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Make Money Writing Articles: 37 Blogs

That Pay Up To $300 For Your Guest
Posts
by MAHESH MOHAN on APRIL 12, 2015

First Published: June 25, 2012; Last Updated: Sunday, April 12, 2015
Freelance blogging is a great way to make money writing online because there is
immense demand for awesome blog posts, always! But that doesnt make it easy! The

problem is finding high-paying freelance writing jobs will take time and loads of
efforts, especially if youre a newbie.
In fact, if you visit any of those freelance marketplaces or job sites, you can see that its
crowded with hundreds of thousands of writers/bloggers. And if you dont have an
author profile or pricing that is not attractive enough then your would be clients can
easily find a dozen of other writers.
Another problem is, content agencies or clients on freelance sites do not pay much.
Even if you meet their criteria you may not earn more than $10-$15 per 500 words
(unless you are a native English speaker).
Read: Over 121 Websites For Anyone And Everyone To Make Money Online

Make Money Writing As A Freelance Blogger

First things first. Let me differentiate three terms: freelance blogger, guest blogger, and
content marketer. A freelance blogger is someone who is paid for writing blog posts
for his clients (can be individuals or companies).
Guest blogger is someone who writes a blog post and gets it published on another
persons website. He can be paid for it or is usually done for free in exchange for a
credit, in the form of a backlink at the end of his guest post.
Guest blogging can be done for clients as well. It means that a client will pay a guest
blogger for writing about his business on another website. And a content marketer is
someone who writes content to attract targeted traffic to his website.
For example, Im not a freelance blogger or a guest blogger as I havent written any
guest posts on another blog, yet. And I personally do not write for clients either. But I
can be called a content marketer as Im writing blog posts that is attracting targeted
traffic.
Read: The Content Marketing Handbook 81+ Resources, Tips, Guides & Tools

I have already listed over 51 freelance writing gigs (plus 25 freelance writing
tips) few days back. And it was a comprehensive list of freelance marketplaces, content
agencies (I havent included any of them here), and other websites that are hiring
freelance bloggers and writers.
But like I have already mentioned, the problem is most of the websites that are listed
on that blog post are big media companies and their acceptance rate and payment rate
is on the low side. Also, a good percentage of them accepts only native English writers.
So, if you are a freelance writer who want to make money writing but is tired of lowpaying writing gigs, then here is a collection of websites that are paying up to $300 (or
sometimes more) for your articles and blog posts. In other words, you get paid when
you contribute content to the following websites and blogs.
Note: The idea of this entire blog post is to show you that there are a ton of websites
out there willing to pay hundreds of dollars for a single blog post. Just dont consider
this blog post as your ultimate destination for writing gigs. And you know what it takes to
get there? Be an expert in at least one topic! Now, go get paid to blog!

1. TopTenz
TopTenz serves over 2.4 million pages per month to more than 1.6 million satisfied
visitors. We publish top 10 lists that inform and entertain, focusing on topics that vary
from the norm and touch on the bizarre.

Alexa Rank: 22,580

Topics: Bizarre, Lifestyle, Travel, Entertainment, Science, etc.

Payment: $50

Quick: Homepage | Apply

2. ListVerse

Listverse serves over 30 million pages a month to more than eight million readers. We
publish lists that intrigue and educate, specializing in the bizarre or lesser-known trivia.
Every day we present three or more new, unique lists.

Alexa Rank: 3,674

Topics: Entertainment, General Knowledge, Lifestyle, Science, Society, etc.

Payment: $100

Quick: Homepage | Apply

3. The Dollar Stretcher

The Dollar Stretcher is a group of publications dedicated to Living Betterfor Less.
The goal is to provide readers with ways to help them save time and money.

Alexa Rank: 97,537

Topics: Money, Food, Home & Auto, Lifestyle, Family, etc.

Payment: $0.10 per word or $50 per post, of 500 words.

Quick: Homepage | Apply

4. Reverb Press
Reverb Press is a news and lifestyle webzine which is the product of the talent and
dedication of a team of smart, savvy, talented writers, artists, and technicians dedicated
to the maxim Ad Extremum Vero, Semper The Truth Always Wins In The End.

Alexa Rank: 36,148

Topics: News, Politics, Justice, Business, World, Entertainment, etc.

