PrintnPost

I saw the ads for PrintnPost over at Craigslist, and ignored them because it was yet another revenue sharing site, and frankly I'd rather just get paid. Then I ran across a series of positive posts about them on a freelance writer's forum (sorry, I can't remember which one), and decided to sign up and see what it was all about.

The amount of information on the site about the service is definitely lacking. The front page is geared toward hiring freelance writers, not promoting the content. I had a lot of questions that I couldn't find any answers to. But I signed up and posted two articles, one promoting this blog and another on getting a deal at Amazon. (Get 5% off at Amaon.com anytime. Even without a coupon, promotion code or sale.)

I submitted the Amazon article to Digg.com, and didn't do any promotion of the other article. I'm pleased to report that the Amazon article received several hundred hits in about 8 hours and I received a small amount of Adsense revenue right away.

The disappointing part, however, is that since that first eight hours, the article has only had a couple dozen hits and no additional Adsense revenue. Now this could be on my part (maybe I need better/different keywords, better SEO, etc.) or maybe PrintnPost isn't doing as popular on the search engines as I hoped and those hits came from Digg. I'll have to try several more articles to find out for sure.

In the end, based on this small experience, I would recommend trying out PrintnPost for those times between regular paying jobs, or when you have something you want to write about, but no client to buy it.

One big advantage of PrintnPost, even for freelance writers, is that you can use referral links. For example, I included several Amazon.com referral links in my article. So they do offer you another way to make money writing beyond the shared Adsense revenue.

I'm going to add a few more articles this week and see what happens. I'll be sure and share the results with you.