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passive income through writing articles?

by co-creator
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Hey warriors,

I wanted your opinion about writing articles for websites like suite101 and the like to generate passive income?

Has anyone out there earned decent income through this?

And what are the best websites like this that you can write for?

Thanks warriors!
#articles #income #passive #writing
  • Profile picture of the author Shannon Spoon
    You could try Elance | Outsource to freelance professionals, experts, and consultants - Get work done on Elance I hear a lot of people getting work through them.

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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by Shannon Spoon View Post

      What does that have to do with "passive income" from articles, Shannon? :confused:

      Originally Posted by co-creator View Post

      And what are the best websites like this that you can write for?
      I think you should look at InfoBarrel. The revenue sharing there is the most generous you'll find by a long way, and it's very much a "growing concern" with great future promise, in my opinion.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by seo99 View Post

      A good way yo do this get bunch of good reviews on warrior forum and post a content writer for hire ad. You make plenty of money.
      What does that have to do with "passive income" from articles?!

      Does nobody read the title or the OP any more, before replying?! :rolleyes:
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      • Profile picture of the author Jon Patrick
        It's possible that the best source of passive income from writing articles would be your own site/blog to house that content. As your site grows, you will have plenty of opportunities to monetize it and earn passive income from all of your old content, leaving you free to seed your site with new content to earn you more income.
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris Worner
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        What does that have to do with "passive income" from articles?!

        Does nobody read the title or the OP any more, before replying?! :rolleyes:
        Remember this thread and post Alexa? http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post3186464

        You were the only one who actually read the thread in its entirety.

        Now back on topic, you could always set up a PLR store.

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    • Profile picture of the author sam12six
      If you're talking about maximizing your passive income and are planning to write a lot of content, you can't beat your own site (even if it's just a blogger blog).

      If you're looking to raise seed money AND get a tiny bit of passive income, going with a site that pays up-front plus per view might make sense. Also if you aren't planning to write a ton (as in, you just want writing examples and would like a little (very little) money for them), then using such a site makes sense.

      If you want to write enough to make a substantial passive income, establishing and promoting your own site is almost always more profitable than accepting a portion of the income your work produces.

      As an example, when I first started years ago, I wrote a dozen or so articles for associated content to use the up-front to establish my own sites. The associated content articles bring me a very consistent $.25 per month. The first site I established (with about 20 articles) brings in a very consistent $6/month in adsense clicks. This site has had no real promotional effort (maybe 10 backlinks from a couple articles I submitted to directories when I started it) and is about at the break-even point where one method is as good as the other. More content or more promotion and the independent site would be far more profitable.

      Let's put it this way:

      I hear people brag about their passive income from their own sites and sometimes they're talking $XX,XXX/month. The most I've ever heard people brag about their passive income from an income share program for articles was $XXX/month (and this was people with several hundred articles written and published).
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      • Profile picture of the author AprilCT
        I've seen reputable people post on a few forums who claim earnings as much as a couple thousand or more a month on the Adsense (et al) sharing sites.

        However, most of these same people also write their own blogs as well, using the sharing sites as a prime source of passive income to pursue their own independent earnings on sites they can own and control without all the TOS that a sharing site involves.

        There are some advantages with this method. Many of the sharing sites will permit live links, and they write companion articles to their own blog to encourage a click through. Even if there is no click though to their own work, there is still the possibility that a reader will choose an ad instead, so the writer still earns. In any event, the link to a newer site on the sharing site is a backlink from a higher PR site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Chris The Traffic Blogger
    Don't use articles for passive income, use them to direct traffic to your real income stream
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    • Profile picture of the author genietoast
      If you're thinking about getting paid to write articles, one of the best places to look is in WAHM.com forum. Look under the section that says WAHMs who write.

      All the work at home mothers (WAHMs) network with each other, and they do a lot of writing for passive income. They can tell you which ones pay on time and which don't.

