How Are Wikinut Earnings Determined
By Mark Gordon Brown, 18th Sep 2012 | Follow this author
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Many users to Wikinut wonder how their earnings are calculated. I hope to shed some light on this with this article.
- Why are Wikinut Earnings Confusing?
- How Wikinut Determines Earnings
- Some Views are NOT Legitimate
- How to Improve your Wikinut Earnings
- More Advice to Increase your Earnings
Why are Wikinut Earnings Confusing?
Writers on Wikinut may be confused because when they check their statistics page it shows high views one day and low the next but the earnings do not necessarily follow the pattern of the number of views. Clearly this is confusing.
People assume that high views means high earnings, and low views mean lower earnings.
How Wikinut Determines Earnings
While Wikinut displays the number of views on a page these may not all be counted as legitimate views. In some cases people open an article and click off it too soon for it to count as a paying view, but it still is registered as a view.
Short views are useless, advertisers know that a short view is not enough for a person to even glance at their ads, let alone read it. Since it is the advertisers to ultimately pay Wikinut and Wikinut who in turn pays the writers, if a view is not long enough to be worth getting paid for - you simply are not paid.
Some Views are NOT Legitimate
Wikinut monitors where views are coming from.
There was a writer here who had thousands of views per article, but the majority of views came from a site where people were paid to click on long lists of articles - these are not legitimate views they are views designed to scam the advertisers, they are not potential customers, and as such none of the views from such sites are counted in terms of being paid.
How to Improve your Wikinut Earnings
You need to captivate readers to stay on your page longer.
A poorly written article will not hold readers.
Having at least one picture is good too - however I remind you that Google and Bing Images are NOT Safe to Use.
Use breaks between paragraphs to make your article more "readable".
Add 2-3 links to related articles thus keeping viewers on your pages.
Encourage comments - if a viewer has to take the time to make a comment, their view is longer and thus payment for that view is a sure thing. Controversial topics often get more comments.
Promote, Promote, Promote. Good tags mean more views, but do not expect people to find your article by random, the Internet is loaded with millions of articles if you want views on yours you must promote it, share it with friends or family, add it to Facebook, or Twitter.
More Advice to Increase your Earnings
Excellent Tags Mean More Views
Why is My Wikinut Article Being Rejected?
Tips to Earn More Money
Become a Wikinut Writer - Get Paid to Write
Comments
18th Sep 2012 (#)
Brilliant answer to the many Wikinutters who wondered about this, Please take note of Marks advice on what a "good" article is, we here at Wikinut want "good" pages, so come on folk lets go for it.
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18th Sep 2012 (#)
Good advise. Thank you.
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18th Sep 2012 (#)
Ditto Johnnydod's comment.
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18th Sep 2012 (#)
Mark, thanks for clarifying some things about how Wikinut pays. I especially liked the part about sites there people were paid to click on long list of articles. That explains a lot of things to me on why some writers can get so many views over a short period of time.
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18th Sep 2012 (#)
This page has caused me some confusion. I had thought pay was based on ad clicks as opposed to views?
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18th Sep 2012 (#)
Apart from that it has been very useful though. Thank you.
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18th Sep 2012 (#)
We are paid on legitimate clicks as well as views too.
False ad clicks are a huge problem for websites and people who engage in such activities of generating false ad clicks are not paid for them.
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18th Sep 2012 (#)
Thank you for clarifying how Wikinut pays. Very useful
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18th Sep 2012 (#)
Thanks Marc
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19th Sep 2012 (#)
Thanks for the update.
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19th Sep 2012 (#)
Thanks for reminding the good advises.
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19th Sep 2012 (#)
excellent advice \mark...thank you
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19th Sep 2012 (#)
Helpful..and informative. Thanks Mark
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19th Sep 2012 (#)
Thanks for the clarification, Mark.
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19th Sep 2012 (#)
Good post, now I got it why in spite of having more than 450 vies my earning is in decimals
:-D
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19th Sep 2012 (#)
No alternative to creative effort. It is no walk in the park to produce quality work. Thanks Mark for the useful guidance - siva
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19th Sep 2012 (#)
Thanks for this articulate clarification, Mark. Ditto Jerry's ditto on johnny's comment. :0)
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19th Sep 2012 (#)
Many are asking me, like Souvik. What you say is not translated into reality, Mark.
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19th Sep 2012 (#)
Rightly, so, many have deserted wiki.
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19th Sep 2012 (#)
It will take only Expertscolumn to understand that fully well in such short a time.
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19th Sep 2012 (#)
This is an excellent and very helpful article. It gave me some insight.
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20th Sep 2012 (#)
There is also another factor that most writers are not aware of. Many writing platforms are on Google's list of content mills. If your site is on that list Google will not show any article (no matter how good it is) on the first page of a search. Thank God Wikinut is not on that list. Also people are so tired of advertisements here in America and for the most part we try to do everything we can to avoid them. However, I still write in hopes that someday I may earn something or maybe I just write for my own enjoyment and my fans!! Gosh!! I so need to get a real job!!!
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20th Sep 2012 (#)
at least now I have got some insight of how Wikinut is paying its writers.
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20th Sep 2012 (#)
Very helpful information, thank you...
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22nd Sep 2012 (#)
Very useful article not only for this site's writers but also for other publishing sites where Wikinut writers are also writing for. Thanks Mark. I bookmarked this page.
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30th Sep 2012 (#)
Thank you for the tips.
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8th Oct 2012 (#)
Thanks for the tips.
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30th Oct 2012 (#)
Very useful information for a newbie. Will endevor to use tips in up coming articles.
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29th Jan 2013 (#)
That is write content and social net work is the key, tx
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