Earn Money Online Web Writing

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Making money online with good web writing is a very good possibility. There are just too many ways these days to take your online writing and make some money from it. Web content writers are in high demand and as more and more non-writers start trying to make money with blogs and websites they'll become even more sought after.
 
I came up with a list that you may want to keep in mind if you're just stating your online writing venture. To earn money online is more of a puzzle than anything else. The good news is that all the pieces to that puzzle are either supplied to you online or within yourself-you just gotta' piece them together. Ready? Let's start making money online!
 

Content Rules With Web Writing

 
Web writers who already earn money online will tell you, in most cases, that content rules. I agree with this to a point. However, you will find plenty of blogs and other online articles that really suck that are making money. Why? Well, that's factor number two.
 
Remember, your content is you on the web. What I mean by that is everyone is different; we speak, write, act, think, and see things differently. Unless you're a technical writer then your web writing should have some tone or voice that directly reflects you onto the page or screen. My favorite way to describe this is with this little blurb: "Rich Content, Casual Tone"
 
Sure, your content needs to be spot on, but what's to say that you can't joke and be different in your web writing? The best way to make money online is to stand out and keep people coming back. Be creative and incorporate SEO (search engine optimization) in all of your web writing.
 

Power of the Web On Your Writing And Earnings

 
No matter how tight your web writing skills are, you'll never make money online if no one knows about it or can find it. So, the online writing platform that you're using is very important. This is the reason why most veteran or successful web writers will urge newbies to start writing for sites that already have page rank.
 
Places like HubPages, Squidoo, Suite 101, InfoBarrel, and Y!CN and Triond are popular because they already have high page-rank, a large reading audience and easy ways to monetize. Suite 101 even has an editorial feedback system that will help you polish your web writing skill and lead to you making more money online. The problem with those sites is that in exchange for their page-rank and platforms they share the money that your article makes with you.
 
What's the alternative? Start your own blog on your own domain. This is very much worth it but just be prepared-it takes a while to actually gain a readership and earn decent money. Many bloggers who eventually make started by both writing for their own blogs and the above mentioned sites to assure some money was being earned.
 
Other bloggers are dirty. They have substandard content placed on crappy sites that they own and have managed to get them to rank high in search engines results by building backlinks with automated software. Poop!
 

Diversify Your Web Writing Venues

 
You'll find hundreds of online web writers who swear by a certain site. Some love Suite 101 and hate Hubpages. Others write only for their own blogs and will never touch those places. My best advice is to have as many writing sites available to you as possible. When Google throws another algorithm update then some places may not survive it.
 
Online writing can be a fickle, nasty beast. One day you're loving life and the next you're sucking wind. Just ask all those ex-eHow writers that had the rug pulled out from under them! Online writing is fun, can be lucrative but you need to ensure that you have many baskets for all of your eggs. To really ensure you earn money online you need have lots of articles in lots of different places.
 

Search Engine Optimzation

 
Aah, the dreaded SEO. Let's be honest though, when web writing you need to have a basic understanding of it. There are tools out there that can help. Read my articles on InboundWriter and Scribe to get an idea. Besides that, building backlinks (naturally!) will help get your web writing noticed and ranking higher in the search engines. And believe you'll notice the difference! Having an article or blog post ranked in the top 3 of Goolge search will almost guarantee that you earn money online. 

Commenting in blogs and forums with links to your articles, blog posts, or the profile page of the writing site are two great ways to start building backlinks. Then there are other ways like social bookmarking on Digg and StumbleUpon. Having a featured link on those two sites will help you earn money online as well.
 
Do you have anything you want to add? Maybe you do something differently? Let us know!

 

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Web Writing Success Is About 3 Things

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The title? Yeah, simple and catchy and 100% TRUE. There are only 3 things you really need to be concerned with when it comes to web writing for money. The new web content/SEO software that I've decided to promote is called Scribe. Scribe Makes SEO Simple

The 3 Most Important Web Writing For Money Characteristics

1. Keywords
2. Content
3. Links

Do you know why your web writing for money online depends so greatly on those 3 things? Because those are the three key elements in SEO. Implement SEO and you get attention grabbing content that people want to read and, more importantly…share with their friends and business partners.

People trust a peer or relative recommendation 70% than they do an advertisement. Do advertisements still work? Sure, but only in a purely organic way. If you want someone to take action then you need to recommend that they do so and they better trust you when you do it.

How Does Scribe Make Your Web Writing Better?

• First, the Scribe keyword research tool tunes you into the right language before you write. Once your content is created, the Scribe keyword suggestion service shows you keyword phrases you might have missed.

• Second, Scribe analyzes your natural, reader-focused content, and tells you how to gently tweak it to spoon feed search engines based on 15 SEO best practices.

• Third, Scribe’s link building tools help you build back links from other sites, crosslink the content within your own site, and identify influential social media users who want to share your stuff.

