Freelance Writers
Get Ready for Lifetime Profit Sharing
Your Earnings Never End Once You Have Articles In The System*
Launch Special:
100 Bonus Profit Shares to the First 200 People With An Approved Article
That’s The Same as Writing 100 Articles, But You Need Only One Approved Article For This Bonus
In the online world of freelance writing, you typically risk wasting your time by writing an article that does not get traffic or no one decides to purchase. Some sites have even REMOVED articles that writers worked hard to make, thereby CUTTING OFF their lifetime profits. Places like Yahoo Contributor Network have even stopped accepting certain articles for bizarre, random reasons. Demand Studios pays great, but they have almost stopped adding articles now for most categories. These problems will NEVER occur with Writing Shares. In short, this program eliminates the fear of writing articles and then not getting paid for your hard work. We also allow you to write articles on news and entertainment, so the available topics for articles will never end. At Writing Shares, YOU are the MVP (not the company), and we are going to pay you what you’re worth for life.
Just do what you know you’re good at - writing informative and entertaining content - and you will get paid for it for life. We know what counts here - content and keywords - and we won’t bother you with our petty style preferences for articles. You have almost FULL CREATIVE FREEDOM to write in any style you want - any format and any content as long as it’s useful, truthful and not plagiarized.
Profit Shares Are For U.S. Residents
Other Benefits Still Available to International Writers
Profit shares are for U.S. residents only, but international writers and marketers may still write SEO articles (exclusive articles only; and no article spinning or other deceptive tricks) and include a bio with links to their website address, Facebook (if you have a fan page link) or Twitter.
Simply put, you are welcome to add content for backlinks as an international writer, but you must be providing the same high-quality SEO articles as everyone else.
Note that writers will have to send in a postcard or letter postmarked in the United States or answer a call at a US-based telephone to establish residency before getting paid.
How This Works
This is very simple. When you write an article per our instructions (we are very lenient as long as you give us good, useful content in your articles), you earn one share in the lifetime profit pool. You don’t have to worry about writing an article that gets no traffic or AdSense clicks or whatever. You don’t have to track the number of visits because you are NOT paid on visits to your articles.
Simply put, you get a share for every article you complete whether or not it gets traffic and whether or not it earns revenue from the search engines or other sources. The sky is the limit on what you can earn.
Example: One article I wrote for HubPages got 8000 visitors overnight. You can see almost 200 comments on that Kevin Skinner (winner of America’s Got Talent) article here. On the other hand, some articles I have written have still gotten ZERO traffic. In the world of SEO, you will have some duds like this that don’t perform. It’s not even your fault. That’s just the nature of the SEO business.
You get one profit share per article whether that article gets 1 or 1 million visitors. You can claim actual titles provided by us or choose your own topics if they have keyword searches in the search engines. Want more money? Then write more articles. Need to take a break or go on vacation for a while? No sweat. There are millions of articles to be written, so just write more when you have time.
You can also make extra money on every article by linking to your website, Facebook or Twitter. Consider the profit sharing here as a bonus for giving us high-quality SEO articles. Of course, whatever extra you make from your own website or social networking accounts is yours. We don’t see a dime of that.
Here are some ways to earn more than one profit share per article:
1. Recommended Titles: Five Profit Shares Per Article
I have a section on the blog that is dedicated solely to recommending titles. If you claim a title and write an article on that title within one week, then you will earn FIVE profit shares for that article. To claim a title, go to the “Recommended Titles” page and track the different links to pages with recommended titles. You can also see a link to the “Recommended Titles” page in the menu on every page of this website. While you are logged in, post a comment to claim a title. You must be the first to post a comment claiming that topic. The WordPress comments system will decide who posted first.
Follow the email list (subscribe in the right-hand sidebar opt-in form) to find out when I am going to post new recommended titles.
2. Special Niches Program: 10 Profit Shares Per Article
We are starting a “Special Niches” program that will allow you to earn 10 shares per article instead of one. View the “Special Niches” page in the menu at the top of each page to find out how to qualify for this program and potentially skyrocket your profits. This is for our most loyal and reliable writers who show the ability to submit articles within the rules and possess at least average article-writing abilities. You will have to get 30 articles accepted to apply to this program.
Worldwide Statistics
You can see every member’s statistics at all times (no real names, though) on this global stats page. It is updated manually, so you may see some lag time. Bookmark and refer to this page for your profit shares, total articles accepted, etc. For obvious reasons, we will not share personal details of our members.
