The Online Paycheck: Helping writers & photographers make money online.

Details: URL: www.bukisa.com Industry: Online Publishing What they are looking for: Non-fiction, Video and Audio Pay: Pay-Per-Click Alexa rating: 5,036 Bukisa is a pay-per-click website. One of the nice things about Bukisa, is that they tell you their going rate per thousand views right on the main page. Bukisa will publish how-to content on almost [...]

Details: URL: www.istock.com Industry: Microstock Agency What they are looking for: Royalty Free Stock Photos, Royalty Free Illustrations, and Royalty Free Footage, Royalty Free Audio Pay: Commission Alexa Rating: 370 iStock is the microstock industry leader. Some people make a living by only selling photographs on iStock. iStock also offer a large range of products, [...]

Well, it’s time to give you guys some numbers. They will be pretty skewed this month for a number of reasons. I spent a lot of time designing and researching for this blog instead of writing. Since I still have bills to pay, I am still also desperately looking for a regular day job. Much [...]

Details: 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, [...]

Details: URL: www.fotolia.com Industry: Microstock Agency What are they looking for: Royalty Free Stock Photos, Royalty Free Illustrations, and Royalty Free Footage Pay: Commission Alexa rating: 787 Fotolia is one of the big six microstock companies. They sell a huge amount of content. Fotolia has some pretty serious issues in my opinion. They have multiple [...]

Details: URL: http://submit.shutterstock.com Industry: Microstock Agency What are they looking for: Royalty Free Stock Photos, Editorial Stock Photos, Royalty Free Illustrations and Royalty Free Video Footage Pay: Commission Alexa rating: 1,306 Shutterstock is one of the top microstock websites you can submit to. The majority of the money that you’ll make with Shutterstock is by [...]

Details: URL: www.xomba.com Industry: Online Publishing What they are looking for: Non-fiction, Fiction, and Poetry Pay: Pay-Per-Click Alexa rating: 2,418 Xomba is a pay-per-click website. Unlike sites like Triond and Bukisa, Xomba does not pay for impressions but only for ad clicks. Despite the lack of impression income, you can still make fairly good money. [...]

Details: URL: http://www.redgage.com Industry: Online Publishing What they are looking for: Non-fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Photography, and Video Pay: Pay-Per-Click Alexa rating: 55,750 Red Gage is one of my favourite online publishing sites. I don’t make a lot of money from Red Gage but they have a very sleek site with a very active community. Like [...]

Details: URL: http://www.triond.com Industry: Online Publishing What they are looking for: Non-fiction, Fiction, Poetry, Photography, Video and Audio Pay: Pay-Per-Click Alexa rating: 15.431 Updated July 12th, 2010 Triond is a pay-per-click content site. This means that once you publish a piece of writing, every time someone reads your article or story, you make a little [...]

Details: URL: http://www.dreamstime.com Industry: Microstock Agency What are they looking for: Royalty Free Stock photos, Editorial Stock Photos, Royalty Free Illustrations Pay: Commission Alexa rating: 976 I would suggest, to anyone who wants to get into the microstock game, to start with Shutterstock, Fotolia, StockXpert and Dreamstime. Dreamstime, in my opinion, is the most important [...]