The few problems that I experienced can be ironed out especially if one looks through the options very well before starting like I had a book printed but then discovered I could put my name on its spine and that wasn't something to take for granted. The return of sales is not large but then you have to consider that this is new media and it is gradually replacing the old and crusty standard of hunting publishers down that don't return calls, are difficult to track or ask for more than their share of any profit. If you have the money and hundreds of potential buyers, go for the old standard otherwise be patient and publishers like lulu will eventually pay for itself. Publishers in the flesh are going to want to know how many people you can count on to sell your book to and you may not have those contacts. The web is an excellent means of exposing what you do and getting to market your work on-line.

Blanket Keywords

In an attempt to access readership, a writer may copy/paste a hot keyword list into an article's tag list. Seasoned and respected writers will commonly pass by an article, and even a writer's entire portfolio, for this mistake. Ever Google a topic and a totally unrelated article comes up? Don't you want to scream? This is what inappropriate keywords will give to your article… a bunch of angry readers who feel misled. Credibility is very important to any writer looking to earn any sort of pocket money from freelancing.

Do ensure your keywords are appropriate to your content. Strategically place pre-determined keywords into your article. Once published, a search engine like Google or Yahoo will be able to find your article very easily and direct appropriate readers to your site.

Post Ill Comments or Back-Handed Compliments

Just as with email and texting, harsh words and malice flow easily through online article and blog comments. Constructive feedback should be directed to the author's private mailbox or messaging system. Does your boss yell at you in front of your co-workers and customers? No. She invites you into her office and closes the door. Same goes for commenting on a blog or article. Be constructive behind closed doors.

Do comment frequently and honestly. In some cases, a comment should be read by the masses. For example, in a case you are an expert in a subject and you find an article to be false or poorly researched, adding your expertise to the “Comments” could be helpful to the author and readers and should be publicly published.

Poore Smellings

Spell like you graduated. A well researched article chalk-full of pictures and links will gain much less credibility and readership if you failed to spend an extra 20 seconds to use the spell check. Rereading your pre-published article is critical to finding poor vocabulary, wrong tenses or usage.

Do use a thesaurus and a composition handbook. The Little Brown Handbook is a great source for new writers.

Steal

Would you steal a Clark bar from the 7-11? Probably not. Using published information or pieces of articles is stealing if proper citations and credit are not given to the rightful owners. Learn to use citations properly and credit any work you have used for the completion of your article. It is better to be safe than sorry regarding credits.

Do copy/paste research information into a word processor including the citation. When it comes time to organize and draft your article, citing used works will be much easier if you have already gained the references. The Little Brown Handbook is a good reference for proper citations too.

Only Write Poetry/Publish Pictures Taken on Your Cell Phone

To be completely frank, you are one of the only people who cares about your poetry or funny cell phone pictures. Very few poets are actually good. The rest of us use poetry as a form of journaling resulting in dangling ideas, poor form and pretentious vocabulary. Cell phone pictures turn out poorly in print and should not be used. Buy a great digital camera if you are a budding photographer.

Do publish your poems and pictures that are well planned and of good quality. Save the love poems for your sweetie pie, it makes the rest of us gag.

Publish Garbage

Freelancing is a whirlwind of creativity and passion. The initial excitement of earning money to publish on any subject is overwhelming as we brainstorm 500 possible topics to write about. Publishing 20 articles in the first day we feel well on our way to making some great cash in our new venture. Fast forward a week. We are now all angry about the whopping 3 cents earned on 20 articles. The problem lies in lacking content and planning. Remember to organize great content in lieu of great quantity.

Do research topics thoroughly and thoughtfully. Brainstorm, outline, organize, cite and use proper keyword placement. Utilize your knowledge of paragraph and sentence structure.

In the words of our Triond editors, “Happy Publishing”.

All listed sites here are legal companies that will pay you for your hard work. The sites are carefully reviewed to ensure its reliability and reputation and thus these sites are free of scam.

Triond

Triond is a great writing site as they let you publish any kinds of contents you wish to write for. Here, you can submit written text, picture, podcast and video as well. It is relatively simple to submit your writing content here, you just type in the word processing program and save it before uploading to this site. Then, it will go to the review of the editors. Once it is accepted, it will be published on one of its partner sites.

