Here are some cool tips for you to maximise your earnings.
1. As you must have noticed in your discussions , everytime you click on a new discussion and respond to it , your rating goes up by 1 . Everytime you start a discussion of your own , your rating goes up by 1 only when atleast one person responds to your discussion. So an easy way of shooting up your rating is by simply responding to as many new discussions as possible.
But friends let me tell you , the algorithm is not foolish enough to give you your earnings on the basis of ur rating earned in a day. If you go to every discussion , type stuff like yes/no and come back , your earning for the day can very easily turn out to be 0$. Therefore whenever you respond to a discussion , try to make sure that you have atleast 15-20 words in your response.
2. Now , how does the algorithm understand that what ever you are typing in your response is related to what the discussion is about. They cannot possibly sit and read the millions of messages people type in a day. What the algorithm does is , it checks whether your response contains the same keywords that are contained in the title of the discussion . So obviously , try to include as many keywords from the discussion title in your response as possible.
3. Tag all your discussions . A tag is nothing but a word or a phrase which summarises everything that you have typed.
4. Try to give atleast 2 responses or comments per discussion. It shows that you did not enter the discussion just to increase your rating by 1.
5. Though it seems a much easier way to increase your rating by responding to new discussions started by other people , it is equally important to start your own discussions and make people respond to it . See , everytime a new discussion is started on the site , their database expands . Thats what they want. So they will give more value to you if u have successfully started many discussions.
6. Now let me tell you a way to cheat the algorithm . You must have seen "Today's Hottest Discussions " on the main page. Let me tell you , out of the 4 topics they show as today's hottest discussions , I managed to bring 3 discussions of mine out of the four on two days consecutively. How did i do it . I'll explain . Out of pure observation i found that the no. of people coming to the site for discussion drastically reduces at a particular time of the day. So wat i did was when me and my friend were online at that time , I started a discussion and I started casually chatting with him in that discussion . Though our talk was not really related to the discussion , the algorithm sensed that there was a lot of "discussion" going on in my discussion. So after about 10 mins of discussion , my topic featured on "today's hottest topics " . Once your discussion comes on "today's hottest" list , it'll most probably remain there for the whole day , because any person coming to the site for discussing will most probably tend to respond to "Today's hottest discussions" . So once uv managed to put it up on the hot list , the other users will do the rest to keep it up there . And the algorithm will definitely pay you more if you can manage to bring your discussions on "today's hottest discussions" .
7. Try to earn as many best responses as possible. That increases your value .
8. A discussion of yours gets "RESOLVED" when you select a BEST RESPONSE out of the responses that you have obtained from the other users.
One last piece of advice. A lot of people come to the site hoping to make their wallets fat without doing much work. They probably increase their rating by 10 -20 in a day and hope to get paid really heavy for it . Let me tell you frankly , if u hope to get more than 2$ in a day , you will definitely have to increase your rating atleast by 75-100. Didnt wanna give you false hopes , thats all.
One thing that most people forget while using mylot is that you will get paid to discuss not to increase your rating. One day i sent them a mail asking why i was being paid so less even though my rating was increasing considerably . Let me show you the mail they sent me.
"Whether it is by posting a new discussion, responding to a current discussion, or commenting on a current discussion, you earn money but we calculate the earnings also by the quality of the discussion and responses." ....
So please try to maintain the quality of your discussions. Do not use abusive language while posting and do not think that you can just type rubbish increase your rating and get away. The algorithm is too intelligent for you.
