Hello! As many of you know Suite 101 is one of the many places I write. They have been under new ownership since last year, and have been busy working some of the kinks out of the system. This has frustrated many of us as writers, but we have stuck it out, and now it is paying off as things level out.
Suite 101 is a site at which you develop a topic, optimize it for
SEO, blog about it, put up polls about it and generally try and get an interactive readership built about your topic. You get paid based on page views and page visits. Once you accumulate a certain amount they either send you a check or an electronic deposit. It took me about 6 months to get enough hits to get paid, and I've been right up there ever since. Keep in mind this one blog will never pay all of your bills, but it will lead to exposure, and can open other opportunities for you as it has for me.
Now that they have ironed out a few of the more glaring kinks (Site stats? That was a big one. They are rolling those out this week) I feel comfortable telling you that they are seeking writers for new topics.
I only know the exact topics for my main section, which is Reading and Writing (I am the editor for the sub-section
American Fiction).
However, there are hundreds of sections, all seeking writers for various sub-section topics. Everything from education to finance, politics to native's rights - if you can think of it, there is a sub-topic on it at Suite.
So, if you are not a reader and writer, go visit the Suite101.com home page and see what topics are available in your area of expertise.
If you are a read and a writer, try these topics:
Canadian Fiction
World Literatures
Writing Fiction
Poetry
Graphic Novels
You can read how to apply for them,
at my editor's page.
Tell Paula that Leslie from American Fiction sent you.
Should you get hired, some notes on Google and the infamous sandbox. Since your pay depends on your site getting hits, it is crucial that it be available to do so. The temptation when you first receive a topic is to fill it with articles on the first day. That will get you sent to what they call the Google sandbox, and you wont be viewable on Google searches for anywhere from a couple of days to a few weeks.
A better technique is to write all the articles brimming in your head in a word processing program and save them individually. Then, put up one blog and two articles every day for a while. That's enough to build content without pissing off the Google bots. The polls don't count as content, and only show up one at a time anyway (we're trying to convince Suite that is annoying and to change that). And remember to use lots of keywords and keyphrases in the place provded for them for each article.
Good luck!
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