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URL: www.brighthub.com

Industry: Online Publishing

What they are looking for: Non-Fiction

Pay: Flat Fee and Pay-Per-Click

Alexa rating: 4,858

Bright Hub is one of my favourite writing sites. It is also a very demanding site to work for. They pay a flat $10 fee per article. They also pay 80% of the advertising revenue, although Bright Hub holds this money for 60 days. Bright Hub only deals in the subjects of science, technology, education and business. Each subject, which Bright Hub calls a channel, has its own editor and its own rules. You must apply to write for each channel individually.

Submitting to Bright Hub

Before being allowed to submit articles to Bright Hub, you must first apply by choosing your writing channels of interest, to a maximum of three. You must also supply a writing sample. Once accepted, each channel has its own rules such as how long an article must be or how many words are needed before a page break, among other things. Once accepted to a channel, I would highly recommend, as a new contributor, that you read a number of newer articles. This will give you a decent idea of what being a part of that channel entails.

Apart from writing your article, you must also write a teaser, a description and fill out a search engine optimization page. This can take a fair amount of extra time but is well worth it.

Cool Bright Hub Features

Here are a few reasons why I like Bright Hub so much:

• Bright Hub pays a flat fee and pays a revenue share. I like that writers make money upfront and continue to earn via their revenue share program.

• Bright Hub also has a vast amount of community support. Each channel has its own community group area. Bright Hub has also just launched the Bright Hub University, a new article database about making the most out of writing for the site.

• The Bright Hub managing editors can be very helpful. It’s nice to have editors who have names and contact information, which doesn’t always happen when writing for the web.