Will people who join the Wellsphere Health Bloggers Network get paid for content fed into Wellsphere.com?
HealthCentral is considering a number of ways to help bloggers realize value for their knowledge. HealthCentral may contract with members of the Health Bloggers Network to write articles specifically for publication on Wellsphere or other HealthCentral sites. Writers will be compensated for these articles as expert patients on other HealthCentral sites are compensated. HealthCentral will explore new ways to help bloggers realize more value from their personal blogs. For example, HealthCentral may ask a member of the Health Bloggers Network to include links on their pages to sponsorship opportunities arranged by HealthCentral. Bloggers would receive a revenue share from consumers who click from links on their personal blogs and then opt to participate in the sponsorship opportunity. This is similar to the way search engine cost per click arrangements work, adding a new and complementary revenue source for bloggers in the Wellsphere network.
