15 Quality Job Boards for Freelance Writers

Let's face it, finding jobs as a freelance writer can be tough. But there are jobs out there, if you know how to find them. 

I am a writer, and I have been where you are now. But I am also a researcher, it's in my nature and in my training as a scientist. So, when I was looking for jobs, I did my research, looking for anywhere and everywhere that writing jobs could be found. 

I looked at forums, jobs boards and specialist writers' sites. I tried them out, wrote them up and filed them away. Now, for the first time, I am going to share the information I have gleaned with you and here you will find the best of all the job boards where authors and writers can find work.

As well as descriptions of each site and what you can expect there, I've also tried to give some information on the quality of jobs posted and the frequency with which those jobs are updated.

1. FreelanceWritingGigs.com

FreelanceWritingGigs is one of the best websites out there for freelance writers. It is a general writing site where writing resources and guides are added almost daily. It also has a 'writing gigs' category that regularly features jobs from various job boards.

This is updated daily and most of the jobs are well-paying. However, quite a few of the jobs posted are taken directly from Craigslist.

2. Freelance Writer's Den Junk-free Job Board

This has to be one of the best of all the available writers' job sites. The site and the jobs board was created by Carol Tice and each job is vetted to remove the junk and low-paying jobs. This means that the job quality here is very high and it's updated just about every day.

There is one drawback, in that membership is $25 per month. But for the lack of spam and low-quality jobs this is worth paying. The fee also means that you tend to have only serious writers here, so your chance of actually getting a job is much higher.

Carol is a serious writer who maintains that no writer should be paid less than $50 per article and this is a rule she applies to the board. So you get much better paying jobs here as well.

I am a member of this site myself, and I get a significant portion of my earnings from this site.

3. FreelanceSwitch Jobs Board

The FreelanceSwitch site has to be one of the most popular freelance writers' site on the internet. The jobs board is also very popular. It's mostly aimed at programmers and developers, but there are a large number of writing jobs posted. 

There are a number of resources available, like an hourly rate calculator and eBooks. You can even subscribe to the jobs RSS feed. However, one drawback is that need to pay $7 just to apply for a job.

The jobs and pay rates are excellent, but new jobs are not posted very frequently.

4. Krop Jobs Board

Though mainly aimed at web designers and programmers, there are a number of writing jobs on here. The jobs are all of good quality, but are not updated that frequently.

There is an excellent search engine and you can find writer-related keywords using search terms like: "writer", "copywriter", "content writer", "article", "freelance writer", "technical writer" etc.

You can also subscribe to the jobs via email, based on the keyword searches so that you only get notified of articles that are potentially of interest to you.

5. Sologigs Jobs Board

This is a jobs board for professionals. However, there is a writer-related category. This is a very active jobs board with a lot of offers.

Most of the offers aren't bad, but you will have to weed out a few silly ones before applying.

6. WritingCareer Jobs

This is updated very frequently, but a lot of the jobs are taken from other freelance bidding sites. This means that there is a whole range of pricing, some of them being silly.

You will need to do quite a bit of digging, but there are a few quality jobs available as long as you did hard enough.

7. SimplyHired

This is a general freelance directory that has a writing section. Writer jobs are only added occasionally, but the jobs that do come up are of high quality.

There is a comprehensive search system and an alerting system. So you an sign-up and then set up an alert when a job that might interest you comes along.

8. FlexJobs Writer Jobs

This is a premium jobs board that offers professional jobs. They are updated very frequently and there are plenty of offers.

It is a paid-for jobs board, however, and you will be required to pay a monthly fee of about $5 before you can apply for jobs.

There are lots of jobs here and they cater to most specialities.

9. FreelanceWriting.com

This is another quality site with lots of freelance writing jobs. The jobs pay well and are updated every Tuesday. Either visit the site every Tuesday to look at the new jobs. Or, more conveniently, subscribe to the newsletter and get the jobs postings delivered straight to your inbox.

Job offers on this board invariably pay well.

10. Whisperjobs 

There are lots of jobs which are updated frequently. However, quality can be very variable and you should be careful which jobs you are applying to, so that you are not under-paid.

11. Freelancer.com

Freelancer is a general freelance site. Jobs are updated very frequently (sometimes by the minute). The sign-up process is lengthy and you have a limited number of jobs you can apply to each month (unless you upgrade your account by paying).

Jobs can be very variable, from the high-quality to the poorly paying and there is a bidding process that typically lasts a week.

