Nowadays, there are many websites that are popping up that invite people to write web contents.  Because there are so many of them, most of us probably never even heard of some of them.  Some offer better training for your writing and some offer better earnings.  You may even find that some of them offer both; good training and good earnings.

If you want to join in any of the sites introduced here, please review their writing and earnings program carefully.  Some writing programs can be a waste of time and effort especially if you join them because you want to earn online.  But if your purpose for joining writing programs is to give yourself training in writing and sharing your knowledge, then any one of them should offer good platform for your writing needs.

This site is quite complicated to understand and is quite strict with their rules.  You can write and submit your articles here, but they must be approved by 5 different moderators.  The most popular articles are the articles with the highest rankings.  Visitors of the article can vote for the articles up or down.  The best content will rise to the top while the poor contents will get buried.

Your articles must not contain the following: ‘pornography/adult material, hate or violence-oriented, suggest racial or religious intolerance, advocate against any individual or group, have insulting, obscene, degrading tone, or contain profanity’.  It must not contain information on: ‘Hacking/cracking content, bomb creation, support for terrorism/ radicalism/ religious fanaticism, illicit drug creation or use, use or advocacy of any kind of weapons or poisons, or any other illegal activity’.  It must not be a ‘violation of any law, be considered defamatory, libelous, or infringes on the legal rights of others’.  It must not be a submission of the exact same article to other sites.  Aside from these don’ts, you also have to remember to add article snippets to your contents.  The keywords you use should not be more than 15.

This site can be an article directory or an earn money writing site for you.  You can submit your articles for free and as the owner of that page, you make money from the ad space.  As a content producer in this site, you earn credits when your articles are viewed.  You’d have a chance to earn double credits when you moderate articles.  When you’ve built enough credits, you can use that credit to display your own ads or sell your credits to article-content-king for cash.

The revenue sharing in this site is not restricted to Google AdSense.  Authors can choose which affiliate links they like to put on their pages.  You can even put your own ads.  Every article you submit automatically promotes your affiliate links.

Your articles in this site should be original.  If you write in other sites as well, you cannot submit in this website what you have already submitted elsewhere.  Articles in this site should only be written in English and should at least be a minimum of 300 words.  Your articles would be published upon submission within 24 hours.  For new writers, your articles can only earn 50% of your contextual ads.  Earnings here are through rotation.  Your earnings have a chance of moving up to 75% of the contextual ads.  Links are not allowed in this site due to the fact that ArticleIncome wants your articles to be permanent.  Adding links may result in broken links in the future.

If you don’t like editors to edit your works, you may have problems writing in this site because they may edit your works for wrong grammar.  For newcomers, you can only submit ten articles.  However, you may be allowed to submit more as your membership level changes.

Bukisa is another how-to site but is not as famous as eHow. Aside from how-to articles, you can also submit other informative articles. Other informative articles may include do-it-yourself articles, instructional, tutorial, and educational articles. This site is good for promoting your how-to articles, videos, podcasts, and slideshows. You can submit articles here that you have already submitted to other sites as long as you are the original writer. However, they would still encourage you to change a few things from your works to avoid search engine duplication. Your earnings are based on 1000 page impressions generated by your articles.

You can publish articles, pictures, audios, videos, reviews, and how-to guides in this site.  To become eligible for editing other people’s works, you need to be preapproved by the site’s admin.  For preapproval, you need to have published at least 10 articles with this site and a member for at least 14 days.  Still a new site, there isn’t much written about their guidelines but you’d be able to earn money from this site from Google AdSense and eBay Partner Network.  They give you 75% earnings from page views of your articles.  They discourage profanity and encourage editing other members’ works.  When you submit your articles to this site,’ you will be assigned an account manager who will review your articles before they go live on the site’. 

Whether you have products to sell or you simply just want to share information online, you can use Squidoo as your platform.

In this site, your webpage is called a lens.  Writers of this site are called lensmasters.  You can link your page to other sites, build RSS feeds, and share photos while you write your topic.  Whether you simply want to write online or you have products to sell, you can create a lens to highlight your knowledge or product.  Squidoo lens is ideal for bloggers, experts, podcasters, authors, and entrepreneurs.

You earn 50% royalties on ads from Google AdSense.  You also earn 50% royalties on ads in Amazon, eBay, CafePress, or their other commerce partners.  45% of the earnings goes to Squidoo and the remaining 5% goes to charity.  There is a disadvantage for writing in this site, if your lenses are published more than twelve months without reaching your payout, you won’t be able to receive your royalties.  Squidoo will claim and collect those royalties for the site’s overhead and for charities.

If you love writing and reading fiction, then this must be the site for you.  This site gives you a chance to write your own story.  Furthermore, it gives you a chance to continue other people’s works.  You write the first chapter of your story and people who are interested to continue your work will write the second chapter.  So, after writing your story’s first chapter, you might find that there are multiple second chapters and so on.  It depends on how many people would want to continue your story.  You can also continue your own story if you like.  Each story has multiple middles and endings depending on how many other authors of the site collaborated with you.  Earn money opportunities are through ad revenue that can be seen on your chapter.  If you love reading stories, you can visit this site and read the stories authors of this site had written.