Having started blogging extensively a few weeks ago, I have come across four sites that offer the user to enter in an adsense ID and thus earn a cent or two from postings on their site.
The sites are, in order I found them: Soulcast.org, Senserely.com, Writingup.com, and Blogfeast.net. I’ll make a blog post for each, in that order, explaining my views on the site.

DISCLAIMER: It takes many months, if not years, of consistent blogging on a site to earn an income. I have not posted on any of these sites for about a week or two. For this reason, and because my adsense channels are not very extensive, I cannot guarantee any comments about earning money on any of the sites to be accurate.
Hopefully, in a year or two, if I am still blogging heavily, I can share more advice with users on which sites garner an income.

SENSERELY.COM
Senserely has less of a following than soulcast; about 180 or so users visit it on any given basis. However, think of this as the western frontier of blogs: it’s not hard to break into, and become a popular member, on the site.

The great thing about Senserely is that you have a lot of control on adsense earnings. Senserely shares its revenue; any given user, at any given time, can earn money from ads clicked on the site, even if they’re on the blog of another user. However, the process is not a simple divide-and-share one: a server randomly picks two out of all the users to gain earnings at any given time, then chooses the user with the more points (gained by posting.) Because of this, a direct connection is seen between (A how many times you post, and (B the revenue you earn.
Keep in mind that, because the site is rather small, you have a better chance of being one of those users, as well as having more points than others thanks to the rather young nature of the site.

Then again, what Senserely boasts in income it loses in community. In the 30 or so posts I’ve made on the site, I’ve had about two comments in total. You’d be hard pressed to find a user that subscribes to another, or any care about who has the most subscribers. Here, on the western fronteir, it’s all about posts and little about comments. Because of this, the site can feel very lonely when nobody comments on your latest entry.

The Pros: Senserely is an adsense machine, with the fuel being your posts, not how many people subscribe to you or how many views your post gets.

The Cons: Community is nearly non-existent on the site, meaning you can’t expect much interaction. This doesn’t bode well for those who blog to talk with other people on the internet. The color scheme, too, could use plenty of tweaking, as well as the slightly cramped layout.

The Verdict: Senserely has a great system going with Adsense, allowing users who post many entries to see a direct connection between their posting habits and their earnings. Then again, the community here is severely underdeveloped, and you’d be hard pressed to find comments on a blog post. Also lacking is an indicator of how many views a post has, so you may never be sure about just how many users are reading your posts on the rabbit situation in Machu Pichu.

Adsense Rating: 9/10. The system works.
Community Rating: 3/10.
Overall Rating: 7.5/10. It’s going to net you some income, but won’t give you many conversations with other users.


WRITINGUP.COM
Out of the four sites, Writingup is the large one. Top users have almost 10,000 points from blogging. At any given point there are about 3,000 guests viewing the site, and overall I’m sure the number of users posting here is in the tens of thousands.

Writingup does a lot of things well. Its front page lists the latest posts, meaning whenever you submit content, those 3,000 guests will see YOUR post right on the top of their screen. Because of this, it takes just seconds for a post to amass a decent number of views: I find that most of my entries manage about eight or nine reads, on average, many attaining such a number in about thirty seconds. In other words, this site has been optimized to give your posts plenty of readership.

At times I find the community to be a bit stale. As with any site, there are users who are well known and have a good amount of community going around them; the problem, however, is that although users are “ranked” by the amount of entries in blogs that they have made, breaking into the top list would
require a solid year of posting- it’s that big. Though your sites will get plenty of views, comments, and having your name be considered as a regular, will not be an easy task. The site claims users can make about one thousand dollars a month after a good year of posting; whether or not this is true will have to wait to be seen.

The Pros: If you want your writing to be noticed, regardless of your status, this is the place.
For that matter, if you’re really into blogging, this site could reap huge rewards if you become one of the most popular users.

The Cons: Your post may get featured, but you won’t: with so many users on the site, it’s hard for anyone to make out a household name. If you want to be noticed yourself, try a site that doesn’t have a five-digit number for the amount of users on the site.

The Verdict: Writingup is a lot like New York: If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. “Making It” requires determination and consistency perhaps not required as much for other sites, but will reap sizeable rewards based on just how many people enter and exit this site. If you stick with it, no doubt some earnings will, in the end, follow. In the end, this site is great for attracting views- whether comments will come depends on how much effort one is willing to give.

Adsense Rating: 7/10. At the least, your posts WILL get views, at the most you’ll have hundreds taking a look at each of your posts.
Community Rating: 5/10.
Overall: 6.5/10. Post in it for a while, however, and this will be a great site for people to see your content.



BLOGFEAST.NET
Blogfeast was started the day I signed up. Keep in mind that I’ve only been blogging seriously for about two weeks. Yep- this little site is about eight days old, but growing fast.

Blogfeast, to set it apart from its competition, has many great features. A tweaked points system rewards not just posts, at three points an entry, but comments as well, giving users one point for each post they make in someone’s blog. This gives users an incentive to drop by and say hello in your posts, and out of the four sites Blogfeast, by far, has garnered the most comments per posts for me out of any site that I’ve visited.

This, however, is just the start. “Dollar Auctions,” a clever way for the administrators to distribute a bit of money to bloggers, allows users to bid for a small sum of money- the last one was $5- with points. In other words, those ten or so posts you made, already, perhaps, giving you adsense income, will also garner you thirty points, allowing you to bid for even more money. In other words, not only does getting to be one of the featured users incite members to comment, they can also get extra money from helping out the community.

The site is still small, meaning it’s not hard to get noticed. This does wonders for an already well-supported community; it takes very little work to be one of the most frequent posters. Of course, this means that few people are around to click on your ads, but it’s a fair trade- you also have the opportunity to be the points leader with not too much work, giving your posts extra recognition with people clicking on your name.

The Pros: Dollar Auctions, points for commenting, and a vibrant community make Blogfeast a site that cannot be passed up.

The Cons: Few users mean fewer people clicking on your ads. Also, a little bit of post spam has been going around so that people can harness more points for bidding.

The Verdict: Blogfeast is the latest site I’ve seen, but quite possibly the best: as long as you post often, comments and views are nearly guaranteed, and dollar auctions don’t hurt, either. No matter what type of blogger you are, this site should not be passed up.
Adsense Rating: 8/10. Your posts get views, and the user number is growing.
Community Rating: 8.5/10.
Overall: 8.5/10.





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