1. What can you do at this site?
A: You can register to write and to promote by submitting articles, news, photos, videos, and promotional materials on any topics except those that are not in our writer’s guidelines, see below. You don’t need to be a professional writer to write here. When registering, please try to use the same byline or username all throughout the web. Your byline is your username at registration.
1a. We do act like an article directory so you can submit articles here to promote your website as well. You can put your name, email address, link, bio, address in your post. If you have work on another site, you can link it from here too.
1b. What is this site all about?
A: This is a site that offer information, entertainment, news, community, market place, classified ads, and promotional opportunity for users. Users get a chance to earn with their work posted here. We have a wide variety of categories and we accept articles, news, creative writings, photos, videos and promotional article in most topics.
Our goal is to provide useful articles, information, entertainment to readers that are produced by our community and our own content. We want this website to be a self – service type of process for writers, where you pretty much have control over all of your publishing aspects. We would answer your questions but that’s about as far as we will go in the process. Self-service makes it easier and faster for our writers to get their work out there and also feel great about their ability to fully control their work. We are a private company. This is not a public company.
1c. Classified ads explain: This site allow free classified listings such as jobs, promotions, housing, education, business, events, services, products, commercial products for your websites. All payments must be process at your own website and not here. We only offer listings. We accept all forms of classified except adult ads or any ads that may be illegal or inappropriate for our audience.
1d. The market place explain: We allow writers, users to put up their work for sales, such as articles, photos, and videos to their clients. You can recruit your own clients to buy but we will also be having some of our own clients too. You get to list for free and clients pay you directly on your own terms. They will contact you by email. You get to set your own price. We don’t take any percentage out of your sales. This is just an extra feature that we allow on this site. You’re ultimately responsible for all aspects of your sales and we will not collect payments for you or intervene at all. This is also another self- service feature on this site. When the clients contact you, you have to send your agreement terms to them.
2. What do you need in order to get paid?
A: You need a google adsense publisher’s ID account. Go to Google and sign up if you don’t have one. If you don’t have a Google account, you can sign up for one. Notice that not everyone would qualify for it. The Google ID is located on the top right of your account. You need to submit that long numbers ID to us.
3. How much do you get paid?
A: You get 70% of all Google revenue generated on this site. You get a fair chance of 70% of ads clicks with everyone here on this site so everyone gets to earn. Your Google ID is displayed 70% of the time when there are people reading the articles here. Just remember that Google will monitor everyone IP address so click fraud can get your account and your friend’s account closed.
3a. Why do we give so much Google share?
A: Well, it’s one way to keep writers going with our site and another way to keep the whole cycle going here for us. It’s a great way to build a community for us because when writers earn more they tend to contribute more.
3b. Can I track my earning and see stats?
A: Yes, You can go to Google adsense, grant us access to your account under grant access or allowed sites.
3c. How do you get to track your google adsense earnings?
A: You get to track it with a url tracking channel at google. Go to Channel at Google, add a URL channel and not a custom channel. When ask to type in address, type in howwhypedia.com and not www.howwhypedia.com or else it won’t work. Next click finish. You can click on top channel and it will show up if there are earnings. You will see howwhypedia showing if there is earning. You will also see the number of clicks per day.
4. How do you submit your google Id to us?
A: There is a tab on top of the website called Your google ID here, click on that and fill out the form with your full name and ID.
5. When can I start writing?
A: The second your account is open
6. How do I publish?
A: You have to write on your wordpress account and don’t submit it under contact us unless it’s only for one time. When you logon, click on new post on the top right of your dashboard or use the quickpress but it doesn’t come with photos and start writing, then hit publish. Once you hit publish, your content will show up in the categories that you chose. You can visit the site to see if it publish properly or not. If it didn’t, you can log on and republish it again or edit it. You can also use the quickpress typing on the FRONT of your dashboard too but it doesn’t have other features like when you click on New Post.
7. Can I delete my posts?
A: Yes, you can click on trash when you place a mouse over your posts. Go to the posts tab on your dashboard, place your mouse over it and you will see edit, trash. You can click on edit to edit or trash to delete. Once you delete, it will not be there anymore and you can’t retrieve it.
