Flickspin's Feature Writers

In the latest round of changes to Flickspin there have been a number of modifications to the category pages. Not only are the pages a little more pleasing to the eye but you might just see a feature writer gracing the odd category homepage. The feature writers have gained their new status by writing frequently for a given category. Not only will they receive greater profile on the site they can also collect 100% of the ad revenue for the Google ads on their category homepage.

If you are interested in becoming a feature writer for a category, sign up with the Flickspin writing community if you're not already a writer and when you submit an article or fact-file for review just mention your intention of which category you'd like be a feature writer for via the message the editor field. Then at the end of every month the line up of feature writers is reviewed. The criteria used to decide which writers become feature writers are detailed on the "Feature Categories" page within your "My Desk" area, but the basic idea is that it is based around the idea of the selecting the writer with the most articles written for a category over the previous 3 months. Depending on the community's thoughts, this may change in the future.

Here are the feature categories for this month:

• Lifestyle & Culture
  
• Restaurant Reviews
  
• Travel
  
• Information Technology
  
• Video Games
  
• Music
  
• Short Stories

It's a pretty exciting new feature for Flickspin and we're glad to be helping to promote writers on their efforts.

Peace!

Knol Joins the Web

Google release it's Knol site yesterday, 6 months after its original press release. My first thoughts were that Knol was going to cause problems for existing writing networks but I soon realised Knol is taking an approach to SEO no other Web publishing site could even contemplate. Due to this different approach the Knol platform will exist to compliment other writing sites. The reason this is the case is that a lot of work needs to be done to promote a Knol and if a writer sticks to only writing Knols then they will fail to promote their Knols, hence they will not appear very high in search engine listings.

The best way to promote an article on the web is to have lots of links to it and to spread the word about it. The fact Google 's new platform doesn't allow for link promotion within a Knol means writers will need to write elsewhere and promote their articles externally. A great way to promote a Knol or your work in general is to have a blog or write for a site like flickspin.com. This may mean that smaller writing sites are relagated to semi promotion based sites but a good writer should really be writing for a number of sites to help spread the word of their work. This may not be ideal but it certainly beats obliteration from a one fell swoop from Google.