Mahalo Dollars: Your earnings on Mahalo are given to you in "Mahalo Dollars". Each Mahalo Dollar is worth $0.75. You can cash out your Mahalo Dollars after you reach a minimum of 150 Mahalo Dollars. Payments are sent to you through PayPal on the 15th of the following month.
Mahalo Answers: This is Mahalo's question and answer site. You can earn money here by asking and answering questions. If your answer is chosen as the best answer, then you receive the "tip" that is offered on the question. The tips are either funded by the person asking the question, or by Mahalo itself. So the tip amount will vary on each question. Also, in February 2010, Mahalo launched ad revenue sharing at Mahalo Answers. Now the person asking the question and the person who receives the best answer will earn ad revenue as well. However, the ad revenue is capped at $100 for each question on Mahalo Answers.
Mahalo Pages / Tasks: Tasks is Mahalo's platform for creating Mahalo pages. This includes topic pages as well as How To pages. However, you can still claim already built pages that do not have a page manager. As described above, Mahalo pages are written by Mahalo members and can be about any popular search term on the internet. Mahalo pages can be about celebrities, current events, popular products and coupons, video game walk-throughs, step-by-step “how to” articles, and more. Mahalo pages consist of written content, links sections, and videos and images. A Mahalo page is intended to be the sole source for everything you would want to know about a particular search term. Managing Mahalo pages is a profitable way to earn money on the internet so long as your pages are well written and promoted.
More About Mahalo Pages
When you create a page, or claim an abandoned page, you become a “Page Manager”. Mahalo Page Managers are paid ad revenue for the pages they manage, plus upfront payment if created through Mahalo Tasks. Mahalo’s ad revenue is paid out 50/50 (in Mahalo Dollars) between Mahalo and the Page Manager unless the page is under “Vertical Management”.
Mahalo launched Vertical Management in November 2009 and assigned Vertical Managers for each category. It is the Vertical Manager’s job to oversee assigned pages and to make sure those pages meet the minimum requirements and are being frequently updated. If your page has a vertical manager, then the ad revenue changes from a 50/50 split to 40% to Mahalo, 40% to the page manager and 20% to the vertical manager.
How to Make Money on Mahalo
- Earn tips and ad revenue through Mahalo Answers.
- Earn money by creating pages through Tasks where you earn upfront payment for creating pages, and then ad revenue for managing those pages.
- Earn money on Mahalo by becoming a Vertical Manager and earn 20% of the ad revenue on pages you vertically manage. In addition, you can still have a limited number of pages that you can directly manage and earn ad revenue from.
- Earn money on Mahalo by joining the QC Team. The QC team is responsible for quality control. They review pages created through Tasks and have the power to approve and deny the task. QCers receive 50% of the upfront pay attached to the task they review.
Mahalo is a great way to earn money online, especially if you are a good writer and page promoter. Mahalo prides itself on being friendly, helpful and transparent; but I have a lot of issues with the way they are handling the revoking of pages. I totally agree that pages need to meet high standards. The content should be well-written, current, and helpful. However, Mahalo is not very clear on what exactly the guidelines are for creating and managing pages. In addition, Mahalo staff and vertical managers do not even follow Mahalo's Terms of Service or page management guides. And this is the area that gets me so upset. Keep reading to find out how Mahalo violated its own Terms of Service.
0 comments:
Post a Comment