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Constant Content REVISITED 2011

March 17th 2011 02:00

Content Content: SIGN UP NOW

It's been a while since I spoke about Constant Content but according to my CC authors page 76 of you have taken the time to register for them.

How many of you have written something?

TWO

What gives people? You are breaking the first rule of making money at home! YOU HAVE TO DO IT! hahaha!

2/76 is really, really horrible. I've offered personal assistance to ANYONE who needs it and have never gotten a message from any of you. This blog is here to help you out. Leave your pride at the door and ask for help! Constant Content is notoriously hard on grammar and rejects a lot, even by me.

You CAN make working online work for you, you just have to push through and keep working, no matter what. I don't know about you but I like money and my four kids depend on me. Now, BACK TO THE ARTICLE!

All I can say is Constant Content is THE highest paying site on the internet. There's no competition. Just today, I looked through some public requests and picked up a set of 300 word articles at $15 each! That's pretty freakin sweet if you ask me!

Constant Content is the best place you'll find to submit anything you want. It does have to be formatted properly but you can write about anything at all! I've sold articles about puppy care, tours of Berlin, web design, cat toys and more random junk.

A cool feature of this site is the "Recently Sold" button. This literally tells you what topics are hot so you can jump aboard and take advantage of the trends. Insurance, though a bland topic, sells extremely high and extremely often.

I'm telling you right now, EVERY SINGLE article you ever write NEEDS to be rewritten so it's 100% original then placed on Constant Content. This goes triple for you Yahoo! Contributor people. If you are relying on that for any type of income, you can do much better with Constant Content, it just takes a little more time and effort.

Read all of the writers guidelines until you know them forward and backward. This will ensure you don't get rejections all the time and will improve your overall writing ability for other sites. That leads to higher pay, better clients and more cash in your pocket.

Please, do yourself and your family a favor. Put some articles on Constant Content this weekend if not sooner. If you are scared of the editors, do small 300-400 word pieces and price them $10-$20 each for full rights. Any rejection should be studied closely so you know the type of things the editors don't like.

SIGN UP HERE!!

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Top 5 Article Writing Sites For Beginners!

October 25th 2010 17:21

(redone for 2010)

TOP 5 ARTICLE WRITING SITES FOR BEGINNERS!

You may remember this post as one of my first long ago. Well, some of that doesn't apply so well these days so here is the top 5 article writing sites for beginners as of 2010.

ASSOCIATED CONTENT

No better place to start. Get some articles submitted, hopefully get up-front payments and make sure to visitl the forums. The forums are a wealth of information in between people bitching about other AC users, AC policies and "where's my $1.00 page view payment bawww!" and you can often find links to other online work.

A properly keyworded article such as my series on "top 5 cheap motels in X" WILL get you up front payments and decent page views. I recommend choosing a single area of expertise and flooding AC with it. It's not unheard of for people there to have thousands of articles on there making hundreds per month is "performance payments" from page views.

Personally, I shoot for up-front payments and hope my stuff gives me a little extra each month as well.

WARNING: AC will not pay non-US authors last time I checked.

DEMAND STUDIOS

$7.50-$15/article upon joining with extra available if you write for LIVESTRONG. Pretty reliable place. Must have a completed resume and sample to apply. Don't submit a heavy editorial as your sample. Stick to a review of a place/event with 5 distinct paragraphs. You only get one chance to apply so use that spell-checker.

DS is a great place to make money. You get paid twice a week and there's no shortage of topics. The only problem is some of the topics are ridiculous. Solution? Don't claim those.

The forums there are very helpful as well.

CONSTANT CONTENT

Constant Content is a site where you can put any article you like up for sale but the rules are VERY STRICT. READ THE RULES. If your formatting, spelling or sentence structure is the slightest bit askew they'll reject your article and you may not give them a second chance.

Give them your best and you've found one of the best article sites out there. You can sell your articles at your own price and for usage or full rights making it a great source of residual income with large spurts.

Do your research before you submit to them and you're fine. Submit your articles in notepad too. It's irritating but well worth it. The request section should give you a good idea of what people are looking for and the recently sold section tells you what's selling well.

HELIUM

(that should be a sign up link under me but it may make your name "bob jones". Change that and you're good to go.)

Sign up and check out the "marketplace" you can make a ton there if you have a passion or specialty. Helium is a love/hate relationship for me. I like how it's set up but the community can frustrate the crap out of me. People vote on articles and I think the entire system is stupid but others love it.

Try it out for yourself. I do well just using the marketplace area or putting up rejected articles from other sites.

SEED

I forgot Seed.com on this list yesterday but they are definitely worth checking out. There are tons of assignments available but you compete with other writers to have your articles accepted. It's worth putting up a couple each week and if they don't make the cut, when they get rejected put them on another site. Some of these pay very high (over $50) so the competition is fierce.

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SITE X

This goes against the grain a little but for the 5th site, it can be pretty much anything. I recommend writing articles around a single topic and making your own website. A good friend of mine will say "Squidoo!" or "Hubpages" which i'll revisit this week.

Site X is basically any other site you enjoy working for. I used to really like Daily Article but I'm not 100% sure how that site is doing at the moment so I left it out.

A good rule to maximize earnings with these articles sites is to do this:

Write an article and put it on AC.
Re-write that same article 3-4 times (make sure it's absolutely original) then put it on all the other sites. Done. You just quadrupled your moneymaking potential with very little work involved.

