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 “Writing sites that pay for your articles”. I actually wrote it in early May 08. Hence the article is now three months old and so is the information I shared. In this update, I shall review my experience with these writing sites that pay for your articles. I will make it so comprehensive that you would like to save a copy of this article as a general reference, and hence the name of the title. Please kindly put up with the description “Best” as this word is a must to attract readership and there’s no way that you can prove that some good stuff is not the best stuff. Hands up those who want to have a go at writing for these sites that pay for articles. Please blog about, link to, digg, stumbleupon, post on funwall, disseminate in facebook, del.icio.us it, tag it, myspace it, promote this article whichever way you can. You can reproduce the contents freely as long as my name gets mentioned (How I love the sight and sound of my own name). You don’t need to ask me for permission as long as you agree with what I am saying and don’t attempt to distort it. If it isn’t good enough for you, or can be improved or modified in any way, you’d better leave a comment to tell me why and how. You can see that I can’t lose either way. And here we are, the writing sites that pay for your articles, in alphabetical order.


1. Associatedcontent.com (Alexa traffic ranking: 1023)


This was the second site I registered in. I kept at it in spite of my early difficulties (it took them 10 days to approve or decline articles for publication). Near the end of June 08, they also knew their long review times were hurting them and dramatically shorted them to almost instant approval. I doubt it whether there is any review procedure at all if my articles are approved within 3 seconds. Now I have a total of 16 live articles there. My pageview is 611. My estimated performance payment is 92 cents. You can calculate this by multiplying your pageview with 0.15 cents to reach this number yourself. I am not entitled to receive upfront payment as I am not living in the States. This is not too bad as I still have the full rights of these articles. They have also kindly upgraded my clout level from purple (level 1 out of 10) to green (level 3 out of 10). My overall experience is that the site’s potential for freelance on-line writers is there. It also has the advantage of having a close relationship with Google who may have a financial interest in the site (I once googled out some information along those lines). The site is likely to be around for a long time. For non-US residents, the site is not as gratifying as their US counter parts. You will not get paid by having them buy your articles, the way how most writers make their money on this site.


2. eHow.com (Alexa traffic ranking: 677)


I registered with eHow and was welcomed warmly right away by Abigail, their eHow guide. It does make you feel good to have a nice smiling guide offering directions and answers you might have. Unfortunately, shortly after I joined, I also received suspicious phishing messages asking me to offer help to save a jailed heiress to a great fortune by making certain responses. For the unsuspecting philanthropists amongst us, do look out for phishing spams. I like reading the eHow articles when I want quick information about something, as they have to be written in directive steps. I would say I like writing these articles as it feels too much like making notes for my college tutorials, again. Try out for yourself.


3. Helium.com (Alexa traffic ranking: 5046)


Helium.com was the first writing site that I joined. I submitted a total of 16 articles. One of these was submitted for a contest. As my articles were listed according to the rating they received by other members of the site, only a couple of them came up in the first five in their lists of articles with the same topic. I soon stopped writing there and tried the other sites. In these other sites, writers and articles may still be scored. Nonetheless, my articles appeared to have more exposures to receive clicks, rather than go unnoticed within long lists. For the cents-sensitive ones amongst you, my income there three months ago was 13 cents. What were they today? It has grown by 53.8% to 20 cents. The annualized growth rate is calculated to be 595%, the only consolation in this exercise.


4. Hubpages.com (Alexa traffic ranking: 776)


I started here three months ago and the build-up has been steady. The site has great spontaneous response to your input. It shows you other hubbers’ activities which enrich your experience with the site. It shows your statistics clearly and allows you edit your work instantaneously. You may add pictures or advertising capsules (segments) anytime you like. You can also publish duplicated contents here even though this probably does more harm than good. For those who are keen to make a passive income here, they make it easy for you to become affiliates to Google Adsense, Kontera context link, Amazon.com and eBay.com. This is where I publish most of my articles (called hubs in here). In fact, I have just started my personal write-a-thon here, trying to reach a pageview of 50,000 by 1 Oct 2008. The site has so far brought in $15 through Google Adsense, $2 through Kontera and nothing through Amazon. I do see great potential in this site, as my pageviews and the number of fans are constantly climbing. I’m sure this site is much more profitable for more diligent and money-conscious writers who put effort into search engine optimization (SEO) and hub on more profitable Google Adsense Keywords. I shall leave this sub-topic here as this is not the main topic of this current article.


5. Lifetips.com (Alexa traffic ranking 17771)


This site invites writers to sign up as “Gurus” in their particular fields of expertise (from accounting, acupuncture…, to writing and yoga). You can share your “lifetips” and be paid up to $10 per tip, or allow them to compile your tips into an ebook or a printed book. They will market the book and award you your royalty at an agreed percentage. Disclaimer: I haven’t tried this myself.


