The Ultimate Guide to Making Money Through Freelance Writing Online

When it comes to the internet, there's a motto that says "content is king." There are a lot of places on the internet that would like to make money through advertising, but they need some content to draw readers there, which has created an opportunity for anyone with half-way decent writing skills to make some extra money on the side by writing articles of all kinds. Here are some of the many ways that you can make extra money through freelance writing on the internet.

Associated Content - This is a company that has been around for just under a year now and has become very popular with the freelance writing community. Writers can submit unsolicited articles on a topic of their choosing and get paid for them about 98% of the time. Writers can make anywhere from $3.00 to $50.00 per article, with an average of about $8.00 an article. The minimum length for an article has to be 400 words, and you have an option to give them exclusive rights to your article, or non-exclusive rights. Usually articles that are submitted with exclusive rights make about $2.00 more than those submitted with non-exclusive rights. Associated Content then publishes your article on their site, and sometimes resells them to other content websites and hopes to make advertising revenue off of them.

Helium - Helium is a sort of cousin to Wikipedia. Users can submit articles on given topics, and then whoever writes the best article on that topic will have theirs displayed first. Helium shares a portion of their advertising revenue with its writers, however the money is really not that great unless you are sure that the article you plan on writing is very popular. The good thing is that you get a portion of the ad revenue earned from your pages for life, so if you had a huge set of articles on Helium, you could make a lot of money over time from that website.