29 March 2014

When Should I Start Monetising My Blog?


This is probably one of the most important questions bloggers and webmasters who want to make money off their blogs ask themselves. However, you will be glad to learn that there are no rules or restrictions on what you can try to make an income from your blog or website. One of the greatest things being a blogger is, you create your own path, come up with your own ideas and go your own way. You should always keep in mind that building trust with your readers is the key to be successful in making money with your blog or website. We will discuss in this article about when you should start monetising your blog.

Building trust with your audience will need some times. You will need to create unique and original blog posts or articles to build trust with the readers. You will need to build a good traffic of thousands of visitors a month to your blog who will enjoy reading your posts and come back often to find out more on your blog website or website. 

Remember customers/visitors/readers are real human beings like you. So they will understand that it is quite logical and normal for you to want to monetise a blog or website but if you are blogging or writing for fun only then that is another thing. So, I would recommend that once you start receiving a good amount of traffic, i.e., at least 50 unique visitors a day, you should seriously focus on monetising your blog or website.

I will explain why 50 unique visitors a day to your blog is a good amount of traffic. If you have quality posts on your blog or website and have just started off your blogging website or business website, it is a great start. I would say that if you have a slow start but keep working hard writing informative content for your readers, then getting 50 to 100 unique visitors a day after 3 to 6 months is a good achievement. 

If you can post 50 quality and unique articles or blog posts within first two months of starting out your blog, and add another 20 or more in the the next couple of months, you should see yourself through this small target of 50 unique visitors a day just after 4 months. I am talking about setting small targets and achieving them to help you achieve more in the long-term consistently. Sure, there are many dedicated bloggers and webmasters who can get much more traffic in less than a month.

Once you start getting about 50 unique visitors a day, you have a real chance of making an income with your blog or website. If you have a quality and organic traffic to your blog then chances are some of the visitors will most likely click an ad displayed on your blog, or make a purchase or take any other action going to an affiliate partner or merchant’s website through their links placed on your blog or website. You should attract organic traffic to your blog.

You can expect from even a small number of quality visitors to take some actions while they stay on your blog or website. That is why creating good, original and helpful content is essential to bring quality traffic to your blog.

This is just an example, but yet I am writing this to give you an idea about how much you can earn from 1,500 unique visitors to your blog. Say for example, if 10% of them click on ads on your blog then you will get 150 clicks, assuming each visitor clicks just once on any ads. If each click on an ad generates $.30 on an average, then you will make $45 a month. Sure, you can generate money from other methods using on your blog too. 

These methods for monetising a blog or website include running affiliate programs, selling direct advertising space, eBooks, and merchandises, and adding a donation button to your blog, etc among many other methods.

Finally, I would like to conclude recommending to you to start with a couple of methods to monetise your blog or website even if get 10 unique visitors a day. But keep in mind that if you clutter your blog with too many ads or types of online ads, affiliate links, banners, etc then many of the readers might not be interested in your blog. Create useful content and build trust with the readers to increase your blog or web traffic and earn more money accordingly.

28 March 2014

5 Ways to Make Money Selling Your Articles Online


5 Ways to Sell Your Articles Online

There are many ways to make money with your article writing services.
You can sell your articles to private and institutional clients who are looking for articles on many different topics to publish on their blogs, websites, online magazines, and etc places. So offer your article writing services and earn some cash in returns. There are some ways to sell articles at different types of websites. It is important to understand how these websites work and how to make the most out of your efforts to earn money with these websites by selling your articles online. Here are 5 ways to make money online selling your articles online.

5. Contact Webmasters and Bloggers to Sell Your Articles
It is not a sure way to get immediate results but if you can offer your writing services in a nicely written email or message using email services or contact forms on a webmaster’s website, you can expect to hear back from them. If they like your article pitching ideas or sample article/blog post/web content etc online content, then you might land a job or two, which means you can write and sell articles to the webmaster on his/her chosen topics or sell articles that you have at your disposals already. I have had luck with this method.

