Recently done a Google search on a health or science topic? Then you’ve probably come across wiseGEEK, a Wikipedia-esque website that provides easy-to-understand, practical information on numerous topics, including health conditions and common biology topics. Like Wikipedia, all of wiseGEEK’s content is user-generated–the exception here being you get paid to do it.

LovetoKnow is the latest online publishing platform to hit the Internet. They also pay their writers more than Demand Studios, Associated Content or Break Studios. Taking control of a LovetoKnow topic, writers can write 20 articles per month and easily collect decent part-time income without having to look for new clients. So what’s the catch?

In case you haven’t heard, AOL recently launched its own online publishing platform in late 2009, called SEED.com. The setup will be familiar to some writers: like Demand Studios, you can search for titles, claim them, and submit it through their online submission form. Unlike Demand Studios, however, SEED demands good, journalistic writing, and rejects here are high–if you’re not willing to adapt to its ‘writing style’, that is.
Review of SEED.com: What to Expect
SEED.com is an online publishing platform that allows any writer to claim a title, write …

Ah, the ever reliable auto-post.  Long gone are the days when you had to manually copy your article’s URL, convert it into a tinyURL and then post it into your Twitter status update.  Associated Content now allows you to link your Twitter or Facebook account (or if you’re feeling eager, both) to your Associated Content profile, which automatically updates the Twitter or Facebook feed when a new article is published.
This is how the auto-post will appear on your Twitter or Facebook feed:

And here’s how to set up Associated Content’s autoposting …

The first edition of “The Write Career” introduces Vonda Sines, a two year writing veteran who previously worked in the federal service.  Her retirement—and interest in Kentucky Derby sensation Barbaro—inspired her to start her online freelance writing career.
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Freelance writing was not Vonda Sines’ first priority.  ”Although I was formally trained to write, it always ended up way down the to-do list because of full-time job commitments,” says Sines. “Now it pays the electric and gas bills.”
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Sines began her online writing career on the website AssociatedContent.com, inspired by the story of …

About.com (about.com) is a content website featuring thousands of articles on nearly any topic, ranging from serious topics such as sexuality to the less serious, such as online freebies. Each writer provides content about his or her topic, much like Examiner.com—the big difference here is a higher quality standard and substantially better pay. They are currently ranked as one of the top 15 content websites on the Internet, making it a great place to gain some Internet recognition and great money.

If you know how to SEO, have a handful of good “web-friendly” articles, and have some expertise in some topic, there’s another website where you can speak your mind and get paid for it.  Examiner.com is a UGC website that runs solely on the submissions provided by “examiners”, writers with experience writing good web copy and expertise in a certain category.  Each examiner is assigned to a city and provides information about topics relevant to their expertise area (i.e.; a Minneapolis Travel Examiner would provide information about parks, restaurants, and …

DailyArticle.com allows writers to sell their articles for a set price, like Constant-Content, and wait for it to be bought by a customer.  Once bought, the writer receives a portion of the sale price (the going rate is currently 80%).
In many ways DailyArticle.com is the less sophisticated cousin of Constant-Content because their quality standards are much lower, which can be advantageous to inexperienced writers who do not currently meet Constant-Content’s standards.
DailyArticle.com: How it Works
To submit an article, writers access their writer’s panel, where they can upload a text file of …

eHow is a UGC website where anyone can publish articles about how to do something (hence the name eHow).  Each article lists a step-by-step process, materials needed to complete the objective, and additional information.  eHow is an extremely popular website with novice writers because they are not bound by strict writing criteria.
eHow writers earn money when a person clicks on an advertisement in their article, earning them a handful of cents with each successful click.  The biggest advantage is that you don’t need to gain thousands of page views to …

Factoidz is a UGC website that pays writers based on how many page views they accumulate, similar in structure to Mahalo.  They pay between $1.00 to $5.00 per 1000 page views for each article.
The pay rate for each article is determined by their editorial staff, and they shell out bigger payments for well researched content.
Factoidz is a fairly new website, and it’s hard to say how popular this website will become.  Writers who have used Factoidz say they are making decent money, and I really think it’s worth at least …