Can You Make Money Writing Articles ?
If you’re not particularly web savvy but still interested in making money online,article writing on the web could be the next best thing. Even then you do not particularly need be a top writer. Apart from being able to construct grammatically correct sentences and the ability to write clearly,the most important criteria is to have knowledge and interest in a particular field or career.
There is a market in every area of interest. As proof of this,all you need to do is take a look at your local magazine stand. You will find a variety of magazines that cover anything from gardening to financial investments. Sometimes there isn’t enough place on the magazine racks to display all the available magazine so they have to select the ones that have the most demand in their location. If you paid a visit to a nearby town the magazines sold there would be of a different selection to satisfy the local interests.
The only criteria for these magazines when it comes to hiring writers or buying articles is that the articles written hold interest to their readers. Therefore as long as you are able to write interesting articles that people would like to read,you’re in business. The other point to consider is that online magazines or article sites need new material all the time. They cannot rely on old publications when the whole world is moving at break neck speed. So keep in mind that there is always a need for articles,how-to-guides,reviews and so forth.
How Do You Get Paid With Article Writing
The best method of making money with article writing online is to submit them to ezines (electronic magazines). There are many ezines today and they have different models of payment. Below are some of the online websites that pay for articles.
Bukisa offers payment in two ways. In the first method,you will be paid for every 1000 unique views of your article. Bukisa will review their prices per 1000 views every month so the price paid varies.
The second method is when you refer friends or family and they start writing and receiving views. Bukisa will pay you for referrals up to three levels down.
You need a PayPal account to register with Constant Content as an author. Constant Content pays you for each article sold through its website. You can either write your own articles and put them up for sale or you can write to public request which can be found in Constant Content. Either way you can set your own price. Constant Content retains about 35% of each article that is sold as commission and the article writer gets 65%.
Helium is the largest online writing community at 100,000 at the time of this post. There are many ways to get paid in Helium. Helium’s best writers earn cash through:
- Upfront Payments for contributed work
- Daily revenue share
- Writing contests
HubPages combines article writing,pay-per-click and affiliate marketing. Your articles are hosted in their website and ads are placed on the same page as your articles. You get paid when the ads are clicked on or when a sale is made through the ads. In this respect HubPages is unique from the other sites.
In Associated Content it depends where you are writing from. If you are writing from the United States,you will be offered anywhere between $1-20 per article but if you’re writing from elsewhere you will be paid following per 1000 page views. Normally the rate is $1 for every thousand but if your views start increasing the amount paid can be increased to $2.
Online Writing Jobs places advertisements for writing jobs. They include advertisements for copywriting,magazine writing,website writing,content writing,article writing,book writing,proofreading,copy editing,travel writing,journalism,technical writing,research,reviews,resume writing,screen writing and sports writing among others. You just need to go to their website and select your category to see the published advertisements.
ReviewStream is all about reviews and their payment method is quite straightforward. ReviewStream buys reviews at $2.50 per review. When readers read your reviews and vote for it you are paid an additional $0.10 per vote.
Xomba makes use of Google AdSense to earn revenue for themselves and the writers whose articles they publish. You will need to register for a Google account in order to earn money with Xomba. When your articles are published,Xomba will display AdSense alongside your article. Half the time they will publish AdSense using their account and the other half of the time they use your AdSense account. Basically in this way any revenue from AdSense is split between you and Xomba. Your payment is taken care of by Google.
How To Write Articles
The first requirement to writing articles is to have interest in the subjects that you choose to write on. When you have interest it makes the writing easier and even when you run out of material your interest will drive you to do research and gather new material. Readers will warm up to your articles when they sense your passion and they will overlook other flaws that you might have in the art of writing.
Secondly write in a friendly tone as though you are having a conversation with your reader. Show them the real you in your articles and when readers connect with you they will come back for more.
For articles that depend on advertisement make sure you know the technicality of writing such articles such as the right usage of keywords for seo optimization which when done properly will get you the right kind of traffic. Google Adwords or WordTracker can help you generate keywords. Try to use keywords that are popular in search but not too popular to reduce competition.
The above web companies are just a handful and the popular ones in the market. Proper research will reveal even more. So do your research. Also make sure to read the agreement terms and conditions. An important criteria is these websites allowing your articles to be “non-exclusive”. What this means is that you own the rights to these articles and you can submit them to more than one ezine to earn revenue from. This way you can earn multiple incomes with just one article.
Good Luck !
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