12. ProBlogger Jobs Board

If you are a blogger then the problogger jobs board is one of the best sources of employment. New jobs are added regularly (typically 1 new job a day).

The majority of the jobs are blog related, but you do get more general writing jobs appearing every now and then. Most pay rates are reasonable. But, like all general jobs boards you will see some people offering little or nothing for jobs.

13. JournalismJobs.com

This is a freelance job board that mainly caters for journalistic-style work, but which also a number of quality general writing jobs.

Unfortunately, the jobs are buried within the site. It's best to use the search function to find them.

14. BloggingPro Jobs Board

This is very similar to the ProBlogger board mentioned above, but with more general writing jobs. Pay typically isn't that bad (depending on skills, of course).

15. VirtualVocations.com Job Board

Whilst not as sophisticated as the other jobs boards listed above, it does contain a lot of offers. It might take a while for you to find exactly what best suits you, but the jobs are there.

Be Realistic

Applying for jobs on the boards above is a great move towards increasing your income. However, you really should understand that applying for a job is no guarantee of acceptance.

The boards are very popular as it is, and you are probably reading this post along with thousands of other people. The secret to getting a good offer is to apply to as many of the jobs on the board above as you think you're qualified for. 

Like everything in this life, you have to put the effort into the jobs boards to get results. 

If you know of any other jobs boards, then please use the comment system below to bring them to others' attention.

Quite a lot of effort has gone into producing this article, please help spread the word about it by posting to Google+, Facebook and Twitter. This ensures that more people benefit from it and it helps to motivate me to write more content.

Kindle eBook Profits, the Guide to Writing Kindle eBooks that Sell and to Marketing Them

I don't often endorse products on this blog, but sometimes, just sometimes, products come across my desk that I really cannot ignore.

As someone who regularly publishes eBooks on Amazon for the Kindle platform, I was astonished when the eBook Kindle eBook Profits was brought to my attention. From the blurb, this looked like the eBook everyone who wants to publish successfully on Amazon really needed.

The cover price of $45 was a bit steep, but I decided to give it a go to see what was on offer. The tagline for the eBook says that it's: The Complete, Step-by-Step Guide on How to Write a Successful Kindle Ebook from Start to Finish.

But enough of the hype, what does the book actually provide, and is it for you?

The book comes from the viewpoint of how you can write a book for publishing via the Amazon eBook store that will sell. Think of it as teaching you to be a ghostwriter for your own product.

The book goes through how you can do your research to find what information people are actively searching for so that you can find a topic to write about where people are hungry for the book.

Once the book is written on that topic, you are taken step by step on how to produce a kindle eBook, and then you are taken through how to market your book so that it gets noticed.

Marketing topics covered include:

How to Beat the Top 10 Positions for Your Kindle eBook Category
Do These 5 Things to Get People to Buy Your Book
How to Get Your Book to the Bestsellers List in a Category

This information is gold. The eBook is marketed as: the ONLY guide you’ll need to start earning a RECURRING income from Amazon and I have to agree. Marketing is the area that typically lets us authors down and here you get a complete guide as to how to effectively plan the launch of your book, as well as marketing it for the long term.

The marketing techniques contained in Kindle eBook Profits are a must-read for every author. The style of writing a book to a topic guaranteed to sell might not be my kind of writing. But if you really want to make money, it will almost certainly work.

This book is not cheap, and it's not long, but I guarantee that you will glean important information from it. And if you are like me, it will begin to pay for itself in a few weeks.

I urge you to get a copy of Kindle eBook Profits right now and start putting into practice the information contained therein.

Ninety-five Dofollow Blogs to Help SEO Campaigns

Many internet marketers and webmasters know that adding comments to blogs where links are allowed is an excellent way of both getting their sites known and of building 'link juice'. However, many blogs use the 'nofollow' tag so that even if you post a link there page rank will not be passed from that blog to your site (this is what's called 'link juice'). Going through all the blogs that allow comments and which allow links is tedious and then you have to check whether or not the link is a 'nofollow' or 'dofollow' one.

But not to worry, the hard work has been done for you. Here are forty blogs, with links that all allow you to post links with your blog comments and which all have the 'nofollow' attribute so that you links will help improve the page ranks of your own site.