      It's not uncommon to get aid $5 an article or less, depending on which content mill you're writing for. Textbroker and Londonbroker.net I recommend. They're reliable on pay.

      Demand Studios pays the best, but their editors are nit-picky. You have to apply with a resume and be a good writer.

      Wise Geek pays decent. Very nice staff. Bright Hub. Love to Know also pay well. Collectively these pay $10 - $20 an article and are reliable for payment. You have to apply and submit writing samples.

      If you're planning to write for passive income, get in the habit of keeping your best samples and creating a writer's resume. Google freelance writer templates. I'm sure there are plenty of examples.

      You can always check Problogger.com under the "jobs" section. Those job offers are pretty good about telling you what they pay.

      Most of the time you will be paid via PayPal, sometimes monthly, sometimes twice a month, sometimes weekly.

      If you can, try to write for sites that pay at least $20 an article. Anything less then that, you're going to have to learn to research and write fast.

      But you decide what's best for you.
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      • Profile picture of the author cjm18
        I have written for both Helium and posted my best Helium content on Bukisa. On Helium I am earning about 20 cents per day off of 50 articles, this is without promotion and the only thing I have to do is rate a few articles a week to keep my rating star to be eligible for advertising revenue.

        There are those on Helium who claim to make thousands a month in passive income and I believe it because they have thousands of articles written and have there articles being tweeted every few minutes on Twitter.

        I no longer write there because the upfront system has become overly complicated but I'm still seeing a couple of dollars a month come in for 50 articles that took me less than a week to write.

        With some effort Helium can be a good stream of income but it should not be where you pin all of your hopes. It takes a long time and a lot of hard work to get enough quality articles to earn hundreds or thousands a month passively.
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  • Profile picture of the author ArticlePrince
    The best passive income from articles is creating a simple presell page for an affiliate product then syndicate your articles everywhere. You can make a few thousand a month within 30-60 days easily.

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  • Profile picture of the author paulie888
    The article sites mentioned above are completely irrelevant and have absolutely nothing to do with allowing you to make money passively via articles. Is everyone asleep in here? lol

    The only ways that I know of to make money passively via articles is to do article marketing or selling PLR article packs.
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    • Profile picture of the author Ken Durham
      Originally Posted by paulie888 View Post

      The article sites mentioned above are completely irrelevant and have absolutely nothing to do with allowing you to make money passively via articles. Is everyone asleep in here? lol

      The only ways that I know of to make money passively via articles is to do article marketing or selling PLR article packs.
      OP asked; "I wanted your opinion about writing articles for websites like suite101 and the like to generate passive income?"

      Suite101 is a revenue share like helium and the others mentioned, isn't it?
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    • Profile picture of the author bouncingboy
      Sites like Suite 101 get their revenue from Adsense. They give you a cut. Nobody knows the exact numbers for sure, but using my own numbers it's a very substantial cut. Then there are places like hubpages or infobarrel where you get 60-70% of the adsense impressions. That's a lot better, but you're still giving them a big 30-40% cut. The worst thing about is that you don't really hear much of a peep about people who made $1,000 or more per month from these websites. During some months, Suite has less than ten writers that made at least $1,000 per month. That has made me doubt the veracity of claims from others on hubpages and squidoo about four figure incomes.

      You can earn decent income by writing and never having to learn about internet marketing other than basic SEO. But don't plan on quitting your day job.
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      • Profile picture of the author x3xsolxdierx3x
        There is nothing in Google's Adsense TOS that specifically forbades a Web 2.0 rev sharing site from disclosing e what % of revenue they share with a writer. This just simply shouldn't be occurring any longer, especially in an industry that is becoming more and more transparent by the day.

        The "60-70%" of adsense impressions isn't entirely accurate. On HubPages, you earn 60%. On InfoBarrel, I earned 90% all of last year on into this year (75-90%).

