Yahoo Contributor Network getting harder to work for!
Ever since Yahoo Contributor Network took over a few things have changed and not necessarily to the better either. Before you were able to share your knowledge pretty much in any way you desired as long as it was written reasonably well. Now they “prefer” a particular writing style to which you need to conform in order to be able to get an up front payment, which is pitifully small to begin with. Is it just me or have the pre-payments been lowered?
Page views seem to be missing which affects your royalty payments. Remember that you get a certain amount of money per so many page views each month. I can track from my various blogs which of my Articles have been viewed and those alone don’t even match up with the page view claims that are made on my account. Very frustrating. Now please remember those don’t even reflect the views which may have come from search engines or readers happening on my content.
Many of the more prolific Authors are leaving Yahoo Contributor Network for this reason. Is it a glitch and growing pains or are we truly being ripped off? I don’t know and I would not presume to know the answer to it. At this moment I am simply making the assumption that Yahoo just doesn’t care about the Writers enough to assure they are happy and taken care of.
I have not submitted a new Article in about 2 months now after I saw the downward spiral develop and I am seriously debating if I should start spending more time on adding new material or not. It is a shame to leave a place in which you have already established yourself and have gained a few friends. For now I will keep my account active on there and probably try to publish a couple of new Articles a week again. Of course I will keep a close eye on the hits I receive via my blogs and which are credited to me. Afterall writing is not “just” my passion but my career as well.
My hope is that Yahoo Contributor Network will clear out the cobwebs soon and make it once more a great place for writers of all topic ranges to not only earn a few extra dollars, but feel appreciated and respected again.
In the meantime I think I will create a webring and a basic contributor link exchange page on my blogs http://iwriteforcash.com , http://reginasunderland.com and my new upcoming blog for writers who are interested in networking (to be announced soon).
Please feel free to join the webring and/or add your yahoo contributor profile URL as well as your personal website or blog if you have one to the YC Contributor Link Exchange page via the comment feature. I will take them and add them to the blog page itself as they come in. I only ask that you do the same on your own blog as well so we can keep the cycle flowing. Make sure you add your page address for this in the command box as well.
Thank you so much and good luck to all my fellow writers!
As always
Regina S.
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Nice page, I will be checking back again more often to watch out for updates.
The page-view situation is extremely odd. Before people started leaving, there was always a fuss in the forums when people noticed a problem with the page views. Then Yahoo would finally acknowledge that there was a problem and said they would fix it. Nowadays, all those who used to raise a stink about page views (even myself) have mostly stopped posting about it. We realize Yahoo just doesn’t care. No one who has followed this could honestly believe those Yahoo Contributor Network page-view counts. But what’s the point in raising the issue? It’s become near impossible to write for them, anyway (unless you are a Featured Contributor).
This is certainly simply an extra signal that our the world is beginning to change, and manners are disappearing.