6. PrintNPost.com (Alexa traffic ranking: 173670)


This was another site I wrote for. It is supported by its contributing community who appear happy to share comments with each other. I may be wrong but the site appeared to be single-handedly run and managed by its owner. Its review time for article approval is surprisingly short considering its limited resources. The owner is also quick in answering questions. You can also expect tons of traffic. As I write mostly health and medicine related articles, I couldn’t help but notice that a lot of the articles under this category are written by the same writer with a byline “Dxxxxxxx”. They are articles, up to 40 in number, with similar contents on the same topic, but written in different words. I strongly suspect that some kind of article-spinner is being tried out. It puts me off somewhat as these articles may upset readers after original contents. Nonetheless, the publishing under other categories appear to be in order. You may want to give this site a go. As you hold your own Google Adsense account with this site, I presume you get most, if not all, the payment from Google Adsense yourself. For me, the Google Adsense income was a total of $10 for the past three months.


7. Squidoo.com (Alexa traffic ranking: 450)


The site is associated with popular blogger Seth Godin who also provides you with a free e-book entitled “Every One Is An Expert” to start you off. It is a great site with lots of well written articles (called a lens, or an individual angle to see things). Unfortunately, for the beginner, the competition is really hot. Unless you do something nice and get recommended by one of the editors, your writing gets lost in the ocean of lenses created every day. Your humble author published one lens to try it out one month ago. Until this morning, my pageview is zero. I could have done something wrong though. There are many other lens producers who will share with you how interesting and addictive publishing at squidoo.com is. I am sure it will turn out great for many of you who try it hard and long enough. Have fun. A note of warning: the site allows publication of adult contents. Don’t assume your child can be left alone safely with this site.


8. Thisisby.us (Alexa traffic ranking: 86565)


I started here three months. I find the site rather unique. It writing community is keen and friendly. Its writers are keen in making comments (probably because you also earn by making comments, on top of by posting articles). However, the site appears to be smaller in scale and scope. New writers may find that it can take them a long time to build up their traffic here. Some of its writers are really prolific, creative and stylish. I find this a good reading site but am very unsure whether the average writer will monetize their articles here. Writers are rewarded by a formula involving pageviews and votes by other writers (termed “goodness”). Your humble author has so far made 4 cents with my few articles. Check this out if you still have time after writing at the other sites.


9. Triond.com (Alexa traffic ranking: 36499)


Even though the triond.com site is ranked 36499, this may not reflect the popularity of the sites posting your articles. Triond.com is the portal that distributes your writing to various sites including healthmad.com (Alexa traffic ranking 64120), socyberty.com (Alexa traffic ranking 45840) authspot.com (Alexa traffic ranking 106518), gomestic.com (Alexa traffic ranking 74957) and others. Triond.com accepts articles on all topics and sorts them out to distribute through the appropriately themed article sites. You can even write in any language of your choice and they’ll find the right place to publish it. They also try to find an image to match your content and attach this to it. I particularly like the healthmad.com as it is a handy place to keep my health and medical articles. However, they are very strict with duplicate contents. You are likely to have your article declined even if it has been partly duplicated somewhere on the internet (or possibly, in print). They are very efficient with paying their authors. I started writing for them in May 08 and they had paid me twice already by paypal. Even with payouts as low as $2.24 (on 15 Jun 08) and $0.56 (on 15 Jul 08), they did not find that an issue. I guess I shall stay with them as well, even though I like hubpages.com more because of the hubpages’ more spontaneous responses and interactive features. I shall update you in the future after trying out how they are with publishing Chinese articles (I have just submitted my first Chinese article to them this morning).





10.Xomba: - is a free community of people who write article, share ideas, get paid for it. Xomba features two types of posts which can be “Article and Bookmarks”. Articles are text of 150 words or more which can be movie reviews, how to make money from articles etc. Bookmarks are links that you share with the rest of the Xomba community by writing a brief and descriptive paragraph. You earn money from Xomba because it shares its Google Adsense revenues in equal % with its user. It is open to everybody worldwide and free to join.
11.Families.com:- is a site in which writers, known as bloggers writes articles with a minimum of 300 words which can be of an ideas, stories, demos, photos, etc. Bloggers must be versatile, creative, experienced and well informed on their chosen topics. Families.com pays from $3-$4 per blog entry and give annual raises up to $5. It is free to join and easy to make money from.
12.Sponsoredreviews – Prompt paying, great company. Advertisers are a bit more selective and pay attention to your site stats.

