Last week I wrote about 50 articles for people here on DP. I made $70 or so doing this. My question is should I continue doing this for $4 or so or should I write articles for myself? Obviously people think are going to make more per article than what they pay me, but how? I can continue writing articles for people for garaunteed income or take a chance and write content promoting my sites in my sig. What should I do?
bum marketing, in a nutshell: write articles about a specific affiliate product/service, complete with an author resource paragraph announcing where the person can continue to read more about this product/service...provide affiliate links on your landing page.
Having your own content site might lead to recurring income, if you articles are working fine for your clients then likely they are going to work good for yourself too. Since you are capable for writing 50 articles a weel, perhaps you can setup a blog and start writing one or two for yourself in the blog, and see if that comes out with anything good several months later. There are some blogging network that does profit sharing with writers, b5media is one of them if I am not wrong, you can perhaps check them out to see if it works for you. Hope that helps.
Double up and do both. If time is an issue, reduce the amount of articles you write to make time for your own.
I would make a website, myarticles.com or whatever, and just start writing. Then if someone wants an article about ____ check through your site and say, here is an article on _____- I'm selling. If the person buys it you 301 the url to the article's new location to keep the article unique. You make money in the mean time on ads. If you get a hit with the search engines, don't sell that particular article.
I agree, you should be writing articles for yourself as well. You are selling these articles in the single digits each and these people will generally earn recurring income from your work. So why not do that for yourself? And at the same time you can continue doing them for others as well. It seems as if you do not understand the value or the way to do this on your own. Perhaps it'll be good for you to also invest in learning how to do this yourself and finding out what do people do with articles that they purchase from people like you. It is very simple once you know what to do. Do not continue settling for peanuts. Yes, I said it. Imagine that you submitted your 50 articles to a directory that eventually got you... let's say as the worst scenerio 1 sale each and you recieved a $10 commission within 2-3 months. That would only mean that would have earned $500 total. Compare that with the $70 you made for putting in your time and energy. By taking the extra steps and having the know how, you can and you will increase your income. Don't lose income for your lack of knowledge. INVEST IN YOURSELF... your bank account will thank you! ~Love2Write~
OK You are right. I dont know what to do with these articles for myself. Where and how can I learn? I have three affiliates I signed up for through CJ today. Should I do this for those products? What directories am I supposed to submit these too? I have two blogs with original content but no traffic. One is a page rank 2 website. I just cant break the barrier of making my own money on the internet. Where can I learn what to do with my own articles?
I love blogs and after viewing your 2 blogs, I see some potential... especially for the britney site. What are you currently doing to gain traffic to your sites? Ultimately you will have to go to where the traffic is? If there is a billboard in the middle of the dessert or on the planet Mars... you know for sure that there will be little to know traffic at these places. But if you put your billboard at a busy intersection or road --- especially the ones that have traffic jams in popular cities, then you will have plenty of traffic to your site/blog. So the best thing for you to do for now is to go where the traffic is. That's the best advice I can give you. Find out where the britney fans hang out at and join in on the discussions. Ummm, i'm not sure how many brittny fans you will find on DP. But if you go to a forum that is about celebrities or a brittny fan site... then you can go there. Don't spam.. you know the rules. Just join in and have your links in your signature if allowed. And naturally people will go and check out your website. Same thing goes for your other blog. Second, I would say to find affiliate programs that has to do with your niche. For example I see that you have articles on running background checks. There's specific background check affiliate sites that you can join and recommend the readers to in order to convert them into sales. Once you monetize your sites and have between 15-25 post up and running, then your next focus should be to find ways to get traffic to your site while at the same time adding new and fresh content to your site. This is good for your visitors... because the longer they stay, the more clicks you will get on your ads and the better for you and also google loves blogs too! After some time you will get natural visiters from the search engines. One last thing, for your britney site... why don't you change your google ad color to same font color "red" that you have for your post. If you match the colors it will look like it is part of your content and people will be more likely to click on them. Right now it looks to generic and those ads are screaming "please, click on me!!" Hope This Helps, ~Love2Write~ Sorry for the long reply
$70 for 50 articles? Lol - definitely start writing for yourself. Take a few PLR eBooks, rewrite them into one major one and sell it on DP, or do bum marketing (with eZine Articles). Good luck!
Look at the affiliate network in my signature (hint: free 45$ ) join there and you will find free guides about making money, some basic seo, affiliate marketing stuff, products to promote, article marketing explained... damn, just go there and see for yourself. It may not be much for people with experience but for new people like you it is a great resource. p.l.u.r.