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Terms & Conditions – SS Member Authors

Updated: 10-July-2021

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01. Membership offered by Surviving Susral website

Membership to join Surviving Susral multi-author e-Magazine website as an author is absolutely free subject to our approval of your application. Every approved author is welcome to join our e-magazine Surviving Susral as ‘SS Member Author’.

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02. Benefits for the members

We offer reward based benefits to our SS Member Authors as follows. Please note that as publishers, we offer prize/ award money to those SS Member Authors who get highest recognition from readers on their articles in terms of views, likes, shares and comments:

  • Top five performing articles, with 50 unique views or more, are selected on the basis of 07 Audience Engagement Measures as per Google Analytics Report. Monthly Featured Article Prize of PKR 1000/- is offered to the top performing article with the highest score. Monthly rewards of PKR 500/- each is offered to the remaining top four performing articles.
  • Monthly Readers’ Appreciation Award of PKR 500/- is offered to the winner article with the highest likes on the website over 25 likes.
  • Monthly Readers’ Choice Award of PKR 500/- is offered to the winner article with the highest Facebook shares on the website over 25 shares.
  • Monthly Readers’ Engagement Award of PKR 500/- is offered to the winner article with highest comments on the website over 25 comments.
  • SS Member Authors are allowed to use their own Affiliate Links and/ or Banners from Amazon only to generate income directly from their articles published on our website. Use of up to 10 text links and 02 banners is allowed per article. SS management will not take any revenue share from any such affiliate income of our SS Member Authors from their articles published on our website.
  • All SS Member Authors are entitled to earn 10% recurring commission on each SS Business Directory Subscription that they acquire by offering a 15% discount to the subscriber with the use of their referral code.
  • All SS Member Authors are entitled to earn 10% commission on each SS Contest Sponsorship that they acquire by offering a 15% discount to the sponsor with the use of their referral code.

All benefits mentioned above for the SS Member Authors are offered to the members with active account status only. All SS Member Authors are offered to have an author profile on our website. All SS Member Authors are offered to link their social media pages and websites with their author profiles on our SS website.

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03. Requirements from the SS Member Authors
  • Each SS Member Author is required to submit 01 to 04 articles every month of 500 to 1000 words each, that should be relevant to our niche, as per the stated quality standards (mentioned in point 10 below).
  • The SS Member Author’s account will be deactivated if no article or no acceptable quality article is provided for 03 consecutive months.

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04. Top five performing articles including Featured Article

Top five performing articles, with 50 unique views or more, are selected on the basis of 07 Audience Engagement Measures as per Google Analytics Report. The article with the highest score is promoted as Featured Article. The 07 Audience Engagement Measures are as follows:

  • Unique views: The number of unique visitors who have visited your article on the website
  • Comments on the website: The number of comments you have received from the readers on your article and the number of comments you have replied to on the website accordingly
  • Avg. time spent in sec: The average time the unique visitors have spent reading your article
  • 100-%Exit website: The number of visitors who stayed on the website after reading your article
  • Likes on the website: The number of likes you have received from visitors for your article on the website
  • Votes on the website: The number of visitors who voted for your article on the website
  • Article rating: The rating you have received from the visitors for your article on the website

Note: In case of a tie, the article with maximum actual word count will be selected as Featured Article.

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05. Three monthly awards

Out of the articles published every month, the articles with:

  • Reader’s Appreciation Award of PKR 500/- will be offered to the SS Member Author for the article getting highest likes on the website over 25 likes.
  • Reader’s Choice Award of PKR 500/- will be offered to the SS Member Author for the article getting highest Facebook shares on the website over 25 shares.
  • Reader’s Engagement Award of PKR 500/- will be offered to the SS Member Author for the article getting highest comments on the website over 25 comments.

Note: These are 03 awards of PKR 500/- each per month. In case of a tie for each award, the article with maximum actual word count will be selected for the respective award.

