Comments on: Freelance Writing Jobs for Wednesday, June 18, 2008

By: CountingPennies

CountingPennies — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:43:13 +0000

I write for Hubpages. I get pay $5 per article and I’m also supposed to get a percentage from Adsense. I’ve never seen a penny from that. Maybe somebody knows the secret to making money with Google, but that’s certainly not me. They just started the reward system this past month, so I’m not sure how well that will work. I’ll come back and let everybody know.

By: Ann G.

Ann G. — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:26:39 +0000

@Edna – Mine didn’t say advice column, it simply said writing dating articles for their site and that I could write articles on any or all of the cities on their list, but they may or may not publish them and only those they chose to publish would be paid.

I’m not willing to put in the work for articles that I may or may not be paid for, so I deleted the email and opted to move on to something that will pay.

By: JR

JR — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:34:38 +0000

@Ann G:

I got the eHarmony reply last night too and had the same exact reaction. Disappointing indeed.

By: Edna

Edna — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:03:29 +0000

I got an email from eHarmony also about writing for their advice column. I interpreted the pay to mean that if they liked what I wrote as a sample they would pay for that and if they didn’t, I wouldn’t get hired or paid for the sample. I’ll go back and reread the email again before I put any time into it.
Thanks!

By: maryam

maryam — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:21:20 +0000

i had an account with one of those essay writing sites , they trick you into writing for them and don’t explain tioll they accept you and u get your first assignment. I did two before I realized it was acheating thing, thought it was only aguideline, still haven’t been paid for it. Don’t want the money, it’s dirty money to me,worse than working for nothing at those other sites. It teaches you to be selective, and as time goes by i get better and better gigs. Don’t go for the top listed google ones that seem too good to be true…they are.

By: Shirley

Shirley — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:42:12 +0000

Thanks for the list

By: Dani

Dani — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:38:27 +0000

@Jodee:

I discovered at Feedburner that you can get buttons for subscription through RSS and through email. That way, those who prefer email automatically are notified when something new is posted. You don’t have to manually send out email. I think captcha (whatever) is used on the email sign up form for subscribers to keep the subscriptions limited to humans.

By: Jodee

Jodee — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:29:55 +0000

@ Michael: I’m sorry, the mailing list has been discontinued. You can sign up for the RSS feed, though.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:21:29 +0000

@Dani:

Hey girl, I did some more research on Hubpage.com

It’s actually not a bad site, I asked around the millions of people located on the site and they said it’s legit. It’s all how your promote your page. It’s like a blog with commercial. Hope this helps.

Nic

By: Angela West

Angela West — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:56:46 +0000

LOL check out the requirement in the second job:

“Must be able to manipulate a mouse”

Talk about lowered expectations!