Here, you earn 50% and Triond earns 50% of the revenue generated from your article. The revenue you get will base upon how many page views, quality, nature of the article and the number of contents you wrote as well. Generally, the more contents you wrote the more shares of revenue that your articles can bring in with you. This is the best sites that I highly recommend to the international users. Besides English, they also publish articles written from Abkhazian to Zulu, which can be a great help for international writers who have not much knowledge of English.

eHow

This is another writing site that pay you for writing How To article. It is nice being published right away here without waiting longer. It is relatively simple to publish your article here. You go to Publish an Article section and later you just fill up their required fields to get the job done before hitting the publish button. By doing this, your article will go directly into their web. The article is more in a framework of steps, and no conclusion is needed. You also have an option to attach video and picture along with your article. They will pay you base on the popularity of the article. This site only pays Americans. International writers may submit their articles here for sharing with others as they will not be getting paid.

JustAnswer

This is a site where you answer questions by your customers to eligible for payment. It is always wise to provide your qualification as a degree, master or doctorate holder, or professional licenses even though you are not required to do so. As an expert, you have to answer questions via posting message or a chat room. If your answer is accepted, you will share the revenue with Just Answer. The more questions you response, the more chances for you to earn a large share of revenue.

Istockphoto

This is another micro-stock photography site which you will get from a 50% to 80% commission for photos you sell on this site. The more photos you sell the more commissions you will get. This site provide “Keymaster” program that will get you some money, too. The keywords you provide for each photo that will be used while customers searching for photos will get you paid for as low as $0.20 each.

Daytipper

Here, you can submit any kinds of practical information about tips, tricks, techniques or hints on doing something that will be helpful for the readers. The length of the tip is generally around one paragraph with a limit to 500 characters. Once you submit your work on a tip, it will go to the editor to review. For each single tip you created which is published on this site, you will get $1.00.

HubPages

This is one of the writing sites that enable you to build a page using blocks called modules and you can add in information, links, and pictures into your own article for your formatting choices before publishing the page and it will go into the web directly.
You earn 60% of the Google Adsense impressions each time someone clicks on the ads that attached to your article. Besides that, you can choose to add e-Bay or Amazon products to earn more money from this program. Like other writing sites, the more you write, the more you will gain revenue generated.

HowToDoThings.com

HowToDoThings.com is another writing site that will pay for your articles. Prior to this, you have to apply to write in a particular field. For example, you want to write about archaeology, and thus you are required to have studied in this field. That means the editors are seeking for an expert in particular field to apply and they expect you to have some qualifications in your specific category. Like HubPages, your revenue is generated via Google Adsense which will earn you 50% of the Google Adsense page impressions. Basically, you have to write How To articles that will encourage people to click on the Google Ads. That means the high click from other parties will get you some handsome money.

Rankrz

Here, you make lists of ranked items. For example, you rate "The Best Digital Camera", "The Best Household Product" and etc. to enable you to make money with Google Adsense and Amazon.

American Consumer Opinion

Each month, this site will send you several screeners which might be a few short questions to answer and you will not be paid for answering these questions. Nevertheless, you are advised to answer to eligible yourself for a full survey that they will send to you later. You will be paid for each survey completed. All members here are directly enrolled for monthly cash drawing which might earn you some extra money. Therefore, it is worth signing up here.

RateItAll

You are given a wide range of items to be rated. It is fun and simple to make money with Google Adsense Impressions here.

StoryMash

If you are creative at writing fiction stories, you may write at StoryMash. You will be rewarded for every chapter and self-published you made on this site. Here, you are also eligible to earn from $100 to over $500 in cash prizes when you are picked up for a winning in the contest.

Helium

Helium is a writing site that pays you for writing original article. To write an article, you go to its site to choose your desired topic to write. Your article will be ranked base upon the peers' vote, popularity and the overall topic of the articles. That means they will pay base upon the performance and how well your article is rated. You might be frustrated with its small pennies, but they do have several contests to get you some extra money. You may also write articles that publishers are looking for at the marketplace to determine whether you want to or not want to sell the article. Sometimes, the publishers may offer $20 to $200 for specific works. Alternatively, you may also choose for earning passive income to continue gaining you some money in a long run.

