Article Marketing – Making Money Writing Articles

Looking to start a part-time or even full time business, but have limited amount of money? Not a problem. You can make money a few ways even without a web site. If you

know information or can do some research and write about it, this is a great opportunity for you. I will give you some ways to make money as a freelance writer.

Writing for yourself part-time is a great opportunity. I do it in my spare time just to earn a little more cash. There are a few ways to make some extra cash such as, Bidding

on job postings for freelance writing jobs (can earn between $5 - $50 an article!), Submit your article to places that you earn points or

cash to submit articles and some times gifts, or you can write articles and signup for an affiliate program and earn money every time someone buys the product your

promoting. Lets get started.

1. Post articles to earn points / money. Web sites such as http://www.informationonthis.com give you points and money for every article you post, most of the web sites

depend on how much money they make through advertising, so if you help promote your articles on these sites the more your points will be worth in the long run. I know

informationonthis.com also gives you points for refering other writers and people to signup for their free service. This is also a great place to find information on a lot of

subjects.

2. Freelance writing and bidding for jobs. Search the internet for "freelance jobs," most web sites have a category just for copywriters and writers. Web sites are in need of

fresh content to keep their site a live and in the great eyes of the search engines that crawl their web sites daily. You can earn (depending on your bid and agreement)

between $5 - $50 an article and most of the listings are for multiple articles or even just message board posts. The most popular freelance job site out there is elance.com,

but it does cost money to be able to bid on projects, so I would go to other web sites that offer freelance jobs that costs nothing and see if this is something you really want

to do.

3. Signup for an affiliate program and write an article on the subject and promote the article through either step 1 or through other free article directories. Find a product that

you want to write about signup for the affiliate link and write at least a 500 word article on the subject. Then submit the article to as many "free article" directories where

other web sites can use your article to post on their web sites. By doing this it promotes your article for free and gives them free content, but why you might ask? Because

you can create a small resource box at the end of your article like the one at the end of this article with your affiliate link and every time someone clicks that link and signs

up for the product / service you make money and this can be an ongoing income. I have done this and it sometimes takes about 12 - 15 articles until you start to notice a

nice income through this means.

This is the top 3 ways a freelance writer can make some extra money just doing part time work with no hassle. It usually takes me about 15 - 30 minutes to write an article

on a subject that I know about, but I know that it will help my income for years to come.

Residual Income Stream - Lesson 2

This is lesson 2 of the Residual Income Stream Series. Hopefully you already signed up for Hubpages. If not, please go now. You're never going to make any money by reading. So many people spend years, that's right, years, searching online, reading, researching and have all this great information but never do anything with it. The steps that I am showing you are small so that no one gets overwhelmed. If you can't do any of the small stuff, then seriously, making residual income online is just not for you.

So the reason why I asked you to go sign up for a hubpage account is because is it's a great way to create a page that will score well in the search engines assuming that you picked a relatively non-competitive topic to write about. Think of it as a blog but the difference is you have the power and authority of Hubpages on your side. Google loves hubpages, I don't know why, no point in arguing. So because of this, we can use this fact to our advantage. The cool part is that on Hubpages, they let you put Adsense on there. This is how you will make your money, which is also free.

Adsense is a program ran by Google to put ads on publishers' sites like your blogs. When people come to your site and click on the ads, you make some money off of it. The amount of money you make per click will depend on your topic, how well your site is optimized, and how to visitor found your site. Typically, you would have to start a blog like this one and start building content and getting backlinks in order to rank in the SERP's (search engine results page). This is important because search engines is how your site will be found. If you don't have people coming to your site, then you won't make any residual income.

I'll take you through building your own blog for free as well since that will be your main source of income, most likely. You may find that your hubpages might make you more money. So if by now you still haven't signed up for Hubpages, please do so. After you finish, you will be one step closer than most people to building residual income.

After that, you want to sign up for a blogger account. This will serve as your main blog when you can use your hubpages to link to in order to give it more power in the search engine results. You'll see how this all plays out in some future posts. For now, just do those two things.

Once that is done, you'll be able to follow me better as I take you through how this whole internet game works. Yes, it's all a game. The people who know how to play the game are the ones that dominate the markets and make all the money. The ones who don't know the game, no matter how good of a writer they are, no matter how good of a person they are, or no matter how hard they work, will never beat the people who know how the game works.

After the next few posts, you will know how the game works and will be another big step closer to building a residual income stream.