How to Decide which Online Writing Website is Right for You

With so many different online writing websites available, it can be difficult to decide which is the best investment of your time. Here are the pros and cons of the best websites to make money writing online.

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Instructions

Things You'll Need

• An internet connection

1. Triond. Pros: It has an easy user interface and allows you to submit any kind of content imaginable, including creative writing and content in many different languages.
   Cons: The pay is relatively low compared to the other web sites.

2. Suite101. Pros? The pay is high and the editing process ensures you will have high quality work that will always be valuable in some capacity.
   Cons? Its hard to be admitted to the site and the strict formatting rules are difficult and annoying at times.

3. Bukisa. Pros: You can submit pretty much what you want. They pay is better and more consistent than Triond but lower than Suite101. You can also recruit people and earn a cut of their pay.
   Cons: The user interface is extremely difficult and the articles are not easily accessible to search engines.

4. Associated Content. Pros: You get an "upfront payment" per article, as well as pay per pageview.
   Cons: The "upfront payment" is often only about $3.00, it's only available to Americans, and the pay per pageview is terrible and it can take weeks to publish your content.

5. Helium. Pros: You are always given new ideas for articles to write. You also have contests where you can win some serious money if are an amazing writer.
   Cons: If you lose the contests you win nothing, and the pay per pageview is low. Also you can't use your own ideas for writing.

6. Bright Hub. Pros: $10 pay per article plus ad revenue sharing.
   Cons: Strict article control, plus its very difficult to get admitted. In addition, you have to write only about certain topics in electronics and technology.

7. About.com Pros: Extremely high pay without having to write hundreds of articles. If you stay on for two years you can be promoted to a staff job with even higher pay.
   Cons: Extremely, exceedingly difficult to get admitted.

8. Ehow. Pros: Writing articles is relatively easy. The pay is good if you can produce a huge volume of content. The website has a good support system in place and the community of writers is excellent.
   Cons: After a while, it can be difficult to come up with new ideas for content.

Tips & Warnings

• You can write for multiple different web sites. Just be warned that some of them demand exclusive content only.

• Writing online can be addictive!

Resources

• How to Come up with Ideas for Ehow Articles