Creating and Making Money with Online Content

Tips for Writing and Making Money with Online Content

Break it Down

To help with both the actual writing and to help improve the overall article, I recommend you first make sure you have a great title. Using the keyword or topic that you're targeting, come up with a witty, short title that describes what your article will be about.

After coming up with the title and the general idea of the article, put in some subheads. Depending on how many words you're shooting for, you'll want to use at least two subheads and most probably more. Come up with a good way to further break down the topic of your main article and make these the subheads.

Once you have the subheads in place, you can begin to fill in the "blanks" underneath the subheads with one or more paragraphs of text relating to the subhead. This makes it a lot easier to stick on topic and not end up with one of those articles that read like you're going in circles.

If you don't want to end up with an article that reads like you're going in circles, stick with the tips above!

Bullets are Good

If you're close to your target word count and you still need a little more, throwing in some useful bullet points is rarely a bad idea. Note, though, that I said useful bullet points. Take some time to break down a complex idea into five or more bullet points composed of small phrases or even single words.

Practice Makes Perfect

To become good at writing for the web, you're going to have to practice - a lot. You should already have a blog, but if you don't, start one up and post to it every day. And don't just throw up garbage. Give yourself a goal (say, 500 words) and craft one good story on one good topic. Doing this day after day helps you perfect your craft.

Online Content Marketplace

If you think you're good enough, you can try to sell your content writing services online. There are quite a few different online communities that cater to this type of service provider. There are also other options like Associated Content, which lets you publish your work to a community to see how well it ranks.

Short Term vs Long Term

There's a phrase that says you shouldn't put all your eggs in one basket. This is great advice when applied to many things, even writing content for the web.