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March 12, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Health Ranger announces BLOGS.naturalnews.com
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Alright, if you're a writer, a journalist, a non-profit, even a scientist or a naturopathic physician, and you've got something to share with the world, I've got very exciting news for you.
This is Mike Adams, the health ranger, the founder of naturalnews.com, and we're just now launching blogs.naturalnews.com.
This is the new multi-user blogs site.
Where you can have your own channel, your own page, your own articles.
So far, as I'm recording this, we've had 300 people sign up for it.
Someone called it the Huffington Post of the Natural Health World.
I don't know if that's a fair comparison or not, but the idea is that we wanted to open up the natural news domain, which is the number one most trafficked natural health news website in the world.
And you can see our numbers on Alexa.com if you want to confirm that.
But we wanted to open it up to a lot more people than just myself, the primary writer, and our in-house staff, and some contributing writers.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
We've had a lot of success over many years doing in-house writing, investigative journalism, whistleblowing, covering breaking news, lots of very important things going on.
We've just launched the new science subdomain, science.naturalnews.com, which is a wonderful research tool indexing millions upon millions of scientific studies on phytonutrients, vitamins, minerals, drugs, side effects, toxic chemicals, body systems, amino acids, and even environmental issues.
So we've done a lot of great things, but this is the most exciting thing that we've done yet, in my opinion.
Launching blogs.naturalnews.com and you can participate.
You can sign up.
It's free, but actually it's better than free.
Let me explain.
Not only do we not charge you to use the system, obviously, because you're posting content, you're posting articles, blogs, recipes, news reports, even just your own opinions.
You can post almost anything you want as long as it's not illegal and it doesn't promote Merck and Pfizer.
But you can post almost anything you want.
We've got dozens and dozens of categories and we'll add new categories for you if you need a new category.
Like we just added mental health as a new category for some psychiatric professionals, or I should say anti-psychiatry, sort of alternative psychiatry professionals who wanted to write for us.
But you actually can earn revenues posting and here's how it works.
It's very straightforward, very simple, and extremely fair.
We give you control over the top ad position above your article.
It's the premium ad spot on your article page.
I believe it's a 728 by 90 banner spot, which is a standard Google AdSense ad spot.
You get control of that, which means you can sign up for Google AdSense.
And you can have your own Google account, and as the traffic starts coming to the article pages that you've created, or the posts, you get the revenue directly from Google.
So we don't keep any of that.
We're not involved in that.
We don't even see your numbers, actually, and we don't send you checks.
Thank goodness, because our accounting department would go nuts.
But you get paid directly by Google, or you can choose another ad provider.
I know not everybody is a huge fan of Google, probably because of some of the NSA revelations, but for whatever, it's your choice.
You can choose a different ad provider.
We don't allow animated ads and really sort of pop-up ads and things like that that are rude, I think, for a website.
But you can choose another ad provider, or you could even create your own banner and just have a non-profit ad there if you want to support your non-profit.
You could put your own ad in that spot for your book, for your website, for something that you want to help support.
Anything you want.
Basically, you have control over that ad position.
Then we have control over other ad positions on the page, on the margin or below your article and so on, that are actually less valuable.
So you get the single most valuable ad spot on the page, and then we get the less valuable ad spots elsewhere on the page.
Now that helps us obviously pay for the hosting of this, the R&D, the development, the support, the bandwidth, all of these things that are associated with running a very large content network.
So, we think it's a really fair split, and it's something that's exciting because no one in the industry has done this.
Even the Huffington Post, if you think about it, they don't pay anybody to write, or at least not that I'm aware of, not the main contributors.
Maybe they pay a couple of really high-profile writers, but to my knowledge, they don't pay people normally.
And the people don't earn money on the traffic that their content generates.
And honestly, I think that's kind of unfair.
I think that if you contribute content, you should share in what that content generates in terms of revenue, which, admittedly, sometimes is not very much, especially if you write on topics that aren't easily commercialized with AdSense content.