I'll be slowly leaking out these updates this week while deleting some of my older stuff (like my "i love mahalo" page".

Online writing jobs are all over the place but remember this one rule: DO NOT PAY TO JOIN ANYTHING. EVER!

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The challenge. Let's bring our A game.

June 28th 2010 20:19

I have a challenge for all you writers who are subscribed to this blog as well as anyone who happens to stumble across it. I have a one article head start as of this post but as you know, I'm fairly lazy and with summer in full swing, odds are I'll spend a few hours a day at the water slides and with all the kids.

This is what I'm doing.

I've chosen a keyword phrase of "cheap motels in X, California". If you put in "cheap motels california" you'll get 7000000 pages or so with Google or Yahoo! but flipping to page 2, you'll immediately see hotel chains. Those sites are too specific and I know when I search for motels I tend to skip sites for a particular franchise like Best Western because those aren't the cheapest.

I'm doing LA first, then San Diego, then maybe San Francisco. This is hundreds of articles I'll be doing plus rewrites. Let's take a look at the strategy here.

Step 1: Submit the article to Associated Content as exclusive.
Step 2: Rewrite that same article 3-5 times. Addresses take up a lot of words so really, there isn't that much to fix up. A paragraph per motel plus intro and closing.
Step 3: Submit rewritten articles to Constant Content and possibly sites like Helium, DailyArticle, Examiner, or whatever you use and prefer. CC is a must though.
Step 4: Move on to next area and repeat.

Here is my first one: Top 5 Cheap Motels in Long Beach California which has about 250k pages of competition. You can do whatever you want and please don't steal what I'm doing and beat me at my own game, that's just not cool. You could do something by region, by demographic, by culture, or whatever you want. "best X for geocaching" is a great niche that should generate massive traffic if you know what you're talking about.

I'm going to keep at this until the end of July and post my results back here. This will be a combo of AC up fronts plus views, anything sold on other sites, packages sold on forums, etc.

Anybody with me?

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Newsvine!

April 30th 2009 19:26

Cool Newsvine Logo!

I know I've been neglecting this blog a bit in favor of my site Really Long Link but still promise to update here when time allows.

I recently found a site called Newsvine that has potential to help you make a few bucks and is actually quite fun to participate in. This site lets you write original news pieces as well as seed existing news stories.

Whatever you write or seed goes onto Newsvine and sometimes gets a fairly high Google rank. I found the site by searching for the Polouse Earthworm. Don't ask!

Anyway, the site works similarly to Orble but you get 90% of the ad revenue. That's not bad and if you really love news, it's a fun site to kill time with. I only have a few articles up there and most are seeds from my local paper or news I found interesting.

It's worth checking out and lets you release your inner Peter Parker. There is also some great potential if you want to be a reporter or news person someday. A bunch of original news stories put up by you would look great on a resume!

Here's my sign up link if you are interested. Like all my posts I don't mind if you don't sign up under me at all. That's your choice haha!

Good luck and happy reporting.

Really Long Link

That should be my referral link. My profile there is Dadsview or Rsunset327 or both.

Make sure to add me as a friend on there. It seems like a good community and it's fun to debate

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FlexJobs

February 15th 2009 17:33

Well, with the economy the way it is, many of us writers have lost our steady paychecks it seems. My great job dwindled a bit but is still fairly functional and luckily I have a steady secondary job working with an affiliate marketing guy. I answer questions for him on his forum. It pays well and the work is fairly fun.

Anyway, I came across this site the other day and already landed a $300 job from it. It's a single job that's just a handful of articles and probably won't be long term but that's ok.

Here's the website: Really Long Link

These are the writing jobs but there are a few other sections if you want to dig around. You WILL have to register with them to apply for the private jobs but there are also links to various other markets like LovetoKnow and some other sites that do pay decently for 500 word stuff.

Just sharing this site since I stumbled across it randomly while looking for other stuff to do!

I have about 10 pages to upload to my website but I'm having some kind of FTP issue. Feel free to check it out in a week or so. Hopefully it'll be working a bit better!

Good luck out there.

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Helium

September 11th 2008 01:43

Helium is a place where writers can write about pretty much anything. This is similar to Associated Content but there is one catch. You don't actually make any money. You get page views which many Helium veterans can make add up to a few dollars a month

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Textbroker

August 5th 2008 01:29

I have done just three articles for Textbroker but they seem to be legitimate. The assignments vary greatly and some get snatched up very quickly but this is an easy way to make a few bucks when you don't have ideas for long articles for other sites

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Informative Post

August 3rd 2008 23:37

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SharedReviews

July 15th 2008 15:12

SharedReviews is a site that pays you to write small reviews on products you own. I got $10 a few months ago for 5 reviews on kids DVDs that were jusy laying around my house. You do need to put in the products UPC code I think. The format seems to have changed a little bit. It used to be $2 per review. I'm not sure if it's still the same.

This is actually fun to do once in a while. It won't make you a serious income unless you absolutely love to review things but there is some kind of voting system in place now that could help you out. Be part of the community there and your reviews will get looked over more

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Brighthub

July 5th 2008 20:12

I haven't posted on here in a little bit as I've been busy with family stuff but I recently joined up with Brighthub.

Brighthub is a great place for article writers to work. You apply on their website and if you are accepted, they will place you in a specific area. I'm working in both Home Office and PC. They pay well and are very reliable so you should definitely check them out. They do require a W-9 if you live in the US

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