Friday, July 17, 2009

Step by step process on earning a good income selling articles for content marketing!

Step by step process on earning a good income selling articles for content marketing!

Writing content and selling articles used for content marketing is a very good way to make money on the internet. Good fresh content will always be in demand. In this article I will show you why unique content is always in demand and how you can earn a comfortable living online writing content for web and selling articles it to the highest bidder by auctioning it.

These are some of the various ways unique content is used:

As a content writer

1. You can write content to sell it. So others can use it.

2. You can write content to establish yourself as an expert in any field.

3. You can use content to drive traffic to your website or your squeeze page via content marketing.

As a webmaster for SEO and for content marketing

1. You need keyword rich content to put up on your website for content marketing so that the search engines send you free traffic.

2. You can use articles and submit it to article sites so that you can get free traffic and also increased search engine rankings due to the back links it generates.

3. You can use articles which revolve around the content of your website so that you get relevant traffic.

4. You can use articles and put up Adsense code on it to display content relevant Google ads and earn an income from that.

As an affiliate or email marketer

1. You can use keyword rich articles for content marketing and promote products without even having a website.

2. You can use articles to bring people to your squeeze page and collect their email id’s to who you can market again and again.

3. Email marketers need a constant source of new content to email their list members

Why fresh unique content is always in demand?
You might have heard of the phrase “content is king”. That’s because in today’s Internet world, content is the most important factor that drives traffic to your website. Search engines index the content on your website and will drive traffic to your website if the keywords that you use in your content shows up in search queries when anyone searches on the Internet. This is basically content marketing.

Search engines love unique and original constant source of content updated frequently as compared to duplicate content. Websites with fresh unique constant content will always keep getting a good amount of free traffic send by Google and other search engines.

So how do you actually start selling articles?
I will now show you step by step way on how you can earn online selling articles using Buynsellcontent.com.

Step 1
Create your account: Before you start to make money buying and selling articles you will have to first create an account with Buynsellcontent.com.

Step 2
Create your Paypal account: Once you finish up your signing up process with our website, then to withdraw your payment you will need to create a Paypal account. Once you create your Paypal account you would need to add it in your admin area so that your withdrawals will be sent automatically to that Paypal address.

Step 3
Submit your original article: Once you have logged into your account, you can click on “sell content”

You will see the form that you could fill up to submit content to us. Type in your article Title, choose the category and the subcategory. Write a short summary of your content and add the keywords. Add your main content to the text box and choose if you want to hide partial content.

Now fill up the price that you would like to sell your content for, choose the number of days that you want it to be auctioned for and put a tick next to “agree to TOS” and click on submit.

The article is instantly displayed on the website for sale and if you have subscribers signed up for your new article alerts, they will also receive alerts with your new article link.

Once the minimum 5 day auction period is over and the article is still not sold, then it will be automatically moved from the auction area to the “ready to buy” area where the minimum bid price that you had set will become the sale price of that particular article. Your article will be displayed on the website and on your profile as long as it gets sold.

All new content that is posted will automatically go through a 5 day auction period. That is in order to give equal opportunity for all those who would like to buy that particular article.

Step4:
The Article gets sold: Once the article is sold, it will be removed from the website and the funds will be credited to your account. You will also receive an email when your article gets sold.

Now the buyer will get an option to leave a feedback and a rating score for you. The feedback option will keep blinking on his profile till he submits the feedback for you.

Step5:
Request a withdrawal: You will need to add your Paypal email id in your profile. You can request a withdrawal. Once it is approved the funds will be instantly credited to your Paypal account.

What kind of articles should you write to sell?
Write keyword rich articles on topics that are in demand. Internet marketing / doing business online, making money topics, how to information etc are the hottest selling topics nowadays. Other topics that are in demand are: self help / personal growth, weight loss / fitness topics, dating / relationships, everyday problems, hobbies and crafts, recipes, online shopping etc.

Remember these articles will be used by webmasters or affiliate marketers mainly for content marketing to promote their products, so you should write keyword rich articles. Every article of your should focus on one or two keywords sprinkled across the article in its proper density. Ideal keyword density is a keyword repeated 4 – 5 times in an 800 word article. Also the title of the article should have the same keyword.

How to find out hot topic to write about?

You could Use Google Trends to pick some highly searched keywords to place into your article. http://www.google.com/trends

http://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

You could go to:
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal and type in keywords there to check. Whichever keywords that have high search volumes and the advertiser competition is good are pretty in demand. If you write articles revolving around those keywords it will sell faster.

You can further narrow down to more profitable niches by searching for that particular keyword in quotes on Google: example “article writing” and look for keywords that have fewer number of competing websites.

To find out more hot selling article topics to write about, go to http://www.ezinearticles.com and click on any category that you’re planning to target. Let’s say your niche is “Writing and speaking / writing” Click on any of the articles and scroll down the page till you reach the “Most Viewed Ezine Articles in the Writing-and-Speaking: Writing Category (90 Days)”

Write articles on similar subjects revolving around those keywords.

Another option is that you could go to go articles http://www.goarticles.com/top-rated.html and look for the top rated articles for ideas.

Another way is that you could visit social news websites such as Digg.com, Yahoobuzz.com, and Propeller.com etc and look for the articles that receive a high score or diggs from readers. Articles on similar topics would be easier to sell.

How to promote your profile page to get more sales?
All the content you post will be displayed on your profile page. All you need to do is promote your profile page. Your interested buyers can go through your articles and bid for it if it is new or can buy your older articles from the ‘content ready for sale area”

Your profile page visitors can also subscribe to receive new article alerts automatically whenever you submit new articles. If you have lot of subscribers signed up to receive alerts, then it can raise the bid price to a good amount during the bidding frenzy as there will be a lot of your subscribers bidding to buy your content.

To promote your profile page, the easiest way is to do is by content marketing. It is by creating marketing articles that you could use submit to all the article directories out there, with a byline informing the readers to visit your profile to buy articles that you have put up for sale.

To see a list of article directories that you could submit you could visit this link I have compiled for you.

Article directories according to page rank

Wishing you all success in your article selling efforts.

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