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!
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.
(extras)
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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