Want to make money with article writing? Because articles are so popular online, online marketers want and need them. This means you can get hired to write, but you can also use your skills on your own behalf, and make much more than you can when you write for others.

But how do you get started? Here’s an easy process you can follow, outlining a couple of ways in which you can make great profits. (Hint: there are many more ways, get creative.)

1. Choose a Topic, Create a Blog

Start by choosing a topic with which you’re familiar, and that you enjoy writing about. Countless new parents choose the “parenting” topic, for example. When you choose a topic like this, you’ve got daily inspiration, because you’re writing about what’s happening in your own life.

Big tip: before you choose a topic, make sure that you can make money with this topic. Some topics just aren’t able to be monetized, either because the audience isn’t online, or because the audience doesn’t spend money on their interest.

Once you’ve chosen a “money” topic, create a blog. If you’re experienced, create a WordPress or Joomla blog on your own site. If you’re new, then just create a free Blogger blog.

Now post your articles to your own blog, and spend a little time each day looking for ways to monetize your articles.

2. Sell an Affiliate Product with Your Articles

Affiliate marketing is a boon for article writers. When you’re selling an affiliate product, a single article can keep on making money for you for years.

Some of the most popular article directories frown on affiliate links, so here’s how to manage that: buy a domain name, and then redirect it to the merchant via your affiliate link. A domain name is around $10, but with a collection of articles constantly sending traffic, you can make many times that amount daily.

Article writing can be your route to easy profits. With the Web growing daily, so are your opportunities.

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Want to make big money from your blog? Thousands of people are already doing that. You can too, if you avoid four fatal mistakes.

A money making blog is a destination; it has loyal readers, because it provides them with information and entertainment they can get nowhere else. It’s important to keep this in mind, because the amount of income you make from your blog depends on your traffic.

So let’s look at the four fatal mistake to avoid.

1. You Write About Yourself

If you’re not a celebrity – that is, if you’ve never hit the front pages of a newspaper – don’t write about yourself.

You could do this successfully, if you have writing skill and can write like Dave Barry, but for 99.5 per cent of bloggers writing about yourself and your life is a fatal mistake.

2. You Write in Areas in Which There Are No Advertisers

As soon as you decide on a subject for your blog, check whether there are advertisers. Here’s a tip: if there’s a glossy advertising-supported magazine on your subject, you’re good to go.

Type the subject of your blog into Google’s search query field, and look to check whether there are Sponsored Links on the right of the query results page. If there are, your subject has advertisers, and again, you’re good to go.

3. You Lack Enthusiasm for your Subject

Does your blog’s subject excite you? I’m a writer, so I’d write about writing even if no one ever paid me to do it.

You’ll need passion for your subject, because blogging is a marathon, rather than a sprint. You need the enthusiasm to write about your subject every day.

A lack of enthusiasm for the subject of the blog is the main reason many blogs which are otherwise well thought out, and which have great potential, fail.

4. You Rehash Material That’s Available Elsewhere

Over the past year, everyone has discovered blogging, from major corporations to kids. So aim to project your own ideas, thoughts, experiences and insights into your blog.

If your blog just covers what everyone covers about the subject matter, there’s no reason for people to return to your blog every day.

So there you have four fatal mistakes to avoid for a money making blog. Will your blog be a success? Of course it will – get started today.

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If you have a blog, you can monetize it many different ways. You can accept outside advertising from sponsors, you can put up affiliate links or ads for your own products and you can also register for a blog payment service.

A blog payment service, such as www.blogvertise.com or www.payperpost.com, will pay you to post about products, services and topics on your blog. You can find more services by performing a Google search. The payouts will generally start out at about $5 per post and they can go up from there.

Each service will have specific guidelines about the blogs they will accept. Generally speaking, your blog will need to be at least 90 days old, you’ll need to post on a pretty regular basis (about 3 times per week) and you cannot have any lapses of 30 days with no posts.

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Blogging makes a great home business

Many bloggers blog full time in their blogging home business, and earn a great income – much more than they could earn at a job.

Discover how you can make money blogging, with Angela Booth’s blogging bestseller, Blogging for Dollars – blogging is fun, and profitable.

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To register for these services, simply visit the individual websites and fill out a form with some basic information. They will ask some questions about the type of blog you have and who your target readership is. If you are accepted, you will be notified via email.

Depending on the type of service you register with, you will either receive assignments via email or you may need to log into their main websites and see what type of assignments are available to you. They may ask you to post 50 or 100 words on a cell phone carrier, magazine, debt consolidation site or some other topic. You do not have to write a glowing review of the website you are referring to. You just need to post a minimum amount of words and include a link to the referring website.

You will then log into the blog payment service’s website. You will fill out a quick form to let them know you have completed the assignment. You will need to give them the title of your blog post as well as the URL to that specific post. An administrator will review your post and once it is approved, your payment will follow in about 30 days. Most of these services send payment via PayPal.

Discover the world of Web writing – make a great income writing from home, or from anywhere

Sell Your Writing Online NOW

There’s great money in Web writing. Some Web writers are making $20,000 a month by blogging for a stable of sites. Others are writing articles or ebooks.

Join the Web writing gold rush with Angela Booth’s comprehensive training: “Sell Your Writing Online Now”.