Sure, we can all do a little keyword research and tweak our own text until it reads crisp, natural and optimally enhanced for conversion. So, the first and second aspects of what Scribe does is just more of an "instant outsource. It takes the thought out of it and allows you to do what you do: Write for the Web.

Personally, I like the 3rd aspect the most. With Scribe's link building tools you're almost assured re-Tweets, shares, RSS subscriptions and email passes. Scribe takes the most influential people in your niche and places your content in their face. What does this mean? Huge audiences that follow a trusted name in the niche. Remember: People trust a peer or relative recommendation 70% than they do an advertisement.

And here's two other great things about Scribe that made me want to promote their product.

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• Why SEO Copywriting Still Matters
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• How to Create Cornerstone Content That Google Loves
• Five Link Building Strategies That Work
• Five Areas to Focus On for Effective SEO Copywriting
• Why Writing for People Works for Search Engines
• How to Make SEO Simple

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I think by now you can see how Scribe can help you in your web writing endeavor. Imagine your Hubs going viral? Imagine your Squidoo Lens being featured on the front page? Imagine your blog post being dispersed by a huge personality in your niche?

Can you see it?  Does it look great? Then you need to check Scribe out. See Scribe SEO In Action!

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Web Writing Isn't Everything

Image by 7th U.S. Army JMTC via FlickrI'm at my best in the mornings. You would think that I use that as my writing time.  I don't.

Call me a fool but I choose to use my night, quiet time as my writing time.  Sure, I'm at my best before 9 a.m.  While I'm at my best in the mornings, my best web writing happens at night. Gimme' a couple cups of coffee and a cigarette and I'm ready to roll.  Most of the good stuff happens then and I choose to use it for stuff other than writing.

• Work out.

One of the thing that I think many web writers and bloggers forget about is their physical fitness.  Well, I'd like to remind you all of two things.  One, health and life insurance isn't cheap so it greatly  benefits you to stay in goo shape.  I mean, "not on the brink of death if you get up to get a cup of coffee" shape.  And, secondly, we all want to make lots of money with our web writing but what good is it if we die when we're young.  Work out!

• Chores/Housework

I'm a geographical bachelor which, in the military, is a common term.  What it basically means is this:  I'm happily married with lots of kids but they don't live with me.  I have to maintain my household, keep it in living conditions and ensure that I'm not getting over run with cockroaches.  I do this in the mornings, too.

• I Surf The Web

This may come as a surprise but web writers, especially those wanting to earn money, need to keep up with the latest trends, hot topics and styles.  I do this in the mornings.  I read blogs, read the news, research topics and check stats.  I don't want to be bothered with this "crap" at night when I'm actually writing.

I'm not rich.  I'm not the world's Number 1 Web Writer.  I make money from my writing though, and I want to help you to do it, too.  So subscribe and let's go for a ride!

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What Do You Make Per Word?

                                     Image via Wikipedia I know.  A lot of web writers don't want to say what they make per word.  It's embarrassing.  Well, no; I take that back.  To web writers it isn't embarrassing because all of us have been in a spot where we are making peanuts.  To others though...brrr.

People who can't write will cringe at the fact that you might make a penny or less per word.  There's a simple reason for it.  They don't like to write.  To write 100 words for them is like pulling out finger nails and being water-boarded at the same time.  To us, writers/web writers, words come quick and easy.

When I first started writing on the web for money I was doing ALL of my work for a place called LondonBrokers.net .  I promise you.  I'll probably never do that again.  They were paying something likey $6.86 for a 500 word article plus 2 re-writes.  1500 words, 2 hours...for less than seven bucks.  Frig' that...and frig' them.

So, did I work my way through the web writing ranks and now make a lot of money?  Not exactly.  Though, I make a little more than a penny or two per word now. 

I joined Break Studios about 1 year ago and started writing some article or blog posts for Made Manual and Break which are their highly trafficked sites.  I started out like everyone else.  One article of 250-700 words made $8 and at the time it was a landfall.

I guess someone there liked me because they chose me for a program where the articles make $12 and have a lot better topics and titles to write. 

And you know what?  I haven't written much for them since. 

Why?  I don't know.  I guess that was one of the reasons I decided to start my own blogs and do my own web writing for my own domains.  My money is my money.  My effort is my effort and it was a validation that I could do this; at least a little bit.   It is at times like those that I constantly think about the 2004 Red Sox World Series win and their motto in the playoffs:

"Why Not US?" so...

WHY NOT ME?

And you know what?  WHY NOT YOU?

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Some Light In The Tunnel

                                   Image via WikipediaIf you own a blog that you post on then you're a web writer.  If you have ads and hope to bring in some cash with that blog then you're a web writer for money.  If you don't have one of those things going on then I suggest that you start immediately.  Why write only for other people?  Write for yourself, too!  Pick a topic that you love and get to writing and creating content for you.


