Why Helium Doesn’t Pay
I joined Helium about six months ago believing in all the hype about how you could strike it rich by writing articles for their site. Much of the site’s claim to fame has to do with their assurance that all the articles are high quality because they are rated by other users. This may be true, but what if your article becomes unpopular? Don’t you still want to be paid for your time and effort.
The pay per click game popular with sites like Google Adsense has been around every since the inception of the internet, and rumors about striking it rich from the comfort of your swivel chair are the driving force behind these companies new recruits. Everyone wants easy money, but exactly how easy is it to get?
If you read the fine print on Helium, you have to write 100 articles before the site will give you one writing star and the site will only pay you if you get $25.00 saved up in your account. If you’re like me, you’re wondering how in the world someone can write hundreds of quality articles about obscure topics and still have time to sleep at night. I have written about 30-35 articles for the site and have earned the astounding sum of 85 cents. Helium won’t even give me my 85 cents!
For Triond, all you have to do is upload original content. You can upload a picture of your granny and the site will pay you. You can record yourself singing in the shower and guess what: you get paid. On Triond, you only have to earn 50 cents before they’ll pay you and you can load anything as long as it has never appeared before on the web. I’m awaiting my payment in a few weeks, but I resolutely maintain the fact that Helium doesn’t pay.
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August 7th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
At last!! someone after my own heart, I joined got confused, hated the way articles were rated, saw I had one at no 2 out of 38 got excited again, then it went to 37 out of 38!! I gave up, I am a huge fan of Triond and love this article.
August 7th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Thanks.
August 8th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
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August 19th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
SOOooooOOOOOOOOO true!
August 23rd, 2008 at 5:18 pm
It is great to see that more people speak out about it. I just published article also warning about Helium’s fine prints, after writing for them over 200 articles! What a waste of time! Don’t do it people.
February 20th, 2010 at 12:55 pm
The real problem with Helium is this. You post your best work. Everyone who competes with you gets to read your “ideas”. They reshape them, improve on them, get a better rating, not from original research or knowledge, but from improving on YOUR work. Wala! You post becomes yesterdays trial and error. Any web site that displays your work for others to overstep you is criminal! Even if reworded, espressed in a better way, your competition smokes the hell out of you. That’s not a fair competition. A better way is to only expose work to buyers and then let buyers only evaluate and choose a winner. But letting the competition in on your style before a winner is chosen, rates is stupid. Stay away from Helium.
July 5th, 2010 at 11:06 pm
I so agree with you it’s funny I found your blog because I too wrote about helium.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Not-doing-great-in-Helium
I have been with helium for about three years I did get one of my works published I made 25 bucks but my money is about 2:00 that is sick and not to mention all the rating you have to do all the perfect writing that hjas to be tweaked re-tweaked and then they send you emails about your work still not quality context hey if you want perfect work then you need to fork over some real mulah!!! Anyways I found hubpages and I loved it.Now I am going to try examiner
July 13th, 2010 at 3:17 pm
I am glad I read this article. Now I know what site to stay away from. Thanks.
October 7th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
no site guy will ever pay
so write and enjoy
and move on
that’s all
make a few frnds and pass ur wasteful hours
wastefully
August 14th, 2011 at 12:47 pm
I signed up too but soon gave up on it since Amazon broke up with my state. It does seem very pointless and would probably take a really long time to reach payout. You also might want to try out Redgage which is a cool place. You get paid to post links which means you can add a link to this article and get paid for it.
September 10th, 2011 at 6:28 pm
I agree with what you say about Helium; I’m just not sure if I agree about Triond.
I have 146 articles published on Helium. I have a Gold badge in Creative writing; 3 writing stars because I’m consistently over 90%. Yet, I’m ashamed to have to say that I earn 2 (2!) cents per day. The only other income is the $3 per month I get for rating.
It must be obvious that I’m looking for another site. But, I’m sorry to say that I haven’t heard very good things about Triond.
December 27th, 2011 at 9:21 am
Helium is good for exposure, and not for pay. A newbie would benefit from the experience Helium will provide for publishing and writing in general.