More residual income sites? Yes! Writedge and Daily Two Cents are residual income sites where writers can make money by writing about the topics that interest them most. Writers get paid for each unique view for as long as the articles remain on the sites. There are two of the very few pay per view writing sites. That means that the article you write today could continue to earn money for you for years to come, without doing any more work on it.
Let me introduce myself and my writing partner. I’m Danielle McGaw and I’ve been writing online for about 10 years. For the past 8 years I have been earning money as a freelance writer and I have been using residual income as a means of earning for about 5 of those years. Michelle Harlow is my partner. We met when I did some writing for some of her sites. Over the years, we spent a lot of time talking about making money online and the various ways to do that. In 2014, we decide that it was time for a partnership.
Does the Internet Need More Pay Per View Writing Sites?
You might think that there are enough online residual income sites and pay per view writing sites. I hear that a lot. However, there are also a lot of problems with many of the ones that exist and Michelle and I have found a lot of very unhappy writers – especially in the past year.
Some of the complaints that we have come across include:
- The sites don’t pay when they say they will
- I have multiple missed payments
- I don’t get any feedback
- The site doesn’t offer enough support
- My questions don’t get answered
- My articles got deleted and I don’t know why
- My account got deleted and I don’t know why
- My articles were unpublished and the site is not clear about what the problems are
Do those sound familiar to you? We’ve heard all of these and more, too. Not all residual income writing sites have these problems but there’s only one site out there that I have not heard at least one of these complaints about.
Ultimately, what it comes down to is that writers are looking for sites that they can write at, make money, and feel that they are valued by the sites. When writers don’t get responses to their emails, don’t get answers to questions, and have articles and accounts deleted without any reason given or sometimes, without any warning, they feel that they are not important to the sites.
Michelle and I know that the writers are what keep sites like our growing and making money. When the writers are happy, we’re happy. When the writers feel valued, more writers will come. And when the writers are making money, we are making money and isn’t that the bottom line for everyone?
About the Sites
Picture source: writedge.com
Writedge is the first site that we created. It is meant to be a more serious article site (although you can use first person and be casual if it fits the tone of the article). Articles must be 400 words in length at minimum. We expect writers to use proper spelling and grammar. You can use pictures (must be attributed and come from royalty free sources or be your own) and you can include 1 self-serving link for each 250 words of text in the article, up to a maximum of 4 links. And yes, these self-serving links can be to Amazon and other affiliate programs! That means that besides the fact that writers will get paid ½ cent for each unique view, you can also earn from sales of affiliate products and you get to keep 100% of those earnings.
Picture source: dailytwocents.com
Daily Two Cents is the sister site. I originally started this as My Two Cents and created it mainly as a site where I could put short articles, casual thoughts, rants, reviews and other fun stuff – you know, the kind of posts that people like to share. I invited a few people to join me and let them use their own Adsense codes. However, when Michelle and I decided to make this a sister site, we changed things up a bit so that it would also be a pay-per-view earning site. Writers earn ½ a cent per unique view on articles on Daily Two Cents, too. They can use one self-serving link and like on Writedge, it can be to Amazon or another affiliate program.
(Note that we do reserve the right not to accept links to certain affiliate programs, like ClickBank)
Keep your eye on this blog for part two, when I’ll tell you about some of the things you will love about Writedge and Daily Two Cents! These are the reasons our current writers are so excited to be part of our sites!
Of course, if you’re ready now you can go here to sign up!
Thanks for letting me share Ryan! If anyone has questions I’ll be checking in often so feel free to ask!
How nice it would be to see these sites expand and grow!
Hey, I recognize you from HubPages, but I cannot remember the username haha. I was “chrisinhawaii” a couple years ago, before I got all irritated and deleted all my hubs.
That was not my best decision ever =(
Anyways, like you and your partner, I’m also in the process of creating my own user-generated site and am trying to figure out how the heck to get new writers to sign up. That’s how I came across your post here.
So how is it going? Are you still making money on HubPages? I still have three accounts there but am not earning much. Seems like whenever things are going well and I’m building up some decent traffic, HP gets whacked by Google or something like that and all the traffic and earnings goes bye-bye.
Aloha, Chris
Chris,
Hmmm…. I only made 1 post on HP so far, and I don’t think I’ve ever interacted with anyone on there. But good to see you anyways! HP is a low quality site and it is hard to make almost any money there. Starting your own blog/writing for private clients are much better.
Ryan
Oh, haha. Hey Ryan,
Actually I meant that I recognized Danielle’s picture from a couple years ago on HubPages. But yeah, HP is not so hot nowadays. They’ve improved their quality standards, so their content is better than before, but they will always attract spammers because they pay their writers based on factors that can be manipulated and abused: page views, ad clicks, etc.
The site I’m working on is similar to HP in that it’s a user-generated content site and the writers still own the rights to their articles, but my payment model eliminates the incentive for spamming, backlinking, etc. I just pay a flat rate per post per month, regardless of traffic. I’m in the early stages with the site and just signed up my very first writer yesterday, so I’ve got a long way to go haha.
Anyways, I’ve also been doing my own blogs and some freelance writing these past couple years. I’ve had limited success with those methods, but hopefully teaming up with other writers and building out a larger site will turn into a win-win for all of us that are in on it.
Good luck to you, Ryan…and to Danielle and her partner as well. I did take a look at Danielle’s sites mentioned in this article, and they look really good to me. If I wasn’t so busy trying to build my own new site, I’d probably jump on WriterEdge and start banging out some articles. =)
Aloha
Interesting! I’d like to write for your site, mind emailing me about it on my contact form?
Hey Chris,
I have over hundred posts on HP and I got fed up when they introduced those snoozing hubs and pulled all mine off, too.
As far as getting writers, try to get a few “champions” – people who will sign up and write and chat up the site. That helped for us. 🙂
I enjoy writing for WritEdge and Daily Two Cents because I had a lot of “trust” issues with other sites, but the owners here genuinely care. Squidoo stole all my money, I know Bubblews has been really shady about paying, Zujava doesn’t tell me what I earned, they just send it… so many problems with other sites, but not WritEdge or Daily Two Cents. I like it there a lot, I feel comfortable putting my quality content there knowing they are on the rise.
Yeah, long time ago I wrote for Squidoo but I got banned for no good reason and I didn’t get paid on Bubblews.
Both of these sites are doing well. Their Alexa traffic rank is improving day by day. I am a new member on Daily Two Cents and I must say that the site is too good. I just love the admin for the quick replies to user queries.