Article writing can easily earn you money online. Content is king and if you can write great content, then you can earn money online.

These are my top ways to earn money online from article writing.

1. Promoting affiliate products by including a link to that product in your resource box at the end of your article. Many directories do not allow links directly to affiliate products, but if you have your own website you can set up a re-direct link and send your visitors to your main website or you can direct them to another article about the affiliate product on your website.

2. Building links to your website is one of the most important things for search engine optimization and to increase organic traffic. The more high quality links that you can generate the more visitors you will have to your website, which in turn earns you more money. Be sure to include your anchor text in your resource box and a link to your website.

3. Many website owners are looking for people to write articles for them and will pay good money for them, depending on the length and the quality of the articles. This is a great way to get started, especially if you already have some experience in writing. Just do a search for ghostwriters or freelance writers

There are many other ways to earn money online from article writing, but these 3 ways will definitely start you earning and the more articles you write the more money you will earn.

My Article Submission History

I’ve submitted LOADS of articles over a period of time and my technique has changed many, many times!

- When I first began the absolute best way to submit articles was to simply blast them to as many article directories as you could possibly find! It worked. I was getting alot of traffic and loads of incoming links. But the effectiveness of this very simple technique, for one reason or another, eventually died off.

- I then limited my submissions to only 3 high-quality article directories, which at that time were EzineArticles.com, GoArticles.com and ArticleCity.com These incoming links seemed to be much stronger and the traffic increased as compared to the later days of my mass submission. Things were once again doing well. I was getting alot of direct traffic as well as the indirect SE traffic that come in as a result of the incoming links.

I used this very simple technique for a while and it was doing me well, but I missed all of those links I was getting before.

So I began testing mass submission again. What I eventually realized was that mass submission wasn’t the problem!

Google DOES NOT PENALIZE sites/pages that are syndicated! BUT, if the same article appears on hundreds of LOW-QUALITY sites, for reasons unbeknownst to me, many of the article page will not be indexed, which results in less traffic and backlinks, both short term and long term!

The Solution

Submit 1/2 of your articles to the top 5-10 article directories, which in my opinion are:

1: EzineArticles.com
2: Buzzle.com
3: ArticleDashboard.com
4: Amazines.com
5: IdeaMarketers.com (because of their bidding system)

Submit the other half to the top 30-50 QUALITY article directories! These are article directories which possess high rankings, accept quality articles and have strict submission guidelines!

I use Article Post Robot to make the process much quicker and easier and I highly recommend it. Read a review of Article Post Robot here.

By splitting up your submission techniques you’re getting the best of both worlds. You’re getting a hand full of strong backlinks with the very limited submissions and you’re getting a higher quantity of backlinks with the “mass” submission to high-quality article directories. The best part is that you’re not relying on one simple technique! SE’s change their algorithms on a daily basis, so we really don’t know what will be effective in the future.

By using this technique, I effectively get the best of both worlds and provide a much more solid foundation for my article marketing campaign in the future!

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