http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2009/06/04/bloggings-great-so-when-do-we-get-paid/ a critical take on online culture and social media Sun, 20 May 2012 18:33:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2009/06/04/bloggings-great-so-when-do-we-get-paid/#comment-141 Still Writing for Pageviews: Professional Online Writing in 2011 « The Learned Fangirl Sun, 06 Mar 2011 22:22:09 +0000 http://thelearnedfangirl.com/?p=981#comment-141 [...] I’ve ranted about this before, back in 2009: I don’t mean to single out HuffPo, that website is certainly not the sole offender when it comes to paying with pageviews. I don’t even think it’s the fault of the internet. I think it’s us, the scores of writers (myself included) who have devalued our own work over the years by doing professional-level work for free — or for far too little. [...] [...] I’ve ranted about this before, back in 2009: I don’t mean to single out HuffPo, that website is certainly not the sole offender when it comes to paying with pageviews. I don’t even think it’s the fault of the internet. I think it’s us, the scores of writers (myself included) who have devalued our own work over the years by doing professional-level work for free — or for far too little. [...]

]]> http://thelearnedfangirl.com/2009/06/04/bloggings-great-so-when-do-we-get-paid/#comment-140 Shannalee Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:13:06 +0000 http://thelearnedfangirl.com/?p=981#comment-140 Excellent post. As I've watched some of my part-time writers at work leave and become glorified traffic-drivers for big-name Web sites, being paid $0.03 for ever article, all while they work hard at unrelated day jobs to make ends meet, I have thought many of these same things. What a waste to put all your energy into driving traffic to Big Corporation's site when your writing has potential to be its own entity. I still wish there were a better advertising option for individual bloggers, one that would allow us to be paid more than pennies without compromising the quality of our sites, but maybe that comes in time with popularity and exposure. Excellent post. As I’ve watched some of my part-time writers at work leave and become glorified traffic-drivers for big-name Web sites, being paid $0.03 for ever article, all while they work hard at unrelated day jobs to make ends meet, I have thought many of these same things. What a waste to put all your energy into driving traffic to Big Corporation’s site when your writing has potential to be its own entity. I still wish there were a better advertising option for individual bloggers, one that would allow us to be paid more than pennies without compromising the quality of our sites, but maybe that comes in time with popularity and exposure.

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