Far to many are focused on their direct monetary rewards for their posts. You can see my views on it here. Honestly you will find that unless you plan to pay for bid bots that you will do best to just write about things you care about vs trying to play the games that most outdated tutorials talk about.

If you every want to know of a couple honest groups that support new members let me know.

And speaking of contests...lol, I was brought here as you were featured by @bananamemos in their curation/entry post for the Pay It Forward Curation Contest.