As with everything in life, your experiences will vary.

I read Today.com’s call for writers when they were paying $5 per post, but I didn’t apply, because I only blog for $10 or more per post. However, after I read their job listing on Craigslist, it wasn’t long until I started reading on writing blogs about the way they suddenly changed writing rates. Even though I didn’t respond to their ad and wasn’t a part of their writing team, I was outraged when I read what they had done to the writers they hired — outraged for the writers who chose to work for them.

I wish you the best with all your writing endeavors.

Many have heard of the Today.com deal. People were hired to write posts for $5 each, one paid post per day, payments made once a month after you’d reached $50. I managed to get my topic approved and it was taking me no more than 30 minutes to create a post. Two weeks later, they emailed many saying they’d renegotiated rates to $1 per post and that those who were not happy needed to work harder to boost their readership. I’d only had a little over two weeks and my readership was already climbing, but $1 per post was not incentive to stay. I stopped posting, but revenues from my posts grew. I did get the first payment of $50, but the next month’s statements showed I had $15 in remaining blog postings and other revenues. After a month passed, they deleted my blog citing inactivity and I’ll never see that other $15.

That’s twice that blogging hasn’t worked out. I admit, I should have studied the screen that had the disclaimers for Today.com more closely. With the other job, I had a clear contract and they changed the terms. I find blogging for pay isn’t worthwhile and plan to stick to my own blogs now where I control everything.