites. The enthusiastic amateur with no national newspaper column to fall back on is likely to face a tough time breaking in.
Enter Helium. The headline is that Helium is a blog portal that pays for contributions, which are placed within a wide range of categories. Anybody can sign up and once they’ve earned as little as $25 they can claim their money through PayPal. Earnings are based upon three criteria; quality, reader interest and attractiveness to advertisers.
Quality is determined by encouraging readers to compare related articles and choose which is best. In this way the best should rise to the top, just like helium gas. Helium appears to rely on Google Ads to raise the money which is then shares with the writers.
At the moment people seem to being paid for highly rated blogs that aren’t really up to much. But hey… perhaps that means it’s time to get in with Helium as the paid blog expert on whatever.
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