Top marketplaces for freelance writing: More royalties for your articles.

You may have been looking for freelance writer’s job, but the reality is, it’s hard to find the real opportunities. This post will highlight some real opportunities for freelance writers or any other people who are not in this type but yet, will enjoy earning some good money from writing. How the opportunities work is simple, you just write on your favorite topics and earn money. They companies listed here create a market place for your writing and share the earnings with you. In simple terms, they will take care of the business and technical side of expanding your works you and you both make money in the process. How much you can earn is really depends on your hard work and creativity. If you have a creative flair, if you have a unique ability to express yourself and after all, if you are hard working, I can bet that you are going to make a difference.

About.com (Be a guide)


About.com(A part of the New York times company) is one of the most popular web services that provide very incentive guidance on almost everything. About.com has 2 million pieces of original content. This has been possible because there is hundreds of Guides working behind this. You can be a guide too for about.com. All About.com Guides are freelancers who work online and set their own schedules, giving them the flexibility to log on from anywhere in the world and work at a time that is best for them. With no timesheets to fill out and no timecards to punch, working for About.com gives you the flexibility to write when you want and determine for yourself how successful you want to be. As a Guide you'll build and maintain a GuideSite. They will train you, there is a 17 days long Prep. Period (training) for the new guides.

Compensation:

The basis of Guide compensation is year-over-year page view growth. As of 1/1/07, if your page views grow you will never make less than $725 per month and it's likely you'll make much more than that over time .There is no payment for work done in Prep. Graduates of Prep receive a bonus payment of $250 after they go live on the service.

451 press (Talented writers wanted)


If you think you are a writer with unique voices you can earn money by contributing to 451 press blog network. 451 Press is another popular blog network that always looking for bright, talented writers who want to have their voices heard. 451 Press blogs cover a wide range of topics. If you have a passion for a subject then they might have a place for you. 451 presses will let you publish your article as a blog( They will cover the hosting).

They will handle things like advertising the sites in their existing network, attracting advertisers to your blog, building and maintaining the blog and server. They have full time staff dedicated to taking care of the business. As a writer for 451 Press all you have to worry about is the writing.

Compensation:

You will be given the support you need to make your blog successful. You’ll get paid 40% of the advertising that your blog generates and 451 Press will actively seek out advertisers for your blog and work with their existing advertisers to get the best possible matches for everyone. The more creative you are and the more hard work you will do, the more you will earn.

Blog Burner (Write. Make money)


Blog burner is another good place to earn money from blogging/ writing. You can write on anything or everything. Blog burner will publish your articles as blog, they will market it and will take all the necessary steps to drive readers to your blog. The blog posts (articles) you write should be between 200-500 words on average. They don't have to be. An article could be a sentence. It could be a few pages. But on average, they should be between 200-500 words.

Compensation:

You will be asked to sign up for Adsense account and half the time you make money on the ads. Half the time they do. Again, how much money you will earn will clearly depends on how often you write and what you write about and how well written your articles are.

What they say is, “The reality is that if you write every day for a year (or, almost every day), there's no reason why you shouldn't be making more than $1,000US EACH MONTH”

Digital Journal (Be an online journalist):


If you enjoy writing, you can be an online journalist for Digital journal. Digital Journal offers everyone the chance to get paid to report news as a Citizen Journalist. In a totally unique revenue-sharing initiative, DigitalJournal.com is the first online community where Citizen Journalists actually get paid for contributing. Unlike most websites where bloggers post for free (and the company takes in all the ad revenue), DigitalJournal.com shares a portion of its advertising revenue with all Citizen Journalists through “moneypot.” ,an always-growing cash pool. Every single Citizen Journalist gets a chance to compete for a share of the “moneypot”. The more you contribute, the more you earn.

In order to become a paid Citizen Journalist, you must create an account on Digital Journal and then submit a sample of writing. Once you’re approved, you can post news and you will be paid for your news articles.

Compensation:

At the beginning of the month, all accounts that exceed $10 will receive an email notification on how to collect payment via PayPal (if you do not have a PayPal account, you will be sent a prompt to create one). All earnings are in U.S. dollars. Earnings are determined based on how many articles you contribute and how high they rank.

Helium (Marketplace for freelance writing):


Helium is one of the best web services for the freelance writers to offer a marketplace for their creativity. You can share your expertise in Helium. When you write at Helium, you help inform millions, earn money, get recognized and build your portfolio. There are is a pretty wide range of “article types” where you can participate with this marketplace.

