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1. What is the Featured Contributor Program?

The Featured Contributor Program creates a unique relationship between you and Yeepet.com that brings you the maximum benefits. The program allows you to connect, share and monetize. It provides you, for your blog and other content you create on Yeepet.com with a great deal of advantages such as 100% online ad revenue share, exclusive access to our services, more online exposure, improved traffic, superior free advertising opportunities, creative outlet, and a stronger pet loving community connection. These are a lot more benefits when you go along.

We have a team of experienced pet lovers including dog parents, cat lovers, veterinarians and other pet professionals who joined us and enjoy writing with us as our featured contributors. We welcome you to read along, join us and generate extra income while having fun!

2. What are the benefits of working with you?

There are a lot of benefits you can gain as we offer you:

Better Payment Program

Earn cash bonus and keep 100% of your ad revenue and all the sales made on Yeepet.

Exclusive Free Access to Yeepet Online Services

- Gain exclusive free use of your own Yeepet Store and sell your pet products to targeted audience.
- Redeem your earned points at Gift Center for latest pet products.
- Benefit from employee discounts on Yeepet Store.
- Free business and/or product promotion as Featured Listing.
- Free product samples and more perks.

Greater Online Exposure

Showcase your personal pet expertise as well as your pet business or organization. Reach the fast growing number of pet owners and targeted customers who need your advice, goods or services.

Increased Traffic Driving Opportunity

Drive best traffic to your articles that are search engine optimized, automatically published to Twitter, Facebook and are featured on Yeepet.com and across our online network.

Creative Outlet

Tell pet lovers what they want to hear in your own unique way. Share your pet-related tips, photos and advice creatively and enhance your pet friends network.

3. As a Featured Contributor, will I earn money?

Yes. We will pay you cash bonus plus 100% of your online ad revenue and all the sales you make from your pages.

If you have an account with one or more ad networks, or affiliate marketing program providers, such as Google Adsense, Amazon.com, CJ.com, Art.com, feel free to send us the ad code so that we can put them up. If you are not with any ad network or affiliate program, feel free to sign up and let us know.

Whether or not you have pet products to sell or run a pet service business, we will either set you up on Yeepet Web Store for free in order to sell your products, and/or teach you how to use our sites Yeepet and Petviu to get free advertisement for your business.

4. How does your online revenue program work?

Yeepet online revenue program provides a unique and effective way to incentivize you as a proud memeber in our featured contributor network. Our system has been buillt to specifically cater to your role with us. Depending on which channels or pages you manage on Yeepet, we set up online ads on various pages you manage.

You earn 100% of the online revenue coming from your ads. We don't share a cent.

If you run a Yeepet Store, you keep all the revenue you make as well and we waive the store fee which costs regular vendors 5% to 10% of the sales.

If you manage one of the Yeepet channels, such as Yellow Pages, Events, Links, Classifieds, and Coupons on our sister site Petviu, we will set up online payment options on your pages for you to receive payments from online sales easily and quickly.

In addition, depending on your writing experience and how popular your blogs are, we offer you a monthly cash bonus which you cannot get elsewhere.

Lastly, feel free to use affiliate marketing programs such as Amazon.com, CJ.com, eBay.com and so forth in order to maximize your online revenue. We'd be happy to give you free training and help you set them up on Yeepet.

Our revenue program offers you the best combination of benefits unbeatable elsewhere. Join us or contact us now!

5. What needs to take to become a featured contributor? Who have joined you?

This is a fun job but you desire to take it seriously on a weekly basis. As our featured contributor, you need to be at least one of the following:

Passionate about animals and enjoy sharing their health care, training, lifestyle, grooming, veterinarian and other pet experiences.

Committed to raising awareness on proper pet care as well as providing green living, fashion and lifestyle tips to other pet owners and organizations.

Credible in the pet industry and have hands-on or educational background to draw from.

Knowledgeable in the their own pet field and have relevant experience and expertise to benefit from.

Dedicated to creating quality content that is user-friendly and search engine friendly.

