Writing articles and blog posts as a side income. There are some things you must do and many that you must not do to be successful
Ways to earn money Blog writing
- Contract your services on an hourly paid basis
- Get paid a success fee on results
- Include the advertising revenue as yours or shared basis
- Include your affiliate links
- Promote your own products like ebooks etc using the sidebar advertising
Is there a need for contract services?
Every business should have a blog attached to its website. No matter how big or small the business the blogs will cover everything about a product or service. However, it does take time to construct a good blog so it is often left in the too-hard basket.
Blogs can increase website traffic by over 30% which generates enough revenue to make blogging necessary.
The problem is most businesses are in the dark about this because it is not mainstream marketing. In fact, they have a problem maintaining a good Social media feed.
This is where your expertise as a blogger comes to the fore.
You may invest in a free blog to start the ball rolling and let them see the potential. By picking a really good keyword related to the business you will get traffic and can track it using one of several means.
Google Analytics
PrettyLinks
This is important because you can prove results by sending readers to a pay portal.
Which is best paid per word or results
Like most ventures, if you take a risk on results the rewards may be far greater than a flat fee. However, you may want to start cautiously and build from there.
In fact, you could start your first client on a word basis and then use that as a referral site for new customers. You will soon discover your strengths and weaknesses.
Paid advertising comes with traffic
Whilst this is a great regular income stream it comes after your traffic reaches a substantial number of views. It varies with companies but if you start to think from 5000 a month there is a feed of income that you can get, It may be just $100 or $200 early on but it is monthly and regular. The bigger outlets want 50, 000 views a month which will take a while to achieve.
Can you use affiliate links in paid-for blogging?
Of course, this depends on your contractual agreement. In many cases, this may be beneficial to both parts of the arrangement.
I run a virtual messaging service for business and my competition is in live messaging a product that I am not interested in doing. However certain people demand a live service so I send them off to an associate and pick up a commission.
With a bit of thought, anything is possible.
Self Promotion
As long as this is not harmful to the core product doing a bit of author promotion could be very good.
For example, You may promote your writing services and pick up new customers while writing for someone else.
You may have written eBooks and have a link to an Amazon site where they can buy a copy.
As long as this is not seen as detrimental to the host it is a great idea.
How much can you earn as a blogger?
Think about a starting point of writing two blogs a day, about 7 hours of work, and charging just $150 a blog
That is nearly $80K a year doing it easy. In fact, you can even get help using AI writers to take some of the heavy liftings.
On top of that throw in some success fees, advertising revenue, and self-promotion and anything is possible.
You need to understand Keywords like an expert.
This is the single biggest factor that will make you stand out from the crowd. Keywords get traffic and that gets results so you really need to be on top of this before writing a word.
If you need basic training or advanced, for that matter the best is available at Wealthy Affiliate. This is a site for bloggers and about them with plenty of support.
Can you be a writer
In this day and age, anyone can churn out great articles. For support you have AI writing and Grammarly to check your words and apphemingway that will assist you in composing your work.
I type two fingers and can do about 350 words an hour and blogs are now recommended to be under 1000 words. Ok, I am slow but like you, I get there.
Google supports your research and writing short sentences and paragraphs becomes easy.
My trick is to think up a dozen headings associated with your keyword and then just fill in the blanks.
The idea is to find a problem, explain the problem, show what others have found with it then plonk in a solution.
You can reverse the formula to provide an answer first and then explain why you gave that answer.
Conclusion
Expressing yourself in writing is very satisfying. It is an art form in itself competing against many others in the market. Even better is making money as you do it and living a work-from-home lifestyle.
If this is not for you but you still need some easy money check me out at peterHanley.biz where I go over the incomes from 7 sources.
