Get Paid to write for DefenceTalk.com

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Well... in our effort to give the Weapons DB and World Military Info sections another push. We are going to launch get paid to write program on DefenceTalk.com.

Any ideas or suggestions? Anybody interested?

Get Paid to Write About
  1. World Militaries
  2. World Military Weapons
  3. Defense News and Current Military Events
Write for DefenceTalk.com - World Military Info/Weapons Database/Defense News sections and you'll be rewarded for it. Not only will you have the satisfaction of educating people worldwide about military equipment and advance weapon systems that are being used globally, but you'll get paid doing it! Find out how our revenue sharing works.

Get Paid to Write Guide
The DefenceTalk aims to build weapons database and provide updated information on various military and defense issues that is factual and relevant. This guide will help those who want to participate in DefenceTalk.com get paid to write program. The authors must follow these guidelines to fulfill DefenceTalk user’s interesting content needs while asserting yourself as expect in your field.

What do you want to write? Pick your Section

You have the opportunity to write for two sections of DefenceTalk:
  • News and Current events in Military/Defense field. You have the opportunity to write about current military and defense issues related to world armed forces. Criticize or expand on reports published in other defense and military publications.
  • Weapons Database, help us build our weapons database by writing technical document on a particular weapon system.

What are the readers looking for?
Please keep the readers in mind, who may use the information:
• That the information about strategic defense issues and military weapons is clearly explained
• That the information is current and up-to-date, provide official sources when available
• Thorough examination and explanation of technical aspects of the weapon system. Provide official technical specification.

Part 1: Submission Requirements
Voluntary submissions to DefenceTalk.com must:
News section articles be at least 1000 words in length
Weapons Database technical documents on weapon systems may vary from 600-1200 words depending on type of weapon system and information that is required to cover these areas:
·Introduction
·Features and Capabilities
·History and Background Info
·Technical Details / Specs (follow the guidelines below as much as possible, no numbering, copy the format below and fillt he blanks)
·For Air Weapon Systems
a.Primary Function:
b.Builder/Contractor:
c.Power Plant/Engine:
d.Thrust:
e.Length:
f.Height:
g.Wingspan:
h.Speed:
i.Ceiling:
j.Maximum Takeoff Weight:
k.Range:
l.Armament:
m.Unit cost:
n.Crew:
o.Date Deployed:
p.Inventory:
q.Countries: (Optional)

·For Naval Weapon Systems
a.Primary Function
b.Builder
c.Power Plant:
d.Date Deployed:
e.Propulsion:
f.Length:
g.Beam
h.Displacement:
i.Speed:
j.Crew
k.Aircraft:
l.Weapon/Combat Systems:
m.Cost
n.Units
o.Countries: (Optional)

·For Army/Land Weapon Systems
a.Primary Function:
b.Contractor:
c.Crew:
d.Length:
e.Width:
f.Height:
g.Weight:
h.Speed:
i.Range:
j.Engine:
k.Armament:
l.Inventory:
m.Cost:
n.Countries: (Optional)

·For Missile Weapons Systems
a.Primary Function:
b.Contractor:
c.Power Plant:
d.Thrust:
e.Speed:
f.Range:
g.Length:
h.Diameter:
i.Finspan:
j.Warhead:
k.Launch Weight:
l.Guidance System:
m.Deployed Date:
n.Unit Cost:
o.Inventory:
p.Countries:
·Reference Information / links (books, DoD/MoD sites, other links subject to approval)
• avoid rehashing articles/content that has already been covered on the site
• be submitted in Microsoft Word or plain text format—our CMS allows text only, so HTML submissions are not advisable
• avoid the use of HTML tags to indicate the formatting of text
• exemplify a reasonable amount of skill with communication in the English language
• be your original work/in your words/written by you, and give full credit for any passages quoted from other sources. Please do not copy paste from other websites.
• Not contain link/s or reference/s to the authors own business, unless in very rare cases
• be submitted to Defensetalk [at] gmail.com along with an author bio of no more than 40 words (including link/s to your site/s).

Submitting to DefenceTalk
Once we receive your submission, DefenceTalk will review it to make sure it meets the requirements above and get back to you. If we haven't contacted you in timely fashion (7-14 days), you can assume that article will not be published. If you decide within that timeframe that you no longer wish to publish your article with DefenceTalk, simply email Defensetalk [at] gmail.com to let us know.

Part 2: Acceptance, Publication and Rights

Payment
coming soon..

Publication and Rights
In exchange for payment, we request that you give DefenceTalk.com unlimited, exclusive rights to the article. DefenceTalk.com requires complete exclusivity over the article for 90 days from its date of publication, after that time you may publish the article on your own site. Any other reproductions of the article, in any form, in part or whole, must be approved by DefenceTalk.com in writing before the reproduction is published.

Upon the acceptance of your article, we'll send you an agreement that specifies these terms, which you must sign and return to us before we are able to publish your work.

DefenceTalk.com is unable to publish content over which it does not hold unlimited, exclusive rights in this get paid to write program.

Part 3: DefenceTalk Styles

Links and URLs
Include links as appropriate. If you refer to another person's work, a book, an online resource, or any topic on which the reader might want more information, include an appropriate link.
• Don’t encode links into a Word document. Instead, simply paste the URL immediately before the text from which you’d like it linked.
• Do not include links to your own sites, or the sites of your clients (unless in very rare cases) in your article – articles that include these will not be published.
• Do not include affiliate links in your article – articles that include these will not be published.

