Writing Articles To Make Money Online

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By Mark Knowles

Making Money Online Writing Articles

Writing articles to make money online is a great part time, or even a full time job if you’re dedicated enough. There are quite a few ways to go about bringing in some extra cash, depending on whether you want the money now, or if you’re patient enough to wait for the results to start paying off.

If you’re the patient type of person, you may want to start your own website, or if you are not interested in the technical side of things, hubpages is an excellent place to write at

Blogging about topics and products that you know, and love, that also have value, could be the financial freedom you’ve been looking for.

You can write reviews about products and include a link to your affiliate sales page, which in turn generates a commission for you. You can also write about informational topics that have advertisers bidding on keywords, wanting to offer services or digital downloads. These types of topics do well on AdSense, and provide a great residual income source.

Writing articles to make money online
Writing articles to make money online

As you’re developing the site, you’ll want to take extra time to promote it through different avenues. Figure out which traffic source works best, but chances are, you’ll find that search engine traffic will provide the highest profits compared to your time involved.

Cleaning up your on-page SEO, and promoting through article directories, and guest posting on other related blogs is the quickest way to increased search traffic. However, if you’re looking to make some money now, and don’t have the time to wait for a new site to take off, you could venture onto revenue sharing sites like HubPages and eHow. HubPages will allow you to write articles and use the strength of their site to achieve better rankings among the search engines, and in turn, earn money slightly quicker than starting your own site. eHow, on the other hand, will pay you based on how many impressions the article earns.

For both sites, you’ll want to pick topics that get searched for often, but aren’t overly saturated with competition. If you need money now, you can find web content outsourcing sites that will put you to work fairly quickly.

Depending on your level of grammar, and ability to provide what the customers are looking for, you could earn anywhere from $0.01 per word, up to $0.06 per word or higher. Writing for content development sites is trading your time for money, though, and doesn’t pay the passive, residual income that starting your own site, or even using revenue sharing sites will provide.

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The Loan Arranger 2 years ago

Interesting stuff Mark. Article writing can be a lucrutive business. Heaven knows, we have paid enough for articles in the past!

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Hello, hello, 2 years ago

Thank youMar, for another useful hub.

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wavegirl22 Level 4 Commenter 2 years ago

ah so much to learn . . and so little time :) Well maybe not so little time if you know how to work that time. And reading Hubs like this is teaching me exactly how to do that.

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liswilliams Level 1 Commenter 2 years ago

a lot to be learnt, thanks!

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Pamela99 Level 7 Commenter 2 years ago

Interesting hub with more useful information. I write so often I know I need to find better ways to promote myself. Thanks for the good information.

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katiem2 2 years ago

Good information and very clear. I'd be interested in reading more on this subject for instance how to find the best instructional topics for your subject matter. Great Hub Thanks and Peace :)

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prettydarkhorse Level 2 Commenter 2 years ago

Hi Sir, I will set up a website next month after the 60dc. I need to learn first all the things I can learn about website and this hub is very helpful, Thank you for this hub! Your hubs are always a source of knowledge -- Maita

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suziecat7 Level 5 Commenter 2 years ago

Ehow is changing and going under the umbrella of Demand Studios. Great Hub, as usual - I always learn from you.

Kenny 2 years ago

I agree with you, Mark. Writing acticles is really a lucrative business because there are so many internet marketers out there to outsource their article writing. Once the person masters the niche and have all the resources available, he or she can write tons of articles in just a few minutes.

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DonnaWallace 2 years ago

Thank you, Mark. This is an insightful article, and I look forward to following your advice.

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viking305 Level 6 Commenter 2 years ago

Thank you for an informative hub.

I have signed up for some of the websites looking for articles and have been getting quite a few emails from them. They have lots of people looking for spercific articles paying from $20 to $100. This is one of the things I will definately be persuing. Another branch of my article writing business.

Since joining Hub Pages a few weeks ago I have read so much great information from yourself and other experts here that I am very confident I will be able to create a good living from writing.

Thank you again for such great information

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kev8 2 years ago

good hub, thanks for the information!!

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rowan casey 2 years ago

I write many articles about making money from writing articles online too, and I thought you might be interested in some of the information I have to offer such as: Submitting the RSS feed for your articles to a multiple RSS feed submission site, and using the incoming and outgoing RSS feeds on Facebook pages to make endless automatic links to your articles. I also have plenty of articles on improving the SEO for your articles, like using the right amount of keywords in every paragraph of your article, and writing a long article with lots of incoming links.

I can also show you how to make more money for your articles on Hubpages by writing articles related to the highest paying keywords on Google Adsense. Just click on my name. I hope that the keywords in this comment about making money from writing articles online have helped to boost your Google rating a little, although I am not sure if Google cares about the keywords in the comment box, as opposed to the article body.

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theblackedition 2 years ago

Good hub Mark! I must point out that ehow's TOS has changed now, but there are other great revenue sharing sites. Thanks for another easy to follow hub.

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Jasnav 2 years ago

eHow does not permit revenue sharing for overseas writers, but hubpages does. Still, ehow remains one of the best sites to promote your work and site, if you are smart and knowledgeable about your subject of course.

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TessMoody 2 years ago

I am just starting my article writing and I love it. I know I have to be patient and work hard, but I believe that this is a great way for writers! Great hub!

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shazwellyn Level 4 Commenter 2 years ago

I thought about ehow, Mark, but there has been some changes in ownership and structure, I believe. I like the idea of spinning articles and posting them:)

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