• Reporting

• Editorial (or Opinion)

• Experience

• Review writing

• Copywriting

• Creative writing

Different publishers require different styles of writing and have different audiences. Helium has put together training materials and resources to help get you started.

Compensation:

Helium’s publishing partners in Marketplace are paying $20 to $200 for selected articles right now. All payments are made in monthly basis.

Shvoong (Receive lifetime royalties for your writing)


Shvoong's goal is summarizing human knowledge and always welcomes you to submit your review of a previously published book, article or newspaper, an existing website, movie or an academic paper. Write your abstracts in your own words and get 10% of its advertising revenues. The key to the distribution of money amongst the writers is the number of times a summary is viewed (therefore it is preferred that the summary be well written). If you are a blogger, besides writing you can get mass publishing of your work, recognition, promotion, and free web traffic.

Compensation:

The royalties are received when at least $10 is accumulated in the writer’s account. Payment is usually made by the PayPal system. In countries where PayPal is not available (and only in

Squidoo Lens (Your Lens, your money):


If you don’t have a lens in Squidoo you should do it right now! Squidoo is a website hosting hundreds of thousands of hand built WebPages (just to be difficult, they call them "lenses"). Each lens is one person's look at something online. Squidoo makes money from ads and affiliate links (On every Lens). They give 5% of what they earn, to charity. Keep 45% to cover overhead and stuff. That leaves 50%. That goes the people who build the lens (You).

Compensation:

How much you will earn is clearly depends on how many lens you have and how popular they are . The Squidoo default Cash Payout Threshold starts at $10. This means that if you don't edit your threshold, you will get paid when your account (across all your lenses) earns $10 or more in cash. Payments are made via paypal.

Weblogs, Inc. (Write blog post and earn):


Weblogs, Inc. runs an easy business. They have more than 90 blogs on different topics. All you have to do is select a blog to write for. You can choose more than one blog. Or can suggest a topic that you think they should have; maybe they will start a new blog. You will get paid to blog as little or as much as you like, and you can shift from blog to blog within the network. The only requirements at Weblogs, Inc are that you be totally honest with your audience and passionate about the subjects you cover.

Wise Bread (Write and Get 4 streams of revenue)


Wise Bread can be the best place for the writers who are creative, resourceful and internet-savvy. It created a model called Fair Blogging™ . As a part of Fair Blogging™, WiseBread offers a great opportunity for writers to get full value from their articles.

In return of your writing you will get revenue from Google Adsense, site-wide ads, Feedburner, and reprint licenses.

Here are a few of the major topics WiseBread is interested in:

Savvy shopping tips to keep you stylish, sassy, and solvent.

Frugal living suggestions that keeps you living a rockstar lifestyle on a shoestring budget.

Financial advice that is easy to understand and easy to apply.

Career and money-making ideas that'll add zeros to your bank account.

General grownup know-how your parents forgot to tell you.

Compensation:

For any of your live posts in Wisebread, you will get 100% the advertising revenue generated by your posts. This means you keep all the ad revenue from your permalink page and your personal home page. Moreover, they split the site-wide ads based on traffic and earnings made from Feedburner (or any other form of syndication). The more traffic your articles generate, the more you make.

b5 Media (Get paid doing what you love!)


b5media is a global new media network of blogs covering a wide variety of topics ranging from entertainment and to technology, beauty and sports. With content written by passionate people from all over the world, b5 media blogs attract a large, loyal and growing audience for companies looking to build major brand appeal.

When you blog for b5media, you're part of a diverse, passionate blogger community.

It's not just about setting you up with a topic and template for your blog - at b5media, you'll be a part of a network of bloggers you can count on for tips, tricks and advice on how to successfully attract readers and grow your traffic.

Cream aid (Share your experience and get royalty)


Cream aid is all about sharing your experience about commercial stuff, meet new people, and get royalty for that. It’s pretty easy to participate, no registration is required.

All you will have to do is to select the Conversations section consists of Conversations that have been activated so far. Select one that interests you. Pick your favorite post in

Find a Conversation widget in it and get started by clicking on a blue button at the bottom. Just be cool and share your experience with no strings attached.

