How to Get Paid to Write Online
There are some other fairly easy ways to earn money online that I actually prefer to doing surveys and the main one is getting paid to create content. So if you are looking for some tips on how to get paid to write online, read on, because that’s is mainly how I make my income.
There are two sites where I post most of the things I write — Squidoo and Hubpages.
Between the two of them I make more money each month than I do from all the different survey sites put together. It is a more work upfront, but it is fun and I enjoy it a lot more and once I’ve created my pages, I may tweak them occasionally, but they are mostly hands-off so it’s work that you really only need to do once. If you have a lot of interests and ideas, like to write and enjoying sharing information and doing some research, it’s lots of fun and offers a decent return for your time. And let’s face it, getting paid to write online about stuff you actually enjoy and have an interest in is a lot more fun than filling out survey forms.
The reason I use them is that while on the surface they seem similar, they both have different advantages, drawbacks and features.
Hubpages let’s you post content that you’ve written into single webpages called Hubs. For each Hub that you create, you can add ecommerce modules for Amazon and Ebay. Google Adsense ads display automatically. For all three affiliate programs, you receive a 60% impression share on your hubs. This means that if you have 10 people read your page once, the impressions created by 6 of those people belong to you and the other four belong to Hubpages.
One of the major advantages of Hubpages is that you have your own account for each of these affiliate programs, which means you get to do your own tracking and you get paid directly by the program. It’s also easy to get approved with each program if you sign up for them through Hubpages, so don’t be afraid to apply.
Squidoo is also a content site, but their revenue sharing model is operated a lot differently from Hubpages. Instead of signing up with each affiliate program separately, all of the finances are handled by Squidoo. They get paid by the affiliate and then give you 50%, paid to your Paypal account once a month. The nice thing about it is that it is for every sale as sales are not handled based upon whose impression it is. If someone buys something from your lens, you get half. Simple as that. Each month they also take all of the pooled Adsense earnings and parcel that money out based upon lensrank/traffic to your lens, etc. While I personally prefer getting paid directly, I do have to say that the Squidoo method is convenient and also an excellent set up for anyone who can’t get approved by Ebay or Adsense directly or just prefers not to deal with several different companies.
Now, I recommend that if you really want to get paid well for writing online, you should sign up for both sites and be sure to interlink the lenses and hubs that you write whenever they are on similar topics. Your activity on both sites can help you increase your success with each of them.
