Yes, it's been about a year since I started writing on the Internet: I guess you could say, "professional Internet writing". Because I've had an email since the late 1990s, played on MySpace for a few years starting around 2008 (I think), got on Facebook about 2010 (I think). I guess that was all a bit of micro-blogging.
My job sucked, I was house-bound taking care of my aging mother, and I loved to write. My thought, about a year ago was, "I could make money writing on the Internet". Has it happened? Sort of.
I started off on a site that turned out to be a dud. The site wouldn't let you delete or edit your content, yet claimed you owned it. The same month I started writing for that site, I turned my attention to Hubpages: A revenue-sharing, user-generated content site for writers. The format was nice, it was user-friendly, and I quickly started learning exponentially on the site. I learned about Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Results Page, Google Rank, indexing, back-links and a whole host of things related to on-line writing. I soon even learned how to start my own website: Complete with my own domain name, a webhost, and, of course, my own content. I'm still learning about that one, the having-my-own-website thing. It's a work in progress, but I only just started it last month.
HubPages is an incredible on-line community; one of its strongest features is that it's a great social networking site full of friendly, helpful and knowledgeable users, staff and management. I say that honestly and from direct experience.
Besides Blogger and HubPages, the only other writing site that I frequent is Bubblews. Bubblews is a beautiful Internet experiment in which users make money for what they contribute; you are paid for every view, like, dislike, and comment your posts get. Payout is at $25 and I reached it within 2 weeks of joining the site and every week after that. It truly does pay off. There is great freedom there. You write what you want, it must be original, no porn, and posts must consist of at least 400 characters -- 400 characters is about 100-150 words. I write that much on a Facebook status message. That's how I originally treated Bubblews about a month and a half ago when I started writing there: Like a Facebook that pays. I'd write the equivalent of a status update or write about an article I read and supply a link.
Then I got more creative. I wrote stories, philosophized. I met friends, interacted, it's truly both a blogging site and a social networking site that pays. And it's fun, to say the least. I like the philosophy of founder and CEO Arvind Dixit too. He believes that users of a site deserve much because they are what make the site. He thinks it's sickening that so many sites profit from users but give users none of the profits. I agree.
I like all these sites. They offer freedom to say what you want and a means to do it. Out of all, I admit, I really like the overall freedom of Bubblews. I like HubPages for the format conducive to writing professional web articles. I like Blogger because I can get very creative with multiple blogs with easy-to-use templates and format. They all, each site, has something I really like.
I particularly like the fact that Bubblews pays. It's the fairest of them all.
Here are some posts I'm particularly proud of that I created on Bubblews:
A Night at the Club Bubblews
Money, Money, Money
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