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Become a Professional Gamer - Contributing to Almost Gaming

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Almost Gaming welcomes and rewards user submitted content and content updates. We provide 3 different methods to compensate authors for the effort they put towards creating a better collection of freely accessible guides. Each author can select, when submitting a new guide or a revision, 1 of the following 3 compensation methods. To see a list of requested content that YOU an submit TODAY, check out our Requested Content page.

  • Earn passive income through AdSense revenue sharing. [Almost Gaming recommended, only available for new content]
  • Receive game card credit (GCC) towards free World of Warcraft or other games.
  • Receive payment through PayPal.

See below for details about each of these options.

Contents

How We Value Content

To give you an idea of your money making potential, new content submissions will be graded into one of the following classes considering both guide quality and demand.

$5 or 10 GCC [Vendor Trash] for poorly formatted and low/no demand guides.
$10 or 20 GCC [Common Quality & Demand] for guides that are good but have little use or have formatting problems.
$15 or 30 GCC [Uncommon Quality & Demand] for guides that are useful and void of formatting problems.
$20 or 40 GCC [Rare Quality & Demand] for guides that are exceptionally useful and void of formatting problems.
$30 or 60 GCC [Epic Quality & Demand] for superior submissions in regards to both their demand and quality.
$??? or ??? GCC [Legendary Quality & Demand] be creative and cutting edge and earn Legendary status!

Submitting Content

You will need an account at Almost Gaming to submit a guide. To get one, register here and then go here to login. Once you're logged in you can visit our content submission page.

To submit new content, visit our content submission page and select the most applicable content type for what you are submitting. If you are making a revision to existing content, visit that content page while logged in and select 'Submit Revision' from the top right of that page. When submitting new content or content revisions make sure you select your preferred compensation method from the top of the submission page.

Revenue Sharing

You can make money two ways through revenue sharing:

1) Submit your own content. Keep in mind the more useful your guide is to the World of Warcraft community the more traffic and money you will make!
2) Refer your friends, family, or strangers to this site using a referral link and earn 20% of the money they make from the guides they write.

You must have an AdSense account and a Almost Gaming account to start. To get an AdSense account go to http://www.google.com/adsense and sign up for an account, then follow the instructions below.

I have my AdSense account, now lets make some money!

1) Login to Almost Gaming and go to "My Account" and click "Edit" on the tabs in the top right

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2) Next, click on "Compensation"

Adsense ID in Almost GamingAdsense ID in Almost Gaming

Enter your Adsense ID in the field. Your Adsense ID looks like "pub-xxxx" , fill in the "pub-" and all of the numbers that appear in your adsense account information.
To find your adsense account ID:

  • Go to http://www.google.com/adsense
  • Sign In
  • Click the "My Account" tab at the top
  • Scroll down to the bottom of the page and located the area titled "Property Information"
  • You will see your ID there, remember to only copy the part starting with pub to the end of the numbers

To track your earnings individually on your account you will want to setup a URL Channel in your AdSense account.

You can do this by:
1) Logging into your AdSense account at http://www.google.com/adsense
2) Click on "AdSense Setup" tab
3) Click on "Channels" near the top
4) Click on "URL Channels" Its to the right of Custom Channels
5) Click "+Add new URL Channel"
6) Enter "almostgaming.com" into the text field and click the "add channels button"
7) You will now be able to view your page impressions, CTR, and money earned data in your AdSense account from your articles / guides or referrals

3) Once you have completed this step all you have to do is Submit Guides by clicking "Submit WoW Guide" in the user menu in the top right of your screen and follow the instructions.

To Make Money off Referrals

Follow these instructions:

  • Login to your almost gaming account
  • Click "My Account" in the user menu in the top right
  • Find a section on the My Account page that says referral link
  • Copy the link and paste it wherever you want, when someone clicks on that link and signs up an account, you will be given 20% of their AdSense profits. You must have an AdSense ID assigned to your account for this to work

Game Card Credits

If authors opt to, they will be credited with Game Card Credits (GCCs) after their guide is reviewed and published. Each GCC is worth 1 day of playtime and game card codes will be given to authors in 60 day increments. You will be able to view your GCCs in your profile page. Game card codes will be delivered via e-mail shortly after the first of every month. Please ensure that your email address on your account is up to date because Game Cards will be e-mailed to that address.

PayPal Payments

Authors will be credited with USD to their account balance, visible in their profile page, after their submissions have been reviewed and published. Payments will be made on the first business day of every month to accounts with sums larger than $50. Please ensure that your email address registered to your account is the one you use to receive PayPal payments.

Submission Ideas

If you don't know what to submit take a look at our requested content for World of Warcraft section (All Age of Conan Categories are open) or come up with your own unique topic considering the following ideas. Content may cover:

  • new game mechanics
  • upcoming features
  • controversial topics
  • your personal gold making strategies, be detailed
  • a unique way to overcome an in game challenge

Quality Guidelines

If you're going to submit a guide use the following check list to determine if it meets Almost Gaming's quality standards. Most infractions will lead to a lower payment score.

[ ] All content is unique and is owned by the author submitting it*
[ ] The guide uses images and other media to fully illustrate the topic
[ ] This guide has an appropriate introduction, body and conclusion.
[ ] There are no spelling or grammar errors.
[ ] The guide is separated into paragraphs making it easy to read.
[ ] <h3> tags** are used to create headings.
[ ] <strong> tags** are used to emphasis important parts of the guide.
[ ] NEW Almost Gaming is powered by WoW Head. This means that you, as an author, can create powerful links to items and spells like this:

[Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian]
Swiftmend

These powerful links should be used in your submitted guides to receive full credit. You can use this template to get you started:

<a href="http://www.wowhead.com/?item=#####" class="q5">Item Name</a>

Replace #### with the wowhead item # (found in the item's URL). Replace q5 with the quality: legendary: q5, epic: q4, rare q3, uncommon q2 and common q1. And finally, replace Item Name with the item's full name. Remember, you can replace 'item' with 'spell' if the link should provide a spell's information.

* All submitted content will be copyscaped to prevent plagiarism. Violating user accounts will be suspended and not receive payments until the suspension is lifted. Don't plagiarize.
** For more information on using HTML tags, learn HTML

Why Almost Gaming

Almost Gaming has been committed to the gaming community since 2006, providing free content to gamers everywhere in the world. We strive to provide the highest quality content we can get, and this page is proof we're willing to pay for it. Almost Gaming's monthly audience is well over a half million, we have a Google Page Rank of 4/10 and Alexa places us in the top 35,000 sites on the internet. All profits are invested back into the gaming community, either to you the authors or our full time technical and gaming staff. If you have unique ideas of how you or your guild can help our cause, contact us for possible sponsorship.