8. What is the writer’s guidelines here?
A: You can submit articles, news, photos, videos, promotional materials that you own the copyright to. It’s very important that you own the copyright to them. No copyrighted content will be accepted here. This means you have the write them yourself and own the right to them even if you published it somewhere else. We do not accept work written by your family or friends. They have to open an account of their own.
8a. How is my content backup here?
A: You have to save all of them at your email notepad. This is to ensure that you have a copy of it to keep.
81. Can you submit work that have been published elsewhere by you?
A: Yes, you can submit articles that you have published elsewhere. However, original articles will help you perform better on search engines. Duplicates content might get you less performance and therefore less payout or traffic.
82. What is the minimum word requirement for an article?
A: The minimum words requirement for an article is 200 words.
83. What is the minimum word requirement for a link or website suggestions?
A: The minimum requirement for a link suggestion is 50 words.
84. What is the minimum word requirement for prose, poetry?
A: Prose and poetry can be as short as you want.
85. What is the minimum word requirement for videos and photos?
A: Videos and photos should have 50 words description so that it will show up on search engines.
86. How do I credit articles, photos, videos?
A: All articles should be in proper format like having paragraphs break. No bullet points, exclamation!, foul language, and foreign language. You should cite all of your sources to stay away from legal issue, especially news. Give credit to all photos, videos, news sources. Every photos must have a link as to where they came from and if it’s your own please say so. We do check for all copyrighted content and will remove those that are not own by you.
87. How do I use features available on my dashboard?
A: You can also use the features that you have on your dashboard.
There are photos of events, news, celebrities, available. You can publish those as well. You can type in any keyword you want in the search box and the stories will come up. For example, type in Tiger Wood, Paris Hilton, news, crimes, New York weather, travel photos, China, flowers, animal, zoo, sports, golf, etc. You can click on the photos and it will show up right away on your post. The photos can be left at the original size. You can put your mouse over it and a text will come up for the photo. You can refer to this text to come up with your own description of the photo. Just give credit and paste all the photographer names onto your post. The text for these kinds of posts can be around 20 words or more. However, they do need to be your own description.
88. How do I promote my work here?
A: You get traffic from search engines and social network. If you don’t have time to promote then building search engine ranking is the best way to gain traffic. Remember that your engine ranking is separate from everyone else on this site and from the admin here too. You will have to build your own ranking, however, any work on this site can be highly visible on search engines. This site works just like any other publisher’s site. You have to build your work and ranking over time in order to earn more. When you’re posting click on the yellow button that said S2 for a subscription link for readers. They will be able to type in their email to subscribe to your work.
_ Note that all of your work will be automatically posted to our twitter account. This way you can get some traffic from Twitter.
89. What should I avoid when posting?
A: You should avoid copyrighted work, illegal content that are not true, libelous, defamation, discriminatory against religion, race, certain group, hate speech, pornography, sexual nature, adult, vulgar, insults, illegal subjects, alcohol, online gambling, illegal drugs, mentally harmful content, harassment, violence, minors exploitation, untrue facts about public figure like celebs or businesses. If it’s a poor opinion of someone, make sure you state that it’s an opinion and not a fact. No copying in whole or part from anyone else’s work online or offline.
810. What if I made a mistake in my posts and want to fix it or edit it or delete it?
A: You can do that yourself by clicking on posts and then place your mouse over it to edit or trash it. Just hit the contact us button with the title and problems and we will fix it or delete it.
811. How do you put in a link on this site?
A: In your typing pad, you will see a link symbol on the editor panel, click on that and put in your link and then click ok. It will link after that.
812. Can you put link to your work elsewhere on another website?
A: Yes, you can link to your other sites too. Make sure that it’s no more than four in any post to make it look less spammy.
9. Why was my account disabled?
A: It could due to copyrighted content, inappropriate commenting or behavior. However, we will give you a chance to explain. You can appeal by contacting us about your account.