For example, if you're writing political articles, they generally will not produce very much AdSense revenue.
Or if you're writing about Astronomy or astrophysics, some really arcane scientific endeavor.
Quantum mechanics, you're not going to get a lot of AdSense ads, so the revenues aren't going to be there for you.
But nevertheless, whatever the revenue potential really is, I always think it's fair that you, the contributor, are able to share in that.
Now, I know, though, most of you listening to this really aren't interested in this just for earning some money.
And I agree with you.
I'm not in the business for money either.
I'm in this to awaken people to natural cures, nutrition, to the dangers of the heavy metals in their foods, the dangers of GMOs, the dangers of mercury that's still in vaccines and does have a cumulative biotoxic burden on the human body.
I'm in this, I'm doing this because I believe in protecting the future of humanity against all of the onslaughts of chemicals and processed foods and nutrient depleted foods and toxic monoculture agriculture.
The glyphosate toxicity.
The glyphosate carpet bombing of our bread basket.
These are things that concern me.
Because I think that humanity deserves better than to be subjected, like guinea pigs, to an onslaught of toxic experimental chemicals and vaccines and pharmaceuticals and mind-altering medications and all these things.
I think humanity deserves better, and I'm willing to fight for that.
I'm willing to put forth time and money and effort to do that.
And that's why...
I launched blogs.naturalnews.com.
This is the second big announcement we've had this year.
The first one was the science subdomain website.
The second here is blogs.
And by the way, you can sign up.
You can just go to blogs.naturalnews.com right now and you can sign up there to become a contributor.
And then we have a third major announcement coming later this year towards the Christmas timeframe that will blow your mind and it will absolutely send shockwaves through the natural products industry.
We are doing things that even governments have not been able to accomplish.
Universities have not been able to do.
It is a very big deal and I can't wait to bring you that announcement later in the year.
But anyway, I'm just teasing you a little bit with that because it's very exciting for me to be able to have this kind of, to develop these kinds of information awareness products that I think are changing our world, changing awareness, waking people up, making our world a better place because of access to information.
So that's really what I feel passionate about.
But speaking of that, let's get back to you, And how you can use blogs.naturalnews.com Now, over the years we've had many, many non-profits contact us and say, Hey, can you print our articles or our press releases?
Can you publicize this announcement?
And many times my answer has been, I would love to, but we don't have a mechanism to be able to really do that because we're running crazy 24-7 the way it is.
Just trying to get the news out every day and get everything edited and running the servers and the personnel, the in-house staff and all these things.
It's a complex operation.
So we haven't really had an opportunity to spend time taking people's emails that had, let's say, attached Word documents and then somehow modify those and put them into a content system and get those posted.
It just takes too much time.
It's too complex.
I shouldn't say it's too complex.
It's just too tedious, really, is what it is.
Time-consuming to do it over and over and over again.
Well, blogs solves this problem, meaning that if you are a non-profit, if you're an activist, if you're an organization that has something important to say, maybe you're an alternative medicine organization, or you're a naturopath, and you want to announce some things about...
Maybe, for example, like a guy I was just listening to at an ACAM conference, he has a company that has developed a very high-end mercury speciation analysis technology for speciating mercury, ethyl, methyl, and inorganic mercury in human subjects, he has a company that has developed a very high-end mercury speciation analysis technology for speciating mercury, ethyl, methyl, and
And he probably would like to announce that to the world and perhaps benefit from his laboratory receiving that awareness so that people can get their mercury speciation testing done with his lab and they can determine whether they have a toxic load of mercury, whether they have a toxic load of mercury, whether they have a toxic load of mercury.
whether they're eliminating mercury, whether they are suffering a chronic low-level exposure to mercury, Most people get mercury through inhaling the off-gassing of dental amalgams, for example.
People need to know this stuff.
