Online Sites I Have Written for and What I Think About Them

I am an online writer. I write full-time, and my writing helps pay my bills. Over the years, I have found online sites that I love. I used to write for Examiner.com, but it went out of business to many examiners' regret. I had written thousands of articles there in dozens of categories.

Since then, I have always had at least two sites to write for in case something like that happens again. Each one has advantages and disadvantages. In case you are looking for a site to write for, perhaps information found here will help you to decide to write or not write for any one of the websites I write for.

Needless to say, these are my personal choices, and they are not to convince you or to sway you in any direction.

Writing for each site is like going to the dealer to pick out a car. You will find something you like about all of them. However, there might be one thing you also don't like about each one. Since you cannot purchase all the cars on the lot, you choose the one with the most perks that you like even though it doesn't have all the features that you like. Such is the case with online writing sites.

I will start with HubPages since I have been writing on this site the longest, and this article is on its site. However, I will give the same time and space to the other site.

I began writing for HubPages in on March 4, 2011. I wrote evergreen articles then that I am still getting paid for eight years later. The articles do not expire after 30 days like those on Blasting News.

When I began writing for Examiner, I did not write much for HubPages. I am glad I did not deactivate my account because after Examiner folded in 2015, I started writing more for HubPages. The beauty of that is I updated old articles that made the search engine treat them as new ones. Something as simple as changing a word in the title will cause the article to be updated.

HubPages is the one site where I can go back and change something after it has been published. With Blasting News and Vocal, I cannot change something after it has been published.

Based on the title of this website, you can tell that it covers news and what is trending from day to day. A blaster can write on any subject that is trending. The one thing I don't like about Blasting News is that a writer will get paid for his/her articles for only 30 days.

Even though the articles continue to accumulate views for the site after that time, the writer will not get paid for them. The site continues to earn money but not the writer. I have had articles pick up stream after the 30th day, but I received nothing. It doesn't seem fair, but that's the way Blasting News works.

Vocal is the new kid on the block. I love it very much mainly because the entire process is quick and extremely easy.

Like Blasting News, I can't change anything once it is published. Also, there is no word counter on the site. I have to copy and paste my article into a separate word counter app to see if I have the minimum requirement of 600 words.

I love that there are at least two dozens communities you can write for. Besides, you can write in the first person. I consider Vocal being similar to a glorified blog. I usually write general information at first, and in order to get my 600 words, I can write personal information without having to document it.

My very first article was personal all the way through: "Reasons I Am a Writer."

I believe the best way to compare and contrast the three sites is to show in a chart how each one of them works. I no longer write for Blasting News.

No matter how easy an article is to write, and no matter how good it turns out to be, unless it is promoted well, you will not see any profits.

Promote your articles on social media and among family and friends. The more you promote, the more your articles will get read. The more your articles get read, the more money you will make.