10. How do I earn a stead flow of income here
A: The more content you have the better your chances of earning with Google. You will have higher ranking once you have more posts. The more posts you have the higher you will rank. You rarely get to earn a lot if you have less than 50 articles. Search engines crawl you when you have met the minimum articles requirement. Just remember that you have a lot of competition on Google so make sure you have a lot of posts or you have to promote all the time.
10a. Don’t forget to use seo methods for title, tags and keywords. Keywords are king when it comes to Google or other search engines. Make sure it’s what the searchers will type in to search for your article.
11. When do I start to earn here?
A: You start to earn when you have enough articles, build search engines ranking here, have enough network, promote your work, and interesting work that people want to read. It might take some work before you see earning. It’s just like any other site, you have to work at building search engine ranking, network, and promotions in order to earn. The more you work at it, the more you earn. You also reap from our traffic and promotions. If you have less than 100 articles, it will be hard to earn a steady flow of income from our experiences.
12. HOW DO YOU USE IMAGES ON THIS SITE
You can use images that are from wiki, flickr, free sources, what’s available on your dashboard, your own, but no copyrighted material will be allowed.
13. IMAGES ON THIS SITE
WE DO NOT ALLOW ANYONE TO COPY IMAGES FROM THIS SITE. You have to go to the third party to get licensed for yourself. WE DO NOT TRANSFER THEM OR ALLOW THEM FOR REDISTRIBUTION PER OUR LICENSING AGREEMENT.
14. HOW MANY ACCOUNT CAN YOU HAVE
Each user can only have one account under their name. All your friends or family can sign up under their own name.
15. HOW OLD DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO SUBMIT CONTENT?
Anyone who is 13 or older may submit any type of content but you don’t earn unless you have a google account.
16. WHAT LANGUAGES DO YOU ACCEPT?
We accept content in English language only.
17. WHEN CAN I PUBLISH
You can auto publish on your own when we make an account for you. You are your own editor. You can publish the second you get an account from us. You publish on your wordpress dashboard.
18. HOW MUCH CONTENT CAN I SUBMIT
You can submit as much content as you like. There is no limit.
19. Who is allow to open an account here?
A: It’s open to international and US writers who can get a google account.
20. What if I have an inappropriate comment?
A: Don’t worry, we only approved those that are appropriate so you will never see one your article. We do this to keep everyone safe and happy. This means all comments will have to be approved before they are shown on your articles.
20. Who own the copyright to your work?
A: You retain all copyright to your work and you can publish them elsewhere too. Please try to use the same byline everywhere so other sites will recognize you too.
21. How do I protect my work here?
A: You don’t have too because we have copy protection where no one can copy content from this site. The copying features by their mouse is disabled here so no one will ever post your content elsewhere. Your work is safe here.
22. How do I use Byline here?
A: You can create a byline as your username when you sign up. However, you can also put your byline in your post for work that you have on another site that is a different byline. Hopefully, you will try to make it all the same byline. We suggest a byline because it’s not a hazard to your privacy unless your goal is to promote yourself.
21. How do I promote my work here?
A: Underneath all the articles are social network tabs like Twitter, Digg, and SU, you can place your mouse over it and then click on it. You need to have an account there to promote. You can use your previous account there too to promote. When you click on the tab itself, more sites will show up like email features that will allow you to send it via email. The more you promote, the more you can earn. You also reap the benefits of our search engine ranking, and our marketing efforts too. Also, you can put your url on your bio, url to other sites is ok too, so people can click on it and follow you.
21a. Can you use traffic exchange here?
A: No, we don’t want legal or illegal traffic exchange, robots here. It’s against google tos. We will see them if you use it.
21b: How do I network with others here?
A: You can create a profile by commenting. When you comment, you will be ask to login, you can create your profile with your link, bio, work there and people can visit you here or elsewhere.
22. How do I login?
A: At the top of the site is a LOGIN TAB, click on that to login.
22a. Please let us know if you’re earning ok on this site or not at all, so we could work on it.
23. Still have questions
A: Use the Contact us form and ask us your questions. Please be patience with your requests and we will reply to you asap.
