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Created on: September 01, 2009 Last Updated: September 05, 2009
These days there are so many sites offering you money for your articles. Some claim to pay you upfront payments and some say that they will share Google revenue with you. Some good and legit sites do pay you for your hard work. But the fact is most of them are out and out scam. They just take articles and never pay anything for your hard work.
Actually it is not very difficult to spot the non-paying sites for article writing. You just have to keep few things in mind and once you do that you will easily identify those non-paying sites. Follow these steps and you will be able to identify these scam sites.
Firstly type the name of site in Google search about which you wish to know that it's paying or not. Type name of the site with the word "scam" or the word "paying" or "not paying" and you will get your results.
Remember do not rely on just one result. Do view multiple reviews about that sites and what people say about that. If you are unable to find any convincing information, better avoid that site.
Another tool through which you can know about non-paying sites is that read the articles of trusted sites. Again read multiple articles to know exactly the situation, otherwise you might be deceived. You can easily know the trusted article sites as there are hundreds of reviews about them available.
You can also get an idea of site whether it is paying or not by viewing its layout and design. Mostly, but not always scam sites do not have very good design and look of the website. But some spend some good money on this to deceive the people. So do not rely too much on this.
The sites offering you really higher rate per article as compared to other sites and also accepting your articles easily have high chances of a non-paying site. So whenever you come across such site; make sure you do reasonable research before joining it, because its better to spend some time on finding which site is paying rather than wasting your time on writing articles and getting absolutely nothing for that.
So to make sure your work pays, do your research before joining any site and do not rush into joining any site, read reviews about that site and after that if you are satisfied with their terms and conditions, join it and start writing and get paid!
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