Over the years I have written articles for many different online publications. I began by writing for sites like Hubpages and Squidoo where I built up an income of over $1000 per month; since then I have run a few independent blogs and contributed to crypto news sites. I haven’t been writing so much recently, but I still have a crypto oriented blog and I am now playing around with contributing articles here at Publish0x.

So far I have really liked Publish0x. I haven’t earned much from my writing here, but I like the site design and the concept of rewarding readers and letting them decide a writer’s rewards through the tipping system. But I am still opinionated enough to have some thoughts on how I think Publish0x can be made even better:

1. Increasing reader rewards:

I have heard there are plans for some sponsored stories which, if I remember correctly, readers will be able to choose to view in return for an extra reward. I think this is a great idea because what the site needs at the moment is more readers, and this will create a virtuous circle as more readers means higher rewards for the best articles leading to better writers taking more time and effort over their contribution. But perhaps there are other ways to increase rewards for readers.

The commitment to refrain from ugly banner adverts is admirable, but perhaps an opt-in system where they are shown only to logged in members who have specifically gone to their profile to change the default zero-ad policy in return for a larger daily tipping pool could be considered?

Turning readers into editors is also a nice idea in my opinion: perhaps rewards for flagging offensive or very low quality articles, or perhaps for suggesting a spelling or grammar correction which gets accepted by the author.

Being able to tip comments might also increase engagement and activity from readers.

2. Spin off sites:

This is something which worked very well for Hubpages. They set up specialist niche sites, and pulled the best quality relevant content from the main site to populate them. There are two ways I can see content being chosen. For example if you had a news website then established blogs publishing news on Publish0x could be chosen to contribute to the news site. Alternatively individual articles could be chosen by editors to be featured. This could increase audience reach and also increase rewards for the highest quality content.

3 Rewarding perennial content:

Most articles get most of their tips will at the top of the ‘New’ article section and most of those tips come from people who are already members. There is therefore something of an economic incentive to produce lots of content, rather than content that will get lots of shares and bring new visitors, or get referenced from elsewhere and get into search engine results pages, or just generally stay relevant and interested and gain readers for an extended period.

This is a hard nut to crack since the whole Publish0x model is built on rewarding for tips received rather than views, but perhaps there could be prizes for writers whose articles get lots of views, or even just a spotlight to feature authors with popular articles ranked by number of readers rather than tips.

Do you have any ideas of your own, or thoughts on the my ideas? Please leave a comment!