Do you use sites like Bukisa and eHow to make extra writing income? Well, don’t underestimate the importance of community when using them. Sure, if you just post your articles and leave the site alone, you will eventually make money there. But commenting an articles and posting in the forums gives your articles even more exposure which could lead to more page views.
Writing Your Articles
The focus should always be on writing excellent articles. Make sure you write for the web. Use subheadings, smaller sentences, shorter paragraphs, etc. Keyword research and optimizing the articles is also important because this will be the number one way people will find your articles. If they do well in the search engines you’ll make more money.
Promoting the Articles
The next step after you write the articles is to promote them. There are several ways you can do this including:
- Putting your site profile link in email and forum signatures.
- Letting people know about your new articles on your blog and in the social networks.
- Social bookmarking sites like stumbleupon and digg.
- Through microblogging at sites like twitter and plurk.
However, keep in mind that the best way to get page views is in the search engines. Just choose one or two methods to promote beyond that and the articles will get a boost.
Participate in the Community
I saved this tip for last. This is really a form of promotion, but you get a lot more out of it than that. A lot of revenue sharing sites (and eHow is one of the best at this) have incorporated Web 2.0 principals in their business model. Utilizing these principals helps you because it
- Increases article exposure
- Gives you a way to promote other things such as your blogs
- Helps you develop contacts and increase your overall network
All of these benefits either directly or indirectly increases your revenue. Now, you don’t need to go crazy and spend hours on the site to get the benefits. But if you make it a habit to go into the forums and comment on some articles each time you post a new article, that will be enough.
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