Yes, it's true. I sold my honors in English for a dollar. Again and again and again. Over 200 times now, by my count. I have joined the beleaguered masses of freelance keyword article writers. I blame Xomba. There I was, just minding my own business, when I stumbled upon Xomba. I wasn't even using stumbleduponit.com. The promise is tantalizing: make money for writing. "Huh," I thought. "I can write. And I sure would like to make some extra money for Christmas." So I came up with a cute idea of things to write about. I wrote and I wrote. I watched my Google Ad-Sense account creep up by a penny a day on average, and I thought, "Surely there's a better way to earn money by writing than this!"
There is a better way, sort of. Now, for one dollar each, I write 400 word keyword articles.Since I've joined Xomba and have earned fifty cents so far, it has redefined my ideas about wealth. A dollar an article sounds like a lot of money to me! In four hundred words I try to convince the reader of the inherent goodness of things like "romika shoes," "chrome wire shelving," "glucose meters," and "child psychology". I know that somewhere out there, someone is clicking on a google ad linked to an article I wrote, and I'm not gonna see a fraction of that penny. However, I do have a dollar.
But something about this is sapping my will to live. How long can I go on trying to sell things I don't know anything about and probably wouldn't want to buy for myself? The way I write keyword articles is to google the keywords, then pull bits and pieces of the information I find into a sales pitch. It's not plagiarism, because everything is in my own words, but I'm not really contributing anything new to the web; I'm just repackaging the poppycock that's already there. Sometimes I consider it to be satire on the order of Swift. Other times, I just admit it's drivel. I miss sharing my harrowing adventures with the animals in my life with my meager Xomba readership, but by the end of an evening pushing "jeep for sale" and "jeeps for sale" (note that these are two different articles. If I used the phrase "jeep for sale" in the "jeeps for sale" article, it didn't count), I don't have anything left. Nothing but an extra dollar in my paypal account.