Associated Content

This writing site works well with many "content producers". To publish articles, videos, and slide-shows, you simply go to the publish button at its top. Then, you will have to fill in the blanks in a step-to-step manner. If you are publishing a general article, it will ask whether you want your content to be exclusive which is an option to pay you more money. It is also best to review for upfront payment which will earn you $3-20 or more than that for each piece of article you wrote. Besides this, every 1000 page views your article received will earn you about $1.50. You may also choose to earn for making passive income which is paid base on performance but not to earn as much with Google Adsense revenue sharing sites. If your content becomes popular on this site, you may also earn an additional monthly bonus. Sadly to say, this site is not for international writers as they only pay Americans.

Dreamstime

This is another micro-stock photography site which you will get from a 50% to 80% commission for photos you sell on this site. The more photos you sell the more commissions you will get. This site provide "Keymaster" program that will get you some money, too. The keywords you provide for each photo that will be used while customers searching for photos will get you paid for as low as $0.20 each.

Constant Content

Here, you can begin publishing your original content after signing up, and you can set the price that someone must pay before using your content. From here, 35% of the revenue will go to Constant Content. At this site, you have full control of your rights either you sell usage rights for small sum of money to be resold over and over for the future usage, or you sell full rights to earn a larger one-time revenue.

Epinions

This site pays you for writing reviews on some particular items that people are frequently searching for. One thing to get noted here is that you should write in clear, attractive and useful reviews to get paid. You will get a small penny each time people read your reviews. For 10 reviews you write, you will get paid for $10 with terms and conditions applied here.

ShareAPic

This is a site for you to share your picture. ShareAPic will share its advertising revenue with you each month. They pay you $0.22 for 1000 views. The more views your pictures get the more revenue you will make on this site. You may also place Adsense ads in your personal gallery on ShareAPic to earn some extra money.

Global Test Market

After signing up for this site, you will have to wait for certain time for them to send you an invitation mail. The mails that you receive will base upon your demographic information. The more details you fill in the more chances you will get invitations from this site. For each completed survey, you will be awarded "market points", which can later be turned into cash, with $1 equals to 20 market points. One thing for you to take note is that you should not ignore the invitations as they might think that you are not interested in filling up surveys and thus they will not send you any invitations in the future. Some invitations need to fill up immediately as it will be closed once the quota is filled up. You may also refer your friends to this site via e-mail to gain more points. Indeed, this is one of the best survey sites worth trying as they send you more invitations as compared to other paid survey sites.

MetaCafe

This is a huge video sharing network which let you to share your original video while at the same time you get paid through the "Producer Rewards" program. Before your video getting published on this site, the editor will review your video. If your video becomes popular, you can earn more money here. For the first 20,000 views, you will be paid $100 plus an additional $5 per 1,000 views thereafter.

Writing Campus

Writing Campus is a writing site that requires you to write a quality article. They call all the writings "blog entries" and the shorter article must be in a length of at least 300 words. Here, you earn 70% of the Google Adsense revenue. Your writings here also earn you money for many years. You can see your money grows if you are writing lots of good quality articles besides promoting their site.

Google Adsense

Among the text ad services, Google Adsense is the most popular and widely known text ad service. The revenue generated from this site is pay-per-click basis. The higher click you get the more revenue it will generate. Besides text ads, they also provide you affiliate banners and buttons, and Google search box as well for you to place on your blog or website. You will get paid every time someone clicks on the ads in the search results. However, you must be careful not to click on the text ads placed on your site or your account will be terminated forever. Thereafter, you are strictly not allowed to open a new account.

Final Remarks

No matter what type of network you are choosing to make money, it will always take in much of your efforts and page views to get you more pennies. It is hardly to tell how much you can earn as different money-making sites may have different types of revenue sharing methods. Even though you sometimes make small pennies that may have disappointed you, you do indeed make some money which could be a big sum in a long run. In conclusion, it worth the time and effort you have put in.
Lastly, I hope the lists are helpful to you for making money online. Good luck and happy making money!