Top Websites to earn money by writing online
Are you looking for article writing websites so you can
start earning money online? Freelance
article writing gives you the opportunity to work from home. Jobs, where
article writers can be earning money, are listed every day
Perhaps you have wanted to try publishing some of your own
articles online and don’t know where to start.
Being able to write and earn money online can be very
rewarding. You can choose to work with the clients or websites that interest
you most.
You also get to enjoy working at your own pace, setting your own price (as
demand for your writing grows) and you get to enjoy a steady income.
However, for some, the idea of writing for others is not so satisfying. A career in journalism or writing articles is not for everybody.
If you want to earn money by writing online for others, here are
10 sites where you can get paid to write your own articles.
1. Cracked.com: $100 – $200
Cracked.com is
basically a humor site. If you are a funny/smart/creative person, Cracked.com
offers a good opportunity to earn some extra cash with article writing.
No experience necessary. They will pay you if it’s good. You get to talk
directly to the editors. Their content includes articles, photoshops,
infographics and videos. Take your pick.
How to get
started
Register for the site, click on the writer’s workshop, which leads you to
the message board where everyone pitches their articles.
You pitch an article idea by writing the article idea, along with the five
subtopics under the idea, a full column, and the information.
At the time of writing, you get $100 per article.
If you get up to five published articles, it goes up
to $200 per article.
If your article finishes in the top ten articles of
the month (rated on website traffic.) you get a $100 bonus.
You also get $100 for coming first in the Photoshop
competitions of which I think they run two a week.
There is a bonus that runs in the design section also from time to time.
It includes $500 for designing a winning T-Shirt, and a thread where you post
(presumably humorous) infographics and they’ll pay you $100 if it’s featured on
the site.
1. Wow Women : $50-100
Wow Women on Writing does one thing
really well: They look after female writers, encourage them and genuinely seek
to offer opportunities to budding freelancers. Their audience is diverse
and all focused on providing excellent content for women.
Wow
Women focus on innovative business, freelancing, and training. The
articles are generally detailed and designed to help writers improve their
skills and showcase their work. You have the option of either asking for a
payment by Paypal or, if in the USA, by Check.
How
to get started
Start
by reading other Wow Articles. You will want to have an idea of the tone of the
site. The site is informative, relaxed and excited about showcasing good
writers.
Ensure
that you are not just duplicating their content and re-editing an old idea. Be
creative.
Wow
will pay up to $150.00 for a 3,000-word feature article.
Focus
on being useful. How will your post help readers?
Practical,
actionable advice is what readers want with easy to follow steps.
Wow
Women focus on women, writers, and a monthly theme. I am not sure what
they offer in terms of a link back to your own content in the articles but
they do link back to your site from your Author profile.
Please
note that they do not open attachments. Your article or pitch needs to be
presented in plain text in the body of the email. Sending a Bio or a link to
other published work is a good idea and will improve your
chances of getting published.
3.Strong Whispers: $50 –
$150
Strong Whispers offers readers a range of articles about lifestyle,
environment and other social issues. The range is wide. Your contribution is
not limited.
Articles can range from corporate greed to education reform or change in
world leadership to letting the people govern and make decisions on the way we
treat the environment and exploitation of resources.
How to get
started
Article earnings are negotiable, but they typically pay $50-$150 per
published article. They are willing to pay more for the right article and the website aims to publish 2-3 guest posts per month.
Step 1: Send
them your best outline for an article you would like to write along with your
fee expectation. Topics need to be unique and have a high impact.
They also ask that you send your current blog URL or an URL to published
work so they can understand your writing style. They will tell you if the topic
is of interest to them and if your sample meets their review criteria.
Step 2: After
you have been invited to write for them, go ahead, write your article and
submit it for review. They won’t publish simply mediocre or just okay guest
posts.
Each article must be well written, accurate, grammatically correct and
original content. You will get to view their guidelines so you can be sure to
tick all the boxes.
Step 3: After
you submit your article online, it will be reviewed. After review you will
receive one of 3 emails:
Rejected – Poor quality.
Requires minor changes
Approved.
If approved, it will be set to publish either immediately or at a future
date. Once set to publish, you will be paid via PayPal.
4.Link-Able: $100 – $750
Link-Able is a
great way for high-quality authors to earn money publishing for a wide range of
clients and industries. Link-Able matches writers who are able to publish on
relevant sites with businesses looking to earn mentions, links and traffic to
their sites.
Founded by Jay Douglas, Link-Able offers good rates that depend on the
sites you have authorship on – or are able to successfully pitch to. niches
include business, finance, marketing, health, sport, tech, retail and more.
Note: The site will generally only accept native English authors and those with a
track record of high-quality work in English.
The platform is simple and easy to use. Once you have been approved as an
author, just browse the available writing jobs and apply them.
How to get
started
Apply for an Author account and choose your area of
expertise
Once approved, browse writing jobs
Read the job specs carefully. Recommend a site or sites you
can write on and a concept for your article.
If you win the job, you write, publish and get paid –
simple! .A quick tip – You will have more success if you limit your areas of
expertise to only those things you are truly passionate about.
5.Watch Culture: $25 – $500
Watch Culture offers
its news, opinion and entertainment coverage to millions of users worldwide
each month.
As an online magazine based in the UK it covers the popular zeitgeist.
Each day dozens of writers are earning money by publishing articles on Film,
Music, Gaming, Sports, Television and much more to their ever-expanding
five-million a month strong audience.
Several hundred articles are posted every single week from contributors,
some of which you will see from time to time on Sky News, Metro Radio, BBC
Radio, Dublin FM and in the national newspapers.
How to get
started
What Culture have begun rolling
out a system entitling all writers to earn money from every article they
contribute.