We can save lives, folks.
We can stop birth defects.
We can educate people so that they're aware of the legitimate health threats that are affecting them.
And blogs.naturalnews.com is a tool that people can use to help get the words out.
So let's say this guy, this scientist, creates a blogs account.
He posts his press release in there.
Then we see it, and what we do is we flag it to be featured on the naturalnews.com homepage because we like the post.
And when I say we, it's myself and a few other key people in Natural News who make these decisions.
But when we see something really cool, we flag it.
We check a checkbox, actually, in our administrative panel, and then that puts your article on the Natural News homepage.
And then we're also working on another widget that's going to appear soon so that the top, the most popular blogs articles appear across all of the articles on naturalnews.com.
So it's 35,000 plus, I don't know how many articles, will feature a list of the most popular blogs articles happening right now.
So this is a huge opportunity.
Even if you're listening to this, if you're a university and you're doing amazing research and you want to get the word out about some new finding that you have, if you're an activist, an activist, let's say you're an anti-GMO activist, or you're an activist working on awareness about Agent Orange, or glyphosate, or lead in foods imported from China, for example, one of my favorite topics, or most horrifying topics, actually.
Anything that you feel...
Maybe you feel passionate about parental rights, freedom of medicine, so that parents have the protected right to choose what kind of medicine they wish to give their children and not be forced at gunpoint by the state to subject their children to toxic therapies such as chemotherapy.
And that has happened over and over again.
We've documented it at naturalnews.com.
There may be many other topics.
Maybe you're interested in how-to gardening articles and posts that you can share with people.
I love aquaponics.
I'm building an aquaponics system.
And so I'm really into food production technology.
And maybe you are too.
Maybe you're an expert in aquaculture.
Maybe you're an expert in how to grow in hot climates, how to grow in greenhouses, irrigation systems for healthy plants, pest control using natural, non-toxic, non-synthetic products.
There's so many areas of specialty.
Now, thanks to blogs.naturalnews.com, You have an opportunity to post content in each of these areas, to earn money for this content using the ad space that we give you control over, so you can have an AdSense ad there if you wish, and also you receive the instant success of being associated with the domain name naturalnews.com, which is the number one most trafficked natural health news website on the internet.
With amazing search engine rankings, by the way, we get sometimes, I actually watch the statistics of traffic, and sometimes I will see Google alone, the Google search engine, sending us, for example, 35 to 40 visitors a minute on one article 35 to 40 visitors a minute on one article through the natural Google search engine rankings.
That happens frequently.
And on any given day when I'm checking the stats, we might be getting 2,000 visitors every 60 seconds across a larger selection of articles.
Well, your article could be part of that.
And if you write good titles and you write good keywords as part of your post, and people like your articles and link to those articles, then you could really get a huge, legitimate, honest boost to your traffic by being associated with our domain.
naturalnews.com.
And a lot of it comes down to what's called a domain authority.
And if you go out and start your own domain name, it starts with zero authority, which means the search engines don't trust it.
And people don't trust it.
And it doesn't get a lot of traffic.
So if you go out and start your own blog, it's going to be minimally successful.
It's like, I built it, but they didn't come.
That syndrome.
I've seen that happen with people over and over and over again.
But if you start a blog with us, which is, again, free to do, and you get paid by an ad company to do it, then you get the instant domain authority that we have, which is, I think, 91 the last time I checked.
It's a scale from 0 to 100.
And very few web domains have a domain authority over 90.
And ours, I think, is 91.
It might be 92, something in that range.
But it's very, very high because we've been doing this for over a decade, and we've We've published tens of thousands of original articles.
We don't scrape content.
We're not a big, you know, copy and paste website.
We cite other sources and we write original content.
And we've done that for years upon years.
And we have, right now, we have over 25,000 unique domains linking in to us at naturalnews.com.
Think about the power of that.
25,000 unique domain names linking in to us.