If you have a blog you can participate in Cream aid conversations with your blog post and get some exposure as well as some referral fees. `

Compensation:

You will receive a referral fee whenever someone participates through your post's widget and her post is selected. The total amount of your referral fee will be sent after the Conversation ends. For being featured in the Conversation, you will receive a royalty payment from the Conversation starter.

As soon as your post is selected, Cream aid will send you a notification E-mail.

This E-mail includes a verification code and a link you can visit to collect your royalty payment. Visit the page and enter the PayPal account we should send the money to, as well as the verification code. The money will be sent to your PayPal account within 24 hours.

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HubPages (Write on HubPages and Earn)


Hubpages would be a good choice by any freelancer. Hubs are just like web pages. Each one contains an article you write that's filled with insight, advice, information - whatever you'd like to say on your favorite topic. That means you can make one Hub with an article Hubpages Produces all kind of contents with easy-to-use tools. The non-techie tools allow you to easily load your hub with the content, pictures, link and videos that interests you most. Hubpages has Over 150,000 articles and over 8 million readers, more than 20 million pageviews every month with high credibility in search engines. So you can expect to reach a large online audience interested in your topic(s).>>Thanks to Blogger jobs. They have some helpful resources on freelance writing jobs.

Compensation:

The HubPages Royalty Program provides you with an easy way to take advantage of the Internet's top ad revenue and commission generating tools.
• You can set up affiliate accounts with Google, Kontera, eBay, and Amazon. This simple process is lightning quick and costs you nothing.
• Google and Kontera automatically displays ads in your hub that are relevant to your topic.
• You can decide which products to list in your eBay and Amazon capsules.
HubPages earns its revenue from these ads and split the impressions with the writer. You, the writer, receive 60% of the impressions, while HubPages receives the remaining 40%. Any revenue generated while your ad is displayed is entirely yours. So if a Hub is visited 10 times, 6 of the ad impressions are yours, and 4 are HubPages. You keep all the revenue generated from those 6 ad impressions.

Associated Content (Cash for any topic, every format – online)


Anyone can become a Content Producer with Associated Content. Content Producers get benefits in three major ways beyond the opportunity to publish: fair payment compensation, online discoverability and distribution through AC’s partner sites. Founded in 2005, this site is well known for creating a whole new concept of content marketplace. AC's platform enables anyone to participate in the new content economy by publishing content on any topic, in any format (text, video, audio and images).
Associated Content pays you based on the performance of your content, which means you can keep earning against the same content long after you have published it. AC also enables you to build an audience for your content.

Compensation:

The amount of money you can make at Associated Content is unlimited. They pay contributors/freelancers through two payment system. Which they call (a) Performance Payments and (b) Upfront Payment.
All of the content you publish can earn you money via Performance Payments, which currently pays you a baseline PPM™ rate of $1.50 for every thousand page views your content receives. As you generate more page views and submit more content, your clout level rises - and your Performance Payments do too.
Upfront Payment is an advance payment for your content offered before your content is published. It is a bonus in addition to the money you can earn via Performance Payments. In addition, sometimes we might be offered an Upfront Payment offer for your text content (offers range from $3 - 20).
At this time, the Associated Content pays exclusively via PayPal.
Generally, payments are sent every Monday, Wednesday and Friday (except for holidays). Performance Payments are sent at the beginning of each month, no later than the second Wednesday, if you have at least $1.50 in your Performance Payment balance.

Flixya (Social networking site that pays)


Flixya is a social networking community that pays members 100% ad revenue. It has all the features of a popular social networking site and offers a powerful method to publish and monetize online content and generate revenue. Flixya.com offers a member focused platform where people can share videos, photos and blogs. The members keep all ad revenue generated from each piece of content they are contributing.

If you have an account in Google adsense, you can start with Flixya right now. If you do not have a Google publisher id – you can sign up for one during registration or enter your existing Google publisher id. It takes only seconds to register. The next step is to keep an eye on your email and confirm both the email from Flixya and an additional email you'll receive from Google.

Once you are accepted into the Adsense program, you are on your way to earning money just by sharing videos, photos and blogs!
Flixya will help you to drive traffic and enable to earn residual income from each piece of content that you contribute.

Compensation:

You will be paid by Google as you are reguired to sign up for a google adsense account to generate revenue from it. Greatest things about Flixya is you will get a highly modified platform to generate adsense revenue. Adsense payment is made in a montly basis. Learn more about Adsense.