13.Get Reviewed – I didn’t find as many posting opportunities here but every now and then something does come along.
14.Pay Per Post Get paid between $5 and $20 per sponsored post, depending largely on your Google PR rank and which country you are blogging from. Maximum 3 posts per day and it’s getting very hard to find available posting opportunities, they get snapped up immediately.


17.ProBlogger Job Boards You can find many blogging jobs here.


18.Freelance Writing Gigs
19.Oboulo Get paid $10/essay or presentation that gets accepted onto the site.
20.Constant-content – Get paid for each of your articles that gets sold and you can also earn 5% commission on sales made by people you refer to the site.
21.Daily Article Sell unique articles at a price you specify. You are paid when someone purchases it.
22. About.com
23.Examiner.com
24. Wikinut
25.Factoidz
26. InfoBarrel
27. ArticleIncome
28. Break Studios
29. Bright hub
30.Orble
31.Demand Studios 

32. BlogBurner You create an account with them and an account with Google Adsense. You create your blog on their site, they run ads on your blog and you get 50 percent of the royalties.
















40.
Smorty  



42. creative-weblogging.com 


43.contentcurrent.com 

44. bloggerwave.com

45. Wordfirm.com

46 451press.com



47.Linkworth.com

48crispads.com

49VibrantMedia.Com
50. thankyoupages.com  


51.Ground Report
Ground Report is a news site thats work as revenue sharing website with 50:50 ratio. Members can publish original articles, images, and videos and earn revenue based on the number of views their submissions receive. The mode of payment is paypal. They also comes with contest where you get a chance to win good amount if you get highest number of page views in a month.
This is a magazine dedicated to publishing journalism by, for and about young people. They accept articles from all generations but mostly from youth and young adults, around ages of 16 to 28. Submitted stories should discuss issues important to young people today such as youth activism, war and peace, civil and human rights, race, immigration, education, environment, culture, sex and relationships, media and more.
WireTap publishes news reports, features, investigative stories, personal voices, op-eds, reviews and interviews. Stories should be between 800 and 1,800 words and pay is between $50 to $200.



In the same line of ehow, LoveToKnow offers you an opportunity to write in any of your interested topic available in this website. There is extensive list of topics available. After your application gets approved your payment will start at $20 per 650-word article, with a minimum of 20 articles required each month
54.KPwriting
Though not famous, KPwriting is another site where you can choose a writer role that is best suited to you. You can pick up three different role as a writer namely Academic writer, Resume Writer and Content Writer. You can register for a role as per youe interest. Based on their requirement, KPWriting will contract writers anywhere from $6 up to $20 per page.
55.RentaGhostWriter
Its not easy to make money in ghostwriting unless you are specilized and can finish up the stuff without consuming any time. You might have to work on volume sometime, but not necessarily. You can choose from a wide variety of of writing projects from clients looking to hire a ghost writer to complete their project. Registration is totally free. You will be immediately notified when a project fit your profile. After your registration if projects are available you can immediately apply for a online freelance writing job.


If you are writer that enjoys sharing your opinion about the movies that you watch or the music that you listen to or about the commercial products that you normally purchase, then ReviewParty is a program that you should seriously consider. It is very simple, just write reviews about the products that you currently use and get paid for sharing your opinions. ReviewParty pays 50% of the ad revenue that your review(s) generate through Google Adsense, but you must have a Google Adsense Account to participate in the program.
Rather than writing reviews for free, allowing big companies to capitalize on your hard work, make some money doing it. Instead of working hard to make content rich pages with your own Amazon links pasted on it, join the only website that gives you your Amazon affiliate links 100% of the time for every review you write.

57. LetterRepThis is quite different from other get paid to write websites. You do not get paid based on revenue sharing or fixed pay, Instead you get paid based on the sales. The LetterRep program pays writers to write letters that are designed to sell to companies or individuals who are in need of professionally written letters to be used as possible mail outs or other marketing needs. Writers are paid every time a LetterRep client purchases or request one of the letters that you have had published through LetterRep. The payouts vary depending on the type of request that you receive.
58.Boddunan – Only for Indians
You have several ways to make money which includes writing article or publishing link and they have a referral programs also in place. Payment is not so good, its about Rs. 100 per article but ok to start with. Though not tested well, a worth program for Indians to look into.
PickJack is different again and you get paid for writing new questions and answering questions which are quite similar to Mylot. The questions are general in nature and you can also ask questions and make money. Payment method is by paypal.

