Freelance Writing Watering Holes

These are sites where you can publish your own content, and either sell your content to this site or continue to share revenue from the page impressions that your articles get. In many you can do both.

The reviews given below are sometimes just the top Google result for a review of that site – you will of course need to do your own research before you join a site. Not only because I may be wrong (my lawyer advised me not to make claims of correctness), but more importantly, because this page might be out of date.

You can use Paypal with almost all of these. Some of them link to your Adsense etc accounts and that account credited directly.

 
 

Site	Comments	Review
Demand Media	Pays $5 to $15 an article, owns eHow, Cracked. US/UK writers only. Can revenue-share.	Time article on Demand Media
Helium	Shares revenue, and has a marketplace or jobs-board; US only; blocks non-US writers using IP address	compares Helium with Hubpages
Associated Content Aka Yahoo! Contributor Network	Get paid $2-$10 upfront per article and then get $1.5-$2 per 1000 page impressions on the same. US writers only (with caveats).	a how to guide by a writer
Suite101	Income stream not too hot	review article and comment
Squidoo	Write pages of content, add images, and partner go 50-50 with Squidoo on revenue on most pages (for example by putting Amazon product links at the end of your page). Blocks IP addresses from some countries.	review from a writer
Infobarrel	Write and publish content; shares 75-90% of revenue with you; link your adsense account, and get payment directly into that account	many reviews another review
Hubpages	Revenue share. Write content, and link your account to affiliate accounts with Google, Kontera, eBay and Amazon; and get paid directly by them.	Hubpages Faq

 
 

My own experience is with Associated Content, where I published an article and got paid $2.14. It's almost next to nothing, and the prospects of that article getting page views are not too high either. I am still going to publish content, but with the knowledge that I may be wasting my time.

If you found this list of publishers helpful, or have any questions, leave a comment! Also share your experience with any of these publishers, or let us know of some other great publisher you know of.