In the Beta testing phase, some
of the contributors have earned as much as £700 from one individual article. The
system is based on as per views basis, rewarding the very best writers whose
content matches what their audience wants to read.
Typically, writers who
could come up with original concepts and execute them well have really reaped
the big benefits.
If writing isn’t your thing,
they are also planning to set up a larger video presence and are looking for
talented filmmakers and YouTubers to produce high-quality content for the site.
If you’d prefer to chat on
Skype, the address is ‘what culture’. Or if you live anywhere near Newcastle in
the UK, they can arrange a face-to-face meeting.
6.Developer Tutorials: $30 – $50
Developer Tutorial provides its users with a regular supply
of programming and design guides keeping them up-to-date on new and emerging
technologies and techniques.
To help fuel this effort they utilise freelance writers to
produce unique, high-quality tutorials in the following categories:
AJAX
|
Flash
|
JavaScript
|
PHP
|
ASP
|
Illustrator
|
Linux
|
Photoshop
|
CSS
|
Java
|
MySQL
|
Python
|
They are also looking for
articles referencing cool and useful lists that users would both be interested
in and benefit from reading.
An example of this might be, “30
Cool Web Tools to Make Your Development Easier” or “30 Awesome Photoshop Movie
Poster Tutorials”.
They pay cash for your tutorials
and list-based articles so not only are you helping out fellow coders and
designers but you are making more of a name for yourself as a freelance writer.
How to get started
Pay rates depend on factors such
as the quality of the tutorial/article and the demand for the topic it covers.
Pay rates for published list articles currently range
between $30-$50.
Payment is sent via PayPal immediately after your article is
published.
List based articles must target web developers or designers.
Tutorials are required to be a
minimum of 1000 words and should include illustrations (screenshots etc) if
needed to more effectively portray your message.
7.B. Michelle Pippin: $50
– $150
Michelle
Pippin is looking for articles aimed at helping small businesses increase their
profits, influence, or impact. Michelle Pippin provides
sharp and high-quality business and marketing content to a wide audience.
If you have some original work,
a great idea or a hack for the business, marketing niche, this could be a site
to consider. While the site focuses on women in business, it provides an
even-handed mix of articles on profit, entrepreneurial resources, marketing and
case study articles as well as relevant news on the business world.
The site has a large audience
and a wide mix of business and marketing related material.
Your articles don’t need to
be too technical, as though they were being prepared for a peer-reviewed
journal, but they should go beyond the basics.
Michelle will expect
you to do the research and if it reaches her members only audience (which
is a print edition) you will likely receive a bigger pay cheque.
Word count on the site for your
average business or marketing article is about 800 words.
How to get started
Obviously, your work must be original work.
If your work gets published in my members only (print)
newsletter, you’ll get paid more money, but you will not be able to
republish your article elsewhere.
Payment is on a per article basis and will be paid via
Paypal on the 1st of the month following the month it is posted.
Don’t send over full articles.
Just complete the form and tell them your areas of expertise. A short pitch
should be fine but keep your offer short and sweet.
8.Metro Parent: $50 – $75
Metro Parent Publishing Group is
open to experienced freelance writers to help build the content of their
magazine and website. Their general goal is to have a good mix of fun and
substantive local stories of interest to local parents.
Here are a few factors to
consider before sending your pitch.
Make it
local. They are looking for stories and sources that
reflect the communities they cover: Livingston, Macomb, Oakland, Washtenaw and
Wayne counties. Therefore, southeast Michigan ideas and sources are preferred.
Pitch
early. Content for Metro Parent is determined months in
advance. Story ideas should be pitched a good two to three months before the
month it would run. This is particularly important for seasonally-anchored
stories.
How to get started
If your article submission is
accepted or you have been assigned a story, you should submit an invoice
(within an email is fine) that includes name, address, phone number, Social
Security Number, name of story and payment amount.
The invoice should be submitted
within a week of submitting the story.
Features 1,000-2,500 words: $150-$350, depending on the
complexity of topic and number of sources required.
Department columns: $50-75
Parent Pipeline pieces: $35-50
Reprints: $35
The finished story should be single-spaced with a hard return at each new
paragraph. Do not indent for new paragraphs. And include only one space after
punctuation marks.
Include your byline plus the preferred tagline
Font should be Times New Roman, 14-point
Include a suggested headline and/or dek
Subheads (i.e., within the body copy) are strongly
encouraged for stories 1,000 words or more.
Metro Parent prefers stories to be sent as a Microsoft Word attachment. For
those who don’t have Word, send the story within the body of an email.
Be sure to include the name and phone number of sources at the end of the
story, in case they have follow-up questions.
9.Sitepoint: Visit Link for Pricing
Sitepoint writers are generally web professionals
with a passion for development and design. Site Point is specifically looking
for content that is technical, instructive, well-written and innovative.
Based in Melbourne, Australia, Site Point works with article writers from
all over the world. The editors are web developers and designers at the top of
the industry. They claim to pay above-industry rates for quality articles.
How to get
started
Site Point covers the following topics:
CSS, JavaScript, PHP
Ruby, Mobile development, UX
Design, HTML
You will have to inquire using the link above for rates and process.
10.Uxbooth: $100
Uxbooth is
into design. I figured that much out. The rest of their site is gibberish. For
example, their “About us” page begins with these words,
“The UX Booth is a
publication by and for the user experience community. Our readership consists
mostly of beginning-to-intermediate user experience and interaction
designers..”
What that means is anybody’s guess. it might be good for the user experience but it’s nigh useless if
you were looking for a reading experience. Nevertheless, they offer you
money to join them in the art of gibberish.
How to get
started
Uxbooth does not accept fully written drafts outright. Instead, they pair
authors with editors in order to collaborate throughout the writing process. It
works like this:
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