N4G Gaming News Site Review,

N4G is a website which allows anyone to submit a story into news, the submission is then subjected to editorial approval of the community at large. If you just set up an account at N4G, you aren't ready to start approving posts just yet. Before you can approve posts, you need to do some submitting. Before you are accepted as a N4G editor, you have to submit and get approved 5 stories, movies, or pictures.

What can I submit to N4G?

Your submissions can be in many categories, and you can submit nearly anything you find interesting on the internet, as long as it's video game related. The categories you may submit into are news, reviews, screenshots, videos, previews, interviews, rumors, trailers, podcasts, videocasts, articles, images, and opinion pieces. As you can see there is room to submit nearly anything you could possibly find on the internet for editorial review.

Am I allowed to submit blog entries to N4G?

The TOS states that you may not submit any blog related entries as news. However, there typically won't be a problem with submitting them as opinion peices, image owners, or the source of a video.

What happens when my entry is approved at N4G?

Once a submission on N4G is approved, if it has a temperature of over 50° it goes straight to the main page, where it will gain even more attention and hopefully gain more temperature. The hotter a post is, the more likely it is to get attention. The main news page can be sorted by the temperature of a submission, allowing you to view only the hottest stories.

Why should I use N4G?

If you are a writer there is no better exposure for your efforts then N4G, and if your not a writer then there are bonuses available to you for submitting news. N4G needs you to be editors, even if you don't submit news.

N4G needs people to approve or decline the new submissions, and they are willing to pay for it. "sort of" Everything you do on N4G gives you points, these points give you more credibility on N4G, let you run more stories, and more importantly, they give you a competitive score. Each month N4G has a running competition, and the people with the highest scores can earn cash prizes.

What if I get a story approved on N4G?

It's likely your story will recieve maximum exposure, and generate a mass of traffic for at least a couple days. This kind of traffic is pivital for an internet writer. Further more because you use the same title, Google will recognise this article as a duplicate, but rather then sandboxing it, the N4G article will push your original up in search rankings. I've seen it a hundred times.

So is N4G really all that great?

For traffic and exposure N4G is great, and many in the community are great people to, but some will just push the envelope on cyber bullying. There are things in place to prevent this though, as you comment other people rate your comments. If you get enough negative comments, you can no longer post comments. If you get lots of praise for your comments, you will be allowed to submit more comments on each submission.

N4G summary,

N4G is a great place to submit news, and compete for the chance to win some cash, as well as reading some of the latest news on gaming. If you enjoy gaming then this is the place to be, you can get many different takes on a story here, and from such a wide variety of people. All the different angles of coverage on the same story, is something that you won't get elswhere.