Is there any website that pays one cent per word of our articles?
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In addition they will pay you between US$0.0015 and US$0.002 per page view, depending on your level there, regardless of click-through rates, such that successful articles that go viral may well earn you upwards of $1/word. Note that Yahoo! just bought out AC and it is unknown at this time how they plan to change AC's model, if at all.
Demand Studios pays up to US$15 per article but you sign away all rights. They may pay US$5 plus some revenue share for other articles. In my experience though, working with their editors is irritating.
There are many other sites where you may end up getting paid more than US$0.01/word, but that will depend on the amount of ad revenue generated by your article and is not guaranteed, or upfront. See e.g. my answer at http://www.mahalo.com/answers/business-marketing/which-is-the-best-paying-article-site as well as the source cited in @chemist's answer there, which provides another list of article directories and their payment policies.
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Instead, I'd start with smaller markets. You might have to start out for free to get clips -- a lot of people get their start in college with student publications, but there's probably several city publications, nonprofit publications, etc. that will take you on. You could also try local newspapers; it's probably easier to get your foot in the door in their features/living/lifestyle sections, since a lot of smaller papers take outside submissions to fill the paper. Another place you could try is blogs -- be careful here, as a lot of them aren't that reputable, and unfortunately, a lot of editors still don't "get" the Internet. The goal is to get bylines and to get clips, good clips.
Once you do this, you can start pitching story ideas to larger publications that pay more. The hardest part is getting started, but this is much more rewarding -- and it'll get you much, MUCH more money than a cent a word. And much less strenuous work, too!
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I absolutely 100% agree with your statements. However, you do not answer the question. You answer a broader, and possibly more relevant question - what's the best way to develop a freelance writing career? However, the asker's question was very specific - what site pays $0.01/word for articles. Your answer does not provide any such sites. Perhaps the asker does not feel up to submitting queries. Perhaps his command of the English language is not sufficient for the path you suggest. Perhaps he does not have the luxury of writing free pieces to build up a clip portfolio.
It would probably have been best to combine our two answers, starting with my response which answers exactly the question as asked, and then add in your answer as a "however" to specify a potentially better path. This would have been easiest to achieve by putting your response in as a comment on my answer. If you instead preferred to have your own answer, you should have started with a list of potential article sites of your own that responds to the question as stated, followed by your ideas on a better freelance career path.
Another site that you might be interested in is mylot.com. I believe that on it you will earn about one cent per comment and not per word, but you could earn a little money there writing comments to others questions or stories.
There are several writing sites online that I know of but I haven't used them. I heard that pickjack is really good too, but I have not been on there yet.
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It is interesting to note that Mahalo typically seems to pay M$3-M$4 for a (minimum) 300 word page.
At M$4, and if you only wrote the min 300 words, you would have gotten 1c per word.
Plus of course the revshare, which could be a lot more.