Let’s Start Making Some Money
On the right side of this page, you will see a subscription form. Join the mailing list to get application instructions. Click the confirmation link in the first email to get your application instructions.
Profit-Sharing Qualifications
1. To make it fairer for active members of Writing Shares, we require you to write at least 30 articles within the first 90 days to qualify for lifetime profit sharing. This is necessary to prevent large numbers of people from writing one or two articles and then disappearing from the site. Do NOT think that this rule exists to screw anyone out of their profit shares. We WANT to pay you for life so you will be happy writing more articles for us and getting paid more money. But we need to set a minimum over a short period of time to keep lazy members from procrastinating. If you are not lazy, you don’t have to worry about this.
You have a full 90 days from the publication date of your first article to complete 29 more articles. This is necessary to make sure the profit sharing is fair for those serious about being a team player. We accept virtually ANY decent article that follows the writing rules, so this is the least we and the active members can expect from you.
2. You must also “Like” and “Tweet” your own articles. This is very simple to do. Just click on the links in the Wibiya toolbar at the bottom of your article pages. Click on the Facebook or Twitter links below for a startup kit if you have not opened an account on either one of these social networking sites. These are optional.
3. After you qualify, you must write at least one article in a month to qualify for your profit sharing for that month. This is also necessary to avoid the situation of someone trying to qualify and then completely disappearing from the site. You will NOT LOSE your profit shares once you earn them by writing at least 30 articles in that first 90 days. But you simply forfeit your earnings in any month where you do not submit even one article. This is the least that our active members have a right to demand if you want to earn a share in the profits in a given month.
4. You will not be paid unless you provide a PayPal account, and the ability to withdraw your funds is between you and PayPal. Writing Shares has nothing to do with PayPal policies.
Avoid excessive spelling and grammatical errors. Your articles don’t have to be spot-on perfect, but they must meet a general level of professionalism and competency. In extreme cases of incompetence, we reserve the right to suspend your article submissions. However, you will NEVER lose the shares you have already earned in the program.
Now, some of you may be moaning that you have to write 30 articles just to start getting paid. This is not a pyramid scheme, folks. It is going to take a little work to share in the profits. If we paid everyone starting with the first article, everyone would probably earn a few cents a month. No one would be happy with that. You need to work a little with your fellow writers to show that you are a team player. In return, you will make more money once you do qualify. I have personally written 18 articles in one day before. It is not that much work if you just sit down and do it.
Good News for Existing Writers
If you already have articles out there on the Internet, you may not use those exact articles. All articles submitted here must be exclusive and not used anywhere else. However, you may reword your own existing articles (you must reword both the title and the article text) and submit them here for publication and a lifetime share IF they otherwise follow the Writing Rules. You must also include references where appropriate. For example, if you are talking about specifics of an MBA degree program taken from the university’s own website, you need to provide a link to the web page where you found that information. Remember that you need to provide good, factual content. So it is perfectly appropriate to rely on other sources to make a good SEO article. But just don’t ever copy from a source word for word.
Writing Rules
I really don’t have most of the ridiculous, arbitrary rules imposed by other sites. But especially after Google Panda, some things are mandatory. In the menu near the top of every page, you will see a “Writing Rules” link. Get familiar with these fairly liberal rules before writing and submitting articles. You may be suspended or terminated for persistently submitting articles that violate the rules.
Getting Started
Subscribe in the box on the right-hand side of this page. Go to your email and confirm your subscription, as we do only legitimate permission-based email. This means you need to confirm your subscription through a link in the confirmation email you receive.
When you confirm your email, you will then receive instructions for how to apply in your welcome email. Save that email. Do NOT delete it. We recommend Gmail as a reliable free email service. However, you still may have to check your “Spam” folder. Although we are not spammers, Gmail has some false positives and will sometimes send the email to that folder.
For legal reasons, note that this is a commercial email list with followup emails. This notice is required by the CAN SPAM Act of 2003. You may receive some commercial offers but are not required to purchase anything.
*Continued participation is dependent on your following the rules, and you must also write at least one accepted article in a month to qualify for cash in that particular month. If you break the rules, you will be warned. If you persist in breaking the same rule multiple times, we reserve the right to terminate you from the program. If terminated, you lose all profit shares plus any cash profits that would have been derived from those shares. This will not happen as long as you follow our simple rules.