Examiner.com

Examiner is not paying what it says it will to writers Beware - Anyone that goes to the examiner.com web site and signs on to write for them should beware. They promise their writers one-cent (yep) per page view, then when you do write for them, they make all kinds of excuses why the page views and payment are not in sync.

Examiner.com is abusing people for their own gain. They want you to write, have ads pop in that can be accidentally clicked on and are very annoying, and they make money off of it.

Avoid them like the plague!

Nitrogen enriched gasoline is bad - This is a good article about Shell's new nitrogen enriched gasoline. It contains several additives that release 200x more pollution, destroy paint, eat fuel lines and plastic, while promoting fungi growth in your fuel system. Shell worked with automanufacturers to develop a way for us to keep giving them money.

Read full article here:

http://www.examiner.com/x-4824-Tampa-Sports-Car-Examiner~y2009m3d22-Nitrogen-Enriched-Gasoline

I wrote for them for Examiner.com for nearly six years and in that whole time, even though my articles always had a great deal of views, I made a whopping $10 a month, and that is being generous. If you don't care about money, though, this is the website for you because trust me, you won't make any here.

At first, writing for them was fine. The editors that Examiner.com employs are pretty useless and don't even read things properly. They once told me that I spelled the word "your" incorrectly, which I did not since the word I was using, within the context of the sentence, was in fact "you're." They probably had to justify their pay with corrections, so they always made stupid corrections like capitalizing words even when they should not have been capitalized. The number of times I had to re-submit articles for stupid corrections that their so-called editors made became far more trouble than it was worth to write for the peanuts this website paid. An editor of a high school or junior high school newspaper could have done the job just as well as these so-called professionals.

Their ads are now all over the place, making it extremely difficult to load and read articles. The community pages, where we Examiners used to speak with each other and air our grievances, was also taken away because pretty much everyone who had written for the site for any length of time would say how awful the website had become. Incentives were once offered as a way for the writers to make extra money by publishing an article with a video, slideshow, or a certain number of photos. Those incentives are nowhere to be found now. They are less concerned about having a useful, functional, and user-friendly website than they are with having ads that make them money (which certainly doesn't go to any of the writers) and a social media presence.

Since I wrote for Examiner.com for years, I once recognized the names of other long-term writers for the site who had a strong presence on the site. Most of those writers have since moved on, which I am about to do now. If you want to write, start your own blog. You will have more of a chance of making money with that than you do with Examiner.com these days.

UPDATE:

Well, now since Examiner.com has folded, I guess that pretty much tells you everything you need to know about their flawed business model.