Can You Make Money Writing for Xomba?

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Can You Make Money Writing for Xomba?

Posted on October 3rd, 2008 in Online Writing by Allison West

For a while now, I’ve been hearing about writers who say they make a lot of money on Xomba.com. I’ve been writing for the site for about two weeks; here are some thoughts on my experiences with Xomba.

For a while now, I’ve been hearing about writers who say they make a lot of money writing for the website Xomba.com. I recently read an article about one writer who said she makes fifty to sixty dollars a day on Xomba, enough to pay for her college expenses (and she only works two hours a day on her Xomba articles!) As I researched Xomba, I also heard stories about writers making thousands of dollars a month in revenue from the site.

I was skeptical about some of these fantastic claims about Xomba. However, I’m really trying to make a full time living from my online writing, so I decided to look into Xomba.com and find out what it was all about. Could Xomba really provide me with that elusive full time writing income I’ve been hoping for?

Getting Started With Xomba

My Experience with Xomba

There are two types of content that can be posted on Xomba.com. According to Xomba, “Xombytes” are magazine type articles of 100 words or more. In my experience, lots of Xombytes aren’t 100 words in length and are just excuses to post links to other websites, or the author’s own products. “Xomblurbs” are used for social bookmarking purposes; a Xomblurb is a link to an interesting website, blog, photo, or news story, with a brief description of the link and no minimum word count for that description.

I’m heading into my second week on Xomba, and I’ve posted a few Xombytes (articles) and some Xomblurbs. Each day I eagerly log into my Google Adsense account, and I’ve had lots of page views, but only one click. That one click has earned me a grand total of four cents so far! It’s very frustrating to see my work on Xomba getting page views, and not earning any income on the page views like I would on Associated Content or Triond.

Xomba made a serious mistake in my user profile that will probably drag down my page views and my potential to earn money from those valuable clicks on ads. I noticed on my Xomba profile that my Xombytes are not visible from that page. When someone visits my profile and wants to click on my Xombytes to read more, they are taken to the Xomba homepage. There is no link to my Xombytes from my user profile.

I contacted technical support and they responded that it definitely was an error, and it was being sent to “a programmer to take a look at it.” Meanwhile, I’m losing potential revenue, as Xomba readers can’t find any of my Xombytes from my profile page. To me, this is a serious error, one I’ve never had on any other website I write for. As I write this, Xomba has still not corrected the error on my profile.

Some Xomba members have literally thousands of Xomblurbs that they’ve posted to the site. If you are going to give Xomba a try and hope to earn big dollars there, then posting tons of Xomblurbs or Xombytes is the way to do it. Also, consider writing Xombytes and Xomblurbs that contain popular tags; those are the hot topics that people are searching for on Xomba.

Getting your Xomba work out there through social bookmarking, and building traffic to Xomba articles should also increase your revenues. In order to earn money on Xomba, you must drive a lot of traffic to your Xombytes and Xomblurbs, and hope that your visitors will also click on some Google ads. Xomba itself will not pay for any page views to your articles, and revenue is only earned directly through Google Adsense. So it’s conceivable that you could work really hard on Xomba and write a lot, and not see a dime unless you get clicks on some ads. That has definitely been my experience with Xomba.

In my opinion, I much prefer the slow and steady money making that occurs with Triond and Associated Content, than I do the gamble on earning big bucks with Xomba that doesn’t seem to be working for me. While I’m willing to give Xomba a chance to correct the error in my profile, and I’m probably going to continue with them, I’ll definitely be focusing most of my future money making efforts on writing for Associated Content and Triond.

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29 Responses to “Can You Make Money Writing for Xomba?”

Athlyn Green
October 3rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm

Another great article, Allison,

I always love reading your stuff, bTW,your writer’s voice shines through so nicely!

Thanks for detailing Xomba. As with most revenue share opps. writers need to be aware that they will have to produce lots of content to see significant earnings.
goodselfme
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:11 pm

I like that you honestly gave an opinion along with direction to Xomba. Wishing you the tech support to bring that /Xomba/ experience to a better result.
Glynis Smy
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:21 pm

Allison, thanks for a valuable lesson and your personal insight, this is a good article.
Ancient Aspie
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:32 pm

I’ve explored Xomba and just about every other writing site out there. My guess is that you can make big bucks on any of them, if…. you write constantly and you write on very popular subjects. So it comes to which sites you feel most comfortable on. And there’s also the problem of Adsense. Since you have to have $100.00 in your account before you can get paid, you really have to churn out the work on sites that only pay you through Adsense. I don’t churn, and I don’t write about the popular topics, so slow and steady works better for me.
Will Gray
October 3rd, 2008 at 2:33 pm

Thanks for the insight. I have heard of Xomba, now I believe I will stay awa from it.
Lauren Axelrod
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:08 pm

Great tips Allison. I did join Associated content but, I haven’t seen any action at all. Do they market articles at all?
Mary Contrary
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:46 pm

