Whether you’re submitting articles for specific websites, for mass distribution, or just blogging, writing can be an excellent way to bring home the bacon. What you earn depends largely on how much or how often you write, the quality of your work, and increasingly, your marketing efforts. 

While it’s possible to make an excellent living as a blogger (some well-known bloggers such as Darren Rowse at problogger.net and b5media.com, and Steve Pavlina at stevepavlina.com, earn six-figure incomes), it’s rare. But many bloggers make modest, supplemental incomes. Blogging positions typically pay by the post, or a share of ad revenues generated by the blog, or both. 

The following sites will help get you started:

There are two pages on this site that you’ll want to check – “Jobs” and “Write for us.” The first lists pay-per-post job openings and topics that are available now, the second details the site’s revenue-share blogging model.

Co-founded by Aussie blogging expert Darren Rowse (who also works at home), b5media maintains hundreds of blogs covering a wide array of topics. Its jobs are posted to ProBlogger.net’s blogging-jobs board. (See ProBlogger.net below.)

The Content Quake tagline – “Individual Bloggers Making a Collective Difference” – sums up their mission. This community of bloggers covers many subjects and uses a pay-per-post compensation model.

As the name suggests, Families.com covers topics relating to family, home, parenting, and relationships. Click the “Blog For Us!” link at the bottom of the home page for blogger specifications. Pay is per post and increases over time, with bonuses “based on performance.”

This is one of our favorites — our RatRaceRebellion.com researchers visit this site every day. In addition to blogging jobs from around the Web, the owner, Darren Rowse, shares vast amounts of information and expertise on blogging topics. If you’re serious about succeeding as a blogger, this is a “Must Bookmark” site. 

For writers with their own blogs, Review Me offers an opportunity to write paid reviews of products and services from various companies. (Similar sites include blogsvertise.com and sponsoredreviews.com.)

If you’re a ranter, debater, or just have strong opinions, WriteBite could be a great platform for pontification. Only the most popular rants of the week get a payout, but we all need a place to blow off steam, right?

If you have a blog of your own (or plan to), check the following sites for various advertising options to “monetize” (make money with) it. 

- smorty.com

- shopzilla.com

- azoogleads.com

- adbrite.com

- cj.com

- bidclix.com

- google.com/adsense

- affiliate-program.amazon.com

- chitika.com

- widgetbucks.com

Excerpted with permission from "Work at Home Now: The No-Nonsense Guide to Finding Your Perfect Home-Based Job, Avoiding Scams, and Making a Great Living," by Christine Durst & Michael Haaren, ©2009 (new from Career Press, and recommended by the Wall Street Journal).

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