Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is Expertscolumn.com? ?
Expertscolumn.com is a writing platform where you can earn money by writing articles and leaving your feedback on other's articles. Apart from this, Expertscolumn provides wide array of social networking features for its members so that they can interact with one another and contribute to the community.
2. How do I earn money ?
You make money from your articles published on weblogs as well as comments you leave on articles. From time to time, we also run contests that entitles you to win cash prizes from us. For articles that you post, we share revenue with you. The revenue is calculated on the basis of views gained by your articles. There is no requirement for an Adsense account because you get paid for writing articles through Paypal or Net Banking instead.
3. What is the payment cycle and minimum payout limit ?
We pay twice every month i.e on 5th and 20th of every month. Payout limit is just $5.00. Once your account crosses $5.00 threshold limit, you can put a payout request from inside your dashboard.
4. What are various payment modes available?
We support Bank Transfer for Indian members and Paypal for Non Indian members.
5. What topics can I write upon ?
We have categorized our weblogs. So you can write anything related to sub categories available for a given weblog. And you need to make sure that you content complies with our writing guidelines else it would not be published.
6. How do I post articles after signing in to dashboard ?
It's very easy. After you login to your Expertscolumn account, simply click on SUBMIT ARTICLE button available in the left sidebar of your dashboard. It will load a list of weblogs available for contribution. Choose a weblog of your choice and submit your article for that weblog.
7. How long does it take to review an article?
We try to publish all eligible articles as soon as possible. However in case of few articles, it may take some extra time reviewing them. But we do make sure that no article takes more than 3 days to get reviewed.
8. What is the minimum length for an article to qualify for publishing?
For poetry it is 120 words, while for all weblogs except Health, it is 300 words. For health related articles, minimum acceptable length is 500 words.
9. How much do I earn from articles?
The amount earned per article varies depending on many factors. We coudln't disclose an exact rate that you will be earning at. However we would like to tell you that it depends upon how many views your articles are generating and where your traffic is coming from. For example, more the visitors coming from search engines, more will be your earnings. Similarly traffic from countries like USA, Canada, Australia and European countries will result in higher earnings. We do not accept bot traffic and strictly ban users doing so.
10. How to add other members as friends ?
You can add members as friends by visiting their profile pages.