Another Look at Writing for Helium

I’ve been writing a little bit for Helium since the site first began and honestly, I collect a payment from there every couple of months and forget about it. However, recent developments have caused me to take another look.

As most of you know, in order to receive your payments, you must do a minimal amount of “rating” each month on the site. Though I still don’t agree with this policy, it does help to keep me active. You are given two articles to read and you have to rate the one that you think is the best.

ANYWAY, a couple of weeks ago I was checking out the Marketplace section of the website. If you are going to make any real money from Helium, this is the place to do it. I saw an article title that was available that I could easily write. The payment, if my article was chosen, was $24 and it had to be 500 words in length. I wrote the article and it was accepted.

Needless to say, I enjoyed writing this article much more than I enjoyed writing how to articles for Demand at $15 a pop. But the fun didn’t end there. A couple of weeks after my article was published, I got an email from a Helium project manager saying that the client who bought my article was interested in making a team of writers who would be writing at least 2 articles for them per month. I readily accepted.

I logged into my account and there were several article titles to choose from. I chose mine and wrote my article. The interface was very easy to use and I was delighted. I already have 3 more articles in my queue to write.

But wait.

There’s more.

Today I got an email asking if I would like to be among Helium’s first how-to writers. Apparently they are launching a huge how-to section on their site. The payment is $1.00 per 1000 page views. You can suggest titles or choose from the list. I decided to give it a try.

The coolest part about the process is the user interface. I could easily add in “zones” such as a list of my other articles, polls, photos, or even an Amazon widget. I could also add a google adsense block and provide my own PID. Currently my article is waiting for approval, but as soon as it is posted, I will update with a link so that you can see what it looks like.

(UPDATE: Here’s the How to be a Good Girlfriend article.)

I currently make around $15.00 a month just from page views of my Helium articles. However, I don’t have that many on the site and almost all of them were written before I knew anything about SEO. Some articles have made next to nothing and I have one that has made over $75.00. Most of them are somewhere in between.

The reason I chose the article title that I did:

I used Micro Niche Finder to find out that it gets lots of searches per month with very little competition. I know with the proper SEO, this article will make me money. I won’t bother writing articles that are not going to be well read. More money- less time.

What do you think? Have any of you used Helium lately?

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