I’ve just received an invitation to sign up to a new publishing website called Fortitude. Yet another article publisher?

It’s an obvious thing to say but you never know with new sites – they can be they the next big thing or the next flop. Should you pay to sign up up? Certainly if you do, you can play your part in the creation of great quality articles and maybe even get paid.

Fortitude is run by the current owner of Qondio which is a relatively successful mini publishing site. Qondio publishes intel rather than full on articles and allows you to generate backlinks based on short pieces of quality writing.

More About Fortitude

There are two ways to join Fortitude. You can pay for a year (just over $23), or sign up for free. But you can only write articles if you pay for an account so I just paid for mine. My motivation is that I want my articles to generate backlinks for SEO purposes. If you sign up for free you can’t contribute articles but you can still be an affilliate for Fortitude. It isn’t a multi-level affiliate program but it does have what they refer to as strong residuals.

They state that if any articles you write make the front page (due to them being considered good enough to get there) you will be paid between $10 and $100 for each. An article makes the front page if human reviewers (the members of Fortitude) say it should. So it should be fair and the quality should also be maintained.

Look At These Article Categories

Another difference with this particular site is that they categorize articles in a different way to most others. Normally if you post an article you have to put it into a box according to it’s subject; politics, blogging, programming, cooking for example. But on Fortitude you categorize an article as one of the following :

Well, nice that they’re included but I don’t suppose many advertisements will make it to the front page!

That aside, this new site should be good for your online marketing efforts. When an article is submitted it can have up to 10 external links appended to it (all are nofollow) which means you can link out to your own web properties where appropriate. If the content is quality – as it must be – people might actually READ it. So your links may actually get clicked on a by a real and interested human being. Not that I am anti-robot but trashy $3 article robot bait is taking over the internet, don’t you think?

Further each article can contain up to 25 images.

Maybe Fortitude is a small step in the right direction.