Payment: Unknown

Quick: Homepage | Apply

Reverb Press is different from other websites that are listed here as they expect content
from you on a regular basis. So, if your application is accepted then you can consider it
like a job and not as another writing gig. You can write about topics that you are
passionate about and at the same time they may also give you optional assignments.
The pricing is not mentioned but it says you will be paid depending upon your output
and audience engagement.

5. The Everyday Windshield

The Everyday Windshield is an online magazine dedicated to the journey of life through
faith, family, fashion, food, and fun.

Alexa Rank: 1,259,36

Topics: Faith, Family, Fashion, Food, Fun

Payment: $10 for the 1st post, $25 for the 2nd-5th posts, and thereafter $50 per
post

Quick: Homepage | Apply

6. The Daily Heckle

The Daily Heckle is a blog for bloggers who want to get paid for sharing their opinions.
Writers can earn money based on how popular their posts are.

Alexa Rank: 1,634,887

Topics: News, Sports, Politics, Travel, TV, Music, Movies, etc.

Payment: $7.5-$30

Quick: Homepage | Apply

Note: The Everyday Windshield and The Daily Heckle are listed here as they are
regularly publishing new blog posts.

7. CollegeHumor
CollegeHumor Media delivers daily comedic content, including videos, pictures, articles
and jokes, created and/or curated by the CollegeHumor staff. CollegeHumor Media
attracts more than 15 million monthly uniques and generates more than 100 million
video views per month.

Alexa Rank: 1,875

Topics: Humor

Payment: $25 per post plus bonus

Quick: Homepage | Apply

8. WritersWeekly
WritersWeekly.com is one of the oldest and most respected sites on freelance writing. It
has been published continuously since 1997.

Alexa Rank: 240,429

Topics: Freelance

Payment: $60 per post, of 600 words

Quick: Homepage | Apply

9. WOW! Women On Writing

WOW! is a global magazine, designed to support womens creativity, energy, blood,
sweat and tears, throughout all stages of the writing process.

Alexa Rank: 461,290

Topics: Writing

Payment: $50-$150 per post

Quick: Homepage | Apply

10. Funds For Writers

FundsforWriters is an online resource for writers. We emphasize finding money to make
writing a realistic career. Of course, youd write anyway. Thats the way of a writer.

Alexa Rank: 501,141

Topics: Writing

Payment: $50 per post

Quick: Homepage | Apply

11. A List Apart

A List Apart explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a
special focus on web standards and best practices.

Alexa Rank: 8,707

Topics: Web Design & Development

Payment: $200

Quick: Homepage | Apply

12. InstantShift
InstantShift is a design and inspiration related community for web designers and
developers daily resource, inspiration and premium web design and development.

Alexa Rank: 13,841

Topics: Web Design & Development

Payment: Depends upon quality and word count.

Quick: Homepage | Apply

13. Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine is an online magazine for professional Web designers and
developers, with a focus on useful techniques, best practices and valuable resources.

Alexa Rank: 2,032

Topics: Web Design & Development

Payment: Depends upon quality and word count.

Quick: Homepage | Apply

14. SitePoint
SitePoint provides cutting-edge content for web professionals developers, designers,
programmers, freelancers and site owners.

Alexa Rank: 1,248

Topics: Web Design & Development

Payment: Unknown

Quick: Homepage | Apply

15. SpyreStudios
SpyreStudios is an online magazine about web-design & development and the myriads
of other topics that fall in between.

Alexa Rank: 35,424

Topics: Web Design & Development

Payment: Unknown

Quick: Homepage | Apply

16. Photoshop Tutorials

Photoshop tutorials for beginners to experts. Learn tips and tricks on how to use
Photoshop for photo editing, manipulations, designs, and more.

Alexa Rank: 43,636

Topics: Design

Payment: $25-$300

Quick: Homepage | Apply

17. UX Booth
UX Booth is a publication by and for the user experience community. Our readership
consists mostly of beginning-to-intermediate user experience and interaction designers,
but anyone interested in making the web a better place to be is welcome.

Alexa Rank: 35,436

Topics: UX, Design

Payment: Unknown

Quick: Homepage | Apply

18. Crazyleaf Design

Crazyleaf Design is a web design, illustration, and programming company. We build
functional, standards-compliant and aesthetically rich unique web sites.

Alexa Rank: 90,714

Topics: Design

Payment: Unknown

Quick: Homepage | Apply

19. AppStorm
AppStorm brings you not just reviews of great (and not so great) apps, but we also
round them up into categorized lists, give you how-to tips and tricks to get more out of
them, and combine it with a healthy dose of related news.

