Make Money Writing Articles

Nearly every website is loaded with text, in the form of pages, articles, or blog posts. While somebsite owners do make their sites for fun, most make them to make money. And usually the more articles and posts they have on their sites, the more money they make. But writing articles and blog posts takes time. Very often the people who own websites are busy working on new ideas, programming, promoting their sites, fulfilling orders, and all the other necessary day to day requirements of running their businesses. They don't have time to write every page, article, or post themselves. That's where you come in.

Webmasters looking for writers may turn to friends or family members with spare time first. If you have a friend or family member with a website that's doing well and you feel like you could do a good job writing for them, ask them if they're interested in hiring you on a per article basis. They may be overloaded with work and hadn't even thought of asking for help. Do you have a hobby or know a lot about a certain topic? Do you feel you could write a lot about it? Search out websites or blogs on topics you feel passionate about, and send site owners an email to see if they would be interested in hiring you. Although it requires a little more effort to find, if you can work directly for a webmaster you'll probably get paid more since you won't have to give a cut to a middle man. If you don't know anyone with a website or aren't sure where to look, there are great options where you can easily find work.

Where You Can Find Jobs Today

Due to the great demand webmasters have for text content, companies have sprung up that connect people willing to write for money with people who need writing and are willing to pay for it. Textbroker.com is one of the more well known companies. You can sign up with them today and start making money right now. Textbroker will pay for you to write articles by the word. They have 4 different writing levels (legible, average, excellent, & professional), and pay more money per word for higher quality work. It's best to write about a topic you know something about before hand, where you can write at the professional level. Professional level writing will bring you $25 for a 500 word article. 500 words really isn't must at all, and if you're a good writer you can eerily make between $100-$200 each day. The great thing about Textbroker is that you once you sign up, for free, you can go in and choose a topic, and start writing immediately.

Other companies with huge sites or portfolios of sites, such as Demand Media, will pay you directly to write content for their sites. Demand Media creates content for their own network of sites and for other sites like Lance Armstrong's LiveStrong.com. Besides writing for them, you can also submit photos and videos they've requested. It's very easy to sign up, and after sign up you can browse their huge list of topics, photos, and videos, send in your work, and get paid right away.

Real Writing Jobs: This company claims you can make $25 - $100 per article or post. Although you can make money through them, it's more likely to be in the range of $10 per article. There's a $2.95 sign up fee to start, and then $47/month. It's most likely worth the price if you write a lot of articles. But if you're only going to write a few the choices above are likely better.

Additional Tips

In addition to the two popular sites above, many webmasters advertise on sites like Craigslist, Elance, and others. But rather than spreading yourself thin doing work on all of these sites, your best bet is probably to pick one and go to town with it. If you're doing good work for a particular webmaster they may end up hiring you full time, or giving you lots more work on other projects they're involved with. Once you've been at it for a while you'll find it's not difficult at all to have more writing work than you can even handle. The key to maximizing your income with online writing is to write the highest quality content you possibly can, so you'll get the most per word of writing and have customers that want you to write for them over and over again.