Welcome dear ! and its happy to hear that you are looking sites for writing articles and to earn money from that work. That’s a good idea too ! Because, writing and publishing articles is funny job that even I love too. But that depends on individual interest and abilities. Okay, lets come to out topic.

In general, there are 3 reason for writing articles on article writing sites.

  • To promote a product or business online.
  • To gain back links to your site or blog.
  • And, to earn money for writing articles.

So our focus is towards the 3rd reason. There are various sites where you could publish your articles and earn money from that. The sources of income could be either based on the traffic derived or its purely revenue sharing or promoting your affiliate link.

You can also Sign up for Real Writing Jobs programs. Okay, lets see 10 such famous sites where you could write articles and earn money.

Squidoo - The well known famous article publishing platform and each of the published page is termed as “Lens”. Squidoo has variety of topics covered and you have the full freedom to manage and write your content same like your own website. The advantage is that you could connect with other squidoo users. There are millions of squidoo users who are making fun out of creating lenses. It has more than 1,000,000 lenses.

You could signup for Google Adsense and get a percentage of adsense income from squidoo. Apart from that you could get a share for Amazon products sold and much more. Refer their Getting Started page for exact sharing details.

Hubpages – The alternate site to Squidoo and its also the most famous article writing site. I have used hubpages and found its too fun. Because, its quite easy and simple to create well formatted content. More interestingly, Hubpages get more traffic from search engines and for sure you could make good income from this site. It shares you Google Adsense income, its quite simple to integrate your Adsense account into hubpages or you could get one account from Hubpages.

Apart from Adsense, you could use Amazon, eBay, Kontera etc on hubpages and you will earn a percentage of income from hubpages. Just refer their Tours page for exact sharing details.

Xomba – An instant to write article, opinion, news or anything from short to long that you post on xomba. Posts are called Xombytes. It’s again Google Adsense reveneue sharing site. Generally, xomba is use to create quick back links and to drive quick traffic to your own blogs but you could make some extra income by joining Xomba. The advantage is that you can write short posts on xomba, especially for Lazy people :-)

Flixya – A good site to share everything from writing articles, sharing videos and images. The best thing is that you will be paid 100% revenue that you make out of your pages or videos or images. Not only your writing skills, you could organize your own videos and images on Flixya. Its more fun to work with Flixya because you could manage your personal videos and images online by making extra money. You could create a cool profile, make friends and enjoy working with Flixya. Register with Flixya here for free.

Bukisa – A site to share your knowledge and earn money for that based on the traffic you gained. Publish articles on Bukisa, drive traffic and get earn money for every 1000 hits your page makes. You will be paid a fixed amount for every 1000 hits and more traffic you generate, you will earn more money. The earnings are not so great but you could make few extra money.

There are few more sites like,  Triond , Helium, Oondi, She told me , Digital Journal and much more….

Conclusion on Writing Articles for Money.

It’s a good idea to write articles for any of these sites to earn money. BUT you should do all these only for gaining extra income and you could not make huge income from this type of work.  Instead, i would strongly recommend you to start your own blog, write for your blog and attain success. Also, use these kind of sites to promote your blog and to earn some extra money ! That’s a better approach, I could suggest !