Writing for Examiner is a Great Way to Make Money Online

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Guest post written by Eric Abent, Lansing, Michigan’s Video Game Examiner 

Making money online can be a daunting task. There are plenty of people and fraudulent businesses out there ready to scam you out of both your writing and your time. Luckily for us, there are a number of legitimate websites out there that are looking for quality content, and some of them like examiner.com make it relatively easy to make some passive income online. 

Examiner.com is a website that hosts hundreds of blogs and pays people to write for them. I write for Examiner, and after trying to make money online for a number of months, it has quickly become one of my favorite sites to “work” for. That is primarily because Examiner’s pay scale is a very attractive one. 

Your income from Examiner is based on a number of variables, including how much unique traffic you generate, how long readers spend reading your blog posts, and how many comments and subscribers you manage you to get. But the earnings don’t stop at just traffic-based pay – for every blog post you write that is locally relevant, you get paid one dollar up front, and you can earn this “local incentive,” up to five times a week. Recently, Examiner has updated its local incentive program, offering advertisers a chance to sponsor bloggers, and giving sponsored bloggers two dollars for every locally relevant post they make. 

Now, all things considered, that’s a lot of variables potentially generating some nice passive income for you. However, perhaps the best part about examiner.com is their referral system. Forget earning a percentage of your referrals earnings; these pay schemes are interesting, but most of them only work well for someone who can manage to refer thousands of people. Instead of applying this type of referral program, Examiner pays you a flat rate of $50 for every person you send their way. 

Think about it: if you were able to refer twenty people a month, that would equate to $1000 in monthly referral bonuses, on top of your traffic-based pay and local incentive earnings. Below I have posted a picture of my first payment from Examiner – the $72.83 I made in February is from one referral and about 10 blog posts. Nearly $73 isn’t a bad paycheck for about four hours of my time (spread out over an entire month, of course). This means that the amount of work I had to do for this money is negligible, especially when you consider that the work I was doing was writing about something I love. 

Basically, your earnings are only limited by how much you can write and how many people you can refer. The woman who referred me to examiner.com had managed to make over 12,000 dollars in the four months her blog had been active (which is legitimate – she had photographs of her payments to accompany this particular blog post). 

In addition to their great pay scale, examiner.com makes posting to your blog almost too simple. Their text editor is one of the best I’ve used – you can insert a photo, video or slideshow into your post with a few clicks of your mouse, they have an in-editor spell checker and they give you the option to link the post you’re writing to up to five of your other posts. Once you’ve posted your article to your blog, they give you buttons to link it to both your facebook and twitter account, something that can produce a lot of page hits in a short amount of time. 

Examiner.com is a great way to make money online. One of the most appealing things about the website is the sheer number of blogs they have available. Some people have some really obscure or specific interests, but examiner.com probably has you covered. For instance, they have a blog opening for pretty much every breed of dog under the sun, along with an opening for every religion you could ever imagine existed (and probably a few that’ll be new to you). As someone who has spent an absurd amount of time writing articles for various content mills and filling out a ridiculous amount of online surveys, I cannot recommend examiner.com highly enough. 

If you’d like to apply to be an examiner, you can check out the blogs available for your city and apply here. Just be sure to tell them that Eric Abent referred you!

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