What would you chose? A blog, or a website that pays you to write?

This is something that I have a big debate about. Every day when I write a good blog post, I think,"Should I publish it on Associated Content, my blog, or Triond?" It is a really difficult choice. Are paid writing sites better than blogging? Or is it better to get the residual income that you get from your blog? Would you prefer to have your content published immediately? Or would you want a distant reviewer to review it, and then let you publish it? They are hard to answer, but they really depend on what you want.

When it comes to writing online, there is two reasons why people do it. Number one is that they want to write what they want and become a known writer in the internet. The second reason is to make some money. From either side, there are a lot of people doing it.

If you just write for recognition, it is an extremely difficult decision to either publish to your blog or to a paid content site. Even if the paid content site is not in the top 500 Alexa group, your blog is probably not in the 100,000's. But with your blog, you can instantly publish, with no worry about when your stuff is going to get published. What do I say? I don't know what to say. If you do publish your content at a submission site you will get the recognition. Not only will you get that, you might even make money. But if you do publish to that site, you won't have content for your blog. If you do publish the same content for your blog, you won't be able to be found on Google; the search engines will label the content as duplicate, and you won't get recognition, or money. So if you have a popular blog, go ahead and post the content there. If you just started blogging, don't bother to. All you have to do is put in a link to your blog on your articles.

If you want money, I have the same advice. If you have a popular blog, post it there. You will make a lot more money than those paid submission sites. If you don't have even a bit of traffic to your blog, use your articles to direct traffic to your blog. Not only is it free, you get paid to drive traffic to your own blog! Why not just make money from those articles? Because blogging can make you a lot more money in a lot less time than those sites.

Now should I post it this article to Triond, Associated Content, or my blog :). I wonder.......