The Online Paycheck » shvoong http://www.theonlinepaycheck.com Helping writers and photographers Mon, 15 Nov 2010 08:33:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Earnings for September 2010 http://www.theonlinepaycheck.com/2010/10/01/earnings-for-september-2010/ http://www.theonlinepaycheck.com/2010/10/01/earnings-for-september-2010/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 23:29:58 +0000 dgrwriting http://www.theonlinepaycheck.com/?p=322 Well, September has been a burn out kind of month for me. With my wife’s birthday, our second wedding anniversary and our day job picking up again, there was more to do than I could handle. I wrote very little, in fact I wrote nothing for Bright Hub which was not what I wanted for the month. I had three goals for the month of September. First, I wanted to double the amount of traffic to my blog. This I almost accomplished, only 50 visitors away which in my opinion is pretty good. My next goal was to double the amount of articles I have published with Triond. This simply didn’t happen. With only 4 new articles, I did increase the amount of articles on Triond by almost 25% but this is not nearly was much had desired. My biggest personal disappointed was with my Bright Hub contributions which was, as I mentioned, nothing. My last goal was to double the amount of reads I received on Bright Hub. The one thing I am happy to report is that despite my lack of writing for Bright Hub, I still got a record amount of reads for the month, reaching over 11 thousand.

Here is my word count:

Location Number of Articles Word Count
blog 9 3136
Triond/Bukisa/Red Gage 4 1621
Xomba 2 143
Bright Hub 0 0
Total: 4900

My whole reasoning for wanted to double my Triond contributions is to try and keep my Triond earnings up. The majority of my Triond earnings come from a travel article which really only gets traffic through the summer months. I would like to see these earnings continue through fall and winter. I am happy to say that one of my new Triond articles reached onto the Hot Content list for a couple of days. One thing I am happy to see in regard to Bright Hub is that even though I didn’t add any new articles, I still reached the 20 dollar payout.

Earnings from writing online:

Location Total Amount of Articles Monthly Income
Triond 23 $1.20
Bukisa 13 $0.09
Red Gage 95 (writing and photography) $0.35
Adsense (Blog,Xomba, etc) $2.28
Bright Hub 62 $24.50
Schvoong 1 $0.00
Total: $28.42

With fall comes the microstock busy season. My photography earnings from August to September more than doubled. This was helped greatly thanks to an EL sale on Dreamstime for just over $12 and some great sales on fotolia. My iStock earnings have tanked ever since iStock announced their new pay scale. I suspect that buyers are rebelling against the company as much as contributors are.

Photography earnings:

Agency Number of Photos New photos added In Queue Earnings
Shutterstock 147 0 0 $3.25
Dreamstime 202 0 0 $24.88
iStock 67 0 0 $1.56
StockXpert 144 0 0 $0.00
fotolia 210 0 0 $10.78
BigStockPhoto 205 0 0 $0.00
Feature Pics 254 0 0 $0.00
StockPhotoMedia 262 0 0 $0.00
123rf 196 0 0 $0.36
Canstock Photo 235 0 0 $0.25
YaY Micro 163 0 0 €0.00
CutCaster 136 0 0 $0.00
Scandinavian Stock 156 0 0 €0.00
Total: $41.08

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At this point, with my day job as busy as it is, the only goal I have is to keep up with my Daily Markets for writers. I simply don’t know how busy I am going to be. In the meantime, I hope these reports have helped you in your journey towards your online paycheck.

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URL: www.shvoong.com

Industry: Online Publishing

What they are looking for: Non-fiction

Pay: Pay-Per-Click

Alexa rating: 2,815

Shvoong is a pay-per-click online publisher. This site only publishes summaries and short reviews of books, movies, articles and websites. Each summary or review can be no longer than 900 words and shorter articles seem to be the norm. Shvoong would be a great site if they paid more per click. Their present pay rate is only 10% of their ad revenue share. This is a good place to practice writing reviews. It’s pretty easy to pump out three or four reviews of this size in an hour if not more, but you will only make a few pennies in return. I doubt this would be a place to gain a decent monthly income because of the poor pay rate, but you still might find worth while if you enjoy review writing.

Submitting to Shvoong

Submitting to Shvoong is as simple as it gets. Make sure you sign up for an account before uploading. You can upload material without signing in, but it won’t make you any money. They have a simple text editor for uploading reviews and summaries. The text editor does not accept any HTML, but you can add reference links in a tool just underneath the text editor.

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