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06. Use of Affiliate Links and Banners
  • Authors can have affiliate links and banners of their own in their articles to monetize their articles and generate income for themselves.
  • Only Amazon affiliate text links/ banners are acceptable.
  • Up to 10 text links and 02 banners are allowed per article.
  • Authors must only provide their own affiliate links and banners obtained through the Amazon affiliate program, and should not use any other person’s links and banners in their articles for monetization.
  • Affiliate links and banners will be published subject to the approval of the SS management. Members will be required to share their tracking ID used in the affiliate links and banners for approval.
  • Affiliate links and banners have to be relevant and appealing for the target audience of the SS website.
  • SS management will not take any revenue share from any such affiliate income of our SS Member Authors from their articles published on our website.
  • SS team will not be responsible for payments or any other aspects related to the Amazon affiliate links and banners used by the members.

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07. Commission on winning SS Business Directory Subscriptions
  • All SS Member Authors are entitled to earn 10% recurring commission on each SS Business Directory Subscription that they acquire by offering a 15% discount to the subscriber with the use of their referral code.
  • We will provide referral codes to our members and commissions will be claimed accordingly by those members whose respective referral codes will be mentioned by the subscribers at the time of registration.
  • The referral code mentioned at the time of a new subscription will be referred to for the recurring subscriptions for paying commissions to the respective members.
  • The commission will be paid in the upcoming payment cycle after the receipt of the payment from the subscribers. For example, if a subscriber registers his/ her business with our business directory using the referral code of a member and we receive the subscriber’s payment in January, then the respective member’s commission will be paid in the upcoming payment cycle in February.
  • The subscribers’ business profile will not be published/ activated in the business directory until the payment has been received.

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08. Commission on winning SS Contest Sponsorships
  • All SS Member Authors are entitled to earn 10% commission on each SS Contest Sponsorship that they acquire by offering a 15% discount to the sponsor with the use of their referral code.
  • We will provide referral codes to our members and commissions will be claimed accordingly by those members whose respective referral codes will be mentioned by the sponsors at the time of submitting the request for quotation.
  • The referral code mentioned at the time of a new contest will be referred to for the recurring contests for paying commissions to the respective members.
  • The commission will be paid in the upcoming payment cycle after the receipt of the payment from the sponsors. For example, if a sponsor makes the payment to conduct a contest on our website as per the quotation using the referral code of a member and we receive the sponsor’s payment in January, then the respective member’s commission will be paid in the upcoming payment cycle in February.
  • The sponsor’s contest will not be conducted on our website until the payment has been received.

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09. General Rules
  • All SS Member Authors are required to submit their final articles during 01st to 15th of every month. They may consider the topic assigned by us or may write on any suitable topic relevant to our niche. We will assign topics to all SS Member Authors by the 25th of every month.
  • Articles submitted after the 15th of the month will be considered for the next publishing cycle.
  • Featured Article Prize, Readers’ Appreciation Award, Readers’ Choice Award and Readers’ Engagement Award will be assessed for the articles published 30-60 days earlier to give a fair chance of winning to all the SS Member Authors. For example: The articles submitted by 15-January will be assessed, accepted, and published by 25-January. The performance of these articles will be gauged till 25-March for Featured Article Prize and the three monthly awards, the results will be announced and the payments will be made accordingly.
  • Payments will be made to the members by the 27th of every month through JazzCash, EasyPaisa or online bank transfers only.
  • The members will receive payments in bank accounts that must be in their names and have already been declared at the time of registration.
  • No payments will be made for the articles other than top five performing articles and/ or the articles winning the three monthly awards.
  • No payments will be made for submitted articles that are not accepted and published by us on our website.
  • We encourage our members to actively engage in social media marketing for their published articles to attract more traffic, increase readership, reader engagement, to not only generate income from their affiliate links and banners but also to avail the opportunity of earning the reward-based benefits of our membership program.

