Writing Articles for Web Sites
You can Make Decent Money Writing Articles for Web Sites
Those with no special technical skills can make honest money writing short articles to help feed the insatiable demand for fresh material needed by webmasters to maintain search engine raking. Working as freelance contractors can pay about $2 for rewriting existing material and $4 to $10+ for original 450 word articles written order. Most people pick up work at freelance connection sites, like elance, or through article writing brokerages.
Essential skills include fast accurate typing skills, to make decent money you should be able to knock out a pack of 10 articles in a day. An ability to artfully incorporate specified key word phrases as well as producing engaging magazine quality copy will help secure the better paying contracts. A downside of working on the internet is you are a member of a world wide pool of competing talent, many residing in 3rd world countries with low costs of living. Those with a 1st language mastery of American English grammar and culture should emphasize these advantages in their resume.
Here are a coupe of general writer resource sites that should help you get oriented:
PoWar Writing Career Center be sure to check out their Jobs Section.
The Burry Man Writers Center resources for a worldwide community of writers (with an international flair)
About Freelance Writing .com is a freelancer blog
Writing Job Brokers who will provide you assignments
Blog Posts for Sale is a small writing broker, any one have experience with them?
Here’s a review of 26 sites that pay for blog posts
One pitfall writers have to be aware of are bid requests that require sample material, these ban be bogus offers designed to collect dozens of samples for use without compensation. One broker who’s practices have been questioned is contentcurrent a broker claiming a 1000+ writer force, requests a full 500 page article sample as part of the application process, this mini review and it’s comments criticize the operation.
The Paid to Forum Post community, a sister site of contentcurrent, non-the-less may be worth a visit.
Freelance Connection Sites with a emphasis on writing
odesk is a major general freelance site with some 2000+ writing jobs
Get a Freelancer another general freelance site listing 1500+ writer jobs
Sunoasis Jobs for Writers, Editors, and Copywriters
Writing Careers ,com amasses some 1500+ freelance writer jobs from various sites.
FreelanceWriting.com a writing job news aggregator.
Other Methods to Write for Money
AssociatedContent pays about $4 for quality articles of your choice, there are residual benefits for popular articles.
DayTipper reportedly pays $3 for each published tip.
A way to create a little residual income is to create a revenue generating blog, there are numerous free hosts that split the advertising income, here are 30 Adsense Revenue Sharing Sites for Residual Income and Link Building.
If you make some headway doing freelance work, you might consider some course material…
One course I liked, the Freelance Article Writing Secrets Course by Kenneth Rearden containing 5 1/2 hours of recording showing how to build a business and multiply your returns, unfortunately seems to be out of print.
Some commercial writers resources
I’ll leave it to you to evaluate these more affordable selections (found on affiliate sites)
Overnight Writing Income – Hands Down The Best Guide For Beginners.
You Can Make Money Writing – Making Money Online With Simple Articles That Almost Anyone Can Write
Writing Rituals For Marketing Writers & Copywriters - Teaching how to maintain a writers mindset.
Get Paid To Write On The Internet - How To Get Paid With Very Little Or No Experience!
Write Where The Money Is – Fire Up Your Income As A Freelance Writer
Other forms of competition article writes face include private label rights (PLR) packages of pre-written articles, some of these web site start kits authored by writing crews in India, are very inexpensive, there are compilations of 80,000 articles sell for pennies an article. Unfortunately, these stock articles do little to improve a web site’s ranking, due to search engines devaluating these unoriginal “duplicate content” pieces.
Solution to the duplicate content problem include hiring someone to rewrite the articles or automated text re-writer programs, referred to as article spinners. The output of these text manglers is often barely readable gibberish though the latest spinners intelligent use if thesaurus and grammar rules make more passable text.
Making the Big Bucks
To make a real living one probably has to move beyond piecemeal article assembly. Kenneth Rearden describes making $125 an hour in his article writing business by setting his own site supplying quality customers with premium articles, article packages using labor saving style templates and outsourcing.
Creating your own blog may not provide immediate returns, taking perhaps a year of development and regular article writing to produce a blog that with luck will have a big following that merits decent advertising revenue, from that point you can collect passive income with a moderate upkeep effort.
Highly paid writers do copywriters for marketers, creating engaging persuasive copy for web site sales pages and emails, the big names make thousands for single sales letters that are part of million dollar marketing programs. Frank Kern & Yanik Silver are copywriters who teach their techniques, for a price.