Expertscolumn.com is a portal where columnists (authors) from around the world write columns (articles) and share their expertise. Columnists get paid for sharing their knowledge. We pay large chunck of revenue back to the community in order to keep them happy.

We pay on Per View basis and not on per article or per click basis. To check more about this just have a look at How the revenue is calculated below.

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First thing is to register an account with us and provide your paypal id so that you can be paid. Then you have to simply login, write a column and publish it. Once published, it will start generating money for you. The more your column is being viewed, the more will you earn from this program.

We pay on per view basis, so it becomes much easier for you to earn descent money from this program. The key is to bring in more and more visitors. If you are not sure of how to bring in more visitors, then please check How do I get visitors to my columns (articles) below.

Getting rid of our old revenue share model, we have implemented a brand new revenue sharing model for the convenience of our members. Now you don't have to rely on any third party sites such as Adsense in order to get paid. We have simply by passed those sites so that our members get paid as conveniently as possible.

Instead of paying on per click basis, that many websites out there do, we pay you on per view basis i.e. we pay on CPM basis. For every unique view that your column generates you earn money. It depends upon the current CPM of the site on a whole.

For example, if the current CPM is $5.00, then you earn $5.00 for every 1000 unique views that your columns generates.

And there is no need to register with Adsense or any other program. We have bult an in-house solution that calculates earnings based on the mechanism defined above. All that you have to do is to provide your Paypal id only.

As you know, we pay all our columnists through either Paypal or Moneybookers , so it is must for everyone to provide their payment Id either while registering or editing the account.

If you have already registered and did not provide your payment Id there, then go to your "My Account" page and click on the Payments button. Move on to Payment Details tab and choose your payment option from the menu provided. Simply provide your id there in the asked field.

Those who do not provide their Id won't be able to receive payments from us though they can watch their earnings growing daily in their Expertscolumn account.

We clear payments on every 5 days gap i.e. on 1st, 6th, 11th, 16th, 21st and 26th of every month. But for the payout to happen it is compulsory that you manually request a payout from us by logging into your account. If you have requested the payment on 17th then it will get cleared by 21st of that month. Similarly payment requested on 5th will get cleared by 6th of that month.

Column is simply a kind of article that you publish at Expertscolumn. There is no difference between the two. To match with the site's name we simply renamed it to column.

While there is no minimum and maximum length defined, we still ask you to write your column between 300 and 1000 words for better readability.

Yes, we have changed our writing guidelines to make a place for original columns from the authors that have been published somewhere else already. But that doesn't means that you take somebody's else work and simply publish it here. That won't be tolerated.

Only those columns (articles) where the following criteria is met would be allowed for re-publishing here;

1. Author name should match the one with other website(s)
2. Verify your account with other websites by linking to ExpertsColumn from those sites

The same criteria applies to all the members irrespective of whether they are re-posting from other article sites, their personal blogs/sites or forums.

Although you are free to write on any topic confirming to our writing guidelines but still we encourage you to write on topics which are important from readers point of view. Try writing on product reviews, how to articles, educational, health, business, technology and games related material that can fetch you more readers.

We request you to carefully read our writing guidelines as we usually rejects all those column which do not meet our writing guidelines.

As a reference please make sure of following things while writing columns:

1) No Plagiarism: We hate plagiarism and thus have zero duplicate content tolerance policy. Every column that you post is reviewed by us and if found duplicate we will simply delete it.

For us, duplicate column is one that has been published by some one else at some other website. If you are an actual author there, then the column won't be counted as a duplicate one. So if you are posting the same column here, make sure your author name at both the places is same, and you put a link to your column from the site you just re-posted, otherwise we will delete it without any prior notice.

2) No Spam: We have zero spam tolerance policy and wastes no time in banning members that spam here. So please take care in this regard as well.

3) Read Adsense Content guidelines. Ours are pretty much similar to them.

4) Take care of formatting.

For more information visit writing guidelines section.

This is the most important part that most us often neglects. Writing is one thing and getting traffic is another. If you are serious in getting traffic to your columns then kindly go through the guides mentioned below:

Marketing Guidelines for Effective Promotion of Columns
Search Engine Optimization Process
How to Write SEO Oriented Article
Building Content for Writing Article , etc

We have designed a referral program where you earn extra 10% of the earnings earned by your referrals for the lifetime. For example, if you referred a columnist who earns $5.00 for every thousand views that his column generates, then you are automatically entitled to earn $0.50 for every 1K views from us. And there is no limit on this. You can refer as many columnists and can earn as much as you want to.

To find your referral link, just go to My Stats --> My Referrals under Navigation Menu.