Get Paid to Write Articles and Blogs

Making money online for free is something I feel very good about. I have been trying to generate money with no investment with the help of my skills and my powerful computer for almsot a year now and I have to admit and earning money by writing is the best earning solution for me.

I saved a bunch of reports and articles from high school and college, so I figured that I could always use them again and maybe make some money with my articles and reports. Never did I imagine that I'd be selling them on the internet? I found various websites for selling my current articles and writing new ones, publishing them and receiving a revenue cut for this.

Here are some awesome websites, which I used to make money for free by writing articles and reviews.

Get paid to write at Associated Content

Associated Content pays its users via paypal. Users receive approximately $4 for college-level essay or article (depending on the quality of your submission you can receive 1.5-5 dollars for every article you submit). You can earn more for original and well searched articles about almost any subject! I've made lots of money for free by creating articles for AC, this is one of the best solutions so far. Furthermore, you get up to $3 for every active person you refer to Associated Content!

How to make money by writing at Squidoo?

Squidoo pays money for writing content via paypal. Here you are expected to create lenses about things you love! Sposnored ads will be added to your parges and every time someone purchases something via your lens, clicks on it, or joins through your link, you get money.

Squidoo is very easy to use and make money with. They support various ad networks, which could tremendously improve your “paid to write” earnings.

Free ways to earn with Helium

After you get finished selling your articles non-exclusively to Associated Content, you can then post them on Helium and earn more cash with the help of them. They also pay on the pay-per-click basis, which means – the better your articles perform, the more money you can make. This site offers a $25 payout via paypal!

Paid to write articles at DigitalJournal

DigitalJournal is yet another content publishing website, where members can publish their articles and receive money for doing so. Just apply to be a citizen journalist, upload some of your article samples (A.C. articles work like a charm here). Again, your earnings will depend on the number of clicks, comments, & user ratings. The minimum cash out is $10 and money are paid at the end of the month.

As you can see, there are lots of free opportunities to make money by writing articles and reviews. If you will like this way of making money, you can also create a Blogger.com account and make money with the help of your blog (by adding Google Adsense ads) to your website pages.

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Adbrite Payment Proof

Here is my Adbrite payment proof from last month that just arrived in the mail today. The check was for $88.20, which isn't huge, but not bad considering I really only use them on 1 site. I've only bothered to put them on 2 sites of mine, but 99% of the revenue is just from the one that gets around 3000 views a day. The 2nd site earns maybe a buck or so a month from it. They pay monthly and checks are issued in the 1st half of every month.

While Adbrite is easily one of the best known and most common Adsense alternatives, I'm still on the fence about them. They seem to pay a little higher than Adsense for North American clicks, but not so great for international traffic. Also, their ads really work best with a certain kind of audience, as they seem to all be amateur looking banners for weightloss and how to make money online.

As with any CPC based network, make sure you experiment with ad placement and keep an eye on the CTR as you move them around. A 250x250 banner above the fold seems to work best, but you might find a good 160x600 sidebar ad that works better for you.

Good luck!

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Adbrite Payment Proof

Here is my Adbrite payment proof from last month that just arrived in the mail today. The check was for $88.20, which isn't huge, but not bad considering I really only use them on 1 site. I've only bothered to put them on 2 sites of mine, but 99% of the revenue is just from the one that gets around 3000 views a day. The 2nd site earns maybe a buck or so a month from it. They pay monthly and checks are issued in the 1st half of every month.

While Adbrite is easily one of the best known and most common Adsense alternatives, I'm still on the fence about them. They seem to pay a little higher than Adsense for North American clicks, but not so great for international traffic. Also, their ads really work best with a certain kind of audience, as they seem to all be amateur looking banners for weightloss and how to make money online.

As with any CPC based network, make sure you experiment with ad placement and keep an eye on the CTR as you move them around. A 250x250 banner above the fold seems to work best, but you might find a good 160x600 sidebar ad that works better for you.

Good luck!

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Ideas to make money for free

For a long time I have been working online - it is a lot of fun and I have just taken up blogging, new experience for me and free make money online ideas for you.

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Website Monetization

There was a thread on the V7N forum recently about the right time to monetize your site...when building it, or AFTER the traffic has already started flowing. Webmasters seem to be divided on this issue, with some saying you need to build up traffic first and not scare away your visitors, while others say it's all about the money, so why not monetize right away? Well, here's my 2 cents, for those who care...

