Update: I was recently contacted by the YouSayToo team and they nicely explained in detail about some of the open ended points and some which were misleading. I have updated the post accordingly...
In the previous post, we discussed a couple of points about YouSayToo which are generally overlooked. I'll brief the points previously discussed in the initial points in list below and then continue with the top 10 list:
In the previous post, we discussed a couple of points about YouSayToo which are generally overlooked. I'll brief the points previously discussed in the initial points in list below and then continue with the top 10 list:
- 50% adsense revenue share
only if your rating is 2+(for everyone) - Duplicate content rated low by Google, initial backlink "forcibly" put on your blog to YouSayToo before associating your account might make YouSayToo articles rank higher in Google's eyes. YouSayToo backlinks we get back to our blog are "no follow" (Update: The backlink is needed to prove ownership of the blog to prevent plagiarism.)
- YouSayToo allows you to
donate your earnings to a charitable organization but that is a clause
in that! And if you want to make sure that you are doing your bit of
charity, you should know this else it will just give you a false feeling
of being charitable. YouSayToo terms say that it can use the
accumulated donations to its own discretion if the total amount of
donations doesn't exceed $500 to a charity organization on February 28th
every year. (Update: The full version is:
7.18. YouSayToo.com reserves the right to stop donating to any charity organization, if the total amount of donations to a concrete charity organization doesn't exceed $500 on the last donation transfer day (February 28). In this case YouSayToo.com has rights to dispose with accumulated donations by its own discretion.) - When you add your blog to YouSayToo, your old articles aren't
imported to YouSayToo. Only the new entries will be imported once you
have associated your blog RSS with YouSayToo. Moreover, you need to have
minimum 250 words for the last 3 posts,
so if your blog is just a video with a little description, that won't help.(Update: YST system detects images and videos in posts if the feed setting is set to Full. The 256 characters requirement applies only to text-only posts.) - If you don't have the RSS feed for a particular article of yours, you can still submit that article but at the bottom include "From: <source url>"
- If your article includes a lot of links to your own blog/website which becomes spammy or is just written for the sake of driving traffic to other website giving just a brief and appending with "Read more", such articles or the complete blogs as well will be deleted from YouSayToo. (Update: Excessive linking is not allowed regardless of the website(s) the links go to.)
- The website link that you provide in the profile page won't be indexed and you won't get any back link and corresponding search engine benefits because of the link on profile page.
- You need to be the author of the articles you submit or the blogs you RSS feed in YouSayToo. You can't just use someone else's RSS feed and earn from it or use some plagiarized articles to earn from!
- When you refer a person, you get 15% adsense impression share on his posts from YouSayToo's ad share while the person you have referred retains his 50% share. (Update: The share is from his/her AdSense impressions) So now, for this level 1, the equation is: Referred person(50%) + YouSayToo(35%) + You(15%).
- Because 10 looks better than 9 or 11 ;)
Moreover, for every person referred by that person, you get more 10% share from YouSayToo's account. So the equation for level 2 becomes:
Referred person(50%) + Your referred person(15%)+ YouSayToo(25%) + You(10%)
The last one is skipped in most articles because they are
actually advertising their referral link and hence YouSayToo so they
want to prevent most cons from being brought in front of the readers.
But as you can see ahead, by using a referral link, you still get the
same benefit.
Since this post
mainly concentrates on what is generally missed out in YouSayToo
reviews, I've avoided mentioning the general benefits what everyone
talks about like:
- Extra income apart from 100% on your blog.
- RSS feed to your blogs is used and hence no extra efforts on your part.
- Backlinks from YouSayToo to your blog and articles.
- Referrals income for 2 levels (15% + 10%).
- Various contests with prizes.
- Potential to add flash games, videos, images.
- Page rank 4 and growing.
- You retain the ownership of your articles.
- You get extra viewership and fans from YouSayToo community, get help etc.
- Again! 10 looks better than 9 or 11 :P
So if you want to reward me for this honest and neutral feedback about YouSayToo, please use my referral link to join YouSayToo:
http://www.yousaytoo.com/IndianGrad/?30147
Someone referenced your post on my blog: http://www.innovativepassiveincome.com/yousaytoo-review-increase-blog-traffic/ and I responded to some of the cons listed here.
ReplyDeleteHey JadeDragon
ReplyDeleteI wonder why I ain't able to reply to your response in your blog, tried twice but it failed(Probably because of the size of the post). Hence posting the reply here:
Glad that you dropped by my blog. Thanks are due to Preeti as well :) I'm a bit fresh in the blogging world and you are indeed one of my inspirations!
Please find my explanations below:
Firstly, I didn't intend to mention the list as a "cons" list but it was a list of points "generally overlooked" or not mentioned.
From above:
#1 Following is what YouSayToo terms quote:
"How can I earn money on YST? How does it work?
50% of the advertisements displayed by Google Adsense at YouSayToo.com belong to us and the other 50% of the advertisements displayed by Google Adsense are divided among users who have a rating of 2+ and an Adsense ID account or an Adsense ID channel. If your rating falls lower than 2+, then your Google Adsense ID account or Google Adsense Channel ID stop participating in ad rotation."
Source: http://www.yousaytoo.com/about/faq
#2 Agreed that RSS feeds only spits new posts but since they already have the mechanism in place to count the number of words in your previous posts(else it doesn't accept the blog), building a mechanism to import previous posts shouldn't be that tough.
#3 Agreed! I missed out that point of view. What I initially thought is that those who RSS others' blog will risk their adsense account but your point makes more sense.
From the list:
#6 True. Just that it is not generally mentioned hence included in the list.
#7 This is again from YouSayToo faq linked above.
"Do links in my post get indexed by search engines?
Yes, links in your post get indexed by search engines, but, links in your profile do not get indexed."
#8 Again, it isn't a cons list but many points happend to be in that light. Just that it isn't mentioned generally. Your point accepted.
I had just joined YouSayToo recently and hence don't have much idea into the working of the system. Hence the points like 2+ rating and backlinks indexing are mentioned from the information I got in their faq.
I wonder if this reply itself would become larger than a normal blog ;)
But still, thanks a lot for providing your view points! I'd like to hear more from you upon my replies :)
Hello IndianGrad,
ReplyDeleteGood job with the top 10 lists. We'd like to make a few clarifications to the first top 10 list.
1. Every post on YouSayToo gets 50/50 revenue sharing ratio regardless of rating.
2. The backlink is needed to prove ownership of the blog as you said in section 8 to prevent plagiarism.
3. Taken out of context. The full version is:
7.18. YouSayToo.com reserves the right to stop donating to any charity organization, if the total amount of donations to a concrete charity organization doesn't exceed $500 on the last donation transfer day (February 28). In this case YouSayToo.com has rights to dispose with accumulated donations by its own discretion.
4. Our system detects images and videos in posts if the feed setting is set to Full. The 256 characters requirement applies only to text-only posts.
6. Excessive linking is not allowed regardless of the website(s) the links go to.
9. When you refer users, you will additionally gain 15% from their AdSense impressions. You also get 10% from users referred by your referrals.
Everyone is always welcome to contact us if they have questions.
Cheers,
YouSayToo team