There is a lot of scope to write articles these days. Maintaining personal blogs, writing for clients, writing as a hobby are some of the means that can keep one busy as a writer. Some people also write for magazines and newspapers. So, there is much to write about concerning various things.

Pros of Upfront Paying

One-time writing

The general trend of writing such articles is writing evergreen articles. Therefore, the articles ‘live’ long, they do not ‘die’. Such articles have the most chances of earning all through. The content is par time and therefore never gets old. It remains universal irrespective of the time. So, if you concentrate and write with full conviction, it would be possible to earn well through upfront paying sites.

Time-saving

Upfront paying articles save a lot of time for you as a writer. You do not have to spend time on activities like coming back to make the article viral on social networking sites. Once you have written the stuff, it remains forever. As the articles cannot be posted on other sites that also help in giving you more time to write more. The only time you may have to spend is on researching to get the right content.

No need to market consistently

Another plus side of writing such articles is that irrespective of the hits your article gets, you will be getting paid the same amount. In fact, you will be paid the fixed amount even if your article gets 10 hits or 1000 hits. It makes no difference. So, if you leave out the time for marketing the articles, you will have lots of time to concentrate on more writing.

Cons of Upfront Paying

Pays only once

However effort you take to write a high quality article, you won’t be able to earn from it more than what is fixed as upfront payment. If your article becomes popular and gets lots of hits, you will be missing out on the extra revenue it could have possibly earned through page views.

Onetime payment is probably the biggest downside of writing for upfront payment.

Pros of Pageview Paying

If you are good at SEO and keywords, you should invariably go for pageview earning. That is because, if you use good keywords, you will be getting more and more hits to your articles. And more hits mean more revenue.

Pays you for a lifetime

Well, don’t take the meaning of ‘lifetime’ too literally. But, as long as the article is live on the web site, you are assured of getting paid for it. If the subject you have chosen is a current one, you are sure to get more hits. But it does not matter even if the subject you choose is off-topic. You can still market the article to get some decent views. After all, the more views you get, the more you earn.

Selecting hot topics helps

Even if sometimes there are topics that won’t be followed after a certain time has elapsed, still it isn’t a bad idea to write on those hot and trending topics. The reason is that such topics get searched a lot and there are chances that many people are eager to read on the same topic. So, even if for a imitated time, you are sure to get a lot of traffic to your articles.

Cons of Pageview Paying

Needs consistent marketing

If you wish to earn through your articles forever, writing for the pageview model is the best. However, after a certain period, the earnings won't remain the same. So you need to market the articles regularly. However, this eats up a lot of time. So, one should be ready to sacrifice the time for marketing the articles.

Need to be good at SEO

Site Engine Optimization is one thing that is an ever-changing affair and you will have to blend yourself with it. If you are weak in SEO techniques, your well-written article too might not get views that you expect to get for a trending topic. If you can bring traffic to your articles through SEO, you can earn big.

Need to be good at keywords

Nothing can beat the use of keywords in an article. If the right keyword search is done before writing an article and used at the right places, you are likely to get more views than you normally would. I have experienced this myself, so I can certainly vouch for this.

So, take decision on which type of articles you would prefer. There are good earning opportunities at both places.