Earning Money Writing for Seekyt.com

Seekyt is another great writing platform for aspiring writers. It has similarities to Examiner and other sites that pay based upon page views, but it is quite different in how the money is earned.

Instead of paying a percent of a penny for each page view, Seekyt pays their writers a percentage of ad revenues. However, as page views translate into purchases, there is a direct correlation between page views and earnings.

Seekyt requires original articles of around 250-300 words with the more words the better. Longer articles tend to get more search traffic, which translates into more revenue for the writers.

Seekyt accepts writers from other countrie, but the only way a writer can earn is by incorporating one or all the following ad types into their articles: Google AdSense, VigLink, and/or Chikita. Writers are actually paid by the advertisers, not by Seekyt, so if you can get one of these accounts, you can earn money on Seekyt, no matter where you live.

Seekyt is looking for quality unique articles. Articles cannot be copied, reposted or translated. The BEST kinds of articles to write for Seekyt are product reviews or articles like "how-tos" and "top-tens" that mention specific types of products that can be linked to and sold from your articles.

I like Seekyt because it isn't solely locked into page views. It is a way of diversifying my earnings. I think if it as a safety net, and I have earned well there, especially when I was writing articles regularly each month.

I relied heavily on Goodle AdSense, and then my browser had problems with the AdSense site for many months when I tried to log in. I temporarily stopped writing for Seekyt during that time because I could not check my earnings or get paid. Now I have a bunch of articles already written I am about to upload since I can finally get into AdSense (at least some of the time) again. However, I have been spending all my extra time on PWG and not on Seekyt this week, so I will have to change direction a little to get all those new Seekyt reviews published!

By the way, if you ever see anything you are interested in buying from Amazon on one of my articles, please click on the link to buy it. It won't cost you any more, but I will earn a percentage of the sale.

This is my Seekyt referral link if you want to use it. Be sure and follow me if you sign up. Seekyt also pays bonuses for followers, comments and other activity on the site. Can you see why I like it?



Related:  

• Earning Money Writing for Examiner.com

More Writing Tips:

• Writing Tip: How to Write Good Articles for Content-Driven Web Sites
• Writing Tip: Landing Pages - Good Technique or Annoying 'Bait and Switch?
• Writing Tip: How to Write a Basic Press Release to Get Articles and Blogs Noticed!
• Writing Tip: Keyword Stuffing is NOT SEO 
• Journal Posts & Discussions vs. Articles
• Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement: Thou Shalt Not Steal

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Why Professional Writers Write for Pennies: A History of Recent Journalism Trends

 

Do professional writers REALLY write for pennies??? Why, yes. Yes we do. We just earn a lot more pennies than those who don't strive to be professional in their writing.

The trick to writing successfully for the web is to BE PROFESSIONAL.

It all started back in the days when print was king. Many of us could earn on average $450 per article writing for major publications in the 1990s. Some writers earned more--much more. Of course, we had to write 1,000 words or more to earn our lofty fee, as well as sometimes produce or pay for professional images, but it was well worth the time and effort.

Then the internet took the world by storm, followed by iPads and smart phones. Large newspapers and magazines--some of which had been around for 150 years or more--began to go out of business.

In addition to writing for several local newspapers and national magazines, I published a local monthly magazine for gospel music in Nashville from 1992 to 2008. I held on as long as I could, but eventually the print version went out of business. It just could not compete with instant news at your fingertips. The web version celebrated 20 years in 2012, and I do earn some pennies from Google ads and Amazon writing for myself, but I learned I could earn more pennies writing for other sites as well.

During the two years proceeding my own paper's demise, all TEN of the publications which I wrote for on a regular business went out of business, so suddenly, there were a ton of very professional writers on the market: writers, editors and publishers competing for fewer and fewer remaining jobs in print. Some went into other businesses. Some lost everything. And some of us learned how to successfully write for pennies. Pennies turn into dollars, you know.

I don't earn as much as I did when I was paid $450 an article... on second thought, sometimes I do. Some months I only published two or three print articles, and some months I have earned over $1000 writing for the web part-time. As mentioned in a previous post, I have been especially successful earning money writing for Examiner.com.

