BloggingLists: Writing for Websites that Pay

One of the first things I wanted to find when I started freelancing was a list of writers websites that pay me for writing jobs. I Googled, I Yahooed and I Binged, but I could never find the definitive list I was looking for, partly because I was not using the right search terms. As it turns out, there are several different classifications of websites that pay for your writing:

1. Writing for Content Mills that market your writing to websites needing fresh copy for their websites for ridiculous pay.
2. Bidding on writing projects on odesk.com and elance.com at ridiculous prices.
3. Writing for Pay for Review sites that require you to have your own ranked website or blog
4. Revenue sharing websites that give you a free blog and share the revenue from affiliate marketing with you
5. Individual websites that pay that you must seek out, query and submit your writing to just as you would any offline publication.

I will add to, correct and update this list as I investigate the different categories and websites that pay listed. Please feel free to add to/correct/share your experiences writing for any websites that pay for the information I have already posted.

I am adding the Google Page Ranks for the sites. This PR will not help those who take ghostwriting jobs since you will not be able to link to your work. However, in a later list of websites that pay by revenue sharing, the PR will make a difference in possible residual income/linkbuilding back to your own blog.

Since this is a work in progress, please check back often to see what I have added!

Associated Content from Yahoo PR 8

My Experience:
This site will pay $1-20 upfront for original article writing claimed from the assignment desk for use on Yahoo’s other properties if ghostwriting (using a pen name, no link allowed). I have not written one of these articles yet, but stayed tuned.

Yahoo will also pay $1.50 per 1000 views for articles (do not have to be original) on your own contributor’s page. Links to your websites allowed in your author’s profile. Here is my first article resubmitted from my personal wordpress.com blog: associatedcontent.com/article/8181979/make_it_right.html

Associated Content classified this article as creative writing/memoirs so the assignments available to me so far deal with writing poetry and short stories. This will change, I believe when I submit another article with different content.
UPDATE: I now have 2 pages published--both "reprints" of articles from other sites. I have not done any "socializing" within the contributor's network nor have I promoted my articles on here so my earnings for the month was $.05! Even though I have another article published about content marketing, my assignment choices are still about writing poems and short stories. I did submit an article that had not been published anywhere and it was reviewed for upfront payment but declined because there were already articles about the same subject on their website. I was able to publish it anyway for revenue sharing.

Pay So Far: .05

Bottom Line/Where to Sign Up
Pays: $1.50 per 1000 views OR if accepted as a ghostwriter $1-20 per article and $1.50 per 1000 views
contributor.yahoo.com/join.html?refer=1134309

Auction Bytes PR5
$20 from Online Auction Users
auctionbytes.com/cab/authors.

Biblio Buffet PR5
$10 upfront; $20 regular contributors
600 words
bibliobuffet.com/about-bb/write-for-us-mainmenu-255

Blogitive PR5
$5 link
Writing Reviews
Comment Moderators
NewsNerve
Ghost Blogging
my.blogitive.com/bloggers/apply

Break Studios PR3
I applied to this site which is mostly writing for men. I don't remember if I had to send them a sample of my writing or not and if I did, i wish I knew which one I sent because I got an email from them that said "Your application has been rejected" Wow! I'm heartbroken, lol!
$8
breakstudios.break.com/

Bright Hub PR6
My Experience: I have applied and I have been accepted as a desktop publishing contributor and I am working on my first article now.
UPDATE 7/31/11: I now have 4 articles published and will be able to write 5 more for the month of August. (New writers are capped at 5 articles for the first 30 days which is a bummer) So far I am really liking the whole process and the editors who are helping me make my articles more SEO friendly.
$15 up FrontPayment
Revenue Sharing
brighthub.com/writers/comparison.html

Constant Content PR9
65% of price you set after sale choice of rights sold
www.constant-content.com/area/registerauthor.htm

Consumer Search PR6
$350
consumersearch.com/write-for-us

Copy Press PR3 Ghostwriting, no links
My Experience: I have applied and I am awaiting notification
.01 cents 3000 word commitment
forms.copypress.com/

Content Authority PR3 Ghostwriting, no links
Tier 2 Rate Per Word $0.01
Tier 3 Rate Per Word $0.015
Tier 4 Rate Per Word $0.030 1 Rate Per Word $0.007
Rewrite Rate Per Word $0.005
Paid after the salethecontentauthority.com/

Content Divas PR 2 Ghostwriting, no links
$18 per 1000 words
contentdivas.com/employment/

Daily Article.com
Writers set their own prices
Pay after the saledailyarticle.com/faq.php

Demand Studio /Ehow PR7 articles no link
My Experience: I applied and was turned down!
Advice: wait until you have a better example to show before applying.
$20
demandstudios.com/

Ecopywriters No links
My Experience: I applied and was told to choose between 3 topics to write a 300 word article. (Not 301--300 or else it's not accepted!) I am now waiting to see if it was accepted. Stay Tuned!
Payment after the sale
ecopywriters.com/start/

• Level 1 = 1.8 cents per word
• Level 2 = 2 cents per word
• Level 3 = 3 cents per word
• Level 4 = 4 cents per word
• Level 5 = 5 cents per word
• Level 6 = 10 cents per word
• Level 7 = 15 cents per word
• Level10=30 cents per word

Factoidz PR4
My Experience: I have been accepted as a Factoidz writer but have not submitted anything so far.
UPDATE: I did pick one of the article suggestions reviewing Photo Book suppliers, thinking it would qualify for the $30 product reviews but it didn't. Since I have been accepted, there has been one product review open reviewing a payday loan company that I was not much interested in doing. Also, there is a feature for comparing two products to write product reviews for which are mostly beauty sites that I'm not familiar with. Just being too picky I guess! I am allowed to write my own Factoidz for revenue sharing and no up front pay, just haven't done that yet. There is an interesting feature where you get paid to do backlinks that I haven't tried yet. Still figuring that one out, lol!
$30 upfront rate for product reviews paid for your own ratingsfactoidz.com/apply/

