May 12, 2016 at 1:47 pm

Writing sites offer you payments for your blog posts and interactions. It’s easier to earn on writing sites as compared to own blogs. Monetizing your own blogs can be a cumbersome process. What do you prefer- own blogs or writing sites?

May 12, 2016 at 2:15 pm

I prefer writing sites for earning, but in the meanwhile I want to grow my own blog so that when the writing sites keep crashing I will have at least something coming from my blog. Also, there is an added advantage in our own blog in that we don’t have to put up with some abusers who don’t know how to behave but still show up in every possible earning site on the planet!!

May 12, 2016 at 2:30 pm

Though I would like to set up my own blog, as I will have more controls on what I want to write and not limited to any topics or requirements (as long as I follow the rules of the blogging world), I don’t think I would like to do that now, as it requires much time and effort to do so. So, at the moment, I would prefer to write on these writing sites, and earn some extra money. Moreover, there are already members in the site, where we can easily get readers and interact with each other as well. It can be more fun too!

May 13, 2016 at 2:36 am

I prefer my own sites and blogs to the earning sites, because they definitely allow me to learn in a way that I am not able to do in any earning website.

My earnings don’t depend on blogging, but quite an opposite from my services and translation work.

I am proactive so it is easy for me to find various clients and offer my skills to improve their own businesses.

I will always look into an earning webpage, especially to ones that I am invited to participate, evaluate and review. I will always report about my findings and look to protect people I support.

The invitations from my contacts and my own research keep me afloat with the current events allowing to participate and keep an eye on almost all current writing/earning venues .

For more than one reason I am interested to find a website which is going to offer a stable growth and financial potential to it’s members.

My last the best next thing is not an earning website but a fiction blog that I share with one of my online contacts who has a knack for the fiction and creative writing.

I think that that kind of the work suits me the best and at this moment I am working a lot on that new place.

May 13, 2016 at 7:11 am

I am new to blogging so I think for now I am good to write on an earning site versus having my own site. It is a lot easier to get viewers here than if I were to have my own site. It takes less time and I feel like I am learning a lot from being in this community with those that have more experience than I do. It may not get me rich, but there is nothing to guarantee having your own site will make you a lot of money either.

May 13, 2016 at 12:39 pm

I had 2 of my own blogs at Blogger dot com.

However, I have not reach the min payout at Adsense for the past 8 years.

So, I kind of gave up on my own blogs.

For the past 6 years, I had been focusing on writing online sites.

I prefer to write at these sites they do REALLY PAY at Paypal.

very convenient for me.

I had been cheated 2x so far.

Bubblews and BeerMoney nation.

Sometimes, we just can’t put all our eggs in a basket.

however, out of 10 baskets, at least 5 of them are torn too.

May 13, 2016 at 1:17 pm

@Laksh  Precisely this is the reason I am also focusing on my own sites. Blogging takes a lot of hard work and it will take quite sometime before we actually start earning from them but I think it’s worth the effort. I like the freedom to write which I get on my own blog. The only thing I miss my own blogs is the regular interaction and feedback I get on writing sites.

May 13, 2016 at 1:20 pm

@peachpurple  Bubblews was at least paying in the beginning. I used to earn almost $150 every month there before it stopped paying. But BMN was a total fraud. I never got paid there and lost my two payments. The worst thing is that we can’t even delete our profile or the posts on BMN.

May 13, 2016 at 5:08 pm

I like to think that both individually operated blogs and writing sites have their advantages. The writing sites offer a sense of community, a place to share resources and learn from other bloggers, and a chance to increase exposure and gain new followers. They can also represent a source of earnings for a blogger who is still building up a self-hosted blog.

The biggest advantage of a personal blog is the freedom and control it offers, and the fact that content can have a stable home that is not really provided on the writing sites. Personal blogs are not penalized by search engines in a way that content writing sites often are, and if the writer chooses a niche and writes well focused posts, the blog will rank well in search results.

May 14, 2016 at 7:00 am

@ruby3881  I think you are right. It is nice to have the community and help with a blog if you are not yet confident enough to go it on your own and have your own site. There is also the added work that your own site requires. I am not sure that I could give my undivided attention to it right now. I am still learning so I think the content site is the best option for myself.  I love learning from those that have more experience and I love to share with others if I can.

May 14, 2016 at 8:56 am

@morgoodie I’ve been creating content online for close to 20 years now. I started out coding in HTML, back when my kids were just little. I started blogging on WordPress about 10 years ago, and then switched over to content writing and later social writing in addition to writing for my own blogs again.

I am still constantly learning! And there is so much that changes as we go along. It’s like housework. It never ends 😉

May 14, 2016 at 11:52 am

@Kyla Matton Osborne (Ruby3881)  Wow! You are a seasoned blogger. We could learn a lot from you. You are right in saying that both the writing sites and blogs have their own advantages. The problem is that writing sites take up too much of time. It is imperative to manage your time well between the two. I ended up neglecting my own sites due to the writing sites but now I have learned to balance. I make it a point to at least post twice a week on my own sites no matter what.

May 15, 2016 at 4:33 am

I wish I would have started 20 years ago. Maybe then I would not be in the state of mind I am now. I used to write poetry but I never really did anything with and most times I never let other people read it. I find writing online is so much easier than giving myself on a piece of paper for someone to read in person. A lot less stressful if I am rejected. I do not like rejection, but if it is anonymous so to speak it is much easier to take. I figure if someone reads my blog and do not like it then I really do not care, but if it was in person, I would be more upset. I am just weird that way. I figure at least I did not invest money to lose and I do other things while I am in here on the forums so I am only losing a little time if this site does not make it.

May 15, 2016 at 5:06 am

@swalia I have not heard about BMN until recently. Sorry to hear that you have not been paid from the site at all. I agree that Bubblews was at least paying well at the beginning. I have no idea why they only realized the problem they have while paying too much to the members after so many big payments, and hence they have to close down eventually.

Is BMN still around? Are your posts still on BMN? Can you re-post them else where?

@ruby3881 Yes, I agree with you about the freedom of having personal blogs. I like how we can set up several sites in BlogJob, but I decided to reserve one topic for my personal blog about homeschooling. I would like to own the copyrights of those I am going to write about my homeschooling journey and experience, moreover I would like to have more freedom and control on what I am writing too. Moreover, I might write some in my own language, Chinese, and this is not accepted in most writing sites.

You really have a lot of experience writing online. Glad that we have you here, and we can always learn from you! Yes, I think we are always learning in our life journey, and it will never end. 🙂

May 15, 2016 at 7:15 am

@kaka135 I think it’s a great thing that you want to reserve your homeschooling posts for your own blog. You are likely to get better traffic that way, particularly if you are targeting a narrower audience (e.g. homeschooling in Chinese, following a specific homeschool approach such as Waldorf or Charlotte Mason, etc.) Years ago when I had my homeschool blog, it did quite well 🙂

I just wanted to be sure that you realize BlogJob doesn’t own the posts you own there. The TOS had been written to make it seem that way, but I verified it with Sheridan and I have the screenshot of him saying he just needed display rights and such while content remains on the site. He had promised to look into getting the legalese rewritten, but I imagine that’s low on his list of priorities for the moment…

Copyright, as I’ve said before, is assigned to you at the moment you create a work. You don’t give it up unless the conditions of the site state that you assign some or all of your rights to them. Most social and content writing sites only ask for a license to use the work. They don’t want full rights.