Examiner.com has paid this writer $25,809.47 – Not a scam website, here’s YouTube video proof of my earnings from PayPal for the legitimate work-at-home writing source
Since a few people have actually called my Examiner.com earnings bs, thank God for hinting that I could put up this YouTube.com video proof of my earnings from PayPal:
Apply to write for Examiner.com here now…
So yes, I just went through all my earnings for the first 6 months of 2010 and posted them on my Paula Mooney Blogger blog to learn that I’ve made over 25k thus far across all my sources of online income — and that was the impetus to discover how much Examiner.com has paid me from 10/1/2009 (I began writing for them in Sept 2009) thru 6/30/2010, and was pleased to find that number was over 25k as well.
Sure, some people don’t make that much writing for Examiner.com, others make more because I see other folks getting more traffic than me every day, but they don’t post their income numbers — at least, not that I’ve found online anywhere.
But I’m encouraging people to apply to write for them because it is a valid income source for writers.
Yes, in the effort of complete transparency, I do get $5 for every valid applicant that uses my CJ.com affiliate link above for those who apply to Examiner.com — and when folks search for my name “Paula Mooney” as a referrer when they apply and get accepted, I get $50 per person that meets certain criteria that escapes me right now.
At least Examiner.com is not one of those scam websites that I write about that ask for credit cards numbers and such. When I applied for Examiner, they asked for NO CREDIT CARDS, NO DEBIT CARDS, NO FEES OF ANY KIND.
They only asked for normal application info and writing samples from me — and they did a background check (not to check my credit, they said, just to make sure I didn’t have any felonies) but THEY PAID FOR THE BACKGROUND CHECK, not me.
The only reservation I have about Examiner is the fact that I’ve seen those scammy looking Pulse 360 ads running on the website — alongside valid, major advertisers.
Since I spend a lot of time warning folks against those places, it’s disheartening to see them appearing across Examiner and many other major websites across the web. It’s like this big conspiracy scam thing that feels almost inescapable at times.
But at least Google Adsense finally gave us webmasters the ability to block various subjects on my own websites, like “Get Rich Quick” categories and “Religion” stuff I might not agree with and the like. So while those Adsense number dipped, I fully expect them to surge once again because it’s the right motive and God is great and gracious and He’s shown me so many other ways to make money. More on that coming…
So anyway, the haters now have video proof, and below find photo proof from my PayPal account — thankfully a lot more people are being helped and quietly getting on Examiner.com (who’s ramping up from 33,000 to 85,000 or so writers in 2010, so get in while the gettin’ is good) and getting paid while others debate about how to do it.
I won’t lie — some days are discouraging, with me working for hours to research and write 3 or more articles and then the next day I see only 30 bucks or so earned for that day.
But then other days are amazing. Like an angel whispering in my ear what site to check, which article to write, how to check my stats and rewrite a piece — and praying for the favor of the Lord over my writing and — voila! — it hits that Google News sweet spot, the traffic flows into the tens of thousands, and the next day I see $177 or more or less in my Examiner.com pay rate for that day.
So stick with it if you’re led to do it. It takes work and patience and learning about SEO and timing and listening to heaven and reading and promoting and writing and rewriting and studying stats and knowing what works and what doesn’t and what people want to read, etc.
It’s not necessarily about throwing up one boring piece and expecting the money to flow in. Stay tuned to this blog and my YouTube channel and PaulaMooney.blogspot.com for more tips. Godspeed, Examiners.
Photo proof of Examiner.com earning from my PayPal account – Click to enlarge and study:
Examiner.com earnings, click to enlarge and study photo
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Thanks, Shelly, I’m glad you got in. Yes, sometimes I get discouraged when I write a bunch of articles for Examiner and they don’t get as many pageviews as I want them to. But then, there are the days when a lot of them make it into Google News and still bring income.
Admittedly, the my pay from Examiner decreased in March 2011, after Google’s Panda update — and I didn’t write as often, so I got about $740 for the month for all my Examiner channels paid to me in April 2011.
I pray that amount will dramatically increase this month, so that my May 2011 pay going forward will be a lot better. They are still a good platform, and a great place for exposure.
Thank you for all of the info. I recently have been accepted to examiner.com and was starting to get discouraged! I love writing and it seems to be a great platform. If you know of any other encouraging stories please post them! I am just getting started writing online and would love for you to review my articles!
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Thank you for this post! I have recently getting started with examiner and was starting to get discouraged with some of the negative feedback!
Good information.
I thought you wold like this story about Shawn Hogan, I remember you used to estimate his income.
He was make 1 million a month with ebay affiliate, it is sad that he has legal problems now.
http://www.shoemoney.com/2010/08/04/shawn-hogan-speaks-out-on-fbi-charges/
hi, work out like this. divide the revenue by per thousand page views.
Do not be worried by the numbers. It is possible to buy some traffic very cheaply.
All I will say is you can buy 50,000 page views for $4.99.
But you have to be careful that the traffic complies with the google standards especially if you have analytics.
But people like project wonderful and entrecard can sell you traffic at very low costs.
Just experiment with buying traffic.
Another indirect way of buying traffic is to get people to write articles for articles directories.
you have to measure how much traffic each article brings. But Indian rewriters are working for $1,00 per 1000 word.
JIm Karter was excellent at reinvesting money into blogs. It is a shame he does not write any longer.
I will try to see if he had articles on bing seo, he had articles on yahoo logarithms.
Google buys traffic too. Bloggers have been reluctant to buy traffic but ppc guys know how to leverage and grow their revenue.
Hey Designs Delights – Nice to see you back. Yeah, I’ve added the “only comment if you have Google Account” thing on my blogspot blog to cut down on the spam comments I used to receive in droves.
I need to take another look at the cost per visitor — perhaps there’s a way it could work. I don’t know if it would work by paying to promote my articles, because it looks like the pay rate is less than a penny per page view if I’m just averaging it out cold, estimating unique visitors since Examiner doesn’t provide us that number (only pageviews) and neither do I know the bounce rate they calculate, etc. I only know what I can glean from Google Analytics and StatCounter that I’ve loaded code from.
Anyway, I am all into Bing.com and Bing SEO right now — not just for my Examiner pieces, but other writing I plan to publish soon.
Thanks for coming by and provoking good thought!
why did I talk about the cost lper visitor.
let us say you calculate you make 10 cents per visitor.
If you spend 9 cents buying traffic for each visitor, you have a beautiful arbitrage opportunity.
That is one of the reasons why John Chow is on top. he knows from ppc that it is profitable to buy traffic, as long as you can get a positive return.
Alot has been spoken about arbitrage, but that is how it is done.
good to see you doing well with examiner, it was hard to leave comments on your blogs. This is very encouraging .
I am getting ruthless with this online thing,
One thing I wanted tao ask you is have you tried calculaating how much you make with each visitor who visits your page?
Glad to see you doing well.
Yes, check out these other articles I’ve written about Examiner.com — that will lead you to my 3 topics and you’ll see how much I write and the things I write about and how often per day.
Plus, those articles have tips for getting traffic on Examiner.com. Have fun.
Great Tip! I have always appreciated your honesty!
Do you have more than one topic? I only have one topic and have only made $15 for one month. How many articles do you write and how many referrals do you have?
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