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Writing Your Way Into Residual Income
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Google Adsense is an advertising program that will display content sensitive ads on your web page. In other words, an article about dogs will render ads relating to dogs and dog products. You have quite a bit of control as to where the ads appear and how they look. When readers click on an ad, Google will be deposit money into your Google Adsense account. The number of visitors to your site is a large factor in determining how much residual income you will make and strategically placing the ads is another factor. Think about it for a minute. If you get a free web hosting site that allows ads, or a free blogger site, you can place your Google ads and reap in the money at no cost to you. It does, however cost you time in writing articles, or adding quality content. But, if you're a writer and are honing your skills, you're going to write anyway. Why not make money while doing it? INCREASING THE INCOME EARNING PROCESS: My preference is to create a full-blown website rather than a blog. Aside from the fact that I haven't quite mastered the blogging schedule, I prefer a website to a blog because of the increased number of pages which in turn increases the likelihood of web exposure and thus residual income. For example, on my site I have 11 sections. Each section has several pertinent articles relating to the section topic. The more articles I add, the greater the likelihood of Google Adsense clicks. In addition to articles that I've written, I've added free articles written by other authors. These authors write free articles as a way of increasing their exposure. The only caveat is that you must include their bio and the link to their site. It is a great way to build quality content for a web site. I usually get my articles from e-zinearticles.com On each page of my site, I have inserted Google Adsense ads in the right hand column. The right-hand ad column fits in well with the site's design. It may or may not be the most lucrative place to put the ads, but you've got to make a decision as to what is more important: Your articles or your ads. My site, as of this writing, isn't extremely popular. One has a Google rating of 2/10 (which sure beats the 1/10 it had a few months ago) and the other has a rating of 3/10. Some days my ads hit $4 a day and other days as low as 12 cents. More recently I've been averaging $1 to $1.50 per day (This article was originally written in 2006, things have changed quite a bit since then). Very popular sites may average hundreds of dollars a month (something I hope to see). Here's a serendipitous side effect. If you're a freelance writer and you wish to bid for freelance writing jobs, generally you have to show samples of work that you've done. If you have your own website, you'll be able to use your own articles as writing sample. I landed my first off-line freelance writing job with a national publication that way. I believe that if I had not had my own site with my own articles to use as samples, I might not have gotten the gig. This is just one person's thought on making residual income on the internet. You definitely won't get rich quick, so don't quit your day job. However, if you're serious about writing and looking to make a little extra money, you've got nothing to lose. Let's face it, once the article and ads are in place, the major work is done. The rest is getting folks to read your articles. Hopefully they'll see an ad that interests them. If they do, it's money in your account.
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