If you are just here to look at Iakul's List and are not interested in my updates, reviews and reports, click here.
For a list of online publishing sites and their page ranks, click here instead.
Otherwise, continue on. The list can still be found on this blog at here.
I realised there were some people who were here just to look at the list, but the list was just getting too long, so I had it shifted down and set up a Squidoo lenses with nothing except the list on it for those who just wanted the list.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
The Philoscribe Blog
Just came across The Philoscribe Blog.
It's a blog maintained by a small group of copywriters and editors, and there are a number of entries there that should prove to be quite insightful to new writers.
It's a blog maintained by a small group of copywriters and editors, and there are a number of entries there that should prove to be quite insightful to new writers.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Request for websites
A week ago, I had a request from Aunindita in my comments section that I "list a few websites which accept international writers and pay good"
I'm sorry to inform all of you that my knowledge of the freelance writing industry is limited and I really do not have a huge list of websites that pay well and do not mind their writers not being able to tell the difference between "good" and "well"
I have to say that my one week search drew up a blank. I do have a number of sites already on my list where jobs that offer $10 for 500 words (or higher) are available, but if those sites aren't accepting him, I really don't have any other recommendations that I can make.
I'm hereby requesting website recommendations from my readers which fit 3 criteria
1) They pay $10 for 500 words (or higher)
2) They are not already on my list
3) They are not restricted to members of certain countries
On a separate note, Aunindita is from India, and I do know that quite a number of writing opportunities are exclusive only to people in India. However, being located in Singapore, I am in no position to scout out these writing opportunities for him. Hopefully someone who knows better about Indian writing opportunities can get in touch with him.
I'm sorry to inform all of you that my knowledge of the freelance writing industry is limited and I really do not have a huge list of websites that pay well and do not mind their writers not being able to tell the difference between "good" and "well"
I have to say that my one week search drew up a blank. I do have a number of sites already on my list where jobs that offer $10 for 500 words (or higher) are available, but if those sites aren't accepting him, I really don't have any other recommendations that I can make.
I'm hereby requesting website recommendations from my readers which fit 3 criteria
1) They pay $10 for 500 words (or higher)
2) They are not already on my list
3) They are not restricted to members of certain countries
On a separate note, Aunindita is from India, and I do know that quite a number of writing opportunities are exclusive only to people in India. However, being located in Singapore, I am in no position to scout out these writing opportunities for him. Hopefully someone who knows better about Indian writing opportunities can get in touch with him.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
List update
Added two sites to the list, Bukisa under the "Passive Income" section, and Words of Worth under the "Sites which Pay Upfront Section"
Personally, I don't like Bukisa, and I have indicated so in the site description on the list itself. They have been around since late 2008, which does mean that they are relatively new as a content site. I have to say that they are actually better than when they started out, when they didn't care what you published there as long as it was 250 words. They, however, still have a long way to go.
Words of Worth is a UK site set up in 2007. You enter into a contract with them, where you promise to deliver 10 to 80 articles every month, depending on the contract, and they promise to pay you £250 monthly.
Contracts typically last for 12 months, and they do require you to give a month's advance notice should you decide that you want to quit. You are not limited to one contract and can choose to apply for a second contract with them, though they will only consider it if you have been writing for them for some time.
Note that they also recommend that you schedule your articles to be published evenly throughout a month e.g don't publish 40 articles all on the last day of the month if you have a 80 article monthly contract. According to thier guidelines, article length should be from 200-500+ words.
Personally, I don't like Bukisa, and I have indicated so in the site description on the list itself. They have been around since late 2008, which does mean that they are relatively new as a content site. I have to say that they are actually better than when they started out, when they didn't care what you published there as long as it was 250 words. They, however, still have a long way to go.
Words of Worth is a UK site set up in 2007. You enter into a contract with them, where you promise to deliver 10 to 80 articles every month, depending on the contract, and they promise to pay you £250 monthly.
Contracts typically last for 12 months, and they do require you to give a month's advance notice should you decide that you want to quit. You are not limited to one contract and can choose to apply for a second contract with them, though they will only consider it if you have been writing for them for some time.
Note that they also recommend that you schedule your articles to be published evenly throughout a month e.g don't publish 40 articles all on the last day of the month if you have a 80 article monthly contract. According to thier guidelines, article length should be from 200-500+ words.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
List update
Well, after planning to make changes to the list sometime in March, I somehow managed to procrastinate and put it off till now.
Nothing new added or removed(for now). Just moved some sites from the "Sites Where Publishers Will Post Job Requests" section into a new "Blogs and Forums" section.
Nothing new added or removed(for now). Just moved some sites from the "Sites Where Publishers Will Post Job Requests" section into a new "Blogs and Forums" section.
Monday, March 30, 2009
What to Do When your Article Gets Plagiarised
Just published an article on on Triond about the options available to writers who get their content plagiarised.
Was inspired to write it after reading a topic started by Spike over at MyLot about a website that he discovered had been plagiarising his articles, and apparently articles by a few other writers as well.
Here's the link to the article for those of you who are interested
http://writinghood.com/online-writing/what-to-do-when-your-article-gets-plagiarised/
Was inspired to write it after reading a topic started by Spike over at MyLot about a website that he discovered had been plagiarising his articles, and apparently articles by a few other writers as well.
Here's the link to the article for those of you who are interested
http://writinghood.com/online-writing/what-to-do-when-your-article-gets-plagiarised/
Sunday, March 29, 2009
List update
Added descriptions and moved Feed The Village and Print N Post up to Sites which let you earn passive income
Personally, I don't like Feed the Village. They're not the only site donating to charity, and if you take the 10% they donate and add that to the 10% they pay out to writers, that's only 20% they're paying out. In contrast sites like Squidoo and Triond pay out 50% of the revenue they earn to writers. And Squidoo even pays out an additional 5% of their total revenue to charity and doesn't attempt to make a marketing gimmick out of it. You could decide to give half of what you earn on Squidoo or Triond to charity and both you and the charity of your choice would still come out ahead earnings-wise compared to writing for Feed the Village.
Print N Post, on the other hand, might be worth taking a look at.
True, it's a site where you earn via having Google Adsense displayed on your articles (which means a high payout threshold of $100USD for those of you who care about payout thresholds), the community isn't very large so you won't be getting read a lot by traffic within the site itself, and the Page Rank for Print N Post isn't very impressive so natural traffic from search engines will be low.
But.
They do allow linking in your articles, and those are quality links e.g not "nofollow" links. Which makes Print n Post useful for publishing excerpts to your blog entries/articles published elsewhere.
Personally, I don't like Feed the Village. They're not the only site donating to charity, and if you take the 10% they donate and add that to the 10% they pay out to writers, that's only 20% they're paying out. In contrast sites like Squidoo and Triond pay out 50% of the revenue they earn to writers. And Squidoo even pays out an additional 5% of their total revenue to charity and doesn't attempt to make a marketing gimmick out of it. You could decide to give half of what you earn on Squidoo or Triond to charity and both you and the charity of your choice would still come out ahead earnings-wise compared to writing for Feed the Village.
Print N Post, on the other hand, might be worth taking a look at.
True, it's a site where you earn via having Google Adsense displayed on your articles (which means a high payout threshold of $100USD for those of you who care about payout thresholds), the community isn't very large so you won't be getting read a lot by traffic within the site itself, and the Page Rank for Print N Post isn't very impressive so natural traffic from search engines will be low.
But.
They do allow linking in your articles, and those are quality links e.g not "nofollow" links. Which makes Print n Post useful for publishing excerpts to your blog entries/articles published elsewhere.
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