I love to write, and started off as a humor blogger a year ago – no pay of course, but lots of giggles (even if they were sometimes only my own).

I wanted to give kudos to another great writing site I just signed up with in February – London Brokers. I believe it used to be under another name, but I’m not sure.

What I do know is the pay is decent, especially for freelance newbies – $4-6 plus dollars for most SEO articles of 400-500 words. You submit them through a software program that checks your work, and tells you the errors that need correcting. There’s teaching videos, newsletters that get emailed to their writers, and a LIVE chat line with professionals that are extremely helpful and want you to succeed.

They also have bonus pay assignments for those they consider to be A-list writers. It costs nothing to sign up – just taking a basic writing ability quizz first.

Although you’re allowed a maximum of only two article submissions per day at the beginning, you can request an increase whenever you want. They will approve your increase, or not, based upon your writing skills.

I know I’m leaving a lot of other good things out, I think I covered the basics.

I just wanted to let all you writers out in cyber land know about this wonderful freelance writer-friendly company that seems to really value their writers.

And once you pass your little online test, and sign up – all this can be yours!

PS: More great news for all us broke people – You get paid EVERY Friday through Paypal, once you’ve reached the $10 threshold. And one and 1/2 500 word articles will make you that – even if it takes two days to complete them.

Agnes

I am also on Examiner, and just published my first post there. I am the Milwaukee craft beer examiner. I was referred to Examiner by a person on Associated Content. She told me that, per page view, you may about one cent. That’s not bad, assuming you can build up a readership and keep publishing articles that attract attention. Oh, and if you refer anyone else, you make $50. Good luck to you, and if you’d like, let me know what your examiner title is, so I can throw a few page views your way. Thanks!
Halina

I’ve been professionally freelancing for about six months now. It’s taken me this long to develop a few regular clients, and land two ghost writing book deals.

In regards to the listed sites, I have joined some of them and others not named, and have experienced the pros and cons. Generally, most of the listed sites on this page will not charge you an upfront fee and will give you plenty of work to choose from. The downside is that many of them don’t pay above $20 per article, or it takes a lot of work to get your rating up so that your pay goes up.

If you’re writing for supplemental income, or because you just love to write, then by all means join these pages and get some money for what you already like doing. If nothing else it’s a great way to build up a portfolio and prove that you are published online at the least. If you are looking to become a professional writer, however, you will have to venture out of the safe zone of these type of web sites.

To make real money you need to check the job boards and submit out query letters for possible projects. You should also go to certain job boards to find links to magazines and newspapers actively pursuing freelance writers, and try to come up with a concept that their editors will absolutely love.

Professional freelance writing is a process that takes a while to have any positive results, but the money will be worth your time if you keep persistent.

Best of luck,
-L. Rigdon

Thanks much for the report on eHow. I have not received any kind of upfront payment for anything that I wrote. Are you saying that you actually received instant payment for articles that you submitted? Can you provide me with the links to these articles? I have no idea why I’m not being paid, and there is nothing on the site about payment. Hmm..

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