Freelance Writers Wanted...

Mpelembe Network,( http://mpelembe.blogware.com/blog) is a premier online publication focused on providing business, health, entertainment, tech news, commentary, information and reviews to non-technical people. We pride ourselves in being a useful, easy to understand, informative destination for mobile office workers, home based business professionals, and busy mainstream consumers. Our publication is written to help our readers enhance productivity, ease busy lifestyles, maximize personal entertainment, and make informed tech gadget buying decisions.

How Writer's Earn Money Here: Writers at Mpelembe Network earn money from Google AdSense advertising. You must be an adsense publisher in order to be paid for writing here. Each time you post an article, that article has your AS publisher ID embedded into the AdSense blocks on the article page. Each time visitors click ads in those blocks, it will automatically be credited to your adsense account. You earn from Ad Blocks only, not the link units or search tool. The more posts you make, the more chances you have to earn income. 100 different posts/pages will generate more visitors and clicks than 10 will, and 10 will likely generate more than 1. So more writing equals more potential earnings.

How Mpelembe Network Benefits Writers:
This site has been established since 2001, so it is considered "aged" by search engines. It is also considered a hub, and is listed as a Google News Source. These are extremely important points for authors, because it means you can get quite a bit of people and search engine attention to your work. As a Google News Source, your material could end up being published on the front page of the Google News site. This is fantastic for your portfolio of course, and also fantastic for your earnings potential. Not just on this site either. With a bit of time and consistently great material, you will establish a name and reputation for yourself that can equate to even more earnings and opportunities in the future.

Without being updated, this site generates an average of 1000 visitors each day. When news and articles are posted regularly, that quickly jumps up above 1000 each day. With multiple writers contributing excellent materials frequently, this site will quickly become a major news destination site, generating tens of thousands of visitors each day.

You're also able to concentrate on your love: Writing great material. We will handle all of the technical details such as hosting, web design and search engine optimization. We'll handle comment spam, customer support, partner support, and advertising. Just like any mainstream magazine, we'll handle the big stuff. All you have to do is write. Beginner/Unpublished writers are welcome.

Style and Topic Guidelines
Topics: Business, Health, Entertainment,Politics, Religion, Sport, Tech . See our topics list for a more comprehensive list of topics we cover.

Style/Market: Novice, Enthusiasts, Hobbiests, Business Professionals.
- NOT highly technical, sysadmin, geek.
- NOT software, server, web tools.

This is a magazine-style publication, with a bit of "blog" flair. We want writing with personality: your opinions, personal style and voice are welcome, but we want it professional. We will not publish extreme, rude, vulgar, offensive, slanderous, or other "in your face" type submissions.

Content: News summaries/round ups, commentary, opinion, reviews, product info, new products, product comparisons, how to articles, what is articles, other related articles.

Articles can be as short as 150 words, or long feature-style pieces with thousands of words. In-depth articles - particularly reviews - should include photographs if available, and photo credits are mandatory.

Liberal quotes from, and links to, other publications is encouraged. This is especially useful when summarizing news items, and can be used for review overviews or collective commentary and opinion pieces from around the web. Please review our archives to get an idea of how these are done. ALWAYS credit any sources used.

Submission Formatting: TEXT only please. HTML is allowed sparingly, and only things such as bold, italics, underlines, and blockquotes. Do NOT add fonts, styles, or other HTML information to your submissions. Do NOT use "smart quotes", symbols or other junk charactors such as those included in MS Word documents. Do NOT put line breaks into your submissions. Do NOT put paragraph tags. Hit enter twice to create a blank line, and paragraphs will be automatically created.

If we have to consistently do a lot of clean up on your submissions, we will stop publishing them.

Rights, Rules and Terms
Duplicate Submissions: If more than one writer submits an article on the same topic - i.e. A new product release - and the submissions are significantly different, we will publish both pieces. (Assuming guidelines are adhered to of course). If the pieces are quite similar however, the first submission will be published and the duplicate discarded. This issue can be avoided by making every effort to include your own commentary, opinions, and research/resources.

Payment: AdSense advertising. You must be an adsense publisher in order to be paid for writing here. You will not receive payment directly from us. Each time you post an article, that article has your AS publisher ID embedded into the AdSense blocks on the article page. Each time visitors click ads in those blocks, it will automatically be credited to your adsense account. You earn from Ad Blocks only, not the link units or search tool. The more posts you make, the more chances you have to earn income. 100 different posts/pages will generate more visitors and clicks than 10 will, and 10 will likely generate more than 1. So more writing equals more potential earnings. We make no guarantees about how much money you'll earn, if any. You're encouraged to add Mpelembe Network website address to the URL Channel tracking section of your AdSense account, so you can monitor how much income you're earning here.

Your name, bio and website address will show on each article you write.

Your writing will stay live on this site, in the archives, as long as this site is live, and as long as you're following the rules. We will remove your material if it's objectionable, not written well, off topic, or for any other reasons we may see fit.

This site is run in magazine style, not "blog" style. All new submissions go into a queue to be reviewed by an editor. All submissions are subject to title changes and other editing as we see fit. Editorial changes to your submission will not remove your AdSense publisher ID from your articles.

Since you'll be getting paid for writing here: We prefer unique and original content. We'd like exclusive use of the materials for at least 3 months but that is negotiable and we may accept previously and/or simultaneously published materials at our discretion.

By submitting content here, you are granting us perpetual digital publishing and archive rights. This means we can keep your material posted on this site indefinitely, even if you choose to stop writing for us in the future. You will continue to be earn from all material you submit, as long as your writer account status and AdSense publisher account is in good standing.

You are welcome and encouraged to link to your published materials on this site for portfolio and/or promotional purposes. You may not promote your articles here in any form of SPAM: Including unsolicited email, newsgroups and message board trolling, or otherwise. Spam is defined by us and our decisions are final.

If you break severe publishing rules, we reserve the right to retain all previously published articles, close your writing account, and remove your AdSense publisher ID, bio and website link from all previous articles. Examples of severe policy violations include but are not limited to:

- Profanity, hacking, libelous material
- Copyright infringements and plagerism
- Spam and/or blatant advertising and self promotion
- Consistent low quality and/or off topic submissions

We reserve the right to close this publication and remove all content - or modify these terms - at any time, for any reason, without notice.

Due to the nature of our payment and earnings structure, you are REQUIRED to notify us immediately if the Google AdSense team:
1. Closes your AdSense account
2. Notifies you of policy violations specific to one or more articles you have published on our site.

Freqency/Quota: We want writers who write. We'd like to see a minimum of 3 posts/articles/stories each week but we'd prefer multiple items each week day. Preference will be given to regular, frequent contributors.

Comments and Interaction: Writers are welcome to comment on or discuss other articles. You are NOT however, allowed to click any AdSense ads on this site. We don't want to risk mistaken clicks on your own ads, or inflated clicks that could cause AdSense TOS violations. We also do not want to discourage our sponsors from advertising here.

Once you have your profile filled out, you may start submitting material. We will double check that your profile is filled out properly before reviewing and approving your first submission. If we have questions, comments or problems with material you submit, we will send you an email and possibly ask you for edits.