HOW TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE WITH YOUR ARTICLE WRITING SKILLS ?

Blogs or Websites mainly runs on content - more the quality and quantity of content one has more famous or popular it is thus more is its traffic and more is the money it can make. So "Content Is King" is very rightly said because this world of Make Money Online depends on content. This is why there is a huge demand of unique articles among bloggers and webmasters alike. And if you have the ability to fulfill this huge demand of articles then you can earn a lot of money - what you need is your ability to write unique informative articles in plain simple and grammatically correct English. You need not have to be the best article writer on a topic or you need not have to produce the best article each time you write but rather what you need is to write a simple comprehensible article that makes sense and contains some useful information.

This post - How to make money online with your article writing skills? is going to show you some ways by which you can earn some really good money online. I will list ways that are practical and are being used by many with success to make money online. Here are the ways that will help you to make money by writing articles :-


1. Promote Affiliate Products - You can write articles to promote your affiliate products. Write articles that are convincing and brings the feeling of the need of one of your affiliate products and submit them in article directories or as guest posts in different blogs. If you post the articles in article directories then give the affiliate link in the author's bio box. Most article directories accepts affiliate links only in the author's bio box, some also in the body and some do not accept affiliate links at all so read the author guidelines before submitting articles to any article directories. But if you have submit your articles as guest posts then you are generally allowed to place two to three links in the body so use one of the links to promote one of your affiliate products. Remember to promote just one affiliate product per article. Look for article directories or blogs that receive a high volume of traffic to get good results.

2. Start A Blog - Start a blog on a particular niche that is of common interest - write relevant articles frequently and post them on your blog. Learn a bit of SEO and optimize the posts. Remember to include unique information that will be of worth and add value to your blog. Promote your blog both online and offline and you will start to see growth of traffic. Read my post - How to increase traffic to your blog? that will help you. When you start getting considerable traffic slowly start monetizing your blog by placing different CPC ads, banners, text link ads and also your affiliate affiliate links. This is the process that thousands of bloggers are using to make thousands or even millions each month. You can know more on ways to earn money with a blog in my post - "Make Money With Your Blog".

3. Start A Content Website - You must have seen many websites that gives you information on a particular topic - these are content websites. You too can take up the same plan to start a content website. Start a content website on a topic that you have in-depth knowledge and write good informative articles on that topic and put them on your website. Do not forget to optimize your website with both on-page and off-page to get free search engine traffic. You can monetize your website by CPC ads, banners, text link ads, CPA and CPS affiliate links and etc. If you have some information to offer that can be of great value to your visitors and not available anywhere else than you can even charge a small membership fees for access to that information and thus make some more money.

4. Collect email addresses - You can collect email addresses from your blog or website visitors by offering them more useful free informative articles if they subscribe to your news letter. Collect their emails and occasionally send them recommendation of useful products with your articles - remember just do it occasionally or otherwise you may annoy the subscriber and he may stop the subscription. Affiliate products do get sold this way and this is one of the marketing strategies of the successful affiliate marketers.

5. Review Site - Start a review website or blog and write reviews on affiliate products you want to promote. Adopt optimum SEO and start promoting your site. Try to write the review articles in such a way so that they will produce an urge in the readers mind to buy the product - that is try to pre-sell and make the visitor click on the affiliate link and visit the merchant site with a positive frame of mind. This technique is quiet effective - try it and see for yourself. You can also sign up with sites like PayPerPost.com or ReviewMe.com or SponsoredReview.com to get to write review articles for their client's websites, blogs or products on your review blog and get paid straight forward for your reviews.

6. Drive Traffic To Blog Or Website To Make Money - Write quality informative articles and submit them to the popular article directories like EzineArticles.com, ArticleBase.com, ArticleCity.com and ArticleDashboard.com etc with your blog or website links in the author's bio section. You can get a regular flow of traffic to your site from your articles which you can use to monetize your blog or website. Also links from article directories are dofollow and oneway so they have much SEO value thus will also help in getting traffic from search engines by making your site or blog relevant for different search terms. Use proper anchor text for your links to get maximum SEO value.

7. Sell Articles - As I have already stated in the very starting that there is a huge demand for fresh unique content among webmasters and bloggers so you can sell your articles to relevant webmasters or bloggers for some quick and worthy cash. You can make direct offers to webmasters and bloggers for selling your articles or you can advertise on free classifieds, forums and ebay etc to sell them. Keep the price reasonable so that even an average webmaster or blogger can afford to buy them.

8. Revenue Sharing Sites - Start a Lens at Squidoo.com or a Hub at Hubpages.com or join eHow.com or HowHub.com to write "How To...?" articles and get a percentage share of the revenue that they earn from your article pages.

9. Paid Blogging Sites - Join some paid blogging sites which pays you to open a blog on their domain and maintain it with posting articles at regular intervals. Search through Google with the search term "paid blogging sites" or "paid blogging sites list" or with any other relevant search terms to get many such paid blogging sites.

10. Freelance Writer - Write articles for others as a freelance writer and make money. You can find many such freelance article writing projects at freelance sites like GetAFreelancer.com, Elance.com etc. Prepare some articles before hand to provide as samples to your employer to secure a project. Just complete the project on time and get paid. There are thousands of people working as freelance writers and making good money online.

The ways to make or earn money on Internet with your article writing skills are many but I have just made an attempt to give you an idea of some of the ways. If you are interested in knowing different ways in which you can make money online then do read my post - "Ways To Make Money Online" in which you will get a list of more than 100 practical ways to make money online. Let me end here and wish you earn decent money online with writing articles.