Sunday 23 January 2011

Review: Write Articles Get Paid.Com

I’ve experimented with a few different sites that pay for content and when I heard about Write Articles Get Paid! (WriteArticlesGetPaid.com) I was curious to see if it was a scam. As far as I can tell it isn’t a scam, but I don’t think it will be making anybody into a millionaire, and that’s for sure. They pay $1 for each article.

It is easy to sign up as a content writer for Write Articles, Get Paid! Just put a few basic details such as your email address onto their application form. That’s it. Simple! Then you have access to their members only area and can begin writing for them.

The membership area is very basic and has just three pages:

  • Member Home. Provides a quick overview of your earnings to date, your articles under review, and your accepted articles.

  • My Account. This is so basic it’s incredible. It shows your name and the payments you have received. I do not think that this section is working correctly though, because it shows my name, but says that I have not received any payment even though they have sent me $14. Fortunately the correct amount is listed on the member home page, which seems to work okay.

  • Submit. This is where you write your articles. It provides a keyword phrase and the keyword phrase is also the title of the article. Below this is a basic editor for you to write the article in.

There is, however, no contact form or any way of finding out how to contact the owners of the site. There is not a FAQ section, or a help section. Everything is very basic and self explanatory so it is not hard to figure out how to use the site, but if you have any problems, as far as I can see, you are on your own.

One of the most annoying things about Write Articles, Get Paid! is the keyword phrases they give you to write about. Here are some typical examples:

  • mother son dance songs wedding

  • hyperglycemia symptoms signs

  • how early do pregnancy symptoms start

  • fashion games for girls only


They then tell you:

This article must be between 400 and 600 words long and the keyword density should be 2-6%, so make sure to use this exact keyword phrase several times in your article!

The problem is that the ‘exact keyword is often gibberish and next to impossible to use in a sentence without it looking ridiculous.

Here is a tip: If you do decide to write for Write Articles, Get Paid! and the system gives you a keyword phrase that does not make any sense just press delete and you will be taken back to the member’s home page. Then return to the submit page and you will find that you have a new keyword phrase to work with.

The articles are only short, but they do take a little time to write and you get just $1 for all that work. It’s not a lot of money and to be honest I would rather write for a content site like Triond or Hubpages and earn a passive income from my work.

Write Articles, Get Paid, pays at the end of the week, usually on a Friday, but I have known it be on the Sunday. There is no minimum pay out,  so if you only write one article, and earn just $1 it will appear in your Paypal account at the end of the week.

All in all this site is not for me. I do not want to do all that work for so little money, but if you take a look at some of the jobs listed at Get A Freelancer.Com you will see that plenty of people are willing to write or rewrite much longer articles for $1 and they have to bid for the jobs to do so. If their’s is not the winning bid, they do not get the work. At least with Write Articles Get Paid you can just log in, start writing, and get paid, so if you are going to write for a pittance this seems the better way to do it.