Work From Home Writing
January 1, 2009 | Posted by admin With thousands of new websites coming online every day there is a huge need for quality writing. But of course, for every legitimate write from home job there are at least 3 scams. Here are some writing jobs that I know are legit. And with a little work, even beginning writers can find sites that will pay them to write.
Right now my favorite get paid to write site is Today.com. At today you start your own blog, and for the first 30 days you are paid at least $1 per post, up to one post per day. After 30 days the amount you are paid per post can go up or down. You are also paid a small amount based on the traffic your blog receives. Bonuses of up to $250 are paid to top bloggers. Today claims that their top blogger made $700 in November. I am getting paid for writing Review Me Today. In less than a month I have earned $38. I should get paid next month!
What I like about Today.com: Write 100 original words and get paid. Everyone is accepted. Just register and start writing.
What I don’t like about Today.com: Minimum payout is $50. After the first 30 days you could be paid less than $1 per post. Only advertising and affiliates placed by Today are allowed.
Hub Pages is a network where you can write web pages, called hubs. Here you are not responsible for a whole blog, just one page. You can write as many hubs as you like, and, unlike a single blog, they can be on as many different topics as you like. Payment is based on a revenue share plan, using advertising networks such as Google, Amazon, and Kontera.
What I Like About Hub Pages: You can write one page at a time, as opposed to needing to keep up a whole blog. Because each page is separate, you can write on a variety of topics.
What I don’t like about Hub Pages: There is no guarantee of payment. You will need to work on building traffic, and not just any traffic. To get paid you need people to click on ads.
Squidoo Lenses: Just about the same as Hub Pages. You create a webpage, Squidoo calls them lenses, and you get paid a share of the revenue generated. Same pros and cons as hub pages.
About.com will pay $725 per month for you to maintain a blog on a certain topic. Not everyone is accepted. When you apply to become a “guide” you pick a topic from the list About provides. Fill in your application and include a writing sample on the topic you are applying for. Wait. Wait some more. After a few weeks you should hear if you have been accepted to the training level. During training you will write blog posts and articles under the direction of an editor. Usually 5 writers are accepted into training for each topic. Training typically lasts 1 month, and after training only 1 person will be hired as an About.com guide and paid a $250 hire on bonus. About.com says that begining writers usually earn around $1,000 per month, established writers average $2,000 with top authors earning $100,000 per year.
These are just a few of the opportunities for writers that I have found. Later I will post about paid forum posting, and writing paid posts on your own blog.
Happy Writing!
Categories: WFH, Writing Jobs | 
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7 Comments »
Great list of resources. I never thought about making money from home by writing but after reading about the potential it has, it makes me want to check it out more in-depth. Thanks alot.
Where did you get that information about About.com
That’s really interesting! Please tell me more.
The About.com information is inaccurate and typical of their come-on nonsense. Speaking as a high-ranked, “established” Guide with a very large number of pages views, I make about $1200 dollars or less a month after almost a decade. It amounts to less than minimum wage, even less when self-employment taxes and other expenses are factored in.
Only a very small number of guides make a decent amount of money; pay is dependent on consistently outdoing your own page views and whether or not they manage to sell ads on your site. They like to tout the very few super-popular sites (from which they make very much more than the guides who provide the material) to string prospects along. It borders on criminal.
I would also like to point out that About expects far more work than “maintaining a blog,” including much tedious, repetitive, and completely uncompensated work- for example, forcing Guides to convert hundreds of pages of previously written material to a new system without compensation. One of many such “projects” forced on guides via threats of termination.
Thanks for the input Cindy. It always helps to hear from someone on the inside.
This is very good resources about writing from home. I don’t know about.com and today.com pay money for writers before reading your article. Still now I will check and try to earning to writing article. Thanks for sharing your amazing information.
Pretty good resource! I never knew about.com paid out that much to their writers.