Want an easy way to make money online? Writing articles can be very profitable for you. But can you really make $500 a day? You can make considerably more, if you’re prepared to put a little effort into articles.

Here’s an easy process you can follow: it’s simple, it’s effective, and it works.

1. Choose an Affiliate Product

Your first step is to choose an affiliate product to promote. Hundreds of thousands of products are available, so choose one which appeals to you and which you’d like to write about.

2. Write a Review

Next, when you’ve signed up to the affiliate program for your chosen product, write a review of it. Make your review around 300 to 500 words long. Write an honest review: tell your readers what you really think about the product.

3. Add Your Review to a Blog

Either create a blog on your own domain, or choose one of the free blogging applications. Creating a blog on your own domain is preferable. When your blog is on your own domain you have complete control of it.

Remember that you’ll be making money with your review for months and years to come: if your review suddenly vanishes, all your article writing is wasted effort.

4. Write Articles Promoting Your Review

Write articles promoting your review: that is, articles on the topic of your product, and pointing to your review.

For example, if you’re promoting a weight loss product, write articles about weight loss. The articles’ resource box should point to your review. As people read your article, they will read your review, and some will buy the product, earning you a commission each time.

Big tip: the longer your articles are online the more valuable they are, because the more views (and sales) they will garner. If you haven’t made a sale in the first week, don’t feel that the process isn’t working.

5. Repeat!

Now just repeat the process. Choose another product, write another review, and promote your review.

As you can see the process is very simple. However don’t be deceived by its simplicity. It’s an extremely powerful way make money online just by writing articles. Be consistent and persistent, and you will indeed make $500 and more each day.

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Are you making money writing articles? If you’d like to increase your income: plan. All successful article marketers plan, here’s how you can too.

Your make-money plan for article writing has six steps; proceed step by step.

1. Decide What You’re Selling

Your articles are advertising for a product. When a prospect clicks on the link in your resource box, visits your site, then takes action and ultimately buys the product, you earn income.

If you’re new to article marketing, choose your product with care. It should not only be a product you know well, it should also be a product you like, and enjoy recommending.

2. Choose Your “Buying” Keywords

Your next step is keyword research. Choose from three to ten keywords for your product, preferably “buying” keywords which indicate that a reader is close to making a decision to buy. For example, “[Product Name] Review” is a buying keyword.

3. Assess Your Buyers — What Do They Want from the Product?

You’ve chosen your product, and your keywords. Now it’s time to think about the product’s buyers. Try to get into the mindset of buyers. What emotional triggers will they respond to? What’s their lifestyle? What do they aspire to?

4. Write a Landing or Review Page; or Send the Buyers Directly to the Product Sales Page

Successful article marketing results in sales. Think about how many steps you need for a sale with your product. Will you write your own landing or review page, adding the link to your resource box, so you can tell readers about the product?

If the product is a high-priced item, you may want to warm your prospects up first, by offering them a freebie in exchange for their contact details, so you can tell them more about the product.

On the other hand, if the product has a great sales page, and offers visitors a free report or similar to warm them up, you may decide to send prospects directly to the product sales page. (Buy a domain name and redirect it to the sales page.)

5. Create a Campaign

Now it’s time to create a campaign. Decide how many articles you’ll write. I like to write article titles and outlines at this stage, and schedule the writing in my calendar program.

6. Track Your Results

The final step in your plan is to decide how you’ll track the results. I like to use a spreadsheet for each campaign, so I can track the articles, page visits, keywords, and sales.

Writing articles is a great way to make money online, when you start with a plan.

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A quick online search reveals what seems like thousands of articles on internet marketing. You have to wonder if all those people who claim to be experts offering their knowledge in these articles really have any idea what they’re talking about. How do you determine which articles contain good, valid information and which are written by wannabees who are just repeating what they’ve read everywhere else, and may be hoping to make a sale in one of their affiliate programs?

The first thing you can do is search for other articles and information by the author. That, probably above all other ways, is the best way to judge the quality of information you’ll likely find in their articles on internet marketing. If every article or bit of info you find hawks some different way to strike it rich online, then maybe they’re not the best source for information. If all of the information they offer, however, follows along the same lines, with one article just building on the information they offer in another, they show some promise.

It’s important to remember that all articles on internet marketing won’t focus on generic ways to market money-making programs. Internet marketing is something anyone with anything to sell online can benefit from, whether they have an online rare stamp store, or they sell foot massagers. But there seems to be a great wealth of “experts” telling you how to start a business just like theirs—selling information about how to get rich online—if only you’ll buy their system. Consider whether they’ve made their money using principles of marketing, or whether they make their money by selling other people a “how to make money” kit.

Another important judge of whether articles on internet marketing really contain useful information is the point of the articles. Most good internet marketers are going to have a link in that article leading you to more of their information, and eventually you’ll find the sales pitch. This is just the author using good marketing principles by giving you information and enticing you to buy his product. This alone should not put you off. But if the article really doesn’t contain anything but explanations about how badly you need to buy their product, then it’s just a disguised sales pitch, not really an article.

When you’re looking for information, read as many articles on internet marketing as you can find, and you’ll soon be able to spot the difference between someone with real information to offer (both freely in the article, and for sale) and those who’ve slapped up an affiliate sales page or a sales pitch. Usually, even the poorly done articles can benefit you in this way; by showing you what to avoid.

You’ll tend to find the same information presented in different ways by different authors. This just shows that they’re good ideas. If you see certain authors’ names frequently, that’s good. It shows they’re successfully using what they write about in their articles on internet marketing.

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As a writer, this means that article marketing can be a great income stream for you, if you know how article marketing works, and how to write articles and where to submit them.

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