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10. Quality Standards for accepting and publishing articles

The submitted articles should meet the following criteria in order to be accepted for publishing on our SS website:

  • The submitted articles should have 500 to 1000 words.
  • Written in either English or Urdu per member’s preferred language declared at the time of registration.
  • Must be relevant to the topic provided by us or relevant to our niche if the topic is chosen by the author.
  • Must be engaging and appealing for the readers.
  • Must be well-organized in paragraphs and subheadings.
  • Must be grammatically correct and error-free.
  • Must be original, 100% plagiarism-free, and not a spin article.
  • The submitted articles should be unique in context and must not have similarity to any previously published article on our website.
  • Should include the specific keywords if provided by us.
  • The author must suggest a catchy, relevant, and unique title for each of their submitted articles.
  • Preferably provide one relevant image with each article in landscape orientation. If not provided for a particular article, we will arrange a suitable image ourselves or publish the article without an image.
  • The authors must use the Article Submission Form to submit their articles. No articles will be accepted through emails or any other mode of communication.
  • The authors committed to providing articles in English are highly encouraged to use free services like Grammarly (https://www.grammarly.com) for checking grammar and plagiarism and SpinMeNot (https://www.spinmenot.io/) for checking article spinning before submitting their articles to us to avoid rejection of any article by us later.

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11. Avoid duplication of articles on the Internet

Given that we have submitted our website to Google to appear in relevant Google search results, it is important for our authors to know that they should avoid duplication of their articles to be published on the Internet to avoid any penalties/ restrictions from Google for the author.

What is the duplication of articles? When the author provides/ publishes the same article/ content to more than one website, including their own website, it is called duplication of articles on the Internet by the author.

However, if you provide/ publish your written article to only one website for publishing it on the Internet and then share its link on different social media pages or on WhatsApp or through Emails, then it is not considered as duplication of articles.

There are following two options for avoiding duplication of your articles on the Internet in order to avoid any penalties or restrictions by Google and consequently by the publishing websites:

  • Make sure not to provide your same article to more than one website for publishing it.
  • If due to any reason you are willing to publish your same article on more than one website, then make sure to let the websites know the links of your published articles and mention which website published it first. The website that published your article first will claim it as original content and the other websites that published it later must add a canonical tag to your duplicate article referring to the website that published it first. Failing to do so can lead to restrictions from Google to remove your articles from all the websites that published it and they may even ask the websites to ban that particular author from publishing more articles.

To keep the procedure simple, we strongly recommend you choose the first option stated above; that is, do not provide your same article to more than one website for publishing it.

Separately, if you happen to notice that any other website has copied your content from our website and published it on the Internet without your knowledge or consent then report it to us immediately so that we can report it to Google to get the copied content removed from that particular website.

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12. Deactivation of membership

Conditions for deactivation of membership account:

  • SS Member Author’s account will be deactivated if no article or no acceptable quality article is provided for 03 consecutive months.
  • Misleading SS team by discreetly outsourcing article writing to a third party/ freelancer and claiming its ownership to get it published on our website.
  • Delay in comment moderation (replying to comments) on your published articles for over 48 hours repeatedly for 03 consecutive months.
  • Plagiarism
  • Article Spinning
  • Any provoking, illicit, political, racial, adult, harassing, disrespectful, discriminatory, and/ or demeaning comments
  • Spamming comments
  • Moderating comments on articles published by other members
  • Posting criticizing comments for guests, readers, or other members
  • Generally misbehaving with the readers, SS Member Authors or SS team
  • Voting on articles published by other members
  • Posting irrelevant links in comments
  • Asking guests, readers, or other members for any monetary, direct and/ or indirect benefits
  • Duplication of articles on the Internet if canonical tagging is not done appropriately
  • Once an account is deactivated, the respective SS Member Author will not be eligible to reapply for membership before 06 months.
  • Account deactivation may result in unpublishing the author’s profile from our website; however, the articles of the respective author will not be unpublished for which SS has paid to the respective member and/ or that have been published when the author was an active member of the SS website.
  • Post the deactivation of the account, the affiliate links, and banners in the published articles will not be removed so the respective author may continue to generate income from his/ her monetized articles.
  • Post the deactivation of the account, any pending dues that the respective author may have will be cleared in the next 60 days.

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13. Surviving Susral website rights

We reserve the right to change the terms and conditions for our SS Member Authors without giving any prior notice. To ensure quality standards are met, we reserve the right to edit the articles submitted by our SS Member Authors before publishing them on our website. We also reserve the right to refuse to publish any article from any member. Moreover, we can also cancel the membership of any member without stating any reason.

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