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20 people view your article, and three vote' for it, you'll have a "goodness" of 61 (you get 1 point free, because they assume you like your own writing).

From there it gets even more complex. They take the total earnings the entire site made that day, and divide it up between all the articles that had "goodness" that day, based on the percentage of the total "goodness" that they had. For example, if the site made $1, and there were 10 articles that each had "goodness" ratings of 1,000, then they would each get 10 cents.

Also, you can earn just from commenting on articles, but that is a similarly complex system.

Number 3 is HubPages. I really like how this site is set up; they give you capsules', or components of a page that you can play with. You automatically get the basics: text, comments, etc., but you can add all kinds of nifty things, including income generating bits like Amazon and Ebay referral sections, where relevant items' are displayed for sale.

Best of all, you can change around the order of the capsules, even put them side-by-side, which gives you unprecedented control on the layout of the page.

This site primarily pays through Google's AdSense also, which can be a bit of a drawback, but, if you're using both this site and GZYN it does kind of simplify things.

The major flaw for these three paying sites is a low user count. There aren't many people surfing them, so it's unlikely that you'll get high enough page views to make publishing on them worth your while.

However, all of their user lists are growing every day. It is impossible to say how long it might be before an author can generate some serious money on any of them, but, eventually In the meantime, they serve for garnering yet more exposure, and do get you a little bit of pocket change.

Number two is Helium. This site is a little different, in that authors don't pen individual articles, they write to topics'. There are thousands of titles available, and, if you can't find one that covers an idea you'd like to write about, you can always request a new one just for that.

Helium's pay system is a little complex, though not so much as ThisIsBy.Us. Once you've written an article, it gets rated by other users against all the other articles in that title. Once that happens, your article is given a rank, like 3 of 10'. There are various perks associated with a better rank, not the least of which is increased pay.

Helium does not plainly state how much an author earns per page view, but they do make it

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