Images
Images associated with your article should be submitted as separate .jpg/.png files.
• Images should be no larger than 525 pixels wide. DefenceTalk gallery is good place to find pictures for this size in addition to larger sized images.

Downloadable Files
You are encouraged to include files for download by readers of your article. These files include official reports (mostly large PDF files from DoD/MoD or defense companies)

Consistent Spellings
DO NOT ABBREVIATE, if you must, use equipment name fully and abbreviation in parenthesis (Example: EF-2000, should be “EuroFighter 2000 Typhoon (EF-2000)” or SAM, should be "Surface to Air Missile (SAM)". Please write name of the weapon system or military entity fully rather than its shorter version. If you must, insert the shorter version in parenthesis as shown above.
Example: USAF should be written > US Air Force (USAF) or Israeli Air Force (IAF).
Words such as Air Force, Land Forces, Army, and Naval Forces must be fully written in the document.
# Make sure you know what you are doing. If article does not meet our guidelines and is sloppy, it will be turned down and will not be published. So, don't waste time if you are unable to do so fully and completely.

Similar program coming for those who will upload pictures to the gallery and want to get paid...
 
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aaaditya

New Member
in the fifth paragraph when you say (size .colour,aggresiveness),what exactly do you mean by the aggresiveness.
 

Big-E

Banned Member
I would be happy to write some but they would be naval articles only. Do you want capabilities of weapon systems included?
 

webmaster

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Staff member
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  • #4
aggresiveness, meaning how technical or detailed an article needs to be.

Big-E, anything would do. If you can write (on your own or through research and put it in your words) and want to be paid through google adsense (revenue sharing) this is a good chance.

For now, weapon system related articles only. I am sure many people would be interested if they knew they can get a google adsense account easily and can start earning money right away.
 

aaaditya

New Member
WebMaster said:
aggresiveness, meaning how technical or detailed an article needs to be.

Big-E, anything would do. If you can write (on your own or through research and put it in your words) and want to be paid through google adsense (revenue sharing) this is a good chance.

For now, weapon system related articles only. I am sure many people would be interested if they knew they can get a google adsense account easily and can start earning money right away.
would strategy analysis and comparisons of armed forces also do?
 

webmaster

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Staff member
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  • #6
Well, you can write about your country's armed forces which would be publishd here:
http://www.defencetalk.com/world_military/

Any other form of force comparison should be well written and unbiased and should strictly consider the ground realities rather than nationalistic perception.
 

KAPITAIN

New Member
I could gladly write and supply pictures of russian naval vessels thier purpose weapons and what not.

Some of my special pictures could come into play here, some that only a few privledged enough to see ;)

Pm me if there is anything you woul like me to do.
 

wittmanace

Active Member
sounds like something id be intertested in. i have a few questions though...

what time period is this open to? (all post world war two, post korea,etc?)
is it for anything in use today, or is there a list of items or a list of countries whose use means that items are open for an article?
would you be interested in pictures and articles on more obscure nations' weapons systems and local mods?


sounds interesting,
wittmanace
 

webmaster

Troll Hunter
Staff member
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  • #9
Hi Wittmanace,

Thanks for the interest. As long as it is defence/military related, it is a go. If some section is not there, we will create it to accomodate whatever you are interested in.

Enjoy
 

heso10

New Member
ok i would like to participate in this but there are some questions if my write was checked and you foun it has some wrong grammer or spelling would it be turned down or you will correct the wrong and puplish it
and do i write in the primary url http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/

and thanks
 

webmaster

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Staff member
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  • #11
It would be checked and corrected. Only reason I would turn it down would be when it was copied from somewhere and had too many factual errors and didn't follow the format as required above.
 

Gollevainen

the corporal
Verified Defense Pro
As usual, I'm eager to go for the task, although I know it may end up against my own benefit...But who cares. I can write quite good article about Finnish indegenious artillery programs, exspecially about the 155K98 and perhaps something about the soviet D-30.

But this AD thing is bit weird to me, what it exactly is? In comon speach/bad english? How much i can benefit from it? Is the ammount of money enough to compensate the effort of getting this Ad thing?

I can always write the thing and you can send money to me some otherways?:rolleyes: ...or to be solidare anbd write it without any other benefit than just nice little egoboost...;)
 

webmaster

Troll Hunter
Staff member
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  • #13
Well, it won't be much but you can earn few bucks depending on the popularity and how many different people click on the ads. It is a 50% share between your adsense ID and DefenceTalk. So, 50% of the ads displayed would be for your AD sense id and you get the money for it. Say, 100 see the article, and 50 click on the ads out of that 50, 25 clicks would be recorded under your adsense account and whatever you make from that is yours. If its $1000 so be it, if it is $10.00 then that is your luck. :D

You can certainly write about Finish Military and its weapons.
 

DoC_FouALieR

New Member
hmm.. I have not fully understand how this works, and how can I register to a google "Ad-account"?
Please give me links... because I'm interested in writing some articles on French weapons systems.
And what about articles that are not on weapons but rather on weapon technlogy? (for example guidance technology, propulsion methods for guided weapons, etc etc..)
 

webmaster

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You can write about that as well. Anything that relates to Military and defense and provides technical details about certain weapon system or its components.

https://www.google.com/adsense

We are sorting some issues with this system before publishing anything so that it works out smooth. ;)
 

JBodnar39

New Member
I am not much for writing articles, however I do maintain what I believe is a very accurate database of naval/military aviation assets which I update on a monthly basis (it is a hobby and is excess of 140 pages). I'd love to submit something like that (especially if I can get a buck or two out of it). If you give me an email address I'll send you a copy for your examination. My email is [email protected]
 
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