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The news was quietly slipped underneath an announcement of two new sections of HuffPost where the blog would now be commissioning that is, paying for contributions, Opinions and Personal.
You might, in fact, say that she buried the lede, given how big the contributors platform had become. Notably, the UK version of HuffPost is not abandoning its unpaid blogger platform — although it is scaling it down quite a bit.
Wait times for those applications were long, and many people either never heard back or were rejected. Currently, registration is closed, but you can keep checking that page every few days or weeks to see if they open back up. The guide I just linked to gives you a framework, but with the Huffington Post, a lot of it is already done.
What you do need to do is pick a vertical that matches your blog topic in general. If you write about political events, you want to be in their political channel. If you write about making a living online, you could be in entrepreneurship, you could be in marketing, or you could be in lifestyle.
When picking a vertical, you want to pick one that is most liable to jive with your site content. Other sites might prefer case studies, valuable tutorials, and other such informational content, but HuffPo is primarily an opinion and editorial publication. That means you can get personal and you can give your opinions with some data to back them up, rather than relying on data and conclusions. Interestingly, blog posts published via the old direct system and blog posts published via the new contributor system seem to function differently.
They were great for SEO and for traffic building. New posts through the new contributor system are by default nofollow , and they are consequently less valuable. This system has actually turned Huffington Post into something more akin to Medium, which is to say, highly trafficked but not necessarily as valuable as other sites.
I can understand the desire to segregate the people just looking for name recognition, but it makes it less effective to use the new system. The editors are all firmly overworked and leave the writers to figure things out on their own. One thing that often gets new writers is the fact that images need to be creative commons or used with permission, and you need to pick them yourself.
Submit a post without images and hope an editor will add them in? You have a post with no images. This platform is a little glitchy and works best using Google Chrome rather than any other browser. Publication of content via the new contributor dashboard on HuffPo is a bit of a hole, unfortunately. The content is noindexed and unable to be seen by search engines until an editor decides it is worth featuring and put into real visibility.
The only reason an older post might be promoted is if it somehow goes viral without the Google visibility, which means you would have had to do a lot of promotion on your own. Once your post has been picked up for promotion, it is published in one of the main verticals. The editors of the vertical can choose to give you further acceleration by featuring your content on their Facebook or Twitter accounts, as well, and that can be a huge boon. This is a really helpful post.
Thanks again! Does anyone know whether you can a publish a post that is also on your personal blog or b whether you still own the content once published on Huff post blog if say you wanted to put it in a book later? I would say good-bye to the post. In that case, hufpo would win and your site would loose out.
Best bet, have your post spun out by hand, no software. Hire someone on upwork to do it and post either one to hufpo and the alternate to your own site. The Hufpo article is going to have your linkback anyway so an article about the same topic is no biggie. Thanks for the reply!
I just want people to find the Huffpo article and for that to drive people to my site I would have a link to my site in the bio.
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