For those of you who earn money writing articles on the internet for sites like InfoBarrel or Squidoo, once your article is published, you only need to sit back and smile as the AdSense profit cash rolls in, right? Wrong! Getting an article published in only half the battle. The next step is to share your piece with the rest of the world - after all the world be a better place if everybody could learn from your brilliance? (I am kidding...kinda). If you use any of the following six tips, you will see an increase your number of readers.
If you get the chance to talk with somebody who has been posting their articles online, they may quietly tell you that they are earning between $0.25 and $2.00 per month for every article in their portfolio. This assumes that their articles are Search Engine Optimized - that is, the topic they are writing about has a good amount of general internet traffic without a lot of competition. Earning money from article writing is a numbers game, and it is critical that you be aware of the direct correlation between people reading your article and your AdSense income. You are likely to generate approximately $15.00 for every 1,000 views from Ad-Sense on average. If you hear that an article earned $1.00 in advertising revenue, you can do the calculations to know that the article had around 70 page-views. That is a decent number for a person who has not researched their keywords, not independently promoted their articles and not tried other monetization strategies (i.e. affiliate leads).
This is all to say that to earn money from advertising revenue, you need to be generating page views.
Once I receive confirmation that my post has been published, I follow this 6-part checklist to maximize my viewership:
1. Update your existing articles with links to your newest article. This has to be natural and cannot feel as if you are crow-barring in links for the sake of it. If done effectively, it helps your reader to stay inside your content, which increases the likelihood they find something they truly like/recommend to others. For example, in my article about Classic Bollywood movies (which I wrote because the keyword had large search volume), there was a sentence that said Bollywood movie actors were India's equivalent of Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp. When I wrote that line, I intended to write subsequent articles on these actors. Once these later subsequent articles were approved, I placed backlinks into the original Bollywood piece.
2. Many article hosting sites will feature authors and articles. If your site has this, you should be submitting articles as potential features. I write primarily with InfoBarrel, and this technique has resulted in 17 features and counting.
3. Set up a regular auto-tweet for your new post using a product like as TweetAdder or HootSuite. If possible, include the twitter handles of famous people who might be interested and retweet your article. This happened to me once - I wrote a piece about Howard Stern and his re-tweet generated almost 10,000 views within 24 hours.
4. Update your Google AdSense account with the new url of your latest article. This will allow you to monitor the traffic and the income from each article in your portfolio. After a while, you will realize that certain subjects tend to out-perform other subjects. This is valuable for your evolution as an article writer. To do this, go to your Google Adsense account, then go to 'My Ads', then 'URL Channels'.
5. Feed the article to your social media (StumbleUpon, Facebook, Pintrest, etc) so that as many people as possible know about your article. In Point 2, the use of Twitter was discussed.
If you get the chance to talk with somebody who has been posting their articles online, they may quietly tell you that they are earning between $0.25 and $2.00 per month for every article in their portfolio. This assumes that their articles are Search Engine Optimized - that is, the topic they are writing about has a good amount of general internet traffic without a lot of competition. Earning money from article writing is a numbers game, and it is critical that you be aware of the direct correlation between people reading your article and your AdSense income. You are likely to generate approximately $15.00 for every 1,000 views from Ad-Sense on average. If you hear that an article earned $1.00 in advertising revenue, you can do the calculations to know that the article had around 70 page-views. That is a decent number for a person who has not researched their keywords, not independently promoted their articles and not tried other monetization strategies (i.e. affiliate leads).
This is all to say that to earn money from advertising revenue, you need to be generating page views.
Once I receive confirmation that my post has been published, I follow this 6-part checklist to maximize my viewership:
1. Update your existing articles with links to your newest article. This has to be natural and cannot feel as if you are crow-barring in links for the sake of it. If done effectively, it helps your reader to stay inside your content, which increases the likelihood they find something they truly like/recommend to others. For example, in my article about Classic Bollywood movies (which I wrote because the keyword had large search volume), there was a sentence that said Bollywood movie actors were India's equivalent of Brad Pitt or Johnny Depp. When I wrote that line, I intended to write subsequent articles on these actors. Once these later subsequent articles were approved, I placed backlinks into the original Bollywood piece.
2. Many article hosting sites will feature authors and articles. If your site has this, you should be submitting articles as potential features. I write primarily with InfoBarrel, and this technique has resulted in 17 features and counting.
3. Set up a regular auto-tweet for your new post using a product like as TweetAdder or HootSuite. If possible, include the twitter handles of famous people who might be interested and retweet your article. This happened to me once - I wrote a piece about Howard Stern and his re-tweet generated almost 10,000 views within 24 hours.
4. Update your Google AdSense account with the new url of your latest article. This will allow you to monitor the traffic and the income from each article in your portfolio. After a while, you will realize that certain subjects tend to out-perform other subjects. This is valuable for your evolution as an article writer. To do this, go to your Google Adsense account, then go to 'My Ads', then 'URL Channels'.
5. Feed the article to your social media (StumbleUpon, Facebook, Pintrest, etc) so that as many people as possible know about your article. In Point 2, the use of Twitter was discussed.
About the Author:
Ryan's blog, How To Earn Money Online HQ, is dedicated to teaching online entrepreneurs the ethical strategies, techniques and internet business ideas to generate a lifetime of passive income.
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