Note on earnings: The specific daily income figures, per-word payment rates, and income multipliers in the original version of this post have been removed because they could not be verified, and publication terms change over time. No specific income, payment rate, or result is promised or guaranteed here. Writing income varies widely, depends on whether a publication accepts your work, and most submissions are not accepted. Also, copying another writer’s article and running it through a spinning tool does not remove copyright problems: spun text can still be plagiarism or copyright infringement, and publications may reject it. Write original work, or use only content you have clear rights to use.

Introduction:

Today I am going to show you a method people try for earning from writing: finding article ideas in the news, writing about a topic, and submitting the finished piece to publications that pay contributors. It requires no selling and no affiliate marketing, but it does require real writing work, and payment is never guaranteed. If you stick with me until the end of this guide, I will show you three websites you can submit to. If you like to make money online, make sure to subscribe to the channel, where several different methods of making money online are posted each week.

2. Starting with Google Home Page

First off, let’s start here at the Google home page so I can teach you how this method works. Let me start by mentioning that getting started is free, and some publications pay contributors through PayPal or other methods such as bank transfers, depending on what works in your country. Payment methods and availability vary by publication and country. Follow along, and by the end of this guide, you will understand the steps, though understanding the steps does not guarantee income.

3. Step 1: Go to Google.com

So let’s start with step number one. You want to go to google.com, the homepage website of Google. Go to google.com, and the first thing you want to type in is “Google News.” Once you type in Google News, the first thing that is going to pop up is the Google official website, google.com/news. You want to click the first link here and it is going to take you to the official Google News homepage. And what this website is, it is like an online newspaper.

You can find news about anything that you can think of. This website here has news on the world, local news, businesses, technology, entertainment, sports, science, wealth, and much, much more. This is the Google website, and you can find any type of news on this website.

4. Why This Matters for Making Money

Now, you might be asking yourself, why does this even matter? How are you going to get paid by looking at this website? As I said, I was reading off the website, and if you look over to your left side here, you are going to see that there is some news here, like the world, your local news, which we are going to be ignoring because you don’t want your local news. We are going to be using business, technology, entertainment, sports, science, and wealth. We are only going to be looking at these categories.

5. Focusing on Specific Categories for Earning Money

Now, since we are only going to be using these categories, what you want to be doing is clicking one of them, and we are going to be clicking on, let’s say, “Business,” and we are going to be presented with all kinds of business information here, all the most recent business news in the world. You can find US, world, your local news, which we are going to be ignoring. You can find business, technology, entertainment, sports, science, and wealth, and we are going to be focusing on business, technology, entertainment, sports, science, and wealth. We are not going to be focusing on local news or even the “our own country” news. We want to focus mainly on these here, and for today’s guide, we are going to be focusing on health.

6. Choosing an Article Topic

When you click over to health or any other one of the categories that you chose, we are going to be faced with some news, the most recent news on that category. So let’s scroll down and see what we can find here. Vitamin D is one topic that I would be interested in myself. Let’s click over and see what it is. Use the news article as inspiration for a topic, not as text to copy: read it, understand the subject, and then write your own original piece.

7. Rewriting an Article, and the Copyright Problem

So now that we have a topic, you won’t have to sell anything, and you won’t have to do any affiliate marketing. But you do have to write. You cannot simply copy someone else’s article and submit it as your own: that would have copyright issues, and it could also be plagiarism.

Some tools, such as Spinbot at spinbot.com, rewrite pasted text by swapping words around. Spinning a copied article does not make it a new, original article, and it does not remove copyright problems. Publications can recognize spun text, and they may reject it or refuse future submissions. The safe approach is to write your own article from scratch, based on your own research, and to quote other sources only briefly and with credit where that is appropriate. Check any tool’s output carefully for accuracy before you use it.

8. Save and Submit Your Article

Now, what you want to be doing is you want to use your article on three different websites that I am going to be teaching you about. These publications pay contributors, but payment rates and acceptance rules vary, and they change over time, so check each publication’s current contributor terms. Not every submission is accepted. Articles can be long, but length alone does not determine payment. Save your article somewhere safe, in a text file on your computer, so you don’t lose it, because you are going to be submitting it to the websites I am going to show you right now.

9. Website 1: EatingWell.com

The first website that you are going to be submitting to is called eatingwell.com. This publication states that it pays contributors, but payment rates and acceptance rules change, so check its current contributor terms, and do not assume any particular rate. Instead of copying someone else’s work, write your own article. You will have to do the writing yourself, or hire help, and acceptance is never guaranteed.

You won’t have to do any selling or affiliate marketing. Submitting to more than one publication may increase your chances, but each publication decides independently, and no particular income should be expected. Let me show you how you are going to submit to this one first.

10. How to Submit Your Article to EatingWell

To submit, check the publication’s current submission page for the address and instructions it lists now, as these can change. In the original version of this guide, the address given was westbrook@eatingwell.com, with the subject line “Content Submission” and a short message saying you have an article to submit. Verify the current submission address and guidelines before sending anything, and do not send payment details until a publication has replied and confirmed acceptance. If they like the article, they may email you back and ask for your payment details.

11. Website 2: SierraClub.org

The other way you can do this, if you don’t want to send off an email, is to go to the Sierra Club website and click “Fill out this form.” It is going to show you a form that you can submit. Fill out all of it, and wait until they reply to you first before you send them your payment details. You can tell them how you want to be paid, for example, by PayPal or by bank transfer, depending on what the publication supports. You can start by following these steps, but starting does not guarantee acceptance or payment. Because Google News publishes new articles all the time, there are always new topics to write about, though more topics do not guarantee more income.

12. Website 3: Daily.jstor.org

Also, inside the health category, you can see there is medicine, healthcare, mental health, nutrition, and fitness, so you have many topics to choose from. EatingWell is the first website, and the second one is sierraclub.org, which works in a similar way, and you can submit your article to it following the steps above. The third is daily.jstor.org. Each publication has its own topics, guidelines, and payment terms, so check them before you submit.

13. Maximizing Earnings by Submitting to Multiple Websites

The way the Sierra Club website works is kind of different, but kind of the same. The article you submit to this website may need to be a little different from the other one. Go to their website, scroll down to the bottom of the page, and look at how to submit. You can click “Fill out this form,” and do the same process: put your contact details, add your article, and add the way you want to be paid. Wait until they reply to you first, and then you can send them your PayPal details or your bank details if you want to be paid by bank transfer or whatever way the publication supports.

14. Final Tips: Hiring Help and More

So if you don’t want to keep looking for articles, if you don’t want to keep writing the articles, you can go to a website called Fiverr, and you can hire someone to do that for you. Writers on Fiverr set their own prices, so check current listings. If you have some money to start and you want to hire someone to do it for you, you could pay a writer for an article, and then submit it to these websites, but remember that a hired article still has to be original, and acceptance and payment are never guaranteed. If you don’t want to pay anything, you can write it yourself the way I showed you.

15. Conclusion: Getting Started and Making Money

I hope you enjoyed this guide. If you have any questions, leave them down in the comments and I’ll get back to you as soon as I can. Subscribe to the channel so you don’t miss the next money-making methods, and if you want to find out how you can make even more money online, check the next guide. Work hard, and remember that no method guarantees income.