How Much Does Examiner.com Pay Writers? I made $3,674.31 in Sept 2009 from Examiner.com
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More updates as of Sunday, September 20, 2009 -- I'm still overjoyed with the money I've been blessed to make with Examiner.com -- over $2,289 in 20 days. Like Examiner says, be prolific and relevant. So to those who apply to Examiner.com, send them your best writing samples -- especially if you have good stuff you've published online that proves you can draw an audience. Here's my most recent earnings:
I'm so satisfied with Examiner.com thus far that I've got to put up my earnings -- close to $100 earned after only writing 11 articles. My first article went up September 2, 2009 and today is September 4, 2009 -- so that's great money for only 2 days:
The key is to write topical articles and SEO them very well.
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And it doesn't have to be celebrity stuff.
As you can see from the growing comment count, my Obama school speech controversy piece is the most popular right now.
So I'm urging everyone who wants to try and make some money online (and you don't even really need to know how to set up your own website -- but I suggest you read all Examiner.com's SEO tips and video tips, etc.) to apply for Examiner.com.
Send them some of your best writing samples when they ask -- and PRAY, PRAY, PRAY -- and then when you get in, write about popular stuff and SEO it!
Update #2: I've joined Examiner.com as the Cleveland Pop Culture Examiner here
I am very pleased with writing for Examiner.com -- I've made $31.91 in 24 hours after writing my first few articles...
...and I believe that will only increase one hundred fold when I really start giving it the "blitz" of effort like the guy from 20smoney.com is doing.
I believe the key is asking God to give you favor over your articles -- and it doesn't hurt to write trendy, topical celebrity stuff -- if that's what you're into.
And make sure to SEO your articles well. Examiner gives you tips on how to do this once you get approved. Plus, their publishing tool is so easy and they like you to link out a lot (a great thing for affiliate marketers) and they even already pay for Associated Press photos, so they show you how to use those, too. I'm lovin' Examiner!
Thanks Clifford Bryan at Examiner.com for encouraging me to join!
Apply to Write for Examiner.com here now...
So when you apply, please click "Find Your Examiner" at the bottom of the application page and search for Examiner #22153 or Paula Mooney -- I hope that works.
I'll update everyone on how much money I make writing for Examiner.com
Update: One guy left me a comment below saying he made $500 writing for Examiner.com in the past two days -- so I just applied to write for Examiner. We'll see how much a I make when I get in. But in the meantime, I joined Examiner.com's affiliate program, where they pay $5 a pop for every person who applies (update: they closed that one down) under your link and gets accepted -- or valid application or something they said...I don't know...we'll see.
Everywhere you look around the web for news stories, you'll see Examiner.com -- and since I love studying other websites and just how they got so successful and are able to get nearly 900,000 hits per day and get over 10,000 pages indexed by Google in one 24 hour period, I learned that Examiner.com is paying writers to write all those articles.
So just how much does Examiner.com pay writers?
That's what I wondered when checking out Examiner.com's claim of having over 8,000 "examiners" writing for them -- and their online application, which bespeaks of no hard dollars.
So I Googled around asking the Big G: How much does Examiner.com pay its writers and found this great article answering the question after it got a myriad of responses from actual Examiner.com writers.
Seems like it runs the gamut based on how much you write and / maybe or how popular the article is? I don't know if I saw anywhere a deal based on pageviews, like they give us over at AssociatedContent.com
Basically, I usually advise any aspiring writer to at least give it a go at setting up your own free blog on Blogger.com and adding free Google Adsense ads and learn about SEO and stuff like that and see what you can make on your own.
But sites like Examiner.com may be a good starting ground to whet your online writing appetite -- but don't think you're going to get rich off of it.
I've been blogging since December 2005 and thru highs and lows my websites have brought me $44,000 salary last year -- and it's a lot of work, but fun work to me, most days.
Anyway, Google around, try your hand at some things and see what lasts.
Comments
I have a question if you don't mind. I just started a blog but people cant seem to find it. How can I make it findable and popular?
onlinewritingadvice.blogspot.com
That's where you can find it. I just need some advice from someone who has been successful like you.
Research what people are searching for thru Google Trends or other places that tell you what's popular in search and then write your titles firstly to accommodate those search terms.
