Dec 26 2011
Make Money Writing: Write Articles for clients
Web sites and article directories pay for content in several ways. An upfront payment is made for an agreed to specified amount when the article is accepted. Revenue share means you will be paid as your article earns money through people clicking on the ads placed by the article or site owner. Some sites pay per page views. A page view is when someone looks at your page but they don’t have to take any action like click on an ad. Some sites pay a fee upfront and a share of the revenue. Another alternative is you post an article on the site. When someone buys the article you’re paid. And finally there are sites where the publisher requests articles to be written, the writers post their article and the publisher chooses which one, if any, they’re willing to pay for.
I have written for a number of the companies and sites below. I won’t recommend or not recommend them. It’s a subjective value judgment on my part and may not be at all applicable to you. All the ones I’ve written for have paid as they have said they would when they said they would. If you have questions, post them on writers’ boards and see what other writers have to say about the site.
A number of the sites rate or grade the writers. The logic is to let the writer know how well they’re doing. Some of these same sites also pay the writer based on their rating. The higher the rating the more they will get paid. That’s a bit of conflict as far as I’m concerned. The site wants to keep the writers writing for the current pay level so there isn’t any motivation on their part to grade the writer’s work highly. Personally I don’t look at the rating or grading.
You can’t post articles you’ve ghostwritten for someone else because you don’t own the rights to those articles any more. Most of the websites that pay for articles won’t accept articles you’ve sold as private label rights (PLR) more about PLR later. But you can post articles you’ve used on your own website, blog or that you’ve submitted for distribution to online article directories.