60.Article Income
Write and get paid, I dont see much differentiation from other article submission directory website. You can earn extra from contextual advertising. An advt revenue sharing website.
61. Flixya
Flixya is a social network that puts 100% ad revenue in your pocket. We’ve built the tools for you to share your videos, photos, and blogs. Your place to make friends, earn money, network and more.
62..Youtaz
A “Really” Social Website – is pretty simple, the more you write or add quality content, the more votes you’re get and the more money you’ll earn! 50% of all income earn’t by the site is given directly back to our members!

Give a tip and earn money through Paypal account. Earlier days Daytipper paid you $3 per tips if it is approved, but they changed their strategy now. They pay only for three best selected tips and the prize money is $100, $75, $50 for the first three members respective
64.Gather
More like a community to share your interest. At the same time, you get compensated for your effort.
Nothing different than name, like others article website where you write and get paid on revenue sharing plus you get benefit of sites promotion, traffic and backlinks.
Commonties.com will pay you 50$ to answer 20 easy questions (click the banner to see them). The questions are tricky, but that is worth doing! You can answer them in like 50 minutes and get 50$ to your PayPal or back account. Sounds very good to be truth. I haven’t tried it yet, but I do want (can’t manage to find some time), but if you had tried it, please let us know, we are very interested in this one. Feedbackwould be greatly appreciated or even rewarded!

Make money by writing original review on software. You can make up to $50 by reviewing software. The money you earn can use for download software or otherwise you can withdraw your money. Minimum payout is $200 and pay by Western Union method.
68.Shvoong.com
Shvoong.com is a company which pays people to write short reviews and guides. The main point of your articles is the shortness. The key to success at Shvoong.com is the quality and quantity of your articles and guides, so try to do your best! Money are sent via PayPal or check which is also nice.
69.Mommythink
Get paid to write about pregnancy and parenting. I think any mom could do that (this program is for mommies only, guys, just close the browser tab. So you will get money writing articles about pregnancy or other general parenting articles. You sure need some experience to write those.
Mommythink.com pays 25$ per 30 day article executive rights for your article (the pay is very high, so make sure to do your best) and 50$ for 90 day rights, more info could be found at their website if you are really interested in this program!
70.Auctionbytes
Auctionbytes.com is looking for stories to help people conduct online auctions more efficiently, both as buyers and sellers. So if you have any experience selling stuff at Ebay, Yahoo auctions or at any other online marketplace, why don’t share your experience and make money for it. Just write some tips to success with online auctions and get your money.
71.Writers Share
Writers Share is another new and exciting website where people can get paid simply for leaving comments on a variety of different subjects. On Writers Share there will be a choice of subjects, such as money, celebrities, sports, etc, and you can choose any of these subjects and then go on to leave a comment on a sub-topic. For example you might go to the Money category and be asked to leave your opinions on credit cards. For every comment you leave (that gets accepted onto the site) you will earn a minimum of £1, which will be paid to you by Paypal. Anyone can leave comments and there is a variety of subjects to comment on


72.Wisegeek at www.wisegeek.com = Conjecture owns this site as well as other ones and they only pay upfront at $10 each. I was not lucky enough to be chosen.

73.Internet Brands at www.internetbrands.com = The pay per articles ranges between $4-$10 an article with 150-500 words. They are always looking for writers. They claim that they have 300-5000 articles a month for writers to grab.


74.Yovia at www.yovia.com = They have different subjects that you can write about and on their site, you get to earn by blogging. They use the Wordpress format and you get to decide on what to call your blog and can have more than one blogs. I have my own blog there located athttp://yovia.com/blogs/financialadvices and I will admit blogging for them is fun. It reminds me of the next site coming up.


75.Today at www.today.com= They pay you a buck per postings if you get accepted. And they also have that ad opportunity where you can earn more. You get paid when you reach $50 and only pay by paypal. Not everyone likes today but you can start somewhere and can only blog once a day to get paid a buck per posting.


80. CREAMaid:
CREAMaid allows you to blog about anything that you are interested in as long as it is in accordance with the CREAMaid writing guidelines and rules. No idea about the payments and revenue sharing. It looks pretty impressive though.




In this article, I have outlined the different features of the writing sites that pay for your articles. Whenever possible and applicable, I have included my own experience and what I enjoy about these sites. It’s nice to get paid for your work and the time you’ve taken to create it. Nonetheless, my personal experience is that you have to find a site that helps you enjoy your hobby of writing and sustain it. You can never monetize your hobby if it stops being your hobby. You are welcome to share your thoughts on this article and writing on the internet in general.




For more information on work at home writing opportunities, visit:
https://www.google.com/adsense
http://www.associatedcontent.com/join.html?refer=14354
http://www.constant-content.com/
http://www.blogitive.com/
http://www.writersmarket.com/wmns/about.asp
http://www.writersweekly.com
http://www.fundsforwriters.com




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