For the Freelance Writer in You

During my time off work (best left not discussed) I have been filling in the day with some freelance writing.  Some of which is content writing for companies, which can be fun, but also article writing for certain sites that pay residual income of some sort for articles written.  There are three I am trying out and here they are in no particular order:

1) Helium - (http://www.helium.com/users/440442/show_articles) Helium is interesting and the payments seem to be relatively higher than the others, assuming your ranking is acceptable and assuming you have a star earned for content or rating.  If you have an article or essay you can see if the topic is already on there and add to it... which is what you want, since you get ranked in comparision to others in competative titles which then affects your overal content ranking.  If the subject is not there, and there are numerous subjects, then you can request a title to be added.  They also have a market place and various debates you can join.  Tons of ideas to get you going.  The downfall is that if you have a specific subject it might not be listed and when it is not comeptative there is little gain to having it there.  Another downfall is that once it is posted you cannot delete it and to even edit requires effort.

2) Bukisa  - (http://www.bukisa.com/join/90612) Bukisa's payments per qualified view seem lower in general.  However, you can post a topic on anything at all.  There is no title restrictions nor competition with others who wrote something similar.  Posts are put in quickly with no wait time and reviewed quickly as well.  I find this site awesome for my health related essays, since they are about coping strategies and more vague topics than found on the other two.    You can delete if you wish and edit at any time.  I would say it is more flexible certainly.

3) Infobarrel - (http://www.infobarrel.com/signup.php?ref_id=31577).  Again you can post on any topic you wish.  The posts stay in review stage longer.  Posts cannot be deleted but they can be edited.  I have been using this site for more specific research papers in philosophical topics generally.  What is interesting about this site is how you earn on it... which is through a Google Adsense and Amazon Associates, which means you get a percentage of the earnings from someone clicking on those adds, assuming you set up accounts with them.  It intrigues me, but not sure yet on the profitablity aspect.