For example, if you want rank well for "Work for Home from Google" Scam like I did in this post, make sure to write those keywords throughout the post.
Or go all out like I did in this post, trying to rank well for Sensai Cleanser, so you can see I repeated that Sensai Cleanser that Miley Cyrus tweeted about twice in my title, then again especially in the first paragraph of the post, wrapping stuff in h2 and h3 tags (Google that) and at the end and more around the post.
Just go to my PaulaNealMooney.com website and right click and choose View Page Source and study the code to see how I SEO stuff.
I know it's a WordPress.org not Blogger blog, but it might still help you get more traffic.
And having the Adsense ads below the posts gives them a higher CTR than off to the left like you have them on your blog. You might want to change your template the way I have my Blogger template to make more money blogging online with your Google Adsense ads getting better CTR.
Happy Day. Paula.
http://www.examiner.com/x-19673-Michelle-Obama-Examiner
Peace and prosperity,
Paula
and i have to say it is extra pocket money, $50 for referral, and make sure you get subscribers, facebook, and twitter it, to get more traffic, it depends what you write, the most I made in a month was $250 and because I wrote about MJ, if you are in entertainment you will deff get more reader, that is whats popular!!
I'm trying to see what is possible if I write 100 articles right off the bat... detailed income and traffic numbers will be posted.
I like writing, so cranking out quite a few articles per week is my goal.
Then I'll update everyone on the progress.
I'm coming over to 20smoney.com (great dot com name, by the way, because I remembered it) to encourage you to post up your Examiner.com income totals to see how much you can make.
I love it.
I just started writing today and am already up to $12.51 and the day's not over.
It's great: Averaging $10 per 1,000 pageviews is a really good pay rate.
Thank you so much for inspiring me to join, Cliff.
I hope they gave you your 50 bones!
Reminds me of that movie "The Crying Game" -- "You know my Jodi?"
Anyway, yes, let's talk about monetizing your site.
I've got this Blogger blog which I started in 2005 -- and I've got other sites like PaulaNealMooney.com where I write about topical stuff on Google Trends -- check out that format and template, placement of my ads and stuff I write about.
I write a lot -- at least 40 hours per week or more.
It can take time to increase your online income.
I just started writing for Examiner.com and I love that. They pay well, if you can SEO your stuff and get a lot of pageviews.
Feel free to come back to PaulaMooney.blogspot.com and leave me specific questions you have and I'll answer them.
Let me know...
And John Chow has some good stuff, too.
You should read thru my posts, too, called "Increase Blog Traffic" here to help learn some about SEO.
SEO just stands for Search Engine Optimization -- I'll put up another post on it soon, thanks for inspiring me.
Yes, some people charge for SEO, but everything I learned about it was basically free by reading people's tips online.
Check for my next post for more detail.
Last I heard, they were up to 8,000 or more Examiners.
I've read that they reject about 50% of the 1,200 or so people that apply to write for Examiner.com every week.
So I urge people who want to write for Examiner to pray hard and send in the best writing samples you have.
Janet
P.S.
Great move on Examiner. I came close to signing up with them, but I just couldn't devote the time to it last year. I might try this year, since my 9-5 work hours have been reduced.
Yeah, now that you remind me, Google did disable my adsense account once when I promoted their old affiliate products using adwords -- they don't offer the products anyway.
But I was able to get an Adsense account open again.
Email me at paulanealmooney at gmail dot com so we can chat.
Hopefully you'll come back.
Thank you Paula. I've been a fan of your writing since the AC days and you suggested that I start a blog.
Well I'll try.
Jessica,
Resume Writer
But, how a newbie like me starting this work ?
I am new in online service, i never listen about examiner.com when i read your post then i visit this website it is good for writer, i will make my account on this website and try to earn money through my writing skill
But right now, there is no way to try out Examiner.com.
Anyway, you got me inspired Paula, like always.
If i missed anything (signing up on Examiner.com then plz do tell me), I would love to work for something little extra besides my blog and AC.
I was kind of thinking of that today when I thought of writing of international events.
I just started with the examiner writing about health and fitness.
I am trying to understand your SEO tactics. Are you basically repeating a key title throughout your article?
