Make Money Online Writing Articles for wiseGEEK
Although I was a “geek” in high school – I wasn’t very wise. This fact won’t stop me from telling you how you can make money online as a freelance writer for wiseGEEK. WiseGEEK offers upfront pay to it’s freelance writers and a multitude of articles to choose from. Many of these articles are very technical and would require some intimate knowledge of a given subject. Without this knowledge, you’ll have to do a good amount of research to complete a wiseGEEK article. This is part of the reason that I do not write for wiseGEEK, since I have about the same amount of technical knowledge as Jessica Simpson.
There are usually a few hundred articles available on wiseGEEK for writers to claim and these titles can come from a wide variety of topics. Some of the topic categories included on wiseGEEK are Technology and Gadgets, Adult Education and Training, Health and Wellness, Internet and Computers, Financing and Investing, Attorneys and the Law, Medicine and Treatments, Science and Engineering and many more. You may have also seen one of wiseGEEK’s articles “What are Truffles” in the recent Google Superbowl commercial. At the very least, this shows that wiseGEEK’s articles are coming up high in the search engine rankings.Â
WiseGEEK just doesn’t hire any freelance writer – their editors are pretty strict when it comes to approving submitted content. In fact, each wiseGEEK writer is assigned their own editor to work with directly. This means you will get personal attention from your editor as well as quality feedback. Writers get paid between $10 and $14 per article depending on the topic, any article that you accept will be premarked with the payment amount. Payments are made via PayPal.
The best part about writing for wiseGEEK is the fact that you do not have to wait until the end of the month to receive payment for your articles. Once you have submitted a batch of five or more articles – you will usually receive a payment within 2-3 days. If you take some time to read the writer testimonials on wiseGEEK’s website, you will see that there are many satisfied writers who truly enjoy creating content for wiseGEEK.
This is one stipulation you will have to consider if you want to write for wiseGEEK – you will be expected to submit at least five articles per week or twenty articles per month. In other words, wiseGEEK wants it’s writers to continually be creating articles on a weekly basis. If you don’t have the time to create five quality articles per week, chances are that wiseGEEK is not for you. But if you can write the expected twenty articles per month you will be looking at about $240 per month in supplemental income. (20 articles x $12 per average article = $240) This extra income would make many people’s car payments for sure!
If you currently are a writer for wiseGEEK, we would love to hear about your experiences and earnings. Feel free to let us know by commenting below.Â
You can apply to become a wiseGEEK’s writer by clicking here: wiseGEEK
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Michael-John Wolfe
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Wisegeek will turn on you quicker than mayonnaise in the sun. Here’s my story: I started writing for them in September of 2009. They loved me. In fact, they upped my number of titles to lock limit from 10 to 20 because I was producing so many articles for them, NONE of which were returned after the first three weeks of me fine tuning my style for them. From October 2009 through June 3, 2010, I wrote over 600 articles for them. From January 2010 through May 15, 2010, all of those articles received high ratings of 8 and got consistent comments from my editor, Jenn, like, “Great work!” and “Good job!”. THEN, Jenn’s boss Catherine stepped in and ripped apart seven of my last 10 submissions citing copied content, poor flow, bad choice of words—you name it, I was accused of it.
When I questioned how I could be so good at the job for so long and then be so bad, I was informed that perhaps Jenn had become too “relaxed” in editing and that, combined with my sudden and inexplicable lack of writing skills, had made my writing unacceptable.
I felt that explanation was pretty lame but, alas, I was fired this morning. Therefore, I am warning everyone: Don’t trust these people. And, as has been mentioned in other posts, they expect their writers to treat the readers like they have the education and mental capacity of a third grader. I was chided for using the word “concurrent” instead of “while” with the former being called “too formal.” WHAT???!! Another instance of idiocy was when I wrote an article about the Delmonico steak and was told to edit the line, “….named after Delmonico’s, the New York restaurant where it was first served,” because Delmonico’s was “non-unique” content. I had to change it to something like, “….named after a man whose surname was Delmonico who had a restaurant that he decided to name after himself.”
The titles at Wisegeek are very weird as well: What are trousers? How do I get a PhD in psychology? How do I deal with a drama queen? How do I cure food poisoning? Not only is the first question just stupid, the second is self-explanatory (and it was repeated ad nauseum for every BA degree available), the third is sophomoric and the fourth is ignorant because there is no “cure” for food poisoning.
Anyway, that’s my opinion of Wisegeek. I’m crushed because I really enjoyed researching and writing on a range of topics.
I have only been writing for wiseGEEK for a couple months now, but so far I am really enjoying it. At first it took a long time to research and write a well-written article, but I am getting faster and can turn out a decent article between 1-2 hours. I am sure as I continue that time will decrease.
I write between 5 and 10 articles per week for wiseGEEK and spend the rest of the time writing for Suite 101. It’s not a bad way to make money for a stay-at-home mom.
There are a wide range of topics to write about and some are pretty lame, as the last commenter said, but there are always around 500 topics in the database. That means I never have a hard time finding something I either know something about already or would like to learn about.
This has been a great experience so far and I feel my writing has improved since I started with them.