Work at Home With Legitimate Online Writing Jobs
One of the most common questions I’m asked whenever I tell people the sort of online writing work that I do is whether it’s really possible to earn money online through work at home. My answer is always the same, yes - it’s absolutely possible. But you won’t succeed by answering those too-good-to-be-true ads about earning $100,000 a year from home by letting your “computer do all of the work for you!” The magic bullet that I’ve found comes from using your god-given talent to earn a significant income for your family. There are four simple steps you can follow that will get you there. First you need to be honest with yourself about your abilities, then you need to decide that you’re going to work your tail off in order to succeed, and finally - you’re going to decide that quitting isn’t an option.
Work at Home by Completing Online Writing Jobs
The online world is going through an amazing transformation. When the Internet started getting popular, back in the 90’s, websites were fairly dull - with cookie cutter table-like formatting, with drab grey colors and horrendous writing. And work from home jobs using the internet was virtually unheard of. Here’s an example - my apologies to Wendyanne…I simply grabbed this because it was the first example I found.
Web pages were filled with dry text and endless lists, charts and tables. But as things got more interactive, and then Google came along, things got very interesting. Suddenly webmasters realized that they were competing with all of those other websites for visitors, and search engines ran the show. Keywords were king, and web designers started stuffing keywords into their content in order to catch the attention of the search engine crawlers.
Google Created Demand for Quality Content
Google was the first search engine to catch on to these web design tricks, called keyword spamming, and actually penalized websites for doing it - reducing their page ranking. Today, webmasters now find themselves in a situation where the only possible way they are going to be able to generate the traffic that they need is by producing high-quality and keyword optimized website content. By 2003 or 2004, this demand has created a unique niche market for writers. Never before have creative writers had the kind of work at home opportunity that the Internet now offers. Just consider the countless ways you can legitimately work at home by working on online writing jobs. What sort of jobs are available?
- Niche market analysis reports
- Creating content for webmasters who can’t write (which is most of them!)
- Writing on sites that pay royalties per visitor
- Writing sales copy for businesses
- Creating easy single web page content for businesses
- Writing newsletters
The list goes on - the only limit is your imagination and your ability to seek out the source of those opportunities. This is where I can help. Subscribe to this blog, and each week I’ll walk you through all of those work at home opportunities.
Earn Money Online Through Royalties
The first examples are those websites that offer royalties every month for the content that you produce. These are the lowest-paying work at home opportunities, because it takes a bit of time to produce enough articles to generate significant monthly income. Regardless, it is possible to start a few income streams. The following are the best sites that I’ve found, and they are all free.
Associated Content
Associated Content is, by far, the best content producing website on the Internet that accepts articles from its membership.
Read the articles at this link for some examples of the variety of content you can write about to collect revenue from your visitors. At first you’ll only earn a few cents per article, but if you stick with it, once you have a library of hundreds of articles, you will be earning a respectable revenue. And yes, AssociatedContent is excellent about making payments to your Paypal account.
Ehow
Ehow is probably one of the easiest websites to earn income from. This is because they pay royalties based on what the ads on your article pages earn, not just on visitor count. This is excellent news if you know how to write how-to articles that attract traffic for the highest-paying ads. The way to do this is to search for popular keywords and write toward those topics. For example, just from this list of Ehow articles, I earned almost nothing for “How to Devein a Lobstertail” (don’t ask me why I wrote it), yet I quickly earned over $12 the first month for “How to Pay Less for a New Car” - it’s what people are searching for, and it’s what advertisers pay the most for.
Helium
Helium is not the place I would recommend going if you hope to earn the big bucks. The revenue from articles, even if you’re an excellent writer, is chickenfeed. You can try to compete with other writers in the “marketplace,” where buyers select from a list of writers.
You write to their guidelines, as do 20 or 30 other writers, and the buyer chooses one winner who will get paid an average of $10 to $100 for their work. Unfortunately, regardless of how well you write, because there are so many writers competing, you are more likely to waste your time. However, Helium is a fun community to post your opinion on topics and at least earn a tiny sum for your efforts. It’s better than nothing! These articles are some examples of the sort of thing you’ll find at Helium.
The websites above are the top three, but there are countless others online. In upcoming posts, I’ll go over additional work at home online writing jobs that pay substantially more than these.
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