User:Fabrifago/Shvoong

Shvoong is a website designed for any user to read and write reviews, synopses and summaries about books, movies, websites, etc. Each time a visitor read one article its respective writer earn an amount of money. Shvoong shares 10 percent of its revenues between its users.

History
Shvoong was founded in 2005 by Avi Shaked and Avner Avrahami. According to an Alexa.com report regarding Shvoong, it has become one of the 3000 more visited websites in the world. Shvoong has not yet generated so much traffic as other similar sites as Hubpages and Squidoo, but it keeps raising each day.

Site Structure
Shvoong is a user generated content site. Users, known as Shvoongers, add summaries, reviews or synopses that are posted as individual webpages. Each submitted article have to have at least 100 words of length, while maximum number of words that an article can have is 900.

Shvoong writers can add as many summaries as they want and can edit or delete one when they decide. To add an article users need to create an account on Shvoong. Then they need to press the Write tab to start one. As happen with most of user generated sites users can place links inside their articles as well as tags and categories.

Shvoong shares 10 percent of its total income between its users. Shvoongers can translate articles which are already posted to other languages, and the site shares 5 percent of its total revenues between its translators.

Competitors
HubPages, which is another user generated site which shares its revenue between its users.

Squidoo, which allows users to create content and earn money.

Knol, a user generated site created by Google.