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!
· 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.
HostGator: This is what I use for the majority of my websites. Their shared hosting plan is solid and they have decent support.
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).
· 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.
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