Make Money Writing Articles: 37 Blogs That Pay Up To $300 For Your Guest Posts
Freelance
blogging is a great way to make money writing
online because there is immense demand for
awesome blog posts, always! But that doesn’t make it easy! The
problem is… finding high-paying
freelance writing jobs will take time and loads of efforts, especially if you’re a newbie.
In
fact, if you visit any of those freelance marketplaces or job sites,
you can see that it’s crowded with hundreds of thousands of
writers/bloggers. And if you don’t have an author profile or
pricing that is not attractive enough then your would be clients
can easily find a dozen of other writers.
Another problem is,
content agencies or clients on freelance sites do not pay much.
Even if you meet their criteria you may not earn more than $10-$15 per
500 words (unless you are a native English speaker).
Make Money Writing — As A Freelance Blogger
First
things first. Let me differentiate three terms: freelance blogger,
guest blogger, and content marketer. A freelance blogger is
someone who is paid for writing blog posts for his clients (can be
individuals or companies).
Guest blogger is someone who writes a
blog post and gets it published on another person’s website. He can be
paid for it or is usually done for free — in exchange for a credit, in
the form of a backlink at the end of his guest post.
Guest
blogging can be done for clients as well. It means that a client will
pay a guest blogger for writing about his business on another
website. And a content marketer is someone who writes content to
attract targeted traffic to his website.
For example, I’m not
a freelance blogger or a guest blogger as I haven’t written any guest
posts on another blog, yet. And I personally do not write for
clients either. But I can be called a content marketer as I’m
writing blog posts that is attracting targeted traffic.
I have already listed over
51 freelance writing gigs (plus
25 freelance writing tips) few
days back. And it was a comprehensive list of freelance marketplaces,
content agencies (I haven’t included any of them here), and other
websites that are hiring freelance bloggers and writers.
But like I
have already mentioned, the problem is… most of the websites that
are listed on that blog post are big media companies and their
acceptance rate and payment rate is on the low side. Also, a good
percentage of them accepts only native English writers.
So, if you
are a freelance writer who want to make money writing but is tired of
low-paying writing gigs, then here is a collection of websites that
are paying up to $300 (or sometimes more) for your articles
and blog posts. In other words, you get paid when you contribute
content to the following websites and blogs.
Note:
The idea of this entire blog post is to show you that there are a
ton of websites out there willing to pay hundreds of dollars for a
single blog post. Just don’t consider this blog post as your ultimate
destination for writing gigs. And you know what it takes to get there?
Be an expert in at least one topic! Now, go get paid to blog!
1. TopTenz
TopTenz
serves over 2.4 million pages per month to more than 1.6 million
satisfied visitors. We publish top 10 lists that inform and entertain,
focusing on topics that vary from the norm and touch on the bizarre.
- Alexa Rank: 22,580
- Topics: Bizarre, Lifestyle, Travel, Entertainment, Science, etc.
- Payment: $50
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
2. ListVerse
Listverse
serves over 30 million pages a month to more than eight million
readers. We publish lists that intrigue and educate, specializing in the
bizarre or lesser-known trivia. Every day we present three or more new,
unique lists.
- Alexa Rank: 3,674
- Topics: Entertainment, General Knowledge, Lifestyle, Science, Society, etc.
- Payment: $100
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
3. The Dollar Stretcher
The
Dollar Stretcher is a group of publications dedicated to “Living
Better…for Less”. The goal is to provide readers with ways to help them
save time and money.
- Alexa Rank: 97,537
- Topics: Money, Food, Home & Auto, Lifestyle, Family, etc.
- Payment: $0.10 per word or $50 per post, of 500 words.
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
4. Reverb Press
Reverb
Press is a news and lifestyle webzine which is the product of the
talent and dedication of a team of smart, savvy, talented writers,
artists, and technicians dedicated to the maxim Ad Extremum Vero, Semper
– The Truth Always Wins In The End.
- Alexa Rank: 36,148
- Topics: News, Politics, Justice, Business, World, Entertainment, etc.
- Payment: Unknown
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
Reverb
Press is different from other websites that are listed here as they
expect content from you on a regular basis. So, if your application is
accepted then you can consider it like a job and not as another writing
gig. You can write about topics that you are passionate about and
at the same time they may also give you optional assignments. The
pricing is not mentioned but it says you will be paid depending
upon your “output and audience engagement.”
5. The Everyday Windshield
The Everyday Windshield is an online magazine dedicated to the journey of life through faith, family, fashion, food, and fun.
