Reaching the target amount for the first time

India
March 31, 2007 12:47pm CST
I have been a member of this site for the past four months. Today I will be reaching $10 for the first time. At this time I got few doubts. I know that many members here make more than $10 every month. So how many post did you require to make that amount? Do mylot pay more for starting discussions than replying for discussions? Even though I have started some discussions I dint get much response for those and I am not sure why. What should I do in order to get more response for my posts?
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@ILANEDRI (1921)
• Israel
1 Apr 07
I realy hope for you that you already reached to minimum payout, because a new month has already began, and if you didn't reach to minimum payout by now, then i'm sure you will do it in this month. If you want to get more responses to your discussions, you must think what will attract other members to enter to your discussions, and respond to them. Every time I open a discussion, I am writing about something that happend to me, or to another person, or just something that I saw and I want to share it with myLot members. Try not to open a discussions that you know other members already did it. Usualy, the discussions with the more responses are the discussions that talking about problems that people here have, and they want the advice of others. I am sure you will find something to write about, and get your many responses.
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• India
4 Apr 07
Thanks for that reply. Usually i don't get any thing to share. Even if I get one it would be already on discussion and I don't want to start it again. I think I should repost some discussion that I had already posted and didn't get any reply. Lets see how much response I will get. Thanks once again :)
• Philippines
4 Apr 07
please don't post again the discussions you already posted in the past. they might get deleted. with it, your earnings might decrease too. don't worry too much starting your own discussions. just do responses for now. :) btw, thanks for the BR. :)
• United States
31 Mar 07
It sounds like you are making good quality posts to have gotten $10 in 300-ish posts; it took me 400 to get my first $10. I think the key to earn more is to keep up the quality of your posts and just post more. I think well responded-to discussions earn you more than just a regular response to someone else's post, too. Also, I know lots of people have referrals working under them, too, which helps (I have none, so I can't help you on how to get more of those!). Good Luck.
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• India
31 Mar 07
Ohh so that means mylot pays according to the posts made. Well I was on the impression that everyone is paid at the same rate. Thanks for informing me about this and also for this good post.
• United States
1 Apr 07
No, we're not all paid the same. There is apparently some sort of algorithm that myLot uses to figure out what our posts are worth. You don't get the same amount for each of your posts. I imagine it probably has to do with ratings, traffic, and length of the post; I can't imagine that they actually have time to read all the posts to do the quality ratings manually.
• Philippines
31 Mar 07
due to the time difference in countries, i'm not sure if the pay out cut off was during the last update made almost 4 hours ago or later's earnings update. if the cut-off is for later, i might be reaching my first pay out. :) i joined on march 8th, about 3 weeks ago. and based on my number of posts, you'll see that i don't post often, maybe 3-16 posts a day. recently, i had 16 posts and earned 90 cents. yesterday i made 45 cents for 7 posts. if i had realized this before, i could have reached the minimum pay out earlier. in my understanding, we get at least 1 cent for starting a discussion or responding to other's discussion. we earn more for quality posts. we earn more also for long threads we started. additonal earnings also come from uploading images and referrals. however, i only was able to do postings. i made threads with responses from 1-103. i'm sure the number of friends we have in mylot has bearings on the number of responses we get for our discussions aside from the fact that it has to be general and not limiting to one's own country. if we have friends in mylot and we provide quality responses to their discussions, they are likely to respond to our discussions too. hope this helps. keep on doing quality postings by making sure it's relevant and useful. goodluck! :)
• India
31 Mar 07
Well this was a very good response. Congrats for reaching min payout with just 253 posts. I was just wondering how you were able to make 45 cents with just 7 posts. There was days when I used to post more than 10 replies each day and the maximum I used to make was 30 cents and I believe I used to provide decent reply to all the discussions I participated. Thanks for your reply and all the best to you :)
• Philippines
1 Apr 07
if i remember correctly, i started 2 discussions with around 5-6 responses each. i also responded to 5 discussions. that's a total of 7 posts. i think i also received a BR that day, but not for the discussion i responded that day. it was for a discussion i replied to 3 weeks before. other than that, i have no earnings for the images or referrals coz i don't have either. :)