The Internet has opened a completely new door in communication. Now, more than ever, the average person can write just about anything they want and find a following with the online community. The simplest ways to make a few extra bucks is to write for content production sites such as, Helium, Ground Report, or Associated Content.
These sites will offer you upfront and even performance payments and in some cases both, which is the best way to go. However, it is still important to find your niche` and establish a following for it. For the most part, this is done by making friends with your fellow writers in the program of your choice.
I will give you some insight as to what each content production site is good for and how much they pay for your articles. First off, we must talk about Helium.com, which offers upfront payment for articles written in its marketplace. The Marketplace is where you would write to sell your articles to websites and even paper publications.
Once an article is sold in the marketplace you are no longer able to post it anywhere else, and you will not receive performance payments. However, I have found Helium performance payments to be very slow, but articles have been known to sell in excess of $100.00 each, which is a nice sum over the course of a few articles.
Associated Content also pays upfront for articles; however, the payments are very low. Nevertheless, even after the article has sold you do continue to make performance payments. An example might be that you make $6.00 upfront and then collect performance payments thereafter. Associated Content has the fastest and highest payout in performance payouts.
Ground Report is our final example of content production sites, which relies on the Internet public for its content. Ground Report does not offer upfront payments and has a very low payout for performance payments. However, I must say that you should write for all three of these sites as they will offer you exposure and combined your payouts would be much higher.
However, can we do something better than even these? Sure we can, we can cut out the intermediary and generate our own source of income. I have been experimenting for some time and I must say that it is not difficult to surpass the revenue generated by all three online content production sites combined. However, it is important to have an area of expertise ad to establish a following.
The first option is free and is the way I went for about a year. You must establish an account with blogger.com, it is free, and you can sign up for Google Adsense. Google Adsense are contextual ads which are generated on you blog automatically just by adding a little code.
The other way requires a small investment on your part. It is important to establish your own dot com. This will give you higher ranking in the search engines, which will drive traffic to your site. You can still use Adsense, which is a great revenue generator. If you are interested in starting your own dot com then I must say that Yahoo hosting was the simplest and cheapest way for me to go. However, the tools and service are great and they have tech support that is unsurpassed by anyone else I know of.
Now, how can we help each other grab our share of Internet traffic? Well, we need to link to each other, this causes our rankings to go up and gives us a better placement in the search engines and actually can add others content to your site and vice-versa. It is important to visit each other’s sites as well, click on ads, and use the search function in order to generate income for each other.
If you are interested in creating an online revenue generating community, then you can contact me at my email address at the bottom of this page. We can share links and I will visit your site and click on ads, I would expect the same in return. I hope this article has been informative and helpful in your quest to generate an online income.
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