- Alexa Rank: 1,259,36
- Topics: Faith, Family, Fashion, Food, Fun
- Payment: $10 for the 1st post, $25 for the 2nd-5th posts, and thereafter $50 per post
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
6. The Daily Heckle
The
Daily Heckle is a blog for bloggers who want to get paid for sharing
their opinions. Writers can earn money based on how popular their posts
are.
- Alexa Rank: 1,634,887
- Topics: News, Sports, Politics, Travel, TV, Music, Movies, etc.
- Payment: $7.5-$30
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
Note: The Everyday Windshield and The Daily Heckle are listed here as they are regularly publishing new blog posts.
7. CollegeHumor
CollegeHumor
Media delivers daily comedic content, including videos, pictures,
articles and jokes, created and/or curated by the CollegeHumor staff.
CollegeHumor Media attracts more than 15 million monthly uniques and
generates more than 100 million video views per month.
- Alexa Rank: 1,875
- Topics: Humor
- Payment: $25 per post plus bonus
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
8. WritersWeekly
WritersWeekly.com
is one of the oldest and most respected sites on freelance writing. It
has been published continuously since 1997.
- Alexa Rank: 240,429
- Topics: Freelance
- Payment: $60 per post, of 600 words
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
9. WOW! Women On Writing
WOW!
is a global magazine, designed to support women’s creativity, energy,
blood, sweat and tears, throughout all stages of the writing process.
- Alexa Rank: 461,290
- Topics: Writing
- Payment: $50-$150 per post
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
10. Funds For Writers
FundsforWriters
is an online resource for writers. We emphasize finding money to make
writing a realistic career. Of course, you’d write anyway. That’s the
way of a writer.
- Alexa Rank: 501,141
- Topics: Writing
- Payment: $50 per post
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
11. A List Apart
A
List Apart explores the design, development, and meaning of web
content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
- Alexa Rank: 8,707
- Topics: Web Design & Development
- Payment: $200
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
12. InstantShift
InstantShift
is a design and inspiration related community for web designers
and developers daily resource, inspiration and premium web design and
development.
- Alexa Rank: 13,841
- Topics: Web Design & Development
- Payment: Depends upon quality and word count.
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
13. Smashing Magazine
Smashing
Magazine is an online magazine for professional Web designers and
developers, with a focus on useful techniques, best practices and
valuable resources.
- Alexa Rank: 2,032
- Topics: Web Design & Development
- Payment: Depends upon quality and word count.
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
14. SitePoint
SitePoint provides cutting-edge content for web professionals — developers, designers, programmers, freelancers and site owners.
- Alexa Rank: 1,248
- Topics: Web Design & Development
- Payment: Unknown
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
15. SpyreStudios
SpyreStudios is an online magazine about web-design & development and the myriads of other topics that fall in between.
- Alexa Rank: 35,424
- Topics: Web Design & Development
- Payment: Unknown
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
16. Photoshop Tutorials
Photoshop
tutorials for beginners to experts. Learn tips and tricks on how to use
Photoshop for photo editing, manipulations, designs, and more.
- Alexa Rank: 43,636
- Topics: Design
- Payment: $25-$300
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
17. UX Booth
UX
Booth is a publication by and for the user experience community. Our
readership consists mostly of beginning-to-intermediate user experience
and interaction designers, but anyone interested in making the web a
better place to be is welcome.
- Alexa Rank: 35,436
- Topics: UX, Design
- Payment: Unknown
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
18. Crazyleaf Design
Crazyleaf
Design is a web design, illustration, and programming company. We build
functional, standards-compliant and aesthetically rich unique web
sites.
- Alexa Rank: 90,714
- Topics: Design
- Payment: Unknown
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
19. AppStorm
AppStorm
brings you not just reviews of great (and not so great) apps, but we
also round them up into categorized lists, give you how-to tips and
tricks to get more out of them, and combine it with a healthy dose of
related news.
- Alexa Rank: 11,891
- Topics: Apps (Mac, Windows, Web, iPhone, iPad, Android)
- Payment: $60 per post
- Quick: Homepage
AppStorm is an app review network and it’s composed of
Mac AppStorm,
Web AppStorm,
iPhone AppStorm,
iPad AppStorm,
Android AppStorm, and
Windows AppStorm. You can contribute to any of those websites and get paid for it.
20. Techopedia
From
defining the latest tech buzzword to exploring enterprise-level
decisions, Techopedia aims to help you understand technology.