Computers and Internet:
1. Blogs With Wings (http://blogswithwings.com/)
2. BizChickBlogs.com (http://www.bizchickblogs.com/)
3. Associate Blogger (http://www.associateblogger.com/)
4. Inzone Internet (http://inzoneinternet.com/)
5. New Media Bloggers (http://blog.newmediabloggers.com)
6. Internet-Business-Review.net (http://internet-business-review.net/)
7. Trusted Affiliate Marketer (http://www.trustedaffiliatemarketer.com/)
8. Make Money Online Beginners (http://internetwealthlab.com/blog/)
9. Make Money Blogging (http://www.brandonconnell.com/)
10. WebMaster Success (http://webmaster-success.com/)
11. Organic SEO Marketing (http://brandyorrange.com/)
12. Learn Google Adsense & SEO (http://adsenseurdu.com/)
13. Precise Internet Marketing (http://preciseinternetmarketing.com)
14. TechJaws (http://www.techjaws.com)
15. DoFollow Blog (http://dofollow.info/category/blog/)
16. Omega Web (http://www.omegaweb.com/)
17. Keep Up With The Web (http://keepupwiththeweb.com/)
18. Search Engine Optimization and Social Media News (http://blog.seooptimizers.com/)
19. Niche Marketing Blog (http://www.marketingsyndrome.com/)
20. Get the Best Free Web Traffic (http://getfreetraffic.co.cc/)

Health and Wellness
21. Quest for Balance (http://www.questforbalance.com/)
22. What To Know About Things (http://whattoknow.org)
23. Creative Personal Development (http://www.wellbunny.com)
24. Healthy Diet Weight Loss (http://www.drkalsweightlosstips.com/)
25. MyDiet.org (http://mydiet.org)


Technology:
26. Mobilespace (http://www.mobilespace.in/)
27. Tech-Freak Stuff (http://techfreakstuff.com)

Business:
28. Successful Internet Marketing (http://nine95.com/)
29. Penny Seeds (http://pennyseeds.com/)
30. Green Home Blog (http://www.greenhomedesign.co.uk/)
31. VBS Insight – Small Business Information (http://vbsinsight.visionsbiz-online.com/)
32. Your Virtual Assistant (http://www.thevirtualasst.com/blog)

Recipes and Cooking:
33. Simple Malaysian Recipes (http://www.seleramalaysia.com/)
34. The Chef’s Cookbook (http://www.thechefscookbook.com/)
35. Daily Shot Of Coffee (http://www.dailyshotofcoffee.com/)

Writing:
36. University Eight (http://www.universityeight.info/)
37. Freelance Writers Club (http://freelancewritersclub.com/)
38. Corner Scribe: Write Well. Get Published (http://www.cornerscribe.com/wordpress)

General:
39. The Blog About Everything (http://theblogabouteverything.com/)
40. 113Tidbits Of Smack And More (http://113tidbits.com/)

Other Blogs:
41. http://newcritics.com
42. http://www.thebayrental.com/
43. http://www.thevirtualasst.com/
44. http://www.serradinho.com/
45. http://www.interviewquestionshq.com/
46. http://www.techatlast.com
47. http://www.smartbloggerz.com
48. http://www.theblog.ca
49. http://www.graphicdesignblog.co.uk
50. http://www.articlesnatch.com/blog
51. http://pixelheadonline.com/blog
52. http://www.howtowakeupearly.com
53. http://www.currybet.net
54. http://www.howtowakeupearly.com
55. http://www.communityspark.com
56. http://www.peterleehc.com/blog
57. http://www.ecommtips.com
58. http://tucsonseosolutions.com
59. http://www.memwg.com
60. http://www.howtospoter.com
61. http://www.seotops.com
62. http://www.organicseo.in
63. http://www.reviewerofsites.com
64. http://infodotnet.blogspot.com
65. http://www.tlmarketing.net
66. http://www.dollarsblog.com
67. http://www.affiliatebestprograms.com
68. http://www.yimto.com
69. http://dmiracle.com
70. http://www.voice-broadcast.com
71. http://www.extremejohn.com
72. http://www.bloggodown.com
73. http://tycoonblogger.com
74. http://techpatio.com
75. http://www.ruhanirabin.com
76. http://sighnetdollars.blogspot.com
77. http://zebida.com
78. http://followlist.com
79. http://www.blogengage.com
80. http://newcritics.com
81. http://blog.mofuse.com
82. http://www.bloggingjunction.com
83. http://weblogtoolscollection.com
84. http://www.netchunks.com
85. http://www.seobythesea.com
86. http://rumahabi.com
87. http://bytesizecss.com/blog
88. http://www.marketingblagger.com
89. http://www.bluehatseo.com
90. http://workathomemomrevolution.blogspot.com
91. http://www.powerdosh.com
92. http://niceblogger.com
93. http://www.dumblittleman.com
94. http://cashtactics.net
95. http://ez-onlinemoney.com

Using the blogs adding here, adding comments and links will help improve the page rank and overall ranking of your own site or blog. As always, do not spam these blogs, add comments that help the discussion, then add your own comment.