I personally put the ads up on any new site I build right away, while I'm building it, and it's not because of the money. I do it for layout and SEO purposes. The layout part should be obvious: I want to know where everything is going to go and how it will really look when I launch it. I don't want any surprises where I put up a banner weeks later only to find out the template I used breaks when anything is added and I should have used a different one.

The SEO reason is even more important. The search engines rank your site according to your content (yes, there are other reasons too, but I'm refering to "on-site" optimization) and ANY changes to that content will change your keyword density and, therefore, your ranking. This includes outbound links (OBL) and banners, which is why you should never link out to a "bad neighborhood".

I take that density factor very seriously when creating a website and I create the content KNOWING where the ads (OBL) will be placed among that content. That way, all variables have been accounted for right from the start. Think of it this way: Imagine working hard to get everything "perfect" WITHOUT placing your ads at the beginning, then waiting a few weeks to rank well in the SERP and you're excited that you're now in the top 10 results for your keywords. You then start to get great organic traffic from the SE's and life seems great.

THEN you decide to finally put up a few ads to make some bucks. However, during the next crawl of your site, the search engines now re-examine your keyword density and adjust for all these new links and your site suddenly begins to drop in the SERP. You are effectively reversing all your hard work!

As with all topics I write about here, I learned from my own experience (and mistakes). I have a music website that focuses on a specific niche which I did not place ads on at the beginning. Instead, I waited until it ranked well and then put up 3 sidebar banner placements. One was for a tattoo shop and a week later my analytics showed visits coming from the tattoo keywords, which had NOTHING to do with my own site's content! My ranking then started slipping because these new keywords were messing with my density.

I recovered from it by strengthening (adjusting) my own keywords on the page, but it was a lesson learned. What if that had been a big money earner that was in the #1 position in Google and suddenly it got canned to page 2 because of further website monetization that should have been left alone? Basically, if you're already ranking well then DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING!!!! "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

Website monetization is like a game of Jenga...you have to be very strategic in building and making your moves or the whole thing can come crashing down on you...

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Website Monetization

There was a thread on the V7N forum recently about the right time to monetize your site...when building it, or AFTER the traffic has already started flowing. Webmasters seem to be divided on this issue, with some saying you need to build up traffic first and not scare away your visitors, while others say it's all about the money, so why not monetize right away? Well, here's my 2 cents, for those who care...

I personally put the ads up on any new site I build right away, while I'm building it, and it's not because of the money. I do it for layout and SEO purposes. The layout part should be obvious: I want to know where everything is going to go and how it will really look when I launch it. I don't want any surprises where I put up a banner weeks later only to find out the template I used breaks when anything is added and I should have used a different one.

The SEO reason is even more important. The search engines rank your site according to your content (yes, there are other reasons too, but I'm refering to "on-site" optimization) and ANY changes to that content will change your keyword density and, therefore, your ranking. This includes outbound links (OBL) and banners, which is why you should never link out to a "bad neighborhood".

I take that density factor very seriously when creating a website and I create the content KNOWING where the ads (OBL) will be placed among that content. That way, all variables have been accounted for right from the start. Think of it this way: Imagine working hard to get everything "perfect" WITHOUT placing your ads at the beginning, then waiting a few weeks to rank well in the SERP and you're excited that you're now in the top 10 results for your keywords. You then start to get great organic traffic from the SE's and life seems great.

THEN you decide to finally put up a few ads to make some bucks. However, during the next crawl of your site, the search engines now re-examine your keyword density and adjust for all these new links and your site suddenly begins to drop in the SERP. You are effectively reversing all your hard work!

As with all topics I write about here, I learned from my own experience (and mistakes). I have a music website that focuses on a specific niche which I did not place ads on at the beginning. Instead, I waited until it ranked well and then put up 3 sidebar banner placements. One was for a tattoo shop and a week later my analytics showed visits coming from the tattoo keywords, which had NOTHING to do with my own site's content! My ranking then started slipping because these new keywords were messing with my density.

I recovered from it by strengthening (adjusting) my own keywords on the page, but it was a lesson learned. What if that had been a big money earner that was in the #1 position in Google and suddenly it got canned to page 2 because of further website monetization that should have been left alone? Basically, if you're already ranking well then DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING!!!! "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!"

Website monetization is like a game of Jenga...you have to be very strategic in building and making your moves or the whole thing can come crashing down on you...

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