 

Web Writers: Write YOUR Blog Posts, Not Someone Else's

Image via CrunchBaseIt bothers me.  No, it drive me freakin' bananas.  I hate to see great writers construct great blog posts and make a penny or two per word! Geezum!  This is America!  (That's where I am anyway!)  Why should people toil for hours and put crack their brains doing keyword research for someone else's hosted or self-hosted domain blog?  It just doesn't make sense that web writers make other people lots of money while they make themselves the minimum money.

Writing Web Content? Listen To Google!

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If you're a web writer online you're always going to be trying to figure out how to do it and get the traffic and the conversion.  In most cases, you're ability to earn money online by writing web content will rely greatly (around 95%) on people being drawn to your sites and clicking on ads and buying from advertisers or buying your products.  Either way you're going to need great content.

Good Web Writing Produces Content That:

• Hits Search Engines Quickly and Powerfully In The Rankings 
• Traps A Readers Attention Once They're On the Page 
• Has A Definitive Call To Action 
• Draws People Back To Your Content And Pages Via Subscriptions and RSS

The Hand That Feeds The Traffic Monster

So if you're trying to write the kind of good content that gets people to your site why wouldn't you listen to the mother of all search engines…The Big G, The Goog's…Los Google.

Google actually provides and in-depth, 32 page, Search Engine Optimization Guide.   The Google Guide Deals with these focus points to help you enhance your web writing and web pages for search engine visibility:

SEO Basics Improving Site Structure

Optimizing Content 

Dealing With Crawlers

SEO for Mobile

Promotion and Analysis

Are you saying, "What the - -!  I didn't know that Google does all that for me.  Now I can make my stuff ready to be crawled and indexed for the maximum money making opportunity for my web writing?"

I thought you might be!  See? Aren't you glad you stopped by? If you're interested in other tips on blogging, web writing, SEO and just plain fun then visit me at BloggingDudes.com, an online resource for Blogging Dads!

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The Best Money Making Web Writing Is Blogging...Eventually.



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The best way for you to make money web writing is to own and operate your own blog.  With a self-hosted blog that has quality content and advertisement on it you stand to make a good sum of money, especially if your blog has a lot of traffic. 

Unfortunately, many web content writers don't believe that.  They see the immediate gratification that they get from up-front paying sites and jump all over it.  Also, many talented web content writers will write highly successful articles and posts for sites like Hubpages, Squidoo and Associated Content only to have to share the money that it makes.

Web Writing For Money Is A Journey...Go Slow And You'll Find Yourself

Image via WikipediaI love writing online and making money. It just gives me a feeling of "I get paid to write! Holy S***!" And, yes, I say that out loud about once or twice per month.  However, it hasn't always been easy for me to make money web writing.  As of late, though, I have been turning away money in order to blog (the loneliest of web writing...especially at the beginning) and delve into the depths (and, I'm serious...it's freakin' deep down here) of residual earnings.

Blog: How to Choose Between Flashy and Simple/Hosted or Free. Get Ready to Pull Out Your Blogging Hair!

Blogging Can Be Maddening!

I have been experimenting a lot lately with blogging and monetizing my blogs.  I like to write and don't always want to do so within the confines of what other people want as an article or content.  So, I've started a few blogs.  This one and the rest of the Muisings line and a few more.  I've even delved into the land of the hosted domain.  That's been heaven and hell.

Don't Take Blogger For Granted But Look Around

Since I've decided to not only live on Blogger and I have realized two things. 

1  Blogspot hosted sites are super easy to use and you can start blogging in about two minutes once you get a niche, keyword plan, and passion.  The rest can come later.

2.  However, moving to Wordpress and Blogging Dudes, a larger world has opened up to me.  So many customizable themes, so many dang widgets! It's also maddening.  If you've sucked on the Blogger bosom long enough you're apt to throw things, cry, and want to give up after a few minutes working with Wordpress.  Just relax, and know that Google is making out anyway every time you search for an answer to your blogging troubles!

Ok, Simple or Flashy Blogging?

I'll warn you;  if you are VERY new to blogging.  If you have little patience.  Or, if you just don't want to stress about it too much then go simple if you go Wordpress.org.  Or, don't even go .org at all!  Instead, try out Wordpress.com for a little while to get a feel for the very different interface.  Better yet stay at Blogger or Weebly or wherever it is you're at!

I think some people tend to go "flashy" because they think it will help them get more views and better monetization. Okay, sure that might be true but if you're too new you won't even know how to ad monetization units to a Wordpress blog!  It's not as simple as it is here.


Blogging doesn't have to be all about the money anyway.  It shouldn't be in my opinion.  If you don't have a passion for your blog topic, a desire to help people, and the time to write then you may be better of with an article mill like Associated Content.  Perhaps even a quasi-blog type of thing like Hubpages or Squidoo.

No matter what you decide just know that the search engine god is there for you to use.  Query, read/view, and learn...but above all-Love it!