I've been a full-time freelance writer for a long time. I've never written for any of the revenue-share sites as a source of income - only as a top-up at the end of an article's useful life. They simply don't pay enough money for my time or effort.
I'm subscrbed to several free ezines that give out high-paying freelance jobs from all over the world each week. The average pay rate is usually $400 per 1,000 word article for a feature article in a print magazine.
Once an article is sold, the copyright returns to me so I can resell it. Resale rights usually sell for around $50-100 for the SAME article in a different publication/website.
When the rights return once again, THEN I'll dump it on a cheapie website like Constant Content for $10 or some pitiful amount of money as a reprint only.
Once it's sold a few times, then I'll throw it on Ezine Articles to get people to my site as a freebie.
BUT - if you start at the bottom first (cheap, useless revenue-sharing sites) then you can't work backwards.
Just my two cents
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