Make a living online with Articles

Making money with articles is not as hard as it seems. You don’t really need previous career related experience. When you are writing articles, you have to keep your readers in mind. A lot of the readers scan through article rather than reading it. So your article should consist of a good title, plenty of subtitles and bullet points. A good title should draw readers’ attention quickly and bullet points will make them easy to find the information they are looking for.

You can learn everything you need to know from the Internet. You can learn new skills along the way to make your living online. You can become an expert in one area by picking up new skills gradually.

 

this is a great idea!!! i like writting but can u suggest me any site that pays for it........

 

writing an articles most thing is its Title.

 

how would you make money simply by writing articles?

 

Where would I get a job doing this?

 

Yes, I'm also wondering how one can make a living writing articles... everything I've seen about writing articles shows that it isn't very profitable for the writer.

 

2 ways to do this -

1. Write articles yourself and place them on your website, monetizing the website with Adsense etc

2. Write articles for others and get an upfront payment.

The second way brings quicker rewards however writing for yourself has the potential to create a longer term income.

 

you can make your own blog and add your articles there, submit your articles to directories and get links to your site. More links to your site, you will get a PR boost, which will bring improved rankings, improve traffic to your blog and you earn from your website.

You can also use the services section of the forum to let people know that you are willing to write articles and get paid.

 

The amount one will get paid for an article is hardly a "living"

 

Have a friend that has a degree in journalism (Had dreams of being "The Great Reporter") - She ended up writing Press Releases for a living - Now she has a small research company and has a moderately successful income. Nothing to quit your day job over but she is successful in the fact that she supports herself.

In the last year she signed up for Elance to write articles for others like you were talking about and she found that her research endeavor was suffering from having to pump out five to ten dollar articles. So she quit writing articles online and went back to her original business plan.

In the long run -- Articles are best for your own website - unless you live in a country where 10 - 20 dollars a day equals $200.00 bucks a day over here in the U.S.

 

Yes you can make $$, and possibly a living (although I dont know how well) with writing articles.

Checkout elance.com and scriptlance.com- they are just two of many sites that help with the exchange of web related services, many of which are for article writers. I suppose if you REALLY turned the screws and wrote 16 hours a day, and you were fast (or could copy and paste quickly from wikipedia )
then yes, you could pay your rent.

Are you going to bag $30 grr a month?..Doubt it. Read more here on DP to get the FYI on how to make a GOOD living online..

 

Actually this is possible (making money from articles) as articles = content and content is a king right?

The difference is what you do with your articles. You can sell them as is to site owners, you can use them for your own site or you can distribute them for free, having some links in return.

I guess that the last two options are the best, and the more stable ways to make a living from your articles.

 

I'm not disputing whether you can make money with articles.. but this post hasnt really told anyone how to make "a living" with articles "without a career and previous experience"... sure, a journalist can make a living.. but being a journalist requires a career and previous experience.

So..... again, how do you do it?

 

I don't know how well that would work. It seems most people are making their fortune by taking advantage of writers, for instance by paying 5-10 dollars an article or 15 -35 cents per post on forums. They usually get about what they pay for though. I personally value my time more than that. Anytime you lower yourself to work for this kind of money you undermine the overall value of both your product/reputation and the profession. Same can be said for webdesigners. When you agree to do a website for peanuts and spend sometimes 40-60 or even hundreds of man/hours it only devalues the profession for those of us who are trying to make a living. Most professional design firms charge starting at about 35 dollars per man/hour often going much much higher....

I would love to hear some feedback on this subject....

 

Well, I host a customer who uses 20GB bandwidth/month for a news web site, and he's only spending money in his news web site so far. So in his case he's far from making a living, although there are advertisements on his web site to pay some of the hosting.

 

I have made some money from articles by simply basing your article on an affiliate program. you can do this for any affiliate program (example): you have found a great affiliate program selling websites traffic so then you compose 10 articles about website traffic with your affiliate URL at the bottom of each article and submit it too a hundred article directories, that’s a 1000 sources of traffic to your affiliate link for life. Meaning traffic + Good Product = $$$

 

Writing articles is extremely hard. Specially all those foreigners from Asia and Pakistan thinking its really easy to write over 20 articles for only $100, but i have experienced with some of them that they just give up and stop writing and expect me to understand.. I'm not trying to say anything about foreigners its just they come in and think they will be able to make a living by this then figure out that its too hard than it really seems to be to themselves!

 

As someone who attempts to make a living writing articles (among other things) I can tell you that companies paying a measly 2 dollars for a 500 word article are not only taking advantage of writers, but are devaluing the profession for those who are actually trying to get what they are worth. On the same side, as livingearth said, writers who consistently take these low paying jobs are significantly devaluing the market for professional writers as well. What people and companies need to understand is that you get what you pay for. I could easily churn out a 500 word article on a specific key term for 2 dollars, but why would I? It's true that during my downtimes, I may take on a few low paying jobs in order to get me through the hump, but it's not something I practice on any anywhere near regular basis. It is possible to make a living writing articles, but companies need to know that they are getting the quality they pay for. For two bucks, it's not worth the effort.

 

I really think that its hidious that people are paying cheap to them. BUT most of the time when the article writers are being paid low rate then they just can't be bothered so they go and copy articles. And most business's dont bother to check if they are unique or not just takes something like the first part of a paragraph onto Google. Eg:

http://www.google.com/search?client...+collection,+a+complimentar&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

That shows you that other sites are using articles

 

The one thing I always do is take pride in my work, regardless of what I'm being paid. Taking information and directly copying and pasting that information into an article only serves to add to the proliferation of outdated, blatantly false or otherwise damaged material found on the internet. If a writer is unhappy writing for cheap, then they need to do some research and find higher paying jobs, not copy and past information. If that's the case, they may want to rethink writing as a career altogether. Of course, this is just my two cents.