Commenting on the blogs above will significantly improve your SEO.

Play nice, otherwise these blogs may not be 'dofollow' in the future and you will be spoiling this resource for the rest of us.

Preparing an eBook for Publishing

You have written your book and it's a real stunner. You have the text in MS Word (or OpenOffice, or equivalent) and now you are ready to get your eBook off the ground.

You've converted it to ePub format (eg with Smashwords' aggregator and you have uploaded your book onto the Amazon kdp books page). Now you sit back and wait for the sales to flood in... but nothing happens.

Maybe it's a slow start, so you wait a week. But still nothing happens. So you reckon this whole writing thing is a con and you give up.

I've heard this story over and over. Indeed, I fell into this trap myself with my first book. Thankfully it was a volume of poetry that I knew would not sell much anyway.

But can you spot the fundamental mistake made in this scenario?

Authors are writers. They love writing and the book is their 'baby' and they expect everyone else to love it as much as they have. And if you have written a book then you have spent months living and breathing that book to the exclusion of all else. The book has been your whole life.

It's easy to forget that as far as the rest of the world is concerned the book might as well not exist. If you're a beginner writer, then you will not be a household name and no-one will know about your book at all.

So, if people do not know about you, how are they going to know about your new book?

The truth is that if you are an author, then you need to make yourself into a brand and you need to market your book. This is the only way that people will find out about you and what you write. If you do not do that then you will not make any sales.

You are the authority and your book is your business and sales mean an income. Even before you start writing you book you need to establish yourself as a 'name'. Improve your exposure and brand awareness by starting a website or a blog. Write about what you love (even better if this is the subject of your book), get your name recognized.

Just before you are ready to publish your book begin marketing. Write about it to local newspaper, write about it on your blog, submit on-line press releases. Offer discounts on your blog or site to the first 100 that buy it. Get people to write reviews (especially before publication).

One the book is out, write articles about it, put links to sales pages on your web and your blog.

The more you market, the more your book will become known and the more sales you will make.

Remember, you are not just an author, you are a business.

So, if you are preparing an eBook (or any kind of book for publication) get your marketing right before anything else.

Yes, You Can Be an Author

I have been writing for years... more than twenty now, if truth be told. I began by using poetry to alleviate stress and that evolved into writing short pieces mainly for my own enjoyment. Over the years I amassed mounds of paper, then piles of floppy disks, piles of CDs and now piles of DVDs.

In 2004 I got my first domain and my writing went on line. I was still writing for my own enjoyment in the main, researching things that interested me and putting the findings up on the web. I began with Celtic stuff, translations and research on Celtic gods in the main.

This evolved into writing historic recipes and the Celtnet Recipes site was born. I kept on adding content and used the site to learn PHP and MySQL as well as honing some of my writing skills. But the main thing was to put up more and more content and to research things that interested me in more and more detail. Historic recipes evolved into wild food recipes then a specialization in African recipes and the site kept on growing.

The first year I made no money from the site, the second year I got a cheque every now and then from Google and the third year I was getting a cheque almost every month.

I had so much content that I did not know what to do with it. Then, a couple of years ago over a couple of beers I showed a friend a lot of what I had written and he came out and asked my: Why haven't you written a book?

To be honest, the thought had never really struck me. But that conversation planted the seed in my head. I dug out some of my early writings and went through them. Finally I decided to gather together a volume of poetry that I titled 'Memories of Myth and Man'. I put together a small print run and sold the copies to family and from my website.

All the copies sold! Of course, poetry will never make anyone rich, but it did bolster my confidence. I started putting together a volume of Christmas recipes. This I put together as an eBook and solid it for Amazon's kindle platform.

I was a real novice then and, basically, I sold nothing. This year I re-visited the entire scenario, wrote 7 other books and began selling them on Amazon for kindle, whilst actually putting effort into marketing them.

It does take a lot of effort to get a book from where it's written down on a page to where it can be published and marketed. It's not just the writing, it's the editing and re-editing then the typesetting and finally the publishing (it does not matter whether you are publishing an eBook or a physical book, the process is essentially the same.


I learnt a lot during this time, and here are some of the main lessons:

1. Start small. Whenever yo do something new there is always a steep learning curve. It's better to do the learning using a short book or pamphlet rather than a full volume. Shorter books are easier to complete and get published. You are less likely to get disheartened and you are more likely not to give up.