Focused on nurturing our pet loving community through respect, support and help.

We already have a team of pet lovers including dog parents, cat lovers, veterinarians and other pet professionals who joined us and enjoy writing with us as our featured contributors. We welcome you to read along, join us and make money while having fun!

6. How do I apply for featured contributor? What is the application process?

The application process is straightforward as below:

1. Sign up on Yeepet and tell us your Yeepet username.

2. We will sign you up as a participant.

3. Start the test run for a week. You need to write 3 blogs and publish them in our Blogs channel during the test run. Of course you are encouraged to write more. See the FAQ page for more details about the blog requirements.

Please check in with us once the test run ends. We will review your blog posts based on the page views, topics and SEO, and decide whether or not we want to work with you. We like blogs that talk about interesting topics, have a good sense of humor and can drive a good amount of incoming traffic to our site.

If you are hired, you will be paid for the test run.

7. Do you have specific requirements for my blogs as a Featured Contributor?

Originality. All your blog posts must be your original work. Plagiarism is against the law.

Word count. Your blogs should have at least 250 words each. We retain the right to the blogs and posts published on Yeepet. We will train you on effective writing and SEO, and guide you through interesting topics to write on from time to time. So it's a fun and educational experience that you can barely gain elsewhere.

No advertisement for your business, products or service in your blog posts. However, you can recommend quality pet products or services related to your blog topics that the visitors find useful, and add links to your recommendations. Build a trusing relationship between you and your audience.

Also, feel free to add your signature with the link to your pet business or site at the end of each blog.

No PR news in your blog. Visit Petviu.com if you want to post PR news for free.

8. How many blogs do I need to write per week?

You only need to write one (1) blog per week for your assigned blog group or category. You are encouraged to write more and you will be paid more. But to ensure the quality of your blogs, please do NOT write more than 15 blogs per month.

9. Do you have special requirements about my work schedule?

No. It's totally up to you. No hard requirements on this. We want to make it flexible for you. You will be good as long as you make quality blog posts.

10. How do I earn online ad revenue and make sales on Yeepet?

Yeepet is striving to maximize your benefits for writing with us. We let you keep 100% of your online ad revenue and all the sales you make on Yeepet.

We will reserve up to three (3) ad slots on your pages for you and set up your ads. Our system has been built this way to allow us to publish your ads. Simply send us your ad code. We will put up the ads for you.

We suggest you sign up with ad networks such as Google Adsense, Adbrite, etc and affiliate marketing programs such as CJ.com, Amazon.com and more. If you already have an account, simply log in and get your ad code from your account there. Copy and paste your ad code from there, send it to us and you are good to go!

Generating ad revenue and sales with those ad networks and affliliate programs is a good way. You can also have your own Yeepet store if you have pet products to sell. We will set you up on Yeepet Web Store. You will be able to log into your own store and upload products and images. We will waive the transaction fee for you which costs our vendors 5% to 10% of their sales.

We hope you are incentivized and motivated to work with us. Should you have any questions, feel free to let us know.

11. How do I get paid?

We will pay you through Paypal by the 5th of each month.

12. How much money can I earn per month?

Your compensation comes from the cash bonus, 100% of the online revenue and all the sales you make. This depends on how you use the site to maximize your revenue with us.

13. How can I generate more page views on my blogs and other pages?

Page views is an important indicator of how much traffic you get from the Internet. Here are some tips that help you increase your page views on your pages:

1. Promote Your Posts On The Internet

The easiest way is to use the Add button on every blog page on Yeepet to share your posts. The button is located right below the blog title.

In addition, in order to get higher traffic to your posts, we suggest you share your posts on the following websites separately:

Facebook
Myspace
Twitter
Yahoo Answers
Yahoo Groups
Craigslist
Digg
Other top sites

Ask or answer questions in Facebook, Myspace, Yahoo! , forums or blogs while providing the link back to your posts. Remember, don't be a spamer when you do this.