Alexa Rank: 11,891

Topics: Apps (Mac, Windows, Web, iPhone, iPad, Android)

Payment: $60 per post

Quick: Homepage

AppStorm is an app review network and its composed of Mac AppStorm, Web
AppStorm,iPhone AppStorm, iPad AppStorm, Android AppStorm, and Windows
AppStorm. You can contribute to any of those websites and get paid for it.

20. Techopedia
From defining the latest tech buzzword to exploring enterprise-level decisions,
Techopedia aims to help you understand technology.

Alexa Rank: 20,342

Topics: Tech

Payment: Unknown

Quick: Homepage | Apply

21. WorldStart

WorldStart is looking for tips for our e-mail newsletter, WorldStarts Computer Tips. This
is published daily to 300,000 readers and focuses on tips and tricks the average
computer user can utilize. We are also seeking feature articles for our website covering
any and all aspects of computing.

Alexa Rank: 69,214

Topics: Tech

Payment: $25-$50 per post

Quick: Homepage | Apply

22. Make Tech Easier

Make Tech Easier focuses on computer tutorials, how-to, hacks and fixes. Our motto is
to Uncomplicating the complicated, making life easier.

Alexa Rank: 10,478

Topics: Tech

Payment: Unknown

Quick: Homepage | Apply

23. Wise Bread

Wise Bread is a community of bloggers here to help you live large on a small budget.
Despite what you may have heard, you dont have to sacrifice your financial
independence to enjoy life.

Alexa Rank: 17,441

Topics: Personal Finance

Payment: Unknown

Quick: Homepage | Apply

24. International Living

International Living have been helping people discover the worlds best places to live,
travel and retire since 1979.

Alexa Rank: 31,196

Topics: Entrepreneurship, Retired Overseas, Travel & Adventure, Short Blurbs

Payment: $75 per post

Quick: Homepage | Apply

25. Matador
Matador is the worlds largest independent travel publisher, with over 12 million unique
monthly visitors.

Alexa Rank: 5,278

Topics: Travel

Payment: $20-$25 per post

Quick: Homepage | Apply

26. GloHoliday
GloHoliday is a travel articles site that provides complete resources for traveling all over
the world, including holiday destinations, festivals, public holidays, hotel booking, flight
information and travel tips attracting thousands of monthly visitors.

Alexa Rank: 228,735

Topics: Travel

Payment: $40 per post + $3 per image

Quick: Homepage | Apply

Note: When GloHoliday contacted me to include their website on the previous version
of this list, I forwarded their website to my sister without notifying them and she
contributed one article. And yes, she got paid!

27. BootsnAll
BootsnAll provides inspiration and resources to get you on the road.

Alexa Rank: 47,836

Topics: Travel

Payment: $30-$50 per post

Quick: Homepage | Apply

28. Viator Travel Blog

At Viator we believe that travel has the power to make the world a better place. This is
our place on the web to share our passion and inspire all of us to make that next trip.

Alexa Rank: 47,836

Topics: Travel

Payment: $40-$150 per post, depends upon word count.

Quick: Homepage | Apply

29. TheExpeditioner
TheExpeditioner is a travel site for the avid traveler featuring travel articles from some
of the best travel writers in the world, as well as travel news, commentary, insight and
video from a premiere team of bloggers from around the globe.

Alexa Rank: 127,005

Topics: Travel

Payment: $30 per post

Quick: Homepage | Apply

30. Wandrly Magazine

Wandrly is an online magazine for full-time travelers.

Alexa Rank: 756,621

Topics: Travel

Payment: $0.05 per word for articles,and $10 per photo for galleries

Quick: Homepage | Apply

31. Scary Mommy

A parenting website for imperfect parents.

Alexa Rank: 9,084

Topics: Parenting

Payment: Up to $100 per post

Quick: Homepage | Apply

32. MetroParent
MetroParent is an online parenting community offering expert advice, stories on
parenting trends and issues, and numerous ways for parents to enrich their experience
raising the next generation.

Alexa Rank: 206,889

Topics: Parenting

Payment: Up to $350 per post

Quick: Homepage | Apply

33. Alaska Parent

Alaska Parent is a free, full-color family and parenting magazine, published 4 times per
year. As Alaskas exclusive, all-in-one parenting resource, our readers include parents
with children ages newborn through teens, as well as expectant moms.

