Online Writing; Too Much Work, Too Little Pay

In 2007, one could make Fifty dollars from this site without that much effort.  Fifty Dollars a month was nothing to crow about as many made so much more.  However, as a newbie, moving from $10 to $21 then to $50, was encouragement.

Of course, that was then, this is now,  and those days are gone forever.

There are thousands of ‘online writing’ sites which pay next to nothing for ‘wallpaper’ on which to hang Adsense Ads.  For that is the purpose of online writing.   It isn’t to spread information, it isn’t to give unheard voice a chance, it isn’t for amusement; online writing sites are to house advertisements separated by prose.

In 2007, to encourage the best writers, sites were moderated by humans.  The human would know that it was 1c for every 6 hits on this site, 1c for every 10 hits on that site, and could easily map their earnings.

As more sites proliferated and writers joined every one they saw, the ‘pay’ got less and the idea of the writing site Not Paying its writers but tossing them into a ‘revenue sharing’ basket with Adsense became the way to go.

Up until 2008 many ‘Networking’ sites were happy to have the online writer ‘self-spamming’.   There were handy buttons one could add to their browser and go through a few dozen sites with a click.  Hence the moment an article was published a user would hit the share button, and all the sites they belonged to (and had already entered their data) would pop up in sequence and it didn’t take four minutes to complete ‘Networking’.

In those days, the Networks had use, returned hits, and made sense.

Of course, that was then, this is now, and those days are gone forever.

Outside of Redgage, the majority of Networks are wastes of time.  No one reads anything you publish there, and sites such as ‘Stumbleupon’ do not syndicate anything writen on any of these writing sites.  In the old days you could easily get 20 or 30 (I like it!) clicks on a Stumble.  Today, if you go through the list of articles you’ve Stumbled you will note 1 view; yours.

Some ‘writing sites’ don’t waste your time; 400 words, no images.   Others are ridiculous with demanding images and 50 word introductions, and links and bolding, and all for what? 1/2c for 100 views?

There will never be an online writing site which pays anything resembling fairness.  Why should there be?  On line writers are a penny a ton.   Online writing is trashed by Google.   Anything writen on this site will never appear on the front page unless it is so esoteric and the words are so precise and there are virtually no other articles that can be shoved in front.  

If you want to write online, look for sites that take 400 words, don’t need images and you’ll waste less time for the same ‘pay.’