2. Enlist the help of people with experience. If you know anyone who has published before, enlist their help. This will save you a lot of heartache and mis-steps along the way. Otherwise you will have to find out all the traps and pitfalls for yourself.

3. Be prepared to deal with disappointment. When you put your heart into something only to hear, "We're not interested," it is easy to take it personally. But, you must continually remind yourself that this is part of the package deal in self-publishing. For every "yes" you receive at least five "no's" (or so it seems). Learning to humbly and graciously accept rejection, not let it get you down, and keep pressing forward is an absolute must in self-publishing, especially at the beginning.

4. The more you market, the more you sell. You can publish an excellent book, but unless people know it's available, you cannot expect many buyers. The good news is that the possibilities for marketing are endless. Check out all the books on marketing your local library offers and all the articles on marketing available on-line. These will give you some great starter ideas. Send out an e-mail to friends, family, and business associates announcing your book's publication date. You could even offer a limited-time pre-publication special. Join self-publishing groups and let them know about your book. Ask others to promote your book. Submit on-line press releases just before your book is published. Be pro-active and do not be afraid to try novel ideas!

Remember, even when you have finished your book, the journey is not over. If you do not market, you cannot sell.

Using Writing Exercises for Focus

I heard a story once about the great American author, Sinclair Lewis. He had been asked to give a lecture on writing to a group of college students. He walked up to the podium, gripped the sides then addressed the assembled students: "Looking out at this gathering," he addressed the students, "makes me want to know how many of you really and truly wish to become writers?"

Instantly, every hand in the room shot upwards. Lewis gazed at each and every one of them for a minute and then he tidied his notes, folded them and put them all away, saying: "If that's true, then the best advice I can give you is to go home and start writing." He then turned on his heel and left the room.

He was pointing out the one thing every writer should know, that the first secret of writing is to sit down and actually write. For many that means setting out some kind of writing schedule and sticking to it. The next step is to actually figure out what to write.

Whether you use a computer or an old-fashioned pen an paper (I use computers for most things, but always a fountain pen and paper for poetry) for many writers just being faced by a blank piece of paper they freeze, like a rabbit caught in headlights. The brain locks up and 'writer's block' overcomes them. Unable to start they stare at the screen and the brain goes into freefall.

It's in this kind of situation that writing exercises really can help. For me, I try and write poetry, and this poem, entitled 'Blank Paper' is something I wrote whilst facing this exact same situation:

Blank Paper
Paper — accusing blankness
bewails the wood from which it's made
Cries: 'who are you to think
you can create your art
on rolled-out pulp?
Engender novelty
on slaughtered wood.

You can reed more of the Blank paper poem on my poetry site.

Writing exercises really can help and many writers incorporate them into the very beginning of each day. The aim of a writing exercise is to allow you to open your mind and to allow you to hone your skills and experience. You are taking time to write for writing's sake. You are now writing 'for real' in that there is no editor to please and no deadline to meet. You can write about anything you want, in any style you want.

Indeed, for a writing exercise it's better to write about something completely different than what you normally write, to free up your mind. Typically they should only take between 10 and 15 minutes and then you can turn to your normal writing schedule. After a couple of days I like to go back to the exercise to edit and go over what I wrote before.

Use writing exercises in your writing schedule, as a natural part of your writing discipline; use the exercises often and watch your writing improve.

A writer I knew and who used writing exercises religiously called them 'mini-meditations' where you can think, feel and express yourself about something completely tangential to the everyday. It's like clearing away the cobwebs to give yourself a clear view before you start work.

Often they will give you a new view of things, a new perspective that can actually help you with the remainder of your writing work. They can even give you a new clarity of expression.

Of course, not every exercise blows your mind every time. Sometimes you are just not ready for the challenge presented, but even then, the seed is planted. Sometimes you are simply not up for doing a writing exercise, which is okay too. Again, simply reading can set some new thoughts in motion. And that is why I like to review, edit and analyze what I have written before.

It's all part of the process of honing the art of being a writer.

If you enjoyed the poem fragment given here, then it is available in complete form as part of my eBook Memories of Myth and Man which contains over 60 poems and illustrations, many of which are not on this site, and is sold via Amazon (so you know your purchase is secure and safe) for only 99 cents. Sales of the eBook go towards supporting this site. The eBook is also available to borrow via Amazon's Kindle Owners' Lending Library. You can find the Memories of Myth and Man on Amazon and you can also find Memories of Myth and Man on Amazon.co.uk.