        Originally Posted by bouncingboy View Post

        Sites like Suite 101 get their revenue from Adsense. They give you a cut. Nobody knows the exact numbers for sure, but using my own numbers it's a very substantial cut. Then there are places like hubpages or infobarrel where you get 60-70% of the adsense impressions. That's a lot better, but you're still giving them a big 30-40% cut. The worst thing about is that you don't really hear much of a peep about people who made $1,000 or more per month from these websites. During some months, Suite has less than ten writers that made at least $1,000 per month. That has made me doubt the veracity of claims from others on hubpages and squidoo about four figure incomes.

        You can earn decent income by writing and never having to learn about internet marketing other than basic SEO. But don't plan on quitting your day job.
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        • Profile picture of the author bouncingboy
          Originally Posted by x3xsolxdierx3x View Post

          There is nothing in Google's Adsense TOS that specifically forbades a Web 2.0 rev sharing site from disclosing e what % of revenue they share with a writer. This just simply shouldn't be occurring any longer, especially in an industry that is becoming more and more transparent by the day.

          The "60-70%" of adsense impressions isn't entirely accurate. On HubPages, you earn 60%. On InfoBarrel, I earned 90% all of last year on into this year (75-90%).
          I agree that transparency should be better especially with suite and ehow. But a 25% (infobarrel) to 40% (hubpages) cut is still a lot. You can't really take a sabbatical from infobarrel and maintain that 10% cut. On the other hand, I don't share my Adsense revenue with anyone, and I can take a break for months or years.

          I've found infobarrel to be not so great as a writer because I have to backlink. I don't like to backlink unless it's for my own websites. However, I do use infobarrel and hubpages to backlink to my websites. For that purpose, I've found them very helpful even if they are nofollow.
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    • Profile picture of the author cjm18
      Originally Posted by paulie888 View Post

      The article sites mentioned above are completely irrelevant and have absolutely nothing to do with allowing you to make money passively via articles. Is everyone asleep in here? lol

      The only ways that I know of to make money passively via articles is to do article marketing or selling PLR article packs.
      I have to disagree with you on that one. The OP was asking aboust earning passive income from sites such as suite101 which I believe is a similar setup to Helium.

      Helium while it takes work to make money can eventually allow you to earn a substantial amount of passive income each month. You get paid a share of the advertising revenue earned from views of your articles.

      So correct me if I am wrong but that seems more relevant than your suggestion.
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      • Profile picture of the author paulie888
        Originally Posted by cjm18 View Post

        I have to disagree with you on that one. The OP was asking aboust earning passive income from sites such as suite101 which I believe is a similar setup to Helium.

        Helium while it takes work to make money can eventually allow you to earn a substantial amount of passive income each month. You get paid a share of the advertising revenue earned from views of your articles.

        So correct me if I am wrong but that seems more relevant than your suggestion.
        Sorry, I wasn't being entirely clear in my post. I was referring to the other posts that had mentioned writing for freelance sites and posting ads in the warrior forum, and not the revenue sharing sites.
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        • Profile picture of the author cjm18
          Originally Posted by paulie888 View Post

          Sorry, I wasn't being entirely clear in my post. I was referring to the other posts that had mentioned writing for freelance sites and posting ads in the warrior forum, and not the revenue sharing sites.
          No worries, I was just being a bit snappy earlier because I forgot to get myself something for dinner.

          It is incredibly frustrating that a lot of people fail to properly read the OP though isn't it.
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          • Profile picture of the author Devid Farah
            Squidoo.com: You can build a Squidoo lens in five minutes and publish it. The great thing is Google tends to trust Squidoo articles and several of them rank very high in the search result.

            You make money either through affiliate links on your articles or through sharing the revenue the ads make.

            Hubpages.com: Hubpages is another popular website that uses revenue sharing.

            You will need to have a Google Adsense, eBay and Amazon affiliate, and Kontera accounts in order to get paid.

            Hubpages also ranks well in the search engines.

            Associatedcontent.com: Associated Content was brought by Yahoo a little while ago and is now one of the largest user-contributed content based libraries online.

