As you can see from reading about my experiment, here http://www.xomba.com/dreah_writes_for_a_living_the_ac_xomba_experiment_continues that I do not have all of my eggs in one basket.

By writing for and becoming loyal to only one web content site or publisher, I could easily shoot myself in the proverbial foot. Since the year 2000, I have written articles and tips for numerous websites. 90% of those websites are now defunct. They all gave me a decent or at least OK compensation for my work, but one never knows when a website may change, be sold, or shut down. When you write web content, you need to always have a back up plan.

Here is a list of the businesses that suddenly stopped paying or changed.

Ask.com was sold to ask jeeves.com and they changed the format of the website. wasn’t getting paid, but my work on this site provided a lot of traffic for my own site

Themestream.com closed suddenly owning hundreds of writers hundreds of dollars. I lost $200.00 myself. Fortunately, I was able to salvage my work and sell it elsewhere.

Write for cash.com, went belly up, came back, and went belly up again, came back, and went belly up again. The work I did for them can be found all over the net. With them it was either feast or famine. There was a lot of work to done or there was not.

Last year I wrote for a british site, called expertsite for a few months. They paid well, but soon changed their focus, and now the domain is for sale.

These are just a few of the seemingly well established websites I have written for that went belly up. I have worked for other websites, that dropped their pay scale suddenly, so I stopped writing for them.

So how does a web content writer stay gainfully employed on the less-than-stable internet? Don’t put all of your eggs in one basket. As for myself, write now I am a blog writer for families.com, and write articles of associated content. For backup income, I use a few blog advertising programs where I can get paid to promote a company or website through my blog. In addition, and as an investment in the future I write on websites like xomba and have my own personal blogs.