Great Article, and I love that you don’t bash, but give true measure to all! Great Job! Very professional.
Bozsi Rose
October 3rd, 2008 at 3:58 pm

Great to get insight before trying these for ourselves. thanks!
Allison West
October 3rd, 2008 at 6:02 pm

Thanks everyone! Lauren, I believe we have to do our own promoting of our articles on Associated Content, by using social bookmarking, etc. One thing I like about Associated Content is that my page view earnings seem to be consistent each month. Even if I don’t add a lot of new content, my earnings from page views seem to hold steady there.
Joshua Miguel
October 4th, 2008 at 1:44 am

Thanks for informing us about your experience with Xomba. Make you ponder that triond is a really good site to write.
Melody Arcamo Lagrimas
October 4th, 2008 at 4:09 am

Thanks Allison, though I haven’t even heard of Xomba. But I do have articles on AC. Hope we can be friends on AC too.
Steven West
October 4th, 2008 at 9:39 am

I have postings on both Triond and Associated. I have more articles on Associated because I have been with them longer and have received a better payout in general. I like both sites and have been pleased. It’s very important that you do a lot of bookmarking though. For other means of earning money online, I have done many surveys. You have to be careful with this. Most survey sites will not earn you any money. Be very selective. Focus groups are also a great way to earn some money but do not come around very often.
Lindalulu
October 4th, 2008 at 2:36 pm

Thanks for sharing…I like Triond alot!
Allison West
October 4th, 2008 at 6:08 pm

Hi Melody, I saw you on AC and added you to my friend list on Associated Content. If anyone wants to look me up on AC I’m:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/allisonwest
Liane Schmidt
October 6th, 2008 at 10:09 pm

Thank you so kindly for this informative article. I love Triond. I’ve tried other sites, but to me Triond has always been the easiest, most rewarding experience for me. I tried HubPages, for example, but found that I received hundreds of views that earned me next to nothing in comparison to what Triond pays it’s writers – GO TRIOND! *:)

Blessings.

Sincerely,

-Liane Schmidt.
Terri Lane
October 7th, 2008 at 1:35 pm

It seems that you do all the hard work and this was very informative. Not for me at the present however, I’ll stick with Triond.
Verniel Cutar
October 8th, 2008 at 3:13 pm

It’s really their way of getting into your pocket, and they are thirsty for good content as well! Why divide the Adsense earnings with them? If you have an Adsense account, then build your own blog and get the full profit from each ad click!
Peter Cimino
October 13th, 2008 at 9:43 am

Thank you so much for sharing. It’s difficult weeding through the good sites and ones that are a waste of time. We are all very busy and there is nothing worse than putting a tremendous amount of time and effort into something that just does not pan out. Wonderfully written and very informative.
Lucas Dié
October 14th, 2008 at 2:06 am

useful – very very useful – thank you
C. Jordan
October 25th, 2008 at 9:15 am

Really intersting stuff- thanks very much
AC Hamilton III
January 24th, 2009 at 2:59 pm

Really thorough piece…Great job!

AC
Rajiv Sighamony
March 11th, 2009 at 2:13 am

you were very descriptive with your write up. I really appreciate it.
numismatic
March 15th, 2009 at 12:33 am

I never heard of this site, but sounds like anything beats a blank I got to get damn near 10 views for Triond to give me 0.1 cents so if your getting 4 cents a view thats damn good!

Good luck with your writing!
Ori Sonata
March 17th, 2009 at 1:11 am

Using adsense is a bit problemful. They do provide more money than writing on Triond, but their payment threshold is really high. I end up watching some abstract number, that technically is mine, but never get my hand on them.
Elizabeth Abbott
March 25th, 2009 at 12:28 am

Good advice. Thanks. E
barrudaki
May 29th, 2009 at 9:44 pm

I see my response to your post has been deleted. I think you are being played by the xomba idlewild he has a personal vendetta against me because I disagree with him about how Xomba has treated me. He is only using you to further his vendetta.
WriteEditSeek
August 27th, 2009 at 2:51 pm

Thanks for the honest info about Xomba. I just signed up and am thoroughly confused by the setup.
Storm Jackson
August 29th, 2009 at 8:37 am

You are right about the views and Xomba. One of my articles there got about 1,000 views with virtually no clicks. If that same article would have been on Triond or Associated Content, I would have earned some kind of revenue, but not with Xomba.
Allison West
October 1st, 2009 at 4:51 pm

I just celebrated one year on Xomba, and wanted to update this article, which was written after I just joined the site last fall. I’ve been very pleased w/Xomba, what a difference a year makes! I’ve made hundreds of dollars with Xomba and recently published this one year review of Xomba and my earnings:

http://webupon.com/money-making/my-xomba-earnings-one-year-review/

I wanted to post an update to this earlier story about Xomba. I’ve written a few articles about writing for Xomba, check out my Triond profile for more info. All in all, I’m very satisfied w/Xomba!