- Alexa Rank: 20,342
- Topics: Tech
- Payment: Unknown
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
21. WorldStart
WorldStart
is looking for tips for our e-mail newsletter, WorldStart’s
Computer Tips. This is published daily to 300,000 readers and focuses on
tips and tricks the average computer user can utilize. We are also
seeking feature articles for our website covering any and all aspects of
computing.
- Alexa Rank: 69,214
- Topics: Tech
- Payment: $25-$50 per post
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
22. Make Tech Easier
Make
Tech Easier focuses on computer tutorials, how-to, hacks and fixes. Our
motto is to “Uncomplicating the complicated, making life easier”.
- Alexa Rank: 10,478
- Topics: Tech
- Payment: Unknown
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
23. Wise Bread
Wise
Bread is a community of bloggers here to help you live large on a small
budget. Despite what you may have heard, you don’t have to sacrifice
your financial independence to enjoy life.
- Alexa Rank: 17,441
- Topics: Personal Finance
- Payment: Unknown
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
24. International Living
International Living have been helping people discover the world’s best places to live, travel and retire since 1979.
- Alexa Rank: 31,196
- Topics: Entrepreneurship, Retired Overseas, Travel & Adventure, Short Blurbs
- Payment: $75 per post
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
25. Matador
Matador is the world’s largest independent travel publisher, with over 12 million unique monthly visitors.
- Alexa Rank: 5,278
- Topics: Travel
- Payment: $20-$25 per post
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
26. GloHoliday
GloHoliday
is a travel articles site that provides complete resources for
traveling all over the world, including holiday destinations, festivals,
public holidays, hotel booking, flight information and travel tips
attracting thousands of monthly visitors.
- Alexa Rank: 228,735
- Topics: Travel
- Payment: $40 per post + $3 per image
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
Note: When
GloHoliday contacted me to include their website on the previous
version of this list, I forwarded their website to my sister without
notifying them and she contributed one article. And yes, she got paid!
27. BootsnAll
BootsnAll provides inspiration and resources to get you on the road.
- Alexa Rank: 47,836
- Topics: Travel
- Payment: $30-$50 per post
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
28. Viator Travel Blog
At
Viator we believe that travel has the power to make the world a better
place. This is our place on the web to share our passion and inspire all
of us to make that next trip.
- Alexa Rank: 47,836
- Topics: Travel
- Payment: $40-$150 per post, depends upon word count.
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
29. TheExpeditioner
TheExpeditioner
is a travel site for the avid traveler featuring travel articles from
some of the best travel writers in the world, as well as travel news,
commentary, insight and video from a premiere team of bloggers from
around the globe.
- Alexa Rank: 127,005
- Topics: Travel
- Payment: $30 per post
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
30. Wand’rly Magazine
Wand’rly is an online magazine for full-time travelers.
- Alexa Rank: 756,621
- Topics: Travel
- Payment: $0.05 per word for articles,and $10 per photo for galleries
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
31. Scary Mommy
A parenting website for imperfect parents.
- Alexa Rank: 9,084
- Topics: Parenting
- Payment: Up to $100 per post
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
32. MetroParent
MetroParent
is an online parenting community offering expert advice, stories on
parenting trends and issues, and numerous ways for parents to enrich
their experience raising the next generation.
- Alexa Rank: 206,889
- Topics: Parenting
- Payment: Up to $350 per post
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
33. Alaska Parent
Alaska
Parent is a free, full-color family and parenting magazine, published 4
times per year. As Alaska’s exclusive, all-in-one parenting resource,
our readers include parents with children ages newborn through teens, as
well as expectant moms.
- Alexa Rank: 1,781,147
- Topics: Parenting
- Payment: $40-$200 per post
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
34. WorkingMother
WorkingMother
is the digital hub of career-focused and entrepreneur moms, including
best companies to work for, tips and features focused on work and home.
- Alexa Rank: 52,971
- Topics: Parenting
- Payment: Unknown
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
35. Vela Magazine
Vela has taken steps to help close the byline gender gap by publishing exceptional nonfiction written by women.
- Alexa Rank: 682,123
- Topics: Women
- Payment: Unknown
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
36. The Sun Magazine
The
Sun is an independent, ad-free monthly magazine that for more than
thirty years has used words and photographs to invoke the splendor and
heartache of being human.
- Alexa Rank: 236,324
- Topics: Essays, Short Stories, Interviews, Poetry, etc.
- Payment: $300-$2,500
for non-fiction; $300-$1,500 for fiction; $100-$250 for
poetry; from $1,000-$2,000 for interviews
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
37. Grasslimb
Grasslimb
is a twice-yearly literary journal featuring prose, poetry and artwork.