Alexa Rank: 1,781,147

Topics: Parenting

Payment: $40-$200 per post

Quick: Homepage | Apply

34. WorkingMother
WorkingMother is the digital hub of career-focused and entrepreneur moms, including
best companies to work for, tips and features focused on work and home.

Alexa Rank: 52,971

Topics: Parenting

Payment: Unknown

Quick: Homepage | Apply

35. Vela Magazine

Vela has taken steps to help close the byline gender gap by publishing exceptional
nonfiction written by women.

Alexa Rank: 682,123

Topics: Women

Payment: Unknown

Quick: Homepage | Apply

36. The Sun Magazine

The Sun is an independent, ad-free monthly magazine that for more than thirty years
has used words and photographs to invoke the splendor and heartache of being
human.

Alexa Rank: 236,324

Topics: Essays, Short Stories, Interviews, Poetry, etc.

Payment: $300-$2,500 for non-fiction; $300-$1,500 for fiction; $100-$250 for

poetry; from $1,000-$2,000 for interviews

Quick: Homepage | Apply

37. Grasslimb
Grasslimb is a twice-yearly literary journal featuring prose, poetry and artwork. Just the
thing to read while youre having a nice cup of coffee or tea!

Alexa Rank: 3,458,789

Topics: Poetry, Prose, Cartoons, Book & Music Reviews

Payment: $5-$20 for poetry; $10-$70 for prose; $15-25 for book & music reviews;
$15-$25 for cartoon

Quick: Homepage | Apply

Read: The Freelance Writers Handbook 75+ Tips, Resources & Guides
Finding More Freelance Blogging Gigs
Wondering how to find more freelance blogging gigs? Okay, before that let me give you
a word of caution about the above mentioned blogs, websites, and magazines. There is
every possibility that ALL the above mentioned websites are already getting a ton of
guest post requests. Why? Because they are inviting everyone. So, be first or be
smarter.
Becoming first is obviously going to be difficult. But you can definitely become
smarter. Anyways, if you want to become one of the first to apply for a writing gig then
try the following blogging job boards:

ProBlogger Job Board

BloggingPro Job Board

Again, all these job boards are also flooded with pitches by freelance bloggers. In fact,
ProBlogger gets 100+ applicants in just few days. So, make sure that you are doing it
the right way or you wont even get a response for your pitch/application.
Want Even More? Google Search!
Thats right! You can easily find new writing gigs with few Google searches. You only
have to filter the search results with some advanced operators and I will show you how.
Just in case if you havent noticed, most of the above websites uses a page called
Write for Us to invite blog posts from their readers and guest authors. So, it means
that you can easily find such sites by doing an advanced Google search.
Heres a sample query:

Google Search: How To Find Freelance Blogging Gigs

The above Google search query finds web pages whose title has the phrase Write for
Us in it. Only the above highlighted fields are essential. You can also do this query
directly on Google search by using the search operator: allintitle.
Here are few sample search queries that you can Google directly on Google.com.

allintitle: write for us

allintitle: write for us

allintitle: write for us and get paid

Also, you can even find freelance/guest blogging opportunities from your country or
can further narrow your search results by using additional filters.
Heres another sample query that narrowed the search results even further:

Google Advanced Search: How To Find Freelance Blogging Gigs

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13 Things To Remember Before You Even Think of Applying:

1. Do not apply to each and every website that is listed here. Your applications are
reviewed by real people, so apply only if its relevant, and do respect their time.
2. You dont have to be a native English speaker to contribute a blog post to any of
the above blogs. But you must be passionate about the topic and must possess
outstanding writing skills (especially if you are pitching a high authority blog).
3. You can show your skills by including a link to a sample blog post that you have
written. Just make sure that its related to the theme of the blog that you are
pitching.
4. An active blog and an active social media presence (especially Twitter and
LinkedIn) is always appreciated.
5. You can also make a real connection with one of the authors or editors of the
blog (via email or social media) in a genuine way so that you can eventually pitch
them in a friendly way.
6. None of the above websites are for beginners that is, for those who have
never written a blog post before. If you are new to freelance writing then check
out The Freelance Writers Handbook.
7. It may take several days (if not weeks) to get your articles published on a top
blog as most of them are flooded with queries and requests. If you didnt get a
reply, say in a week or even in a month, then it probably means that they are
either not interested or you didnt match their expectations (its okay to follow-up
but at least wait a week or two).

8. Finally, do not send the exact pitch to all websites (even if they are in the same
industry). Instead, send a custom one to each website and make it short and
simple.