Write For Cash is seeking high-quality, information-based articles on a wide variety of topics. Depending on the quality of the piece, Write For Cash pays between $10 and $15 per article. Following a few guidelines will give you the best chance of having your article accepted and receiving the highest amount per article.
Choosing the article
The best articles to write are the ones you know about or are interested in researching further. If you don’t know anything about skin care products, it will show through in the article and the chances of it being rejected will likely increase. However, if you have four kids and have planned a graduation party for each one of them, your ideal article to write would obviously be “Graduation party ideas”. Take some time to browse the article titles and find the ones that suit you best. Go to the Choose Articles page and begin drilling down into the categories. For example, you will see “Fashion & Beauty”. One level down you will see a subcategory such as “Hair and Makeup”. Underneath each subcategory you will see a long list of article titles for which we need articles written.
Article Guidelines
No plagiarism
- We consider submissions
of plagiarized material to be fraud and will pursue legal action against anyone
we catch doing it. Really. All submissions must be your own work and you must
own any existing copyrights prior to selling the articles to Write For Cash.
If you have already written for Write For Cash you may not use your previous writing even if the topic is the same. This will be considered plagiarism since you don’t own the existing copyright to it. You may write about the same or similar topics, but it must be new material.
As a general guideline: if you copy and paste from other sources, there's a really good chance we will consider it plagiarism.
Article length - Articles must be at least 500-800 words and no more than 2500 words.
Good taste - Submissions to Write For Cash must be in good taste. We will not accept violent, pornographic, or obscene subject matter.
Relevance - Articles need to be relevant to the chosen title. There's room for artistic interpretation, but if the article is about black cats, make sure your submission isn't about calico cats and not too much about cats in general. Avoid straying from the article topic to include persuasive material on a personal opinion; do not use your article as a political soapbox.
Quotes and Citations - Though a quotation with citation is good form in other mediums, we prefer you do not include them here. Instead, paraphrase information from multiple sources, or only include information released by official sources such as government agencies. Avoid structuring articles as a research paper based on your favorite book about nutrition.
Links and Endorsements - Avoid endorsing other websites or sources in your articles. Please do not include any links or web addresses, and avoid referring to corporate entities unless that entity is very relevant or an accepted expert on the subject. This isn't meant to discourage references to Armani in a men's formal fashions article, or to Ford in an American truck maker article; however, please don't refer people to Ann's House of Clipart in a craft project.
Formatting - Stick to simple formatting in your articles. There is no need to include the article title, author, or traditional end markings (such as -30- ). Two line breaks is the ideal way to separate paragraphs, and tabs are ignored. There is no way to include complex formatting like bold or italics. Also, The Write for Cash website form can only accept simple ASCII characters. If you use multiple languages on your computer, or write your articles with complex formatting in an editor like Microsoft Word (or even worse, on a Mac), they can be littered with questions marks or odd symbols upon submission. If an article is returned to you with formatting problems, try using a simple text editor such as Notepad or Wordpad to write your article, or paste your article into one before submission.
Spelling and Grammar - We do not expect to fix your spelling or grammar mistakes as part of the editing process. If an article contains spelling mistakes, it will be sent back to you for revision. Sentences should be well formed, and follow the basic rules of grammar (though informal grammar and slang are acceptable when it adds to the flow of the article). In general, if an article would upset your High School English teacher, please don't submit it.
Keywords - When adding keywords upon final submission, there is no need to repeat words. "Summer Fall Wedding" would be good, while "Summer Wedding Fall Wedding" would be repetition. Also, do not include commas or quotation marks. Make sure to include keywords that editors might not think of in the secondary keywords field, such as technical or slang terms or related subjects.
Writing the article
Good Articles - Some articles are very specific such as, “How to jump start a dead battery”, while others might be more general and open, such as, “Identifying car leaks”. In either case, we are looking for quality articles that answer the questions people have when they set out to search. A closer look at these articles will help illustrate what makes these both good articles and how to do the same with your chosen topics.
In the first article about the car battery, it’s easy to imagine what people are looking for – information they can print out and perhaps keep in their car that is very specific and guides the user step-by-step. While the article falls slightly short of the word count at 450 words, the writer couldn’t have done a better job of describing in good detail how to go about jump starting the battery.
The second article about car leaks would be more challenging because it is a little more general. The writer did a great job of taking a broad subject and transforming it into specific and concrete steps to take to identify the problems and fix them.
Bad Articles - An example of a poor article might be “Top Job Markets” for several reasons.
- This is a dated article that will have little relevance in a year or two
- This is little more than a simple list that could have been copied from anywhere
- The article is too short and doesn’t explain the job markets in more detail (i.e., what jobs specifically fall under the group “recreation”?)
- No advice is given as to how to seek one of these careers
- No answers are given to the question, “WHY are these job markets growing?”
In short, this article doesn’t help the reader in any real way.
Examples - Click on Writing Examples to see some other articles that were submitted and approved.
Submitting the article
We've provided a special form for you to follow when you submit your article. The form will also tell you how to enter keywords for the article. If Write For Cash approves the article, we will notify you by e-mail and send payment at the beginning of the following month.