            Yahoo uses its influence to market the articles, and the authors are paid based on the performance of the article for its life time.

            Those are a couple of the most well known websites. However a quick Google search will give you dozens of more websites.

            If you can submit one well written article to each site every day, then over time you will start to make a nice stream of money.

            However, don't expect anything world shattering in the beginning.
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            • Profile picture of the author x3xsolxdierx3x
              When using Squidoo, I'd recommend balancing whether you use your own affiliate links, or Squidoo's affiliate link modules.

              For example, say you use an eBay module, you will share the revenue with Squidoo if you make a sale. If you embed your own affiliate links, you walk away with 100%.

              The kicker, here, however, is that I have very strong reason to believe that lenses tend to do better if they are constantly driving sales through Squidoo's own modules. Think of this like a business. If you owned Squidoo, would you rather people purchase through YOUR affiliate link (in which you take 100% of the commission), or Squidoo's affiliate link (in which Squidoo, as a company, earns a % that is shared)?

              So, Squidoo has a vested interested in doing what it can to ensure that people use their modules MORE often. They simply won't be able to keep people from using there own affiliate links, however, Squidoo can strongly incentivize the use of their modules. This is why when one makes a sale through a Squidoo module, typically they incur 'some' benefits, like increases in lensrank, etc.
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  • Profile picture of the author x3xsolxdierx3x
    Originally Posted by co-creator View Post

    Hey warriors,

    I wanted your opinion about writing articles for websites like suite101 and the like to generate passive income?

    Has anyone out there earned decent income through this?

    And what are the best websites like this that you can write for?

    Thanks warriors!
    Others may have had a different experience, but, when I was considering writing for Suite101, I had written 3 emails to their staff that all went unanswered. I had simply wanted a better understanding of how they share revenue in the absence of any real detail on their website. They do say that writers earn a share, but they don't say how or to what extent. I don't write there.
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    • Profile picture of the author internetsecretbook
      Article marketing has many uses. You can use it to review an affiliate product, post it to your site, blog or e-book with your affiliate link, or post it to a forum, and the percentage commission is all yours. You can use it to attract clicking your adsense in your blog, site or online account at suite101 or infobarrel. You can use it to drive traffic to your site with your created product. You can use it to get paid at elance. You can use it to make backlinks to your site, etc. You can be hired by someone to write article or blog for him or her. I hope this simple post helps you...
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  • Profile picture of the author goldmedal
    Rather than simply writing articles, write an ebook and sell it on amazon/kindle. It's as passive as they come....once you've written it, and published it, you never touch it again.
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    • Profile picture of the author x3xsolxdierx3x
      Originally Posted by goldmedal View Post

      Rather than simply writing articles, write an ebook and sell it on amazon/kindle. It's as passive as they come....once you've written it, and published it, you never touch it again.
      What has your experience been like with this?
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      • Profile picture of the author LilBlackDress
        I personally do very well with passive income from articles I wrote months ago on content sites. My top article has made close to $1,000 (and that does not include affiliate income from traffic sent to my website via the article)! Not bad for 45 minutes work.

        Though I still occassionally write for these sites, most of my time is now spent on my own websites, but I can assure you that you can make hundreds every month writing for residual income sites if you know what you are doing and you build up a bank of articles. However, as I said it does take time and effort.

        I have a list of free sites you can write for that pay residual income. You can PM me for the free list of sites if you want it.
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  • Profile picture of the author trafficforfree
    I do make money from both Squidoo and Hubpages, around $600 between them pm. Also another method I have only just began, but know will work over time is writing articles in niche markets and add Amazon associates product links in the signature. I then use ArticleRanks to publish to peoples websites as well.

    The great thing about using this method is Amazon is very focused on converting visitors, and are masters at doing so. If someone enters through your link, but goes on to buy anything different, you still get the commission.
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  • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Ehinger
    You could use article marketing to create a list of subscribers that you could use for a passive income over time. Plus once the articles are out there they will bring traffic forever without you having to do anything else.

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