Textbroker - get paid to write.

One of the most direct ways to earn money online is to write articles for content mills. Content mills have a fairly terrible reputation for paying as little as they can but they can be useful for earning quick money and for practising your writing skills before you aim for more ambitious projects. The first content mill I ever signed up for was Textbroker and it's definitely worth a look at.

To register, you have to submit a purpose-written sample of your writing. Using this, Textbroker will assess your writing standard (which always seems to be Level 3) and then you'll be offered whatever work is available for writers at that level.

At Level 3, you'll typically be paid around £4 for a 500 word article. If that doesn't seem a lot, the good news is that most of the people submitting orders are not overly demanding, so you don't have to produce literary masterpieces and you can bang articles out without too much care. As long as the piece is about what it's supposed to be about, makes sense, isn't cursed with spelling mistakes and bad grammar and is original, it's likely to be accepted.

Once you've successfully written an article for someone, you can then contact them and offer to write more pieces for them, via Textbroker, setting your own pay-rate. This means you can increase your earnings fairly dramatically. On top of that, you can also ask Textbroker to improve your rating, which will increase your earnings potential.

I have to say that, for a sideline, this site's been a good earner for me and my record earnings from it in one week have been over £100.

Having said that, it can be a case of feast or famine. It's also possible to go through an entire week without making a penny from it. If you have nothing better on your plate, writing-wise, I'd recommend it but bear in mind that, if you can find them, there are far better-paying opportunities out there for writers.

If you want to sign up for Textbroker, you can do so by clicking on this link. Textbroker appears not to have a referrals system, so rest assured that I'll make no money from you using that link.

Payment method: PayPal. Minimum payout: 10 Euros. Time for payouts to be processed: Two days. My earnings in the last week: £28. My rating: 7/10. JOIN TEXTBROKER.