Thanks Sarah
Yes, I put my key term in my title close to the front, for example, Conan O'Brien injury video is what I was going for in that post.
That article did well because I was up and saw Conan when he first showed the video, and grabbed it when someone put the video up a couple of minutes later.
And notice how I probably repeated terms like "Conan O'Brien" and "head injury" and "video" throughout the article -- but not too many times.
Also, another good tip is to name your images after what you're going for.
For example, in a post about Debra Winger defending Roman Polanski, notice how I named the file name of the image after hitting save as Debra Winger Roman Polanski with dashes in the file name separating the words.
Dashes are better than underlines, I've read.
All these things helps Google figure out what your article is about -- and possibly rank it better.
These tips don't always work; but if you keep writing, writing, writing and read up on more tips that I'll write about in the future, you can find favor with Google sometimes and get great traffic.
But I'm so friggin' grateful that this is working for others. September 2009 closed out at over $3,600 from Examiner.com -- yes, as you can see I write a lot of articles and work hard, but my goodness, at least it works and they are legit.
Another Cleveland Examiner told me that setting up slideshows help your pageviews, too, because each time people click thru the photos, they count as one pageview.
And when you save your image, make sure to name it based on the keywords you're going for, for example, if I'm trying to rank on "Jon Gosselin stops TLC show" I'd name my pic like this:
Jon-Gosselin-stops-TLC-show.jpg
And I also add text in the ALT text field when you upload the image.
I sent in my resignation two months ago. I was immediately locked out of the "publishing tool" so I could not add/alter/remove my articles.
The pay counter was also immediately locked upon my resignation so I would not receive any further monetary compensation.
To date, they have not removed my articles, likeness or name off of the site in spite of continued requests on my part.
I must say that a friend and I are really thankful that we were led to your site.
We are experimenting with a few online ventures and your free tips have been awesome.
Also, we are going to sign up for Examiner instead of our previous idea to sign up for Elance.
Your success is definitely inspirational.
It feels like the negative people probably had less success due to the lack of SEO.
You clearly have that in mind when writing and you write on hot Google Trend topics.
We tested your Google trend theory on a little Test Blog (with very little content) and got 100 visitors to a "no-name" blog within hours.
http://ralphie-boy.blogspot.com/2009/10/raj-rajaratnam-galleon-group.html
So we know that application of your strategy is sound.
Imagine how much traffic we would've gotten if we had done a full article on Examiner (who ranks much better in Google anyway due to the volume of content they offer.)
With the help of BackLinks, BookMarking, and Social Marketing, we plan to really do well at Examiner.
We'll be signing up later today.
Thanks again.
P.S.: Not sure why my name is showing as Joe?!?! It's Ralph.
Yes, I'm so glad to hear that the tips have helped you get traffic.
And I'm a living witness that they work on Examiner.com too -- and that Examiner pays straight to PayPal account and they are not a scam.
It's amazingly unbelievable almost, but then again, God blesses and He is true and faithful and I'm glad for Him showing me that site.
You're right, SEO'ing stuff helps -- as well as loading up Google Analytics code and studying what keywords work the best.
It can be lots of work. Some days I put up lots of articles.
And I notice people who don't even SEO stuff get hits on Examiner.
Writing good content, coupled with interesting topics that people are searching for can possibly bring visitors.
I think some people give up when they expect to write only 1 to 3 articles per week on off topics and expect a payload.
It doesn't generally work that way. But who knows? Stranger things have happened.
If you're in the US you do need a w9 to get paid and if you're in Canada, you need to submit a w8-ben.
Good luck,
Dana Prince
http://www.examiner.com/x-30126-Coronation-Street-Examiner
http://www.examiner.com/x-35570-Canada-Women-and-Money-Examiner~y2010m1d13-If-You-Are-Trying-to-Save-Money-Simply-Switch-to-Shopping-Online
Thank you for the encouragement. I just submitted my application to Examiner and included your name as a referral. Looking forward to their response.
Thanks again,
Gail
Thanks!
Read some of these articles where I've written about getting more traffic on Examiner.com and stay tuned for more...
Besides, I can quit anytime if I need to devote that time to something else.