I’ve nearly finished a comprehensive chart comparing the top content sites, and am posting a link to it here. Former eHow members need to know where to write, either for residual income, up-front payments, or both. I will update it soon. I included Zazzle.com, although it’s not an online writing site, because it’s a great [...]
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Let’s Talk About Options for Content Writers
Okay, now that we all know where NOT to write to make money, now what? Disillusioned writers ask me that every day, at least those who just realized that earning passive income can be a sneaky little oxymoron. I’ve seen comments suggesting that writers who don’t like some of the more unsavory content sites go [...]
How to Build Residual Income with HubPages
Many people want to know whether HubPages links are do-follow or no-follow. The answer is that they can be either; it just depends on your status within the HubPages community. If you keep your HubScore (the score attached to your profile, not to individual hubs) above 74, your links will be do-followed. Your links will automatically be no-followed if your score falls below that.
How to Be Notified When a Content Site’s Terms of Service Change
Did you know that many content aggregator sites stipulate in their terms of service (or terms of use) that they can change their contract with you any time, arbitrarily, and at their discretion? Yep. Do you join content sites to write online for residual or up-front pay without worrying about the fine print?
Do you plan to donate your work to those sites? If so, skip this post. And be my sugar daddy/momma.
4 Predictions for the Future of User-Generated Content Sites
3. This is a biggie. Search engines will begin ranking individual writers, rather than entire sites. I am pretty sure that Google already knows whether user ID “Herbs4U” on “XYZ Content Site” writes lame articles with spammy affiliate links, or whether they write timely, relevant alternative medicine articles…
The eHow Clone Wars
Ah, the eHow UK clone issue still won’t go away. Well, actually it would, and quickly, too, if eHow would answer one simple question:
Do they pay writers for profits generated by eHow writers’ US articles cloned on the eHow UK site or not?
For a single, breath-holding moment yesterday, it appeared that eHow Community Manager, Rich Noguchi, had finally answered the question posed by members on eHow forums after five weeks of waiting for a response.