4. Upload Your Articles at Content Marketplace Websites
If you are able to write good quality articles about topics or subjects that are in demand on the Internet, you can make some extra cash easily online by selling those articles. All you need to do is write good articles using proper titles and then upload them at various content marketplace websites. When online content buyers find your articles and but them you will get paid the amount you set yourself or the websites where your contents are located on set  the prices. Generally, in both situations a certain amount of money will be deducted as service charge or fee by these websites. Some of these websites you should try are:
www.constant-content.com
en.oboulo.com
www.scripted.com
www.articlesale.com
www.ghostbloggers.net
www.dailyarticle.com

3. Write for Upfront Payment Writing Websites
It is a great way of earning some money immediately by writing articles online. There are a few websites that have article submission form so that writers from all over the world can submit their articles which are reviewed by the webmasters or editors of those websites. If your article is accepted you will get paid upfront for your efforts. Some of these websites accept submissions through email only.  You should try the following websites that fall into this category:
www.qualitygal.com (for United States citizens only though)
www.wisegeek.com
www.wisebread.com
listverse.com

2. Write and Sell Your Articles at Freelance Writing Job Websites
This is one of the best ways to earn money online by writing and selling articles on the Internet. The idea is you will find many open writing jobs posted on these websites. As an online writer you will pick available jobs from these websites, write them and submit them for approval by buyers who posted those jobs. You can earn fast cash online with these websites by writing various articles. Try these website below for making quick money online writing for others:
www.iwriter.com
www.textbroker.com
www.articledocument.com
www.articleteller.com

1. Sell Articles from Your Blogs or Websites
This is the best way of making money by selling your articles online. If you have a blog or website with quality blog posts or articles posted on them, you can create a page where you can offer writing services to your readers or whoever might find out your blogs or websites.  If they become interested to purchase online contents from you, they will contact you. Make sure to use an email that you check regularly that your potential customers can use to contact you. Besides, you can make money from your blogs or websites via other methods too.

Final Words
The key to making money online with online articles is to be always on the look for new opportunities. Many websites will provide writing opportunities always but others may close the doors. Try all of the above ways so that you have diverse sources of income opportunities by writing articles online.

28 February 2014

How to Get More Page Views to Your Articles


There are millions of articles scattered all over the Internet but not all of them show up at top search results pages of major search engines such as, Google. You will need to write unique and high quality articles that are SEO friendly to get your target audience to find out those articles online. You also need to write on topics you have a good knowledge in so that writing comes to you naturally. You can also research a subject and write about that but it is crucial that you write unique contents, which means contents that are not duplicated. Here are some tips to get more traffic to your articles.

Write Regularly
You should write on a regular basis, preferably daily, so that you can build large banks of quality articles. Choose your favorite topics and then create contents about them. Writing daily is important if you want to succeed as a freelance article writer. Writing often will improve your ability to create good pieces of write-ups, enhancing your writing skills. This will eventually help you build a steady traffic to your articles in the long run.

Write Original Content
This is the most important technique, which is writing original content at all times. When you write a piece of content using your own ideas based on factual information, it becomes more appealing to the readers. Nobody likes content that is gibberish, plagiarized and contain no useful information. So, try to write original pieces for your readers. Search engines love original contents, and will rank them highly on the search indexes.

Produce Useful Articles
It is essential to write helpful articles that the readers will find interesting and useful. If they like your writing they will promote the articles on social media websites or even create backlinks to their blogs or websites. People appreciate good contents that are full of good information. So, try to write informative articles to gain more page views.

Write SEO Articles
Today, SEO is the key to driving traffic to your articles online. You must not write articles stuffed with SEO keywords which may potentially be harmful to your articles as search engines often punish contents that overuse SEO keywords and phrases. Write good contents inserting the keywords for SEO purposes into the contents in a natural way so that your readers do not find your articles boring. Keep the keyword density within a reasonably good limit.

Conclusion
It is possible to produce good write-ups using some simple techniques such as the ones mentioned above to increase traffic to your written contents online. Make sure you write helpful articles for your readers providing as much useful information as possible so that they can benefit from your writing.