Content Writing and Passive income streams – My Bukisa Review
After having a great deal of success using eHow last year I set out this year to try more of these passive income streams / content writing sites online to see if I could duplicate the eHow experience. The first site that I tried was Bukisa and started to load up the site in January and February of this year. Over that time I posted fifty articles where I would research some keywords using Google’s Adwords Keyword tool and find some pretty good paying words with reasonable competition.
I wrote anywhere from three hundred to four hundred words for each article and posted them over the two months. Now I understand that it takes a little while for posts to be indexed with Google (or other search engines) and the more backlinks I can get for articles the better off they are however even now four months after I posted my last article none of the articles are really seeing that much traffic coming. In the month of May I earned .37 cents total for all fifty articles. Needless to say this was a disappointment for me. I am starting this month to try out both InfoBarrel and Triond to see how they stack up against the options out there and will update with my progress over the next few weeks and months to see if they get any better traffic or more importantly if they bring in more money than Bukisa.
At this point I was discouraged enough with Bukisa to cut my losses and not post any more work there. I have fifty there and while that is not a ton, it should be enough to indicate weather the site justifies more content or when to walk away and try elsewhere. For me, I am cutting my losses and will just let the pennies I earn at Bukisa add up all year so that maybe, just maybe after a year I can hit their minimum ten dollar payout.
Two poetry acceptances with two venues
I had responses this week to two submissions I had sent out to Breadcrumb Scabs – a poetry magazine and the Boston Literary Magazine, both accepted the poems I had sent in. There really is a great feeling about seeing an acceptance of a poem. You work so hard to learn, read, practice and then still throw away most of what you produce as crap. It is nice now and again when an editor (or two in this case) enjoyed what you produced and plan to publish it.
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The Boston Literary poem will be out in their fall issue which comes out any day now while the Breadcrumbs will be closer to the end of the year or early in 2010.
Horror Poetry Accepted – The Terror Of Miskatonic Falls
I had heard that Shroud Publishing was working on an anthology that was going to create a world using short poems. The world is Miskatonic Falls and they provided some details which you had to use as parts of your submission. I gave it a try and sent in a few poems and after a few months I just heard back I had one accepted. I am pretty excited about the collection I think these themed collections are always a fun read as so many people will have their hands in it and see the world just a little differently.
This was a paying market and contributor copies not to mention I have a great amount of respect for Shroud Publishing so just happy to have some of my work included in one of the productions. I am definitely looking forward to this getting released.
Short Story accepted and ReadMe Publishing news
I received a note today that my short horror story was accepted for inclusion in a horror anthology by Library of Horror Press, the collection is called Tales from the Cauldron: A Witches Anthology. It was a fun write; I had never tried to write a horror story with a witch in it so happy to hear it was accepted. Looking forward to getting the book when it comes out later this year.
ReadMe Publishing has closed entry for new submissions to the Science Fiction Contest “What If” - We have had a ton of submissions for this and I think we are going to have a wonderful book when it is all done. This was the first contest where I used a judge to help with the selection process and I really think the overall feel and quality of the book will be amazing. The contest will be judged over this month and announcements coming in a few weeks about the winners. The book will be available in a few months.
Short Story Library reaches 250 subscribers
In May of 2008 I started the online magazine Short Story Library as a monthly ezine for short fiction and poetry. One year later we have grown to a weekly magazine that has a readership of 250 email subscribers that average 4,000 readers a month.I am really happy about the magazine and the progress we have made. We continue to receive some amazing submissions that allow us to be very selective in what we publish and I hope that the growing number of subscribers is a good sign we are doing something right.
Poem published on Every Day Poets
I had a poem published today on Every Day Poets, the poem is called “old friend” - Here is the link. I have had a few poems published on the daily magazine; I like the venue because of its active readership. I enjoy reading the feedback by those that stop by and take a look.