What are the high paying topics?

@tthom64 (535)
United States
July 8, 2008 5:39pm CST
I've been reading through some of the discussions about Helium and I've noticed a few people mention writing for high paying topics. Does anyone know what those topics are that pay the most? Other than Marketplace of course.
3 responses
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
11 Jul 08
The topics that I find pay the most are money related, beauty/appearance related, health related, and sometimes recycling pays. Holiday topics only pay around that holiday. For instance, my top articles are: How to write a reference letter (employment/job/money related) How to look like a 1950's bombshell (beauty/appearance related) Arthritis (forget the actual topic names, but anything on how to handle having arthritis is big-health related) How to recycle furniture (recycling related) If you know about cars or computers, especially anthing that can same on gas, repairs, maintenance, those are hot topics, too. I don't know much about those. Your best bet is to write on what you know and see what pays the most, then write more about that. Money saving is a real hit. If you go to my profile page, I have a link to my articles (that hopefully is working). Also anything rated about a 3 pays the most. Most topics, people don't go past 3, some they will go as far down as 5. Recycling, I find people will read pretty far down if you start with something that really grabs their attention. I hope this helps. Take care.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
11 Jul 08
That was supposed to be anything that can save on gas, sorry.
@writersedge (22563)
• United States
13 Jul 08
Thank you.
@tthom64 (535)
• United States
13 Jul 08
Thanks, those are some great ideas. I have one article in personal finance that is doing well compared to my other articles, but still only pennies a day. I'll try more about computers (since that is my profession) and maybe some health related ones. Thanks and good luck to you too. I'll check out some of your articles.
• United States
8 Jul 08
You can also write in contests you don't make as much as in marketplace usually but close. I like rating articles too. I think politics pay the most.
@tthom64 (535)
• United States
9 Jul 08
You're probably right. Politics would probably be one of the popular topics - hence higher paying. Maybe I'll give it a shot. Thanks.
@tthom64 (535)
• United States
9 Jul 08
Religion certainly fits that bill LOL. I'm one (of the few I think) Christians who has no problem with evolution or the big band theory and in fact love to learn about "how God did it." Maybe I'll write about that and see how it goes. Then again, I'm not sure I'm thick skinned enough to take the virtual stoning that might ensue.
• United States
8 Jul 08
Mylot doesn't pay user's for creating topics. User's keep paid by different factors. User's get paid by how popular their discussion is.
@tthom64 (535)
• United States
9 Jul 08
Sorry, I should have put it in the topic, but I was talking about the Helium site, not Mylot.