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Making money online by writing articles

Simonne Matthew
You have probably heard that one of the ways of making money online is to write articles. Good articles would bring you readers, which mean traffic. If you place affiliate links in your articles, and if you manage to raise the interest of your readers, they would eventually go and buy those products you've written about, and you'd earn commissions from the manufacturer.

Making Money Online By Writing Articles

You have probably heard that one of the ways of making money online is to write articles. Good articles would bring you readers, which mean traffic. If you place affiliate links in your articles, and if you manage to raise the interest of your readers, they would eventually go and buy those products you've written about, and you'd earn commissions from the manufacturer.

How much money you could make from these articles depends on many factors, such as how popular your site is, how good are the affiliate programs in your niche, and how much effort and time you are willing to invest in building your site to be an authority in its niche.

Content is not everything, you'll need to think of making your site known, and this can be done without too much spending by doing a good SEO optimization. This means that you have to make sure you use the keywords you like people to find you for in your article titles, headlines, in the text and in anchors of internal links.

Some people say that they make a lot of money by writing articles online, and judging from my own experience, they are probably right: if you are serious and treat it like a real business, a website can bring you as much as $5000 - $1000 per month, or even more.

Your income can come from many sources, both active and passive. The passive or recurring ones can come, for example, from promoting affiliate programs for web hosting, or membership sites, which require monthly payments from subscribers. Each moth you'll get new commissions from the old members, without doing anything more. This is passive income. Another source of passive income is selling ads on your site. You can sell ads either directly, or join an ads network and place their ads on your pages. Active income can come from writing paid articles, either on your sites, or ghostwriting for other people's sites. Depending on your writing talent and skills, you can earn between $5 - $100 per article, or even more, if you become an authority in your field.

After you have built one successful site, you can choose to go on building a second one, then a third one, adding every month some sources of income to your portfolio. The more sites you build, the better your income will be. Plus, you'll be on the safe side if one of the sites crashes or loses Google rankings.

Most of all, remember that building the first site is the biggest challenge of all. The next ones will seem much easier, because you'll already have experience of things which work well and things which don't, so you won't be guessing in the dark anymore.


About the Author
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Simonne Matthew is an entrepreneur, running a small online business, and writing for a series of online publications. She helps people to
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