Fixiya
FixYa offers many opportunities for you to earn substantial cash by sharing your knowledge and helping others with product issues and tech support.
$2-$6 per solution
Answer posted questions
$6-10 per solution
Answer through real-time chat
$10-15 per solution
Answer over the phone
fixya.com/tags/fixiya

Ghostbloggers Ghostwriting, No links
My Experience: I am presently writing for this firm and have had two articles accepted but they have not sold so I have not been paid. Stay Tuned!
3.5 per 100 words 19.50 for 500 words
Pd After the sale
ghostbloggers.net/?page=sell

Mahalo PR 9
Mahalo Answers $1 Mahalo Dollar=$.75
Mahalo Tasks M$5 to M$15 Mahalo dollars
http://www.mahalo.com/how-mahalo-tasks-works/

Textbroker Ghostwriting, no link
My Experience: I signed up for an account and received an email that asked me to confirm my email and log in. I was given my choice of four topics to write about in 150-250 words. I wrote about sight seeing in my home town. An hour or two after I submitted my writing sample I was approved to write at the 4 star level. I have written 5 articles and all 5 have been sold so I've made a little less than $30. The five articles, however were on about the same subject and I was able to knock them out in very little time. There is also a big selection of topics,
UPDATE: After writing 5 articles, my account was put on hold to evaluate my ranking which is standard, and the message blocking my account said it may take up to 7 days for the editors to do the evaluation. I know my evaluation took more than 2 weeks. Even though all five articles were snapped up and sold as quickly as I could write them, they were rated down because of a comma error in 3 of them and an EXTRA space in the 4th! There is nothing in the guidelines that I downloaded about this interpretation of the comma rule which is in conflict with the AP Style they supposedly adhere to. However, after getting ranked down, I did find a blurb about it on their blog which says that regardless of how few words are at the beginning of the sentence, you must have a comma. LOL! Now, if I write for them, it will be at the 3 star level---NOT!
In an attempt to be fair I am adding a link from a fellow Hub Pages writer who does quite well with textbroker: nybride710.hubpages.com/hub/textbrokerfeatures

Payment per word after client has accepted
2 stars: legible 0.7 cents 3.50 USD
3 stars: good quality 1.0 cents 5.00 USD
4 stars: excellent quality 1.4 cents 7.00 USD
5 stars: professional quality 5.0 cents 25.00 USD
textbroker.com/us/author-information.php

Tut toaster
$10 to $15
tuttoaster.com/category/tutorials/

Valley Direct Media
Ghostwriting, no backlink
$4

Wisegeek--I applied and they said they had all the writers they needed
Pays $10 to $14 per 400 to 500 words
wisegeek.com/freelance-writing-jobs.htm

Wordgigs
My Experience: I applied 6/2011 and they said they were full but would email me when they needed writers. Stay Tuned!
$.75 for 100 word unresearched blog post
$2 for 200 word mini-post researched for 5 minutes
$4 for 350-400 word articles researched for 10 to 15 minutes
wordgigs.com/about.php

Here are some new websites that pay that I've found since adding the last batch. If there are any you would like to add to the list, please let me know!

Content Current PR 3
$4 to $6
Long approval period; have to write sample 500 word article to be approved

Contently.com
Posts are 400-600 words long, and pay ranges from $30-$75 per post. All require original research; some may require original reporting.

Daytipper.com/
Daytipper is your online daily resource for useful advice, tips, tricks, techniques and hints…Got a great tip? We’ll pay you $3.

EmergingCast.com
$1.80 to $2.00 per article and there is no page view earning scheme.
the payout minimum is $50.

Englishmajor.com PR2
tied in with Mechanical Turk and Midwest
$2.25 for 100-word drafts and $4.75 for 250-word drafts

Essay Writers.net PR 4
Turnaround $ per page
Within 7 days 4 - 10
Within 4 days 5 - 12
Within 2 days 6 - 14
Within 24 hours 7 – 16

Families.com
$4 per blog entry (There is a 90 day training period).
They give annual raises, up to $5.50.

Interact Media
Has star system rating writing. Sound familiar?

LetterRep
Earn $10.00 US each time a new visitor joins for one of your existing letters,
Earn $10.00 US each time a registered member buys one of your existing letters,
Earn $10.00 US each time you write a custom letter and a requestor purchases it.

Mommy Think.com
Wants articles on breastfeeding, natural child birth, midwifing , etc
$25 per article

Niche Blast
Articles must be over 350 words and, again, well written. Some articles may not be published, even though they are accepted, for 3-6 months. Their system of payment starts at 35% payout and goes up to 60%, but that depends on the number of articles accepted.

Organized Wisdom
Need writers that are health experts and doctors

Pure Content Up front pay $7 Varies

RentaGhostWriter
Choose from a wide variety of of writing projects from clients looking to hire a ghost writer to complete their project. Registration is free.

Swapmedia.com
takecarepinkelephant.com/, swapmediainfo.com/, swapmgmt.com/
Apply at ryanz@swap-media.net
$30

Writer’s Research Group Applied
writersresearchgroup.com/company/jobs.html
$15

Tiny Print
Apply toeditor@tinyprint.com
Need writers to write verses and short poetry to incorporate into their greeting cards. Tell them that you are interested in writing for them and include a sample verse or poetry in the body of your email.

To find more websites that pay, check out
http://www.howtofindworkfromhome.com/websites-that-pay/