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Making Money with Articles: How Much Can I Make?

Gary Knox — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:15:19 +0000

How much you can make from placing articles and affiliate links on your website differs from person to person. How much you are able to make will depend mostly on how successful your site is. This means getting good search engine rankings through SEO efforts, making your site enjoyable and informative to read through engaging content, building your site around a great niche subject, how big your site is, and how many sites you have.

Some people claim to make as much as $10,000 per month ($120,000 per year) through building and promoting niche sites, however, most people should not expect this kind of success, especially if you are very new, as that kind of success usually only comes with experience and acquired skill. A reasonable income to expect from a niche site, after you have worked for months to gain traffic and are hooked up with good affiliates, may be $500-$1,000 per month. However this is recurring income, so you will make that much monthly off of the efforts you put into that one site, it is not a one shot deal.

After you have a successful site, most choose to continue to build niche sites. The more sites that you build, the better an income you can generate. Some also choose to build very fast and very short sites over sites that are slightly longer in length. It should be noted that the larger each of your sites are, the more income you will likely generate off of them.

When starting out, it is important to remember that your first site will always be your hardest, since you are just learning the ropes of the business, and that not everyone is cut out to market and promote niche sites. It may not work out for you and you may end up losing a little bit of money, but that is a risk that everyone in this business has to take.

The important thing is that you don’t give up without a good shot at it, if this is really what you want to do. Your first site may take a long time, the work may be tedious, and you may feel like throwing in the towel. However, if you give up too early, you will never know what could have been. And who knows, you may be the next great website marketer!

Making Money with Articles: Freelance Writers

Gary Knox — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:16:53 +0000

If you cannot or do not wish to write your articles yourself, you can search for the many different outsourcing companies in order to discover a freelance writer to help you grow your business and your website. These freelancers will ghost write articles for you which means that you will own all copyrights to the material that is produced so that you can do with it what you want. Freelance writers have a talent for writing, however, they would rather make quick money off of writing for others, rather than taking the time to build a niche website that will need to be heavily marketed and promoted in order to begin earning revenue. They are usually not marketers, but rather people who have a gift for the written word.

On the other hand, those who are looking to make money from articles are marketers. They are looking to build websites that will give them long term revenue, rather than one quick payment and that is it. This pool of freelance writers will open up a good opportunity for you to obtain the quality, original content that you are looking for so that you can build your niche site and create an income stream from them.

Making Money with Articles: Banner Advertisements

Gary Knox — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:18:58 +0000

When you are attempting to make money from the articles on your website, it is important to effectively promote your site so that you will attract customers and they can see just what a good, quality site you have. There are several ways to market and promote your website, one of them being though banner advertisements.

What Banner Ads Can Do For You

Banner adverts can help bring visitors from others sites to your own. Although monthly fees can be expensive to advertise on high traffic sites, ultimately it might be cheaper and/or a faster way to begin seeing significant revenue from your website efforts, rather than waiting for SEO techniques to bring your site to the top of search engine results. Aside from paying to advertise on someone else’s site, there are also free banner exchanges to choose from. We will look at the pros and cons of each banner advertising method below.

Free Banner Exchanges

Free banner exchanges are when you and other sites exchange each others banners. Their banner will go on your site and your banner will go one their sites. Although this option is free, there are two main problems with it. Firstly, if you want your banner on a significant number of sites, it will mean cluttering your own site up with these banners. This could even shot you in the foot if you run an affiliate website because, rather than clicking on your affiliate links, your visitors could be clicking on your banner exchange links. Secondly, you have to be very careful about the types of sites that you exchange banners with. Some sites like to gather a lot of banners so that they can act as a directory or portal site and not have any real content on them. These “banner farms” or “link farms” will do nothing positive for your site and, in the meantime, you will be bringing them potential traffic.

Paid Banner Ads

As we saw above, paid banner ads cost money, but they will eventually pay off if you choose the right ones. You need to ensure that the site produces the amount of traffic that they say and that they have your ad placed in a way that invites visitors to click without being too pushy. You also want to select a site that does not have too many other banners on the same page as yours or that there are no competitor links on the same page.

All in all, banner ads can end up being profitable for you site if you go about it the right way. If you do decide to check out banner advertisement as a marketing avenue, be sure to keep the above tips in mind.

Making Money with Articles: Ease Into It

Gary Knox — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:15:38 +0000

Making money with articles can be fairly easy for anyone. If you are a quick learner and great reader, then you will be able to acquire everything you need to know right from the Internet without having undergone any previous training. This is in all likelihood the best truth about niche website Internet marketing.

If you are new to the business, your best bet is to ease yourself into it. If you leap in before you know what you are doing, you will have nothing to show for and will in all probability lose money as well. There are several things that you need to make certain you know how to do before you commence creating your first site.

Create your own great articles or hire someone to do it for you. You need something to put on your site.
Optimise your website for search engines. Helps to get your site noticed thereby getting visitors.
Find a reliable web hosting company. If your site is not viewable due to server problems you will lose visitors.
Pick a catchy URL. One that is relevant to your topic.
Create a small site that is easy to navigate, have one created for you, or pay to use a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) website builder.