As a Freelancer, Should You Write for Websites That Pay You on Revenue Sharing Basis, Rather Than for Those Sites That Allow You to Bid on Their Sites to Win Writing Projects?

You probably would have your own views, and there’s nothing wrong with that.

If you had a great success with some of those bidding sites, where you bid to win projects, then you could certainly disagree.

There’s nothing wrong with bidding for projects. In fact, it’s the fastest way to earn money, if you could win online writing projects.

Now, as a freelancer, what would you prefer? Would you prefer writing on sites that pay you on a revenue sharing basis, a 50%, or 70% advertisement revenue credited against your name? Or, bid on sites to land yourself a job.

There would be mixed reactions here.

You should bring your attention to a small fact here. The revenue sharing sites offers you an opportunity to earn for a much longer time.

You post an article to a website. You start getting revenues on your account from the day one, depending upon the page views that your article generate. Supposedly, your article is good, or an average one, you would certainly receive increasing page views.

That would mean your article would start generating revenue, instantly.

You would get that revenue amount by the end of the month, or by the end of the week, depends upon the site payment terms.

Each month your article would generate revenue, and each month you would receive the payments for the article you had written. It never stops, till your article is live on the site.

It could be a year, may be for the entire lifetime.

On the contrary, if you write for a bidding site, then you might come across hassles of a different kind.

When you won the project after bidding, you would be entitled to receive a fixed sum as your compensation. It could be $1, $2, or may be $5 per article.

Once you submit the article and receive your money, you also submit the publishing rights to the project creator. That would again mean you are not entitled to receive any further money for the article you had written.

But revenue sharing sites are different; you would continue to receive your percentage for much longer period. Now that means the article on the revenue sharing sites would make you fatter by $5, or may be more for one article over a longer stretch of time.

Now the decision falls on you. Both have advantages and disadvantages as well.

A major disadvantage with revenue sharing sites is that the money comes late. But in bidding sites, the money is instant. You submit the work and you get the money.

On the whole, if you look, the revenue sharing sites holds a slight advantage over the bidding sites.