Stop aimlessly searching Google for freelance websites that make you bid on all your writing jobs. Here's the best five websites you can use to find online writing jobs almost instantly.

When I began as an online writer, I knew I could make money writing short articles, but I had no idea where to look for my online writing jobs. It took a good friend of mine telling me about a goldmine of a website to finally get the hang of where to look.

Now, a few years later (and a hundred years wiser!) I'm a writing coach helping my students find writing jobs at the very same places that I work. If you're a newbie writer - or even a seasoned one - and you're trying to find online writing jobs that actually pay you for your articles, here are the top five writing websites I've used to make money. You can apply to them to make money, too.

1. Associated Content

I recommend that all my students begin at Associated Content. With no startup requirements (which means it's a great spot for newbies) you'll be making money in two weeks or less. Better still, you can write about whatever you want to. The editors will assess your article and determine how much they want to pay you for it. Once it's published, you'll make extra money whenever a reader views your article.

2. Break Studios

If you want to write with a little bit of sass, Break Studios is the place to go. You can write for Cage Taco, Made Man, Chickipedia and other entertainment websites. Articles pay $8 a pop and are fairly easy to write.

3. Bukisa

Bukisa is a performance-share only website that pays more than $3.00 per thousand article views. So if you have 50 articles on your account, you can drive thousands of traffic views to your articles and make quite a nice pile of cash. You can put your non-exclusive and display-only articles from Associated Content here once they're published.

4. Bright Hub

Bright Hub is great for writers who want online writing jobs writing articles in a particular niche. Sign up for the categories of your choice and write at least one article per month for each.

You'll be paid $10 per article plus a revenue share for each time your article gets a hit. This is one of the best online writing jobs on the web!

5. Demand Studios

Here's where your real bread and butter comes into play. Get paid anywhere between $7.50 and $15 per article, and choose from over 250,000 assignments at any given time.

Okay, so the editors are a smidgen more picky here than at the previously mentioned online writing jobs sites. But once you get the hang of writing articles here, you'll never want to quit!

They pay twice a week, so you can rely on Demand Studios to be your part-time or full-time online writing job.