Want to turn articles into cash… year after year? While there are many reasons for writing articles, the primary reason is to make money. Let’s see how this works.

You can make money writing articles in many ways – by promoting your own sites and products, by affiliate marketing, and by writing articles for others.

First let’s consider a vital point: you must understand competition for attention online so that you will make great money with your articles.

Online, competition is fierce, and it’s getting fiercer. Major companies with multi-million dollar advertising budgets compete for attention with micro-businesses with zero budgets.

You can compete too, if you’re smart when you write your articles. “Writing smart” means writing articles which will get attention for years to come.

Let’s look at three tips which will help you to write smart, and turn each article you write into a cash machine.

1. Create a Goal for Each Article

Before you plan an article – or a batch of articles – create a goal.

I’ve heard of article writers bragging that they write 30 articles a day. While this is commendable, it’s rarely effective. Your primary goal is to get each article indexed in the search engines, so that it will generate traffic for years to come.

The search engines are getting smarter; if your articles aren’t well thought out and planned, and if they’re similar to what’s already indexed, they won’t get indexed at all – you may get a little traffic in the first couple of weeks, then your articles are consigned to the digital junk heap by the search engines.

2. Provide Value in Each Article So Your Readers Keep Reading Until They Hit Your Resource Box – and Click

In your articles, you freely give information: you give value. In effect, you’re paying your reader for his attention. You promise more value in your resource box, so your readers click on your links.

However, to get to your resource box, your reader needs to get to the end of the article.

Of course, your reader may click because your resource box is the only interesting thing in your article. However, remember that if this is the case, you’ll only get readers for a couple of weeks, until the search engines decide your article is junk, and toss it.

3. Create an Article Writing Campaign

Rome wasn’t built in a day, and constant streams of cash into your PayPal account aren’t created in a day either… they’re created with article writing campaigns.

So consider that each article is a brick which you’re adding to something you’re building – a campaign, which has specific, measurable goals.

Writing articles can bring a constant flow of cash, and every article you write can be a cash machine which pays out for years to come. The tips above will help.

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If you’re not making money online yet, here are some tips which will help.

1. Focus on one area when you start out

There’s a lot to learn in Internet and affiliate marketing, and product creation and launching.

You can’t do everything at once, so please do one thing at a time. Create a one year plan, and a three year plan.

Remember that the people you see who are making million dollar incomes online have usually been at it for a while – a decade or more in many cases.

You can become a hit and make money in six months IF you have a solid grounding in marketing skills first, but if you don’t, you need to learn a lot before you start making $20,000 a month.

Take it slow, and learn just ONE thing at a time. This applies to affiliate marketing especially. Choose ONE area, and a popular product, and sell it first. (You must sell what people are buying.)

2. Work on your business every day

I visit a couple of forums when I have time, and I’m amazed at the newbies with high post counts. When do they have the time to do their own work?

Since most of them are earning zero dollars online, that’s a big clue. Limit your time on forums, and work on your own business.

3. Forget perfectionism

I’m a lapsed perfectionist. Perfectionism for me leads to procrastination, writer’s block, and migraine headaches.

If I forget, I still stumble into wanting to get stuff RIGHT… but on my best days I know and believe that it’s vital just to get it DONE.

4. Make your first dollar before you make a million dollars

Focus on making your first sale. Once you’ve done that, it’s a huge boost to your confidence. So sell something, anything, just to get that first sale.

Your first sale will show you that it’s possible for YOU to make an income online. You won’t believe it until you do.

Everything comes from that first sale.

I wish you much success in Internet marketing – I know you can make a great income online. Just take these tips to heart.

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Your keywords can make you money, or they can lose you money. I know it’s hard to get keywords right, but it’s worth thinking about them because keywords get you traffic, and when you have traffic, you can make money online.

Read this article -6 Common Website Mistakes That Are Costing You Money which reports a common Web site error:

“4. No keyword phrase focus in the content or conversely, keyword phrase stuffing. It never ceases to amaze me when people claim to have optimized a page, but there are no keyword phrases anywhere to be seen within the content. I suppose this might happen because they’ve put them in the keyword meta tag and assume they’ve optimized. (It’s a good thing they’ve come to our class when this is the case!)”

What are your primary keywords for your site?

You must know what keywords you’re targeting, not only for your site as a whole, but also for each page, because the search engines don’t index sites, they index pages.

So choose one or two primary keywords for your site, and one or two for each page. Use your keywords naturally. The search engines are becoming cleverer by the day, so they’ll do a great job for you if you let them.

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