Archive for October, 2009

Promote Yourself with Hubpages

October 30th, 2009

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Hubpages, as you may have read in another one of my articles on this site, is a very good place to earn some extra income online from your writing.  The way it works is you write “hubs” about a certain subject, publish them, and earn Adsense revenue.

60% of the time, you will earn from your page impressions and 40% of the time, Hubpages earns money from the impressions.  But keep in mind, you only earn when someone clicks and ad on one of your pages.  So if you have an Adsense account and do some writing online, Hubpages is a good place to use to augment your reach, exposure, and income.  

If you have a blog, website, or web business, you should absolutely be using Hubpages.  You should write “hubs” about your industry or pertaining to your work or interests.  You have a profile page where you can include a short bio about yourself and as many links as you want to your own sites.  You can link to your blog so people can read more of your work.  

You can also link out from the Hubs you write if it makes sense to do so.  Even if you don’t have a site, but you sell your writing to places like Associated Content or Constant-Content, you should still do some writing at Hubpages, as it has proven to be a solid stand-alone money-earner.  That is, if you know what you’re doing.

The more time you spend there, the better you will get at creating pages and the more money you will earn over the long term.  Keyword selection is also key.  Stay tuned because I’m planning a long post all about how to select keywords, which is how you really start to make money online.

Sign up for Hubpages and start writing, earning, and promoting.

Freelance Resources at Freelance Switch

October 28th, 2009

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Freelance Switch is a website I check out at least once a month to find up-to-date articles about how to manage the freelance lifestyle–and folks, it is a lifestyle.

There are always useful articles about things that concern freelancers and internet business owners written by people who know first-hand what they’re talking about.

Here are a few posts that have helped me and may help you.

Freelancers: Do you need a business plan? Maybe

9 Ways to Make Your Writing More Compelling. Grab onto your readers with a vice-like grip.

Marketing Your Website with Search Engine Optimization. This is as good a basic primer on SEO for your web business as I’ve seen anywhere.  It is a very uncomplicated look at making your site more accesible and attractive to your visitors and the search engines.

You would do well to subscribe to Freelance Switch’s feed or email list to get up to date info about freelancing.

I’m Giving Away a Free Article to Promote Your Site

October 28th, 2009

my-gift-free-article-blogI realized this morning that I really haven’t been doing enough for my readers. So I figured I would do something for someone for free today and if it becomes something interesting, maybe it will become a weekly thing.

I recently wrote a post about promoting your website by publishing articles in article directories. It is a really good way to drive direct (“clicky”) traffic to your website. What I mean by “clicky” is that these people are looking for information, and if you write the article with the right keywords and in the right way, you can get some seriously qualified traffic that’s ready to take action when they get to your site.

Article directories (at least the good ones) have high rankings in search engines because they are moderated by human beings and have certain standards for publication. This makes the content and the sites as a whole more valuable and relevant. So even if you blog doesn’t rank high for a term, you may still be able to publish at a highly ranked article directory and leverage that into some direct traffic to your blog.

I want to write a 400 to 500 word article that I will publish in my account at ezinearticles.com for someone. I will include links to your main domain page and one other article you want to build a link to. I will research the right keywords and see if I can drive some decent long-term traffic for you.

Sign up to get a free, keyword-rich, SEO article from me for FREE by re-tweeting this post using the green button at the top right of this post.  That’s it!

I will choose one person one week from writing this post and will publish your article shortly after. I will also choose a runner-up and do something cool for them as well. I’m interested to see how this works. Thanks in advance and I hope you win!

PS.  Even if you don’t use the green “retweet” button in this post, make sure to “mention” my name @Chris_McCarthy along with the title of this article so I can find your tweet.

Make Money Writing for Xomba

October 23rd, 2009

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Xomba is billed as “A social network geared toward people who like to write” and is a great place to make money online for creating written content.  It is an Adsense sharing site, which means that you split Adsense advertising revenue 50/50 with the site.  It’s owned by Internet entrepreneur and writer Nick Veneris and run by a very competent and passionate team based in Florida.

It’s a good place to write and earn.  Xombytes are posts a minimum of 150 words and can be about, well, anything you want them to be.  You can write about music, politics, the new camera you want to buy, or celebrities and movies.  Celeb and movie subjects do really well on this site, so if that’s the kind of thing you write about, mount up.

You can also include a link back to your site in your post, so it can be a helpful way to promote yourself and gain exposure for your content while making money in the process.

Xomblurbs are more like a social bookmarking type of thing, in that they have to include a link to a website or article and only have to be 50 words long.  

So why Xomba?

  • Get more exposure for yourself and your writing by writing for an established site that already gets substantial traffic.
  • Connect with other writers (if you want to)
  • Earn money from advertisements displayed 
  • Dedicated staff and owner who really care about the site and the writers

Sign up for Xomba.com.  Let me know if you have any questions.

Meet Abmox, Xomba’s official mascot. Cute, ain’t he?
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