There are definite pluses to writing for the internet. For one thing, it is easier to write for the web. Internet articles usually only have to be 150 to 400 words long as opposed to 1,000 or more for print. For another, writing for several sites I now have my pick of topics and am not locked in to the specific columns I had to write before.  In addition, I have chosen to write for sites where I earn residuals as long as I keep writing or checking in, so I am still earning those pennies on all the articles I have written for the web.

The trick to writing successfully for the web is to BE PROFESSIONAL and write about things that will interest more than just your close circle of friends. No one but your mother wants to read what you had for breakfast or how your toaster is working. Sure you can do that on your personal blog if you want, but you won't attract readers beyond your friends that way. If your friends give you enough page views to live on reading what your toaster is doing, more power to you!

You don't have to have an extensive background in journalism to be successful, but it helps to follow basic standards of quality so you can build your brand and your readership.

Here are a few articles that may help.

Writing Tips:

• Writing Tip: How to Write Good Articles for Content-Driven Web Sites
• Writing Tip: Landing Pages - Good Technique or Annoying 'Bait and Switch?
• Writing Tip: How to Write a Basic Press Release to Get Articles and Blogs Noticed!
• Writing Tip: Keyword Stuffing is NOT SEO 
• Journal Posts & Discussions vs. Articles
• Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement: Thou Shalt Not Steal
• The Dyslexic Writer - a Journalist Coping with Dyslexia   
• We Are What We Create

Thank you for reading and thank you for sharing the link to this article with others. This article is © Kathryn Darden, all rights reserved,  and is not available to repost on websites, blogs, discussion boards, Facebook, or to translate and post elsewhere without written permission.

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Writing Tip: Keyword Stuffing is NOT SEO

The old SEO tip about using keywords never was intended to mean writers should use the same word or combination of words in ever sentence. Keyword stuffing was NEVER a good writing technique and it was never part of proper SEO techniques. Stuffing keywords into every sentence did fool the search engine robots for a little while into ranking key-word stuffed articles a little higher, but those days were over TWO OR THREE YEARS AGO when robots became more intelligent.

Now Google will penalize any articles that use keyword stuffing as well as the site those black-hat keyword stuffing articles appear on. And if you want to know what keyword stuffing is, just look at how many times I used the words keyword stuffing in the first two paragraphs.

And I see it here on PWG frequently.

A couple of years ago, Google developed an algorithm  called "Latent Semantic Indexing." It looks for related terms, and use of synonyms. Articles that insert the same words over and over will absolutely be penalized and so will the websites those articles are on. It doesn't matter if your article ends up making some sense even with all the repetition you are inflicting upon your readers. Google will rank it low--IF it ranks your article at all if you use the same words or phrases over and over. Google keeps refining their technology with every update, so it pays to be creative, concise and clear in your writing without resorting to tricks and schemes to try to fool the search engines.

Keyword stuffing is a black-hat technique. It is to be avoided and shunned. When you find an article here stuffed to the gills with keywords, it will harm this site if you encourage it. Don't share a black-hat article and don't promote it. For heaven's sake don't comment politely saying it is a good article. It isn't. Truthfully, any articles that resort to black-hat tricks should be removed or re-written. They hurt us all.

Creative writers can find related words so their articles do not become redundant, BORING schemes designed to trick the search engines. Since stuffing articles with keywords no longer fools the robots, why would you inflict that technique on your readers anymore?

Keyword stuffing is OUT. Good writing is IN.

More Writing Tips:

• Writing Tip: Landing Pages - Good Technique or Annoying 'Bait and Switch?
• Writing Tip: How to Write a Basic Press Release to Get Articles and Blogs Noticed!
• Writing Tip: How to Write Good Articles for Content-Driven Web Sites
• Plagiarism and Copyright Infringement: Thou Shalt Not Steal
• The Dyslexic Writer - a Journalist Coping with Dyslexia   

Thank you for reading and thank you for sharing the link to this article with others. This article is © Kathryn Darden, all rights reserved,  and is not available to repost on websites, blogs, discussion boards, Facebook, or to translate and post elsewhere without written permission.

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