Which also is why I laugh sometimes when people call me and say, let's do a link trade.
I'll link to you if you link to us.
I look at their website and it's got like five links going in.
I've got to explain to them, you know, we don't really do that.
If you want some publicity, join our blog's website.
Post articles, post great content, and you'll get the amazing...
Benefits of doing that.
Oh, and there's another benefit I got to share with you too, which is that in your article at the bottom of it, you can have an about the author section where you describe other things that you're doing and you can link to them and we fully support that.
So maybe you're doing a book.
Maybe you're doing a movie.
Maybe you have another website.
Maybe you have a commercial interest, a company, a clinic, a patent.
Who knows?
Whatever you have going on.
You can link to it in your About the Author section so that you're creating more traffic to you, even if it's commercial.
It's okay.
Maybe you're selling a DVD course.
Maybe you're selling an audio course, a set of books, how to get a six-pack of abs, whatever.
As long as it's honest...
As long as it's legitimate, obviously we're going to ban scammers.
We're going to reject articles that look spammy or articles that are just obviously atrociously constructed.
We're not going to be happy if you link off to another website that has a bunch of pop-ups on it that looks spammy or scammy or...
Or deceptive in some way.
So we are policing that aspect of it because we want the experience on blogs.naturalnews.com to be one that users trust.
So we want to build that trust by having boundaries of what we allow in terms of off-site links.
But here's the other good news.
We don't edit your article, okay?
On blogs, we're not subjecting your article to our in-house editorial staff.
And our editorial staff is...
They're pretty...
Hardcore.
They will reject articles that have been submitted by contributing writers.
Sometimes they'll reject them very aggressively if there's grammatical problems or whatever.
And sometimes writers don't like that.
They like a little more leeway, a little more freedom to be able to write in their style.
Maybe they don't want to adhere to AP style.
Maybe they don't want to follow rules of grammar.
I don't know.
On blogs.naturalnews.com, your post is up to you.
We are not your editor.
All we do is we review each post as a yes-no.
So it's either approved or rejected, and that's it.
We don't make changes to your article.
But that also means, of course, the responsibility is up to you to get it right.
And if you have a bunch of typos in there, you're probably not going to get a lot of big support from the readers who will not become your fans if your articles or posts aren't high quality posts.
And that's the other aspect of this.
As you post blogs that are really popular, you're going to get a lot of people who become your fans and followers, and they can follow your channel right there on blogs.naturalnews.com.
So it's really a win-win situation for everybody.
By joining blogs, you get an instant, highly authoritative platform, which is naturalnews.com, supporting your post, potentially allowing your post to be seen by...
Potentially millions of people a month, depending on if we select it to be a featured post, which obviously we can't do that for every post, but some of them will be selected, some of them won't.
It just depends on what we think is going to be popular with the readers.
You will benefit from the category browsing all over the blog site, and plus our article pages having a widget listing the most popular articles.
So if you can actually even promote your own article and start to get the traffic going up, that can kick it into the top 10 list for that day, which will then cause the traffic to go up even more because then it's being seen across our entire website.
Then you've got potentially 2,000 visitors a minute seeing an article page on Natural News that could be clicking some percentage, maybe 1% or 2% might click over to your article.
And all of these numbers will continue to increase as blogs.naturalnews.com becomes seen as a great resource for a very wide, diverse collection of information from a lot of really interesting people, which people like you and lots of interesting organizations and non-profits and potential universities and naturopathic doctors and scientists and clinics, alternative medicine clinics...
It's almost anything you want to post, this is an opportunity to do it.
So how do you get started?
It's very easy.
Just go to blogs.naturalnews.com, look for the sign-up link.
I don't recall where it is on that page, but we'll make it obvious.
It might be at the very bottom.
Just look around, look for the sign-up link or create an account link, and you can do it there.
We will get your...
It's a simple online application.
