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5 Sites That Will Pay You For Your Coding Knowledge

So, you think you know your stuff, you code like a Ninja, you practically own the internet, but does someone pay you to do it?

Obviously, I’m not talking about your paid daytime job here, I know that many people make their living from being a web designer. What I’m talking about is the blog owner who writes tutorials on his own site as a hobby, maybe gets some small ad income, but feels his knowledge is worth a little something.

Or maybe you’ve got a spare hour where you aren’t working, and feel like picking up a few hundred dollars?

Writing guest posts is also an invaluable source of traffic and also serves to improve your reputation and brand awareness.

Listed below are 5 sites in the Web Design and Coding market that will pay you to write for them. These aren’t your usual payperpost style sites, they are all established in their market, and all have huge RSS followings for you to tap into.

RSS subscriber count correct at time of writing

Pro Blog Design

The payment on PBD works on a sliding scale. You get paid $50 for your first accepted article, $60 for your and third and $70 for your fifth. There is also a $5 extra as an incentive if you reply to 3 comments within 48 hours.

Those of you who read my blog regularly will know that I recently wrote an article for PBD on the post_class function

RSS Subscribers: 7915
Twitter Followers: 4609

Nettuts

This is just an example of one of the many sites in the Envato network that offer paid guest posts. You can write paid guest posts on all of the sites in their tuts network, but Nettuts is the most suited to the web design niche. The price for accepted tutorials in the tutsplus series is $150, and there is a list of topics that they’d like to see discussed:

• HTML / CSS techniques
• Javascript techniques
• jQuery or similar libraries
• CMS’s – WordPress, Expression Engine, Joomla, etc
• Simpler PHP & Rails techniques

So as you can see, there is a wide topic base, so the chances are you can find something to write about.

RSS Subscribers: 47,231
Twitter Followers: 18,565

FreelanceSwitch

Again from the Envato network, but as it has a slightly different angle, coming from the perspective of freelancing, I’ve included it as well. You can earn $60 for an accepted article that

• looks at How-Tos
• lists resources
• talks about writing for the web
• or is any kind of what they themselves refer to as “linkbait”

RSS Subscribers: 44,873
Twitter Followers: 18,880

Tutorial9

As they say, “If you’re skilled with Photoshop, Photography, or Blogging, we’ll pay you $150 to $300 for your work.” Who can refuse such an offer?! This is one of my favourite sites at the moment, and if any you don’t read it, you should!

RSS Subscribers: 24,263
Twitter Followers: 7,965

Sitepoint

Sitepoint lists exactly the sort of tutorials they are looking for, so if you know you write well, and have something interesting to offer on one of their desired topics, the $100 retainer should be in the bag! They too, like PBD, have a sliding pay scale, dependent on page views, so you can earn up to $350 for your article.

• +$50 10,000 pageviews
• +$100 25,000 pageviews
• +$150 50,000 pageviews
• +$200 75,000 pageviews
• +$250 100,000 pageviews

RSS Subscribers: 860,442
Twitter Followers: 57,764

What to do now

There are two ways you can go about writing guest posts. The first is to get an idea of the tutorial you want to write, and see who currently wants articles on that topic and send it to them. Alternatively, look at the lists that some of these sites provide on what they are looking for, and write a tutorial that you know they are already going to be interested in.

Some sites require you to have the article fully written before submission, but if you’re concerned about wasting your time if it doesn’t get accepted, then don’t forget you can always post it to your own blog, or if you don’t have one, but still write on web development, get in touch and I can maybe publish it here.

With this same logic in mind, apply to the site where you’d most like to be published first, or to whoever pays the most , and then work your way down. This way, your chances of success are much higher, and the rewards greater if your article is accepted by the first site you apply to.

So, get writing!