XDOT is a site for users to share, vote, monetize and promote interesting news, blogs, discussions, etc. regarding India and Indians.
XDOT Earning Program
What is XDOT Earning Program?
XDOT is a user driven site, so we believe in sharing our ad revenue to the users who submit stories to XDOT. We pool the ad revenue generated from all the users who submit links. An algorithm is used to distribute the daily revenue among our users based on number of hits (page views) on their stories; votes that their stories receive; number of comments on the stories and also based on user's XDOT Karma.
* Why XDOT is sharing its revenue?
* How can I start earning at XDOT?
* How does XDOT get its revenue?
* When can I start earning?
* How do I check my earnings?
* What can I do to get more earnings?
* When can I redeem my earnings?
* How do I redeem my earnings?
* Can my earnings be taken away?
- *Why XDOT is sharing its revenue?
To make sure content providers/bloggers like you get paid for your contribution. If you write blogs or make posts on user groups/soical network site than more often than not you hardly get paid for the content you provide. You are one the reason that these sites exists and get the traffic that results in their ads revenue. You definitely deserve to get major chunk of that revenue. At XDOT we have come up with a solution to make sure the content providers get an opportunity to earn some revenue for the content they create. By simply adding 'XDOT Button/Text' on your blog/post and submitting that link to XDOT can earn ads revenue. This way you still write the content at your favorite blog/social newtwork site and earn revenue for it XDOT :-).
- *How can I start earning at XDOT?
You just have to do few simple things:
1. Required Step: Post the link to your content at XDOT. You can either visit XDOT @ http://www.xdot.in/submit or by using XDOT tools (http://www.xdot.in/xdot_widgets/) you can do this directly from the site where you published your content.
2. Optional Step: Add 'XDOT Button/Text' (http://www.xdot.in/xdot_widgets/) link in your content to direct more users to view your content via XDOT. This link will enable other people to vote/view your stories on XDOT. The more votes/views your story gets on XDOT, the more revenue you will earn at XDOT.
3. Optional Step: Participate in XDOT democratic process in promoting stories that you like by voting/commenting on them. This way you help in publishing/popularizing deserving stoires and in turn earn XDOT karma. More XDOT Karma means more revnue for you as this is also one crieria we use in distributing our ads revenue to our users.
4. Optional Step: Spread the word about XDOT. XDOT is fairly new site, so more users at XDOT increase the probability of more views of your story resulting in more earnings for you.
Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions. - *How does XDOT get its revenue?
XDOT gets its revenue by advertisements. When XDOT user clicks on any of the ads; we get a commission from the ad publisher. We distribute this commission among our users who contribute links to XDOT. To make user expereince pleasant, we do not serve any pop-up ads.
Back to Top - * When can I start earning?
Right away. right now. As soon as you submit a story @ XDOT, you can potentially earn revenue. If you submit stories as gumnaam (anonymous) you will not be eligible to earn any revenue for that story. So, we encourage you to join and submit news/articles links as logged in users.
Back to Top - * How do I check my earnings?
After you join as a member, your earnings are always displayed on your Profile page. It is updated once a day, so your profile may not reflect latest earning.
Back to Top - * What can I do to get more earnings?
By participating on XDOT and by posting/voting quality content that attracts a wide audience. Every time your stories are read by someone, there is an earning potential for you. Also, take advantage of widgets that can help XDOTers to promote their XDOT links on the web.
Back to Top - * When do I redeem my earnings?
You can redeem when your earning is over $ 20.00 (Approx Rs. 860.00). You can do it only once a month. These restrictions helps us in reducing over overhead in running XDOT shared revenue program.
Back to Top - * How do I redeem my earnings?
We can send the payment via paypal or by check.
Back to Top - *Can my earnings be taken away?
If XDOT administration determines that the system is being abused, it reserves the right to take away your earnings or terminate the profile account at its sole discretion. We expect this to be rare and done only after extensive evaluation.
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#Note: XDOT reserve the rights to change earning calculation logic to give proper compensation to deserving XDOTers. The change can positively or negatively affect your earnings.