Just the thing to read while you’re having a nice cup of coffee or tea!
- Alexa Rank: 3,458,789
- Topics: Poetry, Prose, Cartoons, Book & Music Reviews
- Payment: $5-$20 for poetry; $10-$70 for prose; $15-25 for book & music reviews; $15-$25 for cartoon
- Quick: Homepage | Apply
Finding More Freelance Blogging Gigs
Wondering
how to find more freelance blogging gigs? Okay, before that let me give
you a word of caution about the above mentioned blogs, websites, and
magazines. There is every possibility that ALL the above mentioned
websites are already getting a ton of guest post requests. Why? Because
they are inviting everyone. So, be first or be smarter.
Becoming
first is obviously going to be difficult. But you can definitely become
smarter. Anyways, if you want to become one of the first to apply
for a writing gig then try the following blogging job boards:
Again,
all these job boards are also flooded with pitches by freelance
bloggers. In fact, ProBlogger gets 100+ applicants in just few days. So,
make sure that you are doing it the right way or you won’t even get a
response for your pitch/application.
Want Even More? Google Search!
That’s
right! You can easily find new writing gigs with few Google
searches. You only have to filter the search results with some
advanced operators and I will show you how.
Just in case if you
haven’t noticed, most of the above websites uses a page called “Write
for Us” to invite blog posts from their readers and guest authors. So,
it means that you can easily find such sites by doing an
advanced Google search.
Here’s a sample query:

Google Search: How To Find Freelance Blogging Gigs
The
above Google search query finds web pages whose title has the phrase
“Write for Us” in it. Only the above highlighted fields are essential.
You can also do this query directly on Google search by using the search
operator: allintitle.
Here are few sample search queries that you can Google directly on Google.com.
- allintitle: write for us
- allintitle: “write for us”
- allintitle: write for us and get paid
Also,
you can even find freelance/guest blogging opportunities from your
country or can further narrow your search results by using
additional filters.
Here’s another sample query that narrowed the search results even further:

Google Advanced Search: How To Find Freelance Blogging Gigs
You
can then go through the search results and pitch relevant blogs by
using the criteria that I have set to come up with the above list.
13 Things To Remember Before You Even Think of Applying:
- Do
not apply to each and every website that is listed here. Your
applications are reviewed by real people, so apply only if it’s
relevant, and do respect their time.
- You dont have to be a
native English speaker to contribute a blog post to any of the above
blogs. But you must be passionate about the topic and must possess
outstanding writing skills (especially if you are pitching a high
authority blog).
- You can show your skills by including a link to
a sample blog post that you have written. Just make sure that it’s
related to the theme of the blog that you are pitching.
- An active blog and an active social media presence (especially Twitter and LinkedIn) is always appreciated.
- You can also make a real connection with one of the authors or editors of the blog (via email or social media) in a genuine way so that you can eventually pitch them in a friendly way.
- None
of the above websites are for beginners — that is, for those who have
never written a blog post before. If you are new to freelance
writing then check out The Freelance Writer’s Handbook.
- It
may take several days (if not weeks) to get your articles
published on a top blog as most of them are flooded with queries and
requests. If you didn’t get a reply, say in a week or even in a month,
then it probably means that they are either not interested or you didn’t
match their expectations (it’s okay to follow-up but at least wait a
week or two).
- Finally, do not send the exact pitch to
all websites (even if they are in the same industry). Instead,
send a custom one to each website and make it short and simple.
Over 51 Freelance Writing Gigs — For Anyone & Everyone
Conclusion
While
I have tried my best to maintain accuracy of this blog post by
reviewing each website personally before adding it to the list, I’d
expect you to check the “
Guidelines” for successfully pitching these blogs.
Additionally,
do a research from your side as well to get some idea about
the editorial philosophy of the website that you are pitching. And
you can use their site search to see if the topic that you are pitching
is already covered or not. If there’s already similar topic then most
probably your article will be rejected.
If you know any other
reliable blog that’s paying freelance/guest bloggers for
contributing content or is facing a problem with any of the above
mentioned website — whether it’s slow response time or low acceptance
rate — then do share your experience as a comment below. I only
want the best of the best to remain in this list.
Happy Freelancing! :)
P.S.: I
considered the Alexa traffic rank, blogging frequency, social
media activity, and the overall user experience as a criteria for
curating this list. And I also made sure that the “Write for Us”
page of the above websites is reachable from its homepage. The
descriptions may contain excerpts from the original web page.