What’s in it for me?

We’re glad you asked!

We have a number of benefits to offer you:

Exposure: We have a solid and growing readership. Secular News Daily presently ranks about #220,000 worldwide and #35,000 in the United States on alexa.com, and averages 1,500 unique visitors daily. Alexa.com estimates 57% of our traffic is based in the United States, with substantial percentages from Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

For comparison, a new blog starts out at about #18,500,000 worldwide.

Secular News Daily also offers placement of all articles on newsnow.co.uk, the UK’s largest news aggregator site.

We provide an author bio box on every article, in which we’re happy for you to include a link to your own blog or favorite website.

This is a great way for a journalist or columnist to build a portfolio of published work and establish a name, a style, and a reputation within your area of interest.

Freedom to Write: You want to write. You aren’t interested in site-building. Even using a hosted blogging platform like blogspot.com, you have to make your site look the way you want. If you start a self-hosted site, you pay for hosting, and take on the technical responsibilities of managing a site. We do that for you, so you can focus on your writing.

Editing: If you write for us, we will edit your work for you. Some authors require little editing. Others we’ve worked with find great benefit in our review; their edited columns or news stories express their ideas more clearly. You want to shine, and we want you to shine!

By writing for us, you’ll get low-pressure experience with the author/editor relationship — something you will experience throughout your writing career.

Revenue Sharing: We believe that if you’re contributing to the site, you should share in any income generated. So, we’ve implemented Advertising Manager.

When you look at an article, you will see Google AdSense ads in the upper right corner of the page. Once you get started, we’ll set Advertising Manager so that 300 x 250 pixel box shows whatever ad you want to show (adult stuff excluded; this is a work-friendly site!) 50% of the time that your articles are viewed.

After you’ve published 5 articles, we’ll bump that up to 70% of the time.

What can you use for ads?

• Get your own Google AdSense account — it’s free.
• Pick another advertising network that you prefer.
• Find a sponsor or advertiser of your own who wants to pay you to advertise on your articles.
• Promote a favorite website.
• Promote your Facebook page.
• Promote a favorite book, event, non-profit, whatever you like! It’s your ad space.

Fun! You get to raise awareness and shape public opinion on matters of great importance to our collective futures. You can start exciting discussions, and add your voice to calls to keep religion where it belongs — in houses of worship, not the halls of power. What could be more fun than that? (Stop looking at me like that.)

So, why haven’t you sent us an email yet?