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News update: much more than summaries and reviews – Shvoong’s community report the news

Posted on January 5, 2011. Filed under: Community, General, News & Updates, Writing Tips |

What if I told you that we know what small changes and updates can make you earn even more with Shvoong? Keep reading, after this little update, you’ll be ready to become a reporter!

After a long absence, we decided that there is nothing like a new Shvoong version to revive our blog. We’re more than happy to tell you all about the new features in Shvoong. The new Features will make your life on Shvoong easier. New version is actually not big news. To be honest, it’s something that happens quite a lot. However, it is a new year, and we celebrate it with new updates and features that can really make a difference. Shvoong just became more comfortable, friendly and updated in a way that will make you write more and earn more. Recently, many Shvoong members began to report about the news. They figured that news is not only something that is constantly changing, but also something that people consume all the time, all over the world. You Shvoongers are smart, updated and ready to update. But it’s not enough. That’s not the only news! In order to help you earn more from any news update, summary or review published, we thought how we can give you any necessary tool to promote your writings and get more visits. So we decided to march into the social area and help you get to your friends, invite them to read, join, earn money, and help you increase your profits. How’s that going work? Why does it help you and what can you do with it? You’re just about to find out

What’s new on Shvoong? Or, what’s news on Shvoong?

You’ve probably seen by now, Shvoong’s new homepage. The new design is a new approach, it affects you more than you can imagine. The new homepage is just another brick in a wall of changes in Shvoong, and surfers all over the world know that. Shvoong’s traffic is up by about 20% since we revealed the new homepage, and you can guess where they are getting… If you have a good summary published – they will find it! We’ve got more readers for you, each one of them views more pages in the site and you should make them come right to your summary. But you need to give them what they are looking for, and news is huge part of the internet these days. Not sure what to write about? Help is on the way! Meet our new feature – “News on Shvoong” – where we bring you hot topics to write about, and we’re promoting it after it’s published. The hot news topics will be shown to you as you login, and you also can find it in “my profile” page, in the new homepage and in the summaries’ pages. News is endless, changing all the time, always interesting and has varied subjects to write about. Just choose your hot topic, write, and your summary will be only 2 clicks away: 2 clicks from every summary page, 2 clicks from the new homepage, and soon even in a new “editor’s pick” page. That’s right, you’re just 2 clicks away from bringing hundreds of thousands people to your reviews and summaries, and to your daily news reports. Take a minute, think about it. Calculate. How was it? Sounds good? So what are you waiting for? Write right now!

Socializing easily, promoting effectively and help your friends earn and earn for you too

Sometimes writing good is just not enough. In that case you have 2 options: 1) Be the best, which is good tip for life. 2) Promote yourself using all the given tools.

As much as we believe each one of you can be the best, we’d recommend counting on the second option. How to promote? First thing first: Socializing! It’s not a secret that Facebook is the place where you and your friends spend most of your online time. Now, you can use it, you need to use it. We now offer you the option to create a new Shvoong account, or login to your Shvoong account, using your Facebook account. The idea is to make it easier for you. Easier to register, easier to login, easier to share and promote, and even invite your friends to join. It is just a small part in optimizing your potential using social bookmarking to increase your chance to appear higher in search results. That means more traffic. Why does it help? Because you want to earn money online. Yes, so simple! Promoting yourself through Facebook or twitter is one of the best ways to get more traffic to your summaries and reviews. In every summary page you have the option to “like” a summary or tweet about it. In addition, you now have the option to “share” in your Facebook page each one of your news updates, reviews and summaries from “my profile” page. You probably know it’ll make your friends visit you more, but it is also very good SEO for you. Sure, you can promote and share in other networks too, in blogs or personal sites, it can only help. But remember, you can make money in Shvoong from your summaries and reviews, but you can also count on your friends. Use the new social options to invite your friends, share your unique registration code which you can find here after you login to your account. Or invite your friends from the invite a friend page. In case you didn’t know: Every friend who joined Shvoong after you invited him can earn money from his summaries and reviews, and every dollar he earns you earn too. Yep! We guarantee that you will be credited with a sum equal to the amount of money earned through Shvoong.com commissions by each new member introduced by you up to 100$!!! So what are you waiting for?

This and that – What else is new?

These changes will sure help you with your money making goal, but there’s more. We recently launched a new mobile site! Grab your Smartphone and surf to www.shvoong.com, you’ll find our mobile site version, and you’re welcome to let us know what you think about it. Mobile or not, learn from successful summaries like this one. It is very well written, a lot of information, and thus many visitors read, comment, ask questions and get answers. Be in touch with readers and answer them or thank them for their comments. See more examples in our top website reviews or in the online money making tips section. Get more ideas of ways to promote, and try the new Shvoong jobs – the market place that will help you earn even more (find it in your profile). Remember that Shvoong is a multilingual site; you can also translate every summary or review on Shvoong and share the profits with the original writer. You’re almost ready to maximize yourself, your knowledge and profits. Just one last thing…

Information is money – it’s up to you how much you earn

You now know a lot, but not more than you can handle. Take a few minutes to study the new features, to understand where the news section is and how it can help you. Connect with Facebook and join our Facebook fan page, we’re so close to 20,000 fans, join us and you might be our 20,000 fan. Use our Facebook page to promote yourself, use our wall, use our fans, it’s a huge promotion for you. Yes, we also tweet, follow us on twitter, see our updates and tweet us what you wrote. Finally remember, visits and money are important, but news updates, summaries and reviews are information that you have and people are looking for. This is your great power; this is the main thing Shvoong offers. Sharing your knowledge is the core of your success. This is how it all begun, this is how the wheels of internet take us forward and you don’t want to be the one left behind!

Don’t hesitate to contact us any time, suggest, ask or clarify anything on your mind.

Good luck!

The Shvoong Team

Content management

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