If you are currently writing on another website, you want to post your Yeepet posts on the other website to increase the traffic to your posts on yeepet.com.

2. Write Quality Content

Write new, good, unique content on Yeepet.com. Others will find you and link to you to use your good content.

3. Add Keywords in The Blog Title and Body

Please make sure the titles and bodies of your blogs are search engine friendly, meaning that you need to incorporate search engine friendly keywords into the post title and the actual post so that search engines will be most likely to index your pages quickly. When users type in some keywords in the search engines, your post that has the keywords in the title or body will show up in the search results. This way you will get a better chance to generate more ad impressions and potentially more clicks on your pages.

4. Other Ways to Promote Your Posts

Submit your blogs to ArticlesBase.com, ArticleSnatch.com,Ideamarketers.com, Gather.com, etc. Good articles will get you more external links highly qualified traffic.

If you are active on Yahoo Groups or other groups on other sites such as Meetup.com, you may add your posts there if possible when you discuss with your group members.

In general, try to increase the exposure of your posts on the Internet. You will be on the way to getting a lot more traction onto your Yeepet posts.

14. How do you determine if my blogs are popular?

The popularity of your blogs depend on various factors including page views, content quality, blog topics and others.

Page views are clearly displayed on each of your blog pages. The more page views, the more popular your blog. You want to increase the exposure of your blogs and therefore the page views of your blogs by promoting your blogs on various sites as suggestion in the above Question #1. You can simply use the Share link on each blog page to share your blogs on other sites.

Content quality depends on how your blog is written and how the statements are described. This is not something we can quantify, but read our featured blogs to get an idea.

Whether or not blog topics are interesting is another criterion we use to measure the popularity of your blogs. The topics should be useful, educational, informative or entertaining.

15. Will I retain copyright to my blog posts?

Yes. You and Yeepet co-own the copyright of your original blog articles/posts.

16. I don't have a pet. Can I still apply?

Yes you can still apply as long as you have relevant experience with either pets or writing. Having a pet now is not a must have although it's highly encouraged. We believe your pet helps you do a better job. However, we welcome experienced professional writers to join us. If you were a journalist and have great writing experience, you are encouraged to send us your application as well.

17. Editorial Guidelines of Yeepet.com

Editorial Guidelines of Yeepet.com

These guidelines are not meant to stifle your creativity nor give you a headache. They are to ensure quality content for our users and visitors and hone you as a writer. The guidelines apply to blogs, articles, and any other submitted editorial content. These guidelines are subject to change, and it is your responsibility to stay up to date on them.

1. MUST BE YOUR ORIGINAL WORK: That means no copy and pasting from the public domain, no plagiarism, no ghostwriting, no Private Label Rights (PLR) articles, no advertisements, and no press releases. We want to read what you have to say.

2. MUST BE PET-RELATED: Yeepet.com is a community of pet lovers. Unless otherwise stated, you can safely assume that any assignment or suggested topic is pet-related. For example, if the topic of "How to Survive the Holidays" were assigned to you, that means "How to Survive the Holidays With Your Pets" or "How to Survive the Holidays For Pets."

3. MUST USE CORRECT ENGLISH: This includes spelling, punctuation, grammar, sentence structure, and capitalization. Incorrect usage of the English language reflects poorly on Yeepet.com and your writing. Please proofread before submission. In particular, note these rules from The Chicago Manual of Style for capitalizing blog and article titles:

- Capitalize the first letter in each word but avoid conjunctions and prepositions.

- Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and subordinate conjunctions (such as, "than," "because," "if" and "that") are capitalized.

- Lowercase all articles, prepositions, and coordinate conjunctions (such as, "and," "but" and "so") when they are not the first or last word.

- Lowercase the "to" in an infinitive.

For stylistic purposes, please also apply these rules when creating your blog and article titles:

- Excessive punctuation is unnecessary. Use periods rarely for emphasis (...), and no more than three. Use exclamation marks rarely. One exclamation mark (!) or question mark (?) is plenty. Do not use more than one of either or both at the same time.

