As you might know from previous posts, or if you know me on the internet, then you know that I've recently found a website called myLot. myLot is a website that allows you to basically troll around (not in the bad way) on a forum so as to create content, and get paid for it. The website owners have incentive to pay you to do this because they run ads on their website and they get traffic to the content that you produce by posting. It's a very interesting website that I enjoy, and I'm rather excited to know about the earning potential for myLot.

That's why I'm going to do a little experiment.

Apparently, people like to sit on myLot all day long because it's so addictive. Well, not only am I going to test the addictiveness of myLot, I'm going to test the profitability of myLot. My experiment will be this: I'll spend the whole day (at least 6 hours) on myLot posting and generally just contributing to it, and by the end of the day, we'll see how profitable it will have ended up being (for that one day).

Eventually this idea will turn into a whole week on myLot to see a more long term profitability margin.

So, to sum it all up here's a list of future posts on the subject.

The experiment begins Wednesday!

1. One day on myLot: An experiment
1. Residual income from that 
2. One week on myLot: An Experiment continued 
1. Residual income from that (after another week)

I just posted a movie review (a very short one) of a pretty terrible movie that I had the displeasure to watch on Hulu today. After writing this review I got to thinking: should writers spare bad reviews? It's always been my opinion that reviews are for exactly that, a review, and that nothing should be spared when completely tearing apart a movie, book, magazine, website, what have you, that you don't like.

Reviews are written so that an audience can know whether or not it is worth their time to persue something, or to buy something, or to watch something, reviews are there to inform and to help make decisions, not so that writers can show how fanciful and happy they can make something sound. I'm sure there are writers who would disagree with me.

I hardly ever write a completely scathing review either, it's just sometimes I really need to let the world know how completely horrid something is so that nobody else ever has the misfortune of stumbling on a bad movie or a bad book and being subjected to its terribleness.

First off let me start by saying that I love the potential that revenue sharing has for online writers, especially ones that don't want to write "magazine" style articles or how-to's. Revenue sharing websites generally allow you to write about anything you want and they'll pay you depending on how popular your article becomes. This is all well and good, but it generally requires quite a bit of footwork for you to make your content popular enough to be making you much if anything at all.

Demand Content websites like constant content are a little different in that you write an article (generally a how to or an informational article) and you get paid upfront if anybody chooses to buy your article. Now I have never published anything on constant content but lately I've been surfing several forums and article sites looking for information on the both of these. What I found was that there are very mixed feelings towards Demand Content sites, specifically from the writers who consider themselves "freelance".

I came across quite a bit of negative feelings towards revenue sharing websites on Absolute Write Water Cooler
it's a writer's forum and I found several threads on their freelance subforum that contained some very hostile words towards sites like Bukisa, Hubpages, Squidoo, and Associated Content. I, however, have very positive feelings towards these websites, especially considering their potential for passive income.


I've not contributed much content to the demand content websites like constant-content, but I like the idea and they do seem to pay much more for articles, and I love being able to name my own price for said articles. And the problem about not being able to write prose is easily solvable because I write prose here and on Bukisa and Triond.


I guess I'll take the middle road and use them both. Perhaps I'll change my mind in the future about revenue sharing websites, but I doubt it.


If you have any thoughts please, I encourage you to leave a comment!

Ok, so here's a quick wrap up of all the content I've had published this week over on Bukisa, as well as a link to my bio on Squidoo where you can find all the lenses I've made.

This week I've really tried to focus on publishing some of my old articles from Triond onto Bukisa, and trying to get some of my school papers to a point where they could be called a good article. This means that much of this stuff is not new content, with the exception of two of them (the first and last). I really feel like Bukisa has a much better website overall and the content written (for the most part) seems to be of a much higher quality than the content on Triond.

Happy writing!


Check out Bukisa to earn money for your writing!

Well, that's the thing really. There is no hype. I feel like every time I talk to someone about writing on the internet like I do, they get really confused, and I end up explaining (while talking really fast) every websites that I've ever used to explore writing on the internet, and I end up being really enthusiastic and sending them a referral link for something that they'll probably never do. It's sad really.

This, however, opens up a whole new door for those who are willing to really try though. There's so little people out there that know about these websites that there's a huge amount of people willing to participate in these things. Revenue sharing sites seem to know this too, because almost all of them provide you with a referral link that can eventually gain you a second, albeit weaker, stream of income coming from writing on the internet. Take Bukisa for example, they have a 3 tiered referral system. You get money from showcasing your own articles, as well as for any articles that your referred friends have written, as well as their referred friends, and even your friends' friends' referred friends (confusing right?).

So if there's such potential for people to make money writing on the internet, then why don't you hear about people all over doing it? The only people I've ever met who write like I do, are people I've met on the very websites that I write on.

Well, much like Triond this is where I got my feet wet in the world of online article writing, except this time it was a bit more professional, and I had to step my writing up just a little bit or my works would not get accepted. My reasons for leaving Associated Content were twofold, and neither of the reasons would bar me from going back one day, I just want to focus my attention on other exploits.

myLot User Profile

I pretty much started off my writing online "career" (if you can call it that) on Triond. So I decided to write about my experience on Triond and to explain why I'm not writing on Triond anymore. This is not to say that Triond isn't right for you, it's just not a website that I want to write for anymore.

Triond is a content publishing website that offers to pay you 50% of the ad revenue that they get when someone is reading your content. So, for example, say I have a piece published as a book review, and say there is a contextual ad placed on my page about said book, if someone who is reading my article decides they want to click on that ad and see where it takes them, I get 50% of whatever revenue that ad-click gets me. For more on how Adsense works check out the Adsense support page


At first I loved writing for Triond, I started to write articles as often as possible, and as well as possible, and I started to rake in some money (I still am because my content is still there) it wasn't much, but it was still more than I was making anywhere else on the internet (nothing). I was excited because a whole new world was opened up to me. Well the door quickly closed on that dream because I started to realize some things about Triond that almost completely turned me off to the site.

1. Poor Community: The community was immature and incapable of writing coherently.
2. Unprofessional, Cookie Cutter Sites: The sites that posted the content were all the same. 
3. Low Quality of Articles: The individuals writing on Triond favored Quantity over Quality.

I wonder whether people will ever read this blog and say "gosh, that's some good information" or "gee I wish I had known that..."

Hopefully that's the case in the future. I'm writing this blog as a way of sort of chronicling my adventures through the world of online writing. I'll also probably use it as an engine for shameless self promotion (hey, it's my blog you know).

Anyway, enough potatoes on to the meat.

I've been writing online for several months now, to hardly any avail, sure I've probably made something like $20 but in the long run that's hardly anything. I think my problem is that I can never stay at the same website for very long as none of them really capture my attention. I don't think that I've found the website that's "write" for me quite yet (punny!).

Today I spent a good 3 hours researching websites that will probably be good for me to write on, and will be a change of venue from the sites that I previously used. The ones I'm most excited about, and the ones that I feel will have the most potential for payout and sense of accomplishment are Constant Content, Bukisa, and Squidoo. If you're interested in writing online then I can only encourage you to check those sites out, right now there the best I've found for what I'm looking for, but other sites might work for you too.

Looks like that's the end of my long-winded introduction. Welcome to A Writer's Exploits and I hope you enjoy watching my journey!