Make Money as a Writer on Revenue Sharing Sites

Revenue sharing sites are not a unique idea - in fact - you are on one right now - Hubpages is one of the most successful revenue sharing sites in terms of quality and user base. But those of you who read me regularly know I am always on the lookout for new ways of making money as a writer - and preferably passive income.

To whit - I came across an interesting adsense revenue sharing site recently called answerspay.com. What made it interesting to me was the split and potential income. Splits vary from site to site - hubpages for example splits the page views 60/40 in your favor - you write an article, they take 40% of the page views - which I think is a very fair deal for providing such a high quality platform.

Answerspay.com splits the revenue like this:

• Admin: 10%
• Question Maker:10%
• Best Answer: 70%
  
• Other answers: 10%

As far as I am concerned - what makes this split interesting is that you can earn money 2 different ways, depending on your skill set. If you are good at research and finding a "hot" question - you can make money by asking a question that generates a lot of answers. If you are good at answering questions and get your voted up - you stand to take 70% of the revenue from those pages.

I have joined and am trying out the site already - I have of course - asked a few contentious questions in the hope of generating lots of answers. As the site is new I wouldn't care to guess how much you can make - but I certainly like the idea of taking 10% of the income from a popular question without doing much more work. Don't get me wrong - like all online money making - this is not a magic bullet - you are going to need to devote a reasonable amount of time to this - maybe 20 minutes a day - in order to make any money, because you want your google ads on as many pages as possible. How popular they become will partly depend on their users.

It is actually fun, and joining is easy - all you need do is add your name, email and google publisher ID to your profile and away you go. If you do not have a google adsense account - there is a link to the right here to sign up and open a free account.

Google adsense is probably the easiest and most prolific way of making money writing on the internet. It is certainly the most trusted. If you take a look at Yahoo Answers, you will see just how popular this model can become - and perhaps more importantly - how often they appear in the search engine results.

Obviously - the better quality your answer - the more likely it is to be voted up by the other users, and the greater income potential you have. This is also a good way of learning the adsense ropes and getting some exposure to how SEO works.

I cannot emphasize enough how important quality is. Simply dumping poorly written questions - or answers - will probably result in getting your account deleted. Like hubpages - quality is vital and the search engines are improving all the time in sorting the wheat from the chaff.