Great passive income source

I post all my writing on my blog. But this is a good idea.

Do you have any websites you suggest for the newbies out there?

There are several. Infobarrel, hubpages, squidoo, zujava are examples. Be sure to read their guidelines though as they're all different.

I find that "money-making" sites like Revenue sharing article sites are a pain stakingly slow business model. You can do SEO and marketing promotion all day on your articles, but you will only earn a small, minimum income. I think you'd make more with $7 ebooks. My personal opinion.

The #1 problem with revenue sharing sites is that you're normally dependent on other people to make you money. While it would be great to own one that's already huge, I'm sure that it's a pretty slow and painful process to get to that point. It's not a bad goal, but I personally would prefer to be a bit more in control myself.

Nope, I don't use that. I prefer having my own domain.. and hosting as well. Blogger can be a b*tch and shut you down anytime they want. As for revenue sharing site... I prefer not to use them; only used as a backlink source at max.

I have created already 82 Squidoo lenses and many of them are driving targeted traffic to my websites. I also make money just for promoting my own work and my products. I like this combination. These pages are simple and they are compelling. However, I stopped creating lenses because of the many Squidoo rules and modifications, the difficulty on having a good lensrank, the problems in their system, and more.

I created a few Hub pages, but their system is different and I don't have an Adsense account because of a hacker’s invalid clicks at my first website in the beginning of my online adventures.

Perhaps Zujava is better. In any case, it’s a good idea to create pages at different domains. You have to create a traffic circle, linking and linking pages, so it’s a good idea to create a few of these pages, but not too many.

Thank you!

Interesting concept... never thought of that .. thanks for sharing

I've always looked at it as just an additional stream of income. Sure, sometimes it can be slow, but it's forever and it costs nothing but a few minutes of your time. For example I started on Squidoo only this year, and I already make between 10 and 20 bucks a month. I know others who live exclusively on what they make with revenue sharing sites.

A friend and I love the model so much we even opened our own site (Writedge). It's new though so not much google love yet. I just fine that these sites consistently rank higher than regular blogs so my work gets seen more, and I like that

Plenty of us, I imagine.

I want as many of my sites as possible to be residual income sites.

Why would I want to share that income with someone else's site? I'm running a business, here: I want the revenue generated from my articles to be mine, not "shared with me" by someone else.

Only newbies who haven't yet learned that they can have their own website on their own hosting free of charge, without needing to share the income their articles generate with anyone else at all. Once they learn that they can have their own WordPress blogs at places like Freehostia and Byethost and 000WebHost, without ever being dependent on those so-called "Web 2.0 sites", there's no stopping them.

Well, if they're going to depend on Google traffic, and if they imagine that they're going to rank more quickly by using someone else's site instead of their own, maybe. Unless they test it for themselves, of course, and see that that often isn't really true.

That makes almost no difference in the long run, though. It's certainly not worth putting yourself in a position where someone else makes up and enforces all the rules and takes a cut of your money, just for the sake of being indexed a few days more quickly. That would be pretty short-sighted, wouldn't it?

So have I. I like to have my eggs in plenty of different baskets which I myself own and control. And when baskets are available free, even newbies can do that.

It's like everything else people advise newbies to do: it depends what you compare it with.

Yes, if you compare it with having a little sleep and watching TV, it's quite a reasonable thing to do. But if you compare it on a like-for-like basis with its equivalents which cost nothing and leave you in control and ownership, without needing to share the income with anyone, it doesn't necessarily look quite so impressive, does it?

Yes - that's another problem: do you really want someone else telling you what word-counts you can have?! :p

Yes indeed - all these problems arise when you unnecessarily allow someone else to call all the shots. :rolleyes:

Funnily enough, when you use your site, you get to make up the rules and you don't ever need to worry about all those things.

Just my perspective.

Another thing many people do is getting their site and their Zujava/Squidoo/Hubpages page ranked high. So they get a big chunk of the traffic anyhow. Basically, taking up as many spots as possible.
This always seemed a very logical strategy to me.

Ignorant people who don't know html can easily create Squidoo lenses and Hubs, and make some money, besides learning into practice how to make money online.

It’s nice to be paid for creating pages, and it’s also very nice to get traffic from different communities. It’s very easy to get comments at your lenses if you leave comments at other people’s lenses. You get traffic from the Squidoo community, and the same happens when you create Hubs, or when you post your articles at websites that pay you for posting your articles, giving you the chance to also promote your links.

I was submitting articles to Bukisa and AC many years ago until they changed. I had also submitted a few articles to Triond. These sites pay you something for posting your own articles there with your links. I stopped doing that after the big Panda, when everything changed a lot online.

There are many sites that pay you based on Adsense if you will submit your articles.

This is a simple way to make some money, or a lot of money, but it is quite risky to depend on these platforms.

I believe that they are good for beginners (for learning and testing) and very good as a free traffic generating method. You should create a few pages and post a few articles, without exaggerating.

I'm sure this model can work to an extent, but I would never waste any quality content on these types of sites over publishing it on my own site.