The internet has become a very popular place for people to try and earn addition income or even a full income. There are millions of different ways to earn income from the Web such as, selling products on Ebay, selling e-books, affiliate marketing, network marketing, social marketing and a mountain of scams. But one area that is growing is article marketing, but this takes a little time and effort to get things rolling. Article Writing takes some creative ability, basic writing skills and some research to decide what people want to read. There are many ways to earn money from the effort of creating articles. Some may just write for the gratification of people reading and commenting on their article. But which ever you may be, this article will provide you with some places to get started.
Squidoo is an article writing forum and has some great tools to help you earn income.
Squidoo is a community based site developed by Seth Godin. Squidoo is designed for users to create pages (called lenses) for all subjects. Lenses are interactive, and can contain many eye catching tools. Squidoo is in the top 200 most visited sites in the world, and in the top 50 most viewed in the United States. One of the coolest things is it has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to charity. You pick your charity and decide what percent you would like to donate.
Squidoo allows you to add Youtube videos, Flickr photos, Some HTML, Amazon adds, Cafe Press items, Zazzle items Ebay products, RSS, URL links and the list goes on. The more lenses you create the more your revenue increases.
Squidoo has templates that help you build your lens and over time it gets easier, with great traffic. Squidoo also has tools to check your skills like Squidutils. Squidoo is great place to learn article writing techniques and build a following of readers.
Factoidz is an amazing article community where people can ask questions and other people can write articles to answer those questions. Factoidz is great for getting your work out there and viewed by thousands and potentially millions of people. You don’t even have to write articles to be a member of Factoidz. If you just like answering others questions and showing off your knowledge this is the place.
Factoidz earns revenue from Google Adsense advertising. You have to post a 400 words plus article every three days to keep 100 percent of the Adsense revenue. The more articles you write the more viewers you will potentially get, this will increase your revenue.
At factoidz you become experts in your field. If you happen to know a lot about parenting, then post articles about parenting and answer questions about parenting. Members will vote you up if you know what you are talking about. This voting gets your expert ranking higher and helps you get viewed in a particular category.
Hubpages is community based website very similar to Squidoo and Factoidz. But Hubpages just reached a milestone on June 9th, 2009, on this day Hubpages had over one million views. Talk about article exposure! Hubpages is ranked in the top 150 sites. If you are looking to find readers Hubpages can help you get there.
When you sing up for Hubpages you become a Hubber and you achieve a Hub Score for the average scores of each of your articles. The higher the score the more exposure you will have.
To earn revenue with Hubpages you need an account with one of the following: Google Adsense, Kontera, Ebay or Amazon. You just add your account number and the team at Hubpages does the rest, all you have to worry about is writing good content.
Ezine Articles is a little different than the sites I have described previously. Ezine is more designed for people that want to get a message out and less on the income. Ezine does not provide any income links directly on the articles. But it will provide traffic for your personal blog or other articles.
Ezine was established in 1999 and has a vast list of articles. Ezine is highly respected in the article marketing segment. You can get high rankings on Google, MSN and yahoo with Ezine.
I have just giving you a taste of what is out in cyberspace, there is a lot more sites like I have just described, each providing a similar twist. But I am sure you are wondering if you really can make any money doing article writing. Well it is a simple trick of numbers like any sales ratio, more readers, viewers or follows, the more clicks to what ever you are promoting.
In the sales and marketing world many describe a ratio of amount of particular contacts, will result in an amount of particular sales pitches thus resulting in an amount of given sales. These ratios will change based on product, information, salesmanship, advertising, and brand recognition.
Well marketing on the web is very similar and article writing is just the way to get this exposure. Think about the lines in a spider web, going out from the center to the outer edge. Think of those lines of every article you right. The more articles the denser the web becomes. Then think the crossing spider web lines as lines from article to article. As you link your articles this also creates more traffic. You may have a personal blog or a MLM product you want to promote, this site just became the center of the spider web, with all your articles sending traffic to one site. Now this concept does really work. You may only be getting small hits to each of your sites daily but if you have hundreds of articles then you will be receiving thousands of hits to your many sites daily.
Now the cool thing about this concept is that you can be making money from everyone of these articles. It may only be a few dollars a day from each site but again add a hundred articles and then you are making hundreds a day.
Many of these article writing sites are different and have their own unique benefits, but one key is that most will get your articles in the top spots on all search engines. This is achieved through the past rankings of the main site, here is an example. Squidoo.com is ranked in Google at 500 and one of my lenses is ranked at 500. If I had wrote my own blog of the exact article it would make months to get to 500 and it may not ever make it. Many of these articles site will provide the same scenario for your article.
Another great aspect of article writing through one of these forums is the fact that it will build great back links to any site you want. High ranking sites back linked to your personal blog or site helps build your rankings.
I use all of the forums I have described and have found Factoidz to be the best performer.
