Best Sites that Pays you for your Articles.

Associate Content.

You can earn money from Associated Content through in two ways and that is Upfront Payments and Performance Payments. The upfront payments range from $1 - $20 according to the topics and it availability . Upfront payment means the payment offer you get before your article is published.

After publishing your articles, you can also earn through performance payments, which has a PPM rate of $1.50. PPM means the pay per thousand views.
One drawbacks is that Only US citizens and legal residents are eligible to receive the upfront payments.
The more views your articles receive, the higher your clout level becomes. You can submit tutorials,or creative writing, movie, music or television show reviews, video game reviews (with some exceptions), website reviews, recipes, etc. One more good thing about Associated Content is that they allow you to submit previously published articles.

And it is of course free to join Associated Content.

Triond

Triond is another publishing site. You can submit text, video, audio and even your pictures to the site.
You earn money when people click to view your articles. Triond splits its revenue 50/50 with its writers. T If you are hard working and can write well, then this is the new site for you to earn and publish good articles. And see your earnings grow.
It is free to join Triond and open to all.  I write articles for Triond sometimes when i have the time so if you are interested check for substance1 as the author and we can be friends. 

Hubpages

Hubpages allows almost anyone to produce hubs. Hubs are kind of like web pages. You can write any  hub with a topic of your choice . With Hubpages' easy to use tools, you can load up your web  hubs with content, pictures, link or videos.

Hubpages does not pay for the views on your articles. Instead, you get paid directly by Google, Amazon, eBay, or from your affiliates.

It is free to join Hubpages but for this you need to have a Google ad sense account.