You write a few sentences of what you're looking to do with us, with blogs, and you agree to our terms of service, so you give us the rights to perpetually publish your articles.
And then we accept your application.
I'll give you a login and you're good to go.
You can start posting immediately.
And also, just so you know, you know my integrity, probably, if you've been following Natural News.
You know I always strive to make everything super fair and high integrity and honest with everybody I deal with.
And with this, what that means is that you are always going to get the ad revenue from that top ad spot.
So we're not doing a bait and switch on you where it's like, sign up today, post 50 articles, and then someday we steal the articles from you or stop showing your ad.
That would be super sleazy, wouldn't it?
That would be lame.
So we would never do that.
My promise to you is that we will always show your ad when we're showing your article.
And that's in perpetuity.
So it means that if you post some popular content, you can be earning ad revenues month after month after month.
I mean, potentially year after year on that.
And that's a great investment, I think, in time.
We have contributing writers who are earning $2,000 to $3,000 a month just on the articles that they post with us using that system, the top ad earning revenues for them.
And that's part-time.
Now, I'm not saying everybody's going to do that.
I'm not making financial promises, and I hope you don't do this solely for financial reasons.
That's the wrong reason to do this.
But I am saying that we have success stories of writers who are writing on popular topics that happen to have fairly good monetization who are getting checks from Google directly for $2,000 to $3,000 a month.
And I think that with this new blog system, I think we're going to see more and more people having that happen.
And that's a wonderful thing as far as I'm concerned.
It makes me very happy to know that people are being compensated for their efforts.
And the bottom line is, as naturalnews.com becomes more and more popular, and we have a lot of initiatives underway this year that are going to increase our reach, and we're doing more and more focus on the science behind nutrition, food contaminants, many exciting announcements food contaminants, many exciting announcements coming up this year.
I think that you're going to see our traffic approach the probably 8 to 10 million unique visitors per month range by early 2014.
I mean, we're already one of the top, I think, 800 websites in the United States, and that additional traffic will put us maybe in one of the top 500 or 600.
I don't know exactly where we will end up.
But the bottom line is it's a win-win situation for everybody.
We welcome your contribution.
Even if you've been a contributing writer with us before and you didn't find that that old system worked out very well, you might want to try the new system, the blog system.
It's based on WordPress, so it's very easy to use.
A lot of people are able to get in and post articles immediately.
They don't have to learn some strange content system.
And they can immediately start earning revenues while having their content receive high visibility.
And so that's a good thing for everyone involved.
And we will promote your blogs.
We will feature certain blog posts in our outbound email newsletter that goes out each night.
We will feature certain blog posts on our social media, including posting on Facebook, which I think we have approaching 400,000 fans or followers there on Facebook.
We've got our Twitter followers.
We've got a lot of outlets.
And we will help publicize the blog posts that we think readers are interested in checking out.
So you've got our support if you'd like to be involved.
If you're a non-profit, definitely take advantage of this.
In fact, from now on, if a non-profit contacts us and says, can you cover our news?
Can you post this release?
Our answer to that non-profit will be, we will set up an account so that you can post it under blogs.naturalnews.com.
It's that easy.
And then, once it's set up, you can post as often as you want.
And you can post press releases, event announcements, all kinds of things.
And again, we welcome you and we want to create a success together with you as activists, as information truth-tellers, sometimes whistleblowers across this industry.
We all agree that we're interested in health, we're interested in farm freedom, food freedom, natural cures that help people stay healthy and avoid chronic disease.
We want to teach people about metals detoxification, alternatives to prescription medications when that is available, strategies for achieving happiness and mental health without resorting to medications, how to enjoy nature, how to grow your own food, how to be more self-reliant, more independent, how to be safe in a society that sometimes isn't safe.
How to be even financially well off.
We have a whole financial section that talks about money and finance.
So we welcome you to contribute to all of these areas.
Just sign up right now if you'd like to join us at blogs.naturalnews.com.
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