Earning Money from Articles — Part 2 Article Revenue Share Sites

Introduction:

Welcome to my second article on making money from articles. This article deals with Revenue Share article sites. Those sites where you post your content and you take a share (typically 50% of the advertising revenue that your article generates).

This will never make you rich, but writing a number of articles will bring you a residual income every month. How much you earn depends on how many articles you submit and the precise topics of those articles. The ones to target first are the ones where you can add your own URLs either to the article body or to an author signature associated with the article.

This way you get a residual income from pageviews to your article, you get referral traffic and you get link juice to your own site or to the affiliate products you are marketing. Even if you are purely an author, this is a great way of getting more links to your author blog, twitter feed or Amazon author page.

Here are some of my favourite article revenue share sites:


1. Yahoo! Contributor Network (formerly AssociatedContent). Here you are paid on a performance basis and they give you tools to help drive traffic to your articles. My overall experience is that the site’s potential for freelance on-line writers is there. But they do not buy your articles (at least for non US contributors). Still, this is a Yahoo! company, so exposure and link juice to any URLs you add to your articles is excellent.


2. Helium. The problem with Helium is that articles are listed in categories according to the rating they receive by other members of the site. As a result only a couple of the 15 articles I submitted came up in the first five in their lists of articles with the same topic. This effectively means that unless your are part of the 'clique' of the site your articles are never seen and they can never be sold. There are article topics that you get paid for, but they only give $1 and most of these articles you have to research. I have given up on helium.


3. Hubpages. This is one of the classics and I have had hubs for a long time. The site has great spontaneous response to your input. It shows you other hubbers’ activities which enrich your experience with the site. It shows your statistics clearly and allows you edit your work instantaneously. You may add pictures or advertising capsules (segments) anytime you like. For those who are keen to make a passive income here, they make it easy for you to become affiliates to Google Adsense, Kontera context link, Amazon.com and eBay.com. It can be hard to get some hubs noticed and I tend to submit spun content there. However, hubs can be profitable for diligent and money-conscious writers who put effort into search engine optimization (SEO) and write hubs around the more profitable Google Adsense Keywords.



4. Lifetips. Only for US authors at present. They sign-up writers as 'Gurus' in their particular fields of expertise (from accounting, acupuncture…, to writing and yoga). You can share your 'lifetips' and be paid up to $10 per tip, or allow them to compile your tips into an ebook or a printed book. They will market the book and award you your royalty at an agreed percentage.


5. Sqidoo. This is very similar to hubpages, except that articles are called 'lenses'. Unfortunately, for the beginner, the competition is really hot. Unless you do something nice and get recommended by one of the editors, your writing gets lost in the ocean of lenses created every day. Still, there are many other lens producers who will share with you how interesting and addictive publishing at squidoo.com is. I am sure it will turn out great for many of you who try it hard and long enough. One of the issues is driving traffic to your lens so you need to be proactive about that. Also writing seasonal content seems to be a good way of getting noticed. A few of my recipes for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Hogmanay have been picked up.


6. Triond. I have just joined Triond and had my first couple of articles published. They have an interesting model, whereby the site acts as a portal that distributes your writing to various sites and blogs that cover a whole range of topics. Triond accepts articles on all topics and sorts them out to distribute through the appropriately themed article sites. You can even write in a language of your choice (other than English) and they’ll find the right place to publish it. They also try to find an image to match your content and attach this to it. It should be noted, though, that they are very strict about duplicate content. You are likely to have your article declined even if it has been partly duplicated somewhere on the internet (or possibly, in print). Still, their reputation is that they are very efficient at paying authors. I am getting to like Triond and this is one site I will be sticking with.



7. Seeking Alpha. They require articles about stocks, investment and stock tips. If your article is unique and you submit to them only then you get $10 per article per 1,000 page views. They also have other work from home jobs that you can check out, if interested.


Summary:

I have tried to present sites that actually pay you here, and where possible I have presented sites that I use myself in my on-line campaigns. Where I was not able to use the site (because it's for US authors only, I have indicated this and tried to speak with someone who really uses the site).

None of these sites will directly make you rich (no site will do that) but they will help you get your name known and they will help bring traffic to your own site. You can also use them to provide a cascade of links (squidoo and hubpages to triond, triond to your main site, for example) that can help in your link-building campaigns.

This is based on personal experience, and sites I do not like may be ideal for you. So give them a try and see what happens.