- Your title is what pulls your readers deeper into your work. Make it count. Short and sweet is a great motto for this. For example, "10 Toys Under $10" is far better than "I Saw Some Great Toys While I Was out Today...".

4. MUST NOT CONTAIN OFFENSIVE CONTENT: Profane, racist, defamatory, libelous, violence-oriented, obscene, or insulting language will not be tolerated. Your submissions must not contain pornography, use or advocacy of weapons, illegal drugs, prescription drugs, tobacco products, or hard alcohol. This is by no means an exhaustive list. Yeepet.com reserves the right to reject and/or remove any editorial content at any time.

5. MUST BE ACCURATE: It is the writer's responsibility to ensure the content of their submission is accurate.

6. MUST HAVE PROPER ATTRIBUTION: If you quote any source other than yourself, you must give that source attribution. Also, do not post any pictures that are not within legal bounds for you to do so or that are not the sole property of the writer. The writer is ultimately responsible for ensuring the legality of any content or pictures in their respective works.

Blog Writing Guide

It's great to share your knowledge and opinion; it's even better to be heard when you're doing it. The following tips are provided to help our blogging team attract more readers to their posts. Happy blogging!

Would I read this? This is a great question to ask yourself before posting a blog. Check out your headline first. Is it so intriguing that if you saw it, you would just have to click and find out more? Be honest and objective with yourself. Move onto the blog. Is it entertaining or informing enough to keep your reader engaged through the whole posting?

1. Short, sweet and concise: Some topics take longer than others, but it is generally better for you to keep it short and sweet. Why? Because many of us have short attention spans and want entertainment and information in bite-size form, not term paper format. We all hated those.

2. Get to the point quickly: Write down steps, tips or advice in the 1-2-3 format or in bullet points and briefly explain what they are. People need to understand what you are talking about quickly.

3. Proper title capitalization: Capitalize the first letter in each word in the blog title but avoid conjunctions and prepositions.

4. Great grammar: It's difficult to think highly of a writer's opinion who can't properly use the English language. We probably all need a brush up from time to time, so try to review every now and again. Here are some common grammatical errors that can make a good blog look bad:

It's and its:

- "It's" is a contraction for "it is" or "it has." If you say a sentence out loud and can replace "it's" with "it is" or "it has," you have it right.

- "Its" is a possessive pronoun, as in, "Yeepet.com is its name."

You're and your:

- "You're" is a contraction for "you are." For example, "You're going to buy some new fish?"

- "Your" is another possessive pronoun, as in, "That is your dog eating off the table."

There, their, and they're:

- "There" is used in a variety of ways such as, "There is my cat," or "Take that over there."

- "Their" is a plural possessive pronoun, as in "Their mother will arrive soon." It is only used when there is a belonging of something. It is their mother.

- "They're" is a contraction for "they are" or "they were." "They're going to Orlando today."

5. Pictures: Same goes for pictures. Nothing is like a 500-word blog about the smallest dog in the world, and there is no picture of him. Pictures really make your blogs stand out and more appealing to online readers. We love pictures. Make sure to comply with Yeepet.com's policies on picture posting.

6. Links: add links properly whenever needed to your blogs make sense to others. If you are talking about something exciting and cool but without pointing to the original page, users have to google it to find out which is such a drag and not user-friendly. But keep in mind we don't want to endorse any product, busines, service or organization unless you feel strong about it and want to highly recommended it as a consumer. Eventually you don't want your post to sound too commercial and this could decrease the value of your perspective and your credibility in our network.

7. Break it up: One huge lump of text just screams, "Don't read me." It looks like too much work to tackle the whole thing. Break up your blog into easy-to-digest paragraphs, and it will look far more appealing to your reader.

8. Write what you know and love: If you do not know nor care anything about the topic you chose to write about, by all means find another one. No one wants to read from someone who has complete apathy about their subject.

9. Lots of internal linking: It's always good to include internal links to other pages on Yeepet.com. This way you help our users explore more cool content we have.