MAKING MONEY ONLINE FROM WRITING
In this section
we highlight ways you can make money online from writing.
In my experience,
if there is one skill that trumps all others in effectively earning money
online it is the ability to write.
No other skill
has the versatility that writing has. Good writers are sorely underrepresented.
If you can write,
you can make money online (with or without a blog) – guaranteed!
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Blogging
The act of
blogging in and of itself is often free, but that doesn’t mean that blogging
can’t serve as a useful platform from which you can earn money online.
Many people are
earning over 5 figures a month “just blogging”, by combining it with things
like affiliate sales, ad networks, and paid reviews.
Go to the last
chapter of this post to see all of the blogger income reports I have collected.
There are
thousands of blogs started every day and most of them die off over the course
of a few months/years.
From personal
experience I think it is best to start a blog with a purpose/passion – aside
from making money.
This will help
you to be successful in the long run, as it is normal to spend many months
blogging without earning anything.
Here are some of
the best blogging sites you can use to get started:
How To Start A Blog – a post I wrote that will get you up and
blogging in a matter of minutes.
Livejournal – A service for journals and blogs, that
also offers privacy controls, photo storage, publishing tools, style templates,
and online communities for many interests.
Tumblr – Post anything (from anywhere!), customize
everything, and find and follow what you love.
WordPress.com – Free blogs managed by the developers of
the WordPress software.
Includes custom
design templates, integrated statistics, automatic spam protection .
You domain will
look like yourdomain.wordpress.com It’s different from Word Press.org.
WordPress.org – A web software you can use to create a
beautiful website or blog using fully customized wordpress themes, with your own domain name.
***Additionally
if you want to start a blog you are going to need hosting***
I use a few
different hosts for my blogs. I cannot say they are the BEST hosting around.
There are
thousands of hosts. I can say that they work, they are reliable/dependable, the
sites go relatively fast and the support is relatively good.
There may be
better options out there, but these are certainly sufficient.
WPXHosting: This is what we are currently using for the NinjaOutreach.
HostGator: This is what I use for the majority of my
websites. Their shared hosting plan is solid and they have decent support.
SiteGround:This is what Vicky uses for AvocadoPesto,and
I think the support is top notch. 1.2 Blog/Website Monetization
If you have a
blog or a website with content and a following, I’m going to discuss a few ways
you can monetize it through
advertising and
information products.
Concerning the
latter, you certainly don’t need a blog to pull it off.
Anyone can sell
an ebook, for example.
But it is just so
typical for bloggers to do these things, because they tend to be more
successful when you have an audience, that I decided to include them in this
section.
Still, if you
don’t have a blog, you just need to think of another way to reach your target
audience (like a forum, or a simple landing page).
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Contextual
Links and Sponsored Posts
If you have a
blog there are many ways you can monetize the writing portion of it, such as
reviews, sponsored posts, and more. This is actually how I started earning
serious money online.
Often, companies
will pay you to link to them on your blog because they want the increased
exposure as well as the “link juice” that they get from an inbound link to
their website. Be careful with this one because in some instances it can
violate Google’s TOS, which, in the most extreme circumstances, can result in
your website being removed from the search engines.
Blogsvertise – Make money from advertising and generate
ad income from your blog.
BlogToProfit – Make $250 dollars or more by writing new
posts on your blog.
Digital
Journal – A digital
media news network with thousands of Digital Journalists in 200 countries
around the world.
Expo
TV
– Consumer generated video,
social media and peer to peer recommendations enable influential consumers to
share their authentic reviews and opinions.
LinkWorth– Easy text link ads for advertisers and
webmasters to boost link popularity.After your blog has been accepted in their
network, they will pay you $20 to $200 per post
Pay
Per Post–
Get paid as much as $500 or more a month, writing articles and reviews of their
sponsors on your blog.
PostJoint – PostJoint enables content marketers and
publishers to swiftly arrange deals on their own terms. Marketers can quickly
distribute their content and publishers can easily grow and monetize their
sites.
Smorty – Smorty
is a community site that helps bloggers generate a better income, and it could
be defined as a network devoted to blog advertising. The site is split into two
main sections.
Earn $6 to $100
dollars per post you write on your blog, depending on the overall popularity
and page rank of your blog.
SponsoredReviews
– A blog post service that connects advertisers with bloggers willing to write
paid posts about their services and products. They charge a 35% transaction fee
for their services.
Teliad – SEO company for international backlinks
& blogs. I have personally used Teliad and made nearly $1k doing so. They
pay monthly.
