Make Money Online Writing Articles Today

Writing articles from home is a good way to make money online. If you can read and write at a basic 8th grade level, then you are qualified to earn a living as an online writer. The problem many writers face today is the enormous amount of writing scams and the Internet "writing sweatshop" that plagues many new writers. To truly learn how to make money writing online, you have to be able to advertise yourself as least a little. Marketing yourself as a writer is more about building a client list. Here are some ways you can make earn cash writing articles on the net:

Publishing Sites- Many traditional firms that once use to operate in the typical ‘brick and mortar’ bushiness are now moving to the Internet. You will be able to find top magazines conducting their business on the Internet. What this does is make it easier for writers to send in their article inquires to editors of these magazines. Writers should be warned about using this method to earn money as it is important to work out the payment of each article before agreeing to create content for the site. This is when contracts come in handy, and freelance writers are starting to understand this.

Sweat-Mill Publishing Sites- The reason many publishing sites get referred to as "sweatmill" shops is because they pay their writers little to nothing. Many of the top article writing sites on the market today is, ‘Associated Content’. They pay their writers $2-$3 an hour, which should be considered an insult to any serious writer (although I don’t see any problem with this method of earning money writing online if you are a new writer and just starting).

If a marketer knows how to market themselves right and build a client list, they can easily get paid ten times more for the same article. No freelance writer should make under $20 per article. Even if you are not the best writer in the world, you deserve more than $2 per article.

Selling Pre-written articles- One of the easiest ways to earn money on the Internet is selling pre-written articles. Freelance writers are all too familiar with the ‘dry spell’ when they don’t have any writing jobs or clients to not request their services. The best to keep being able to make money is finding forums and sites to sell your articles. There are ways to do this:

Forums- Popular forums are the best way to find webmasters who are willing to dish out money for unique content. Most forums come with a content marketplace where people can trade, buy and sell articles. They are pretty good and effective. The key is finding a good forum and creating the perfect headline to get the attention of potential buyers. There are plenty of writers who are able to sell content at forums for over $1000 a day or more.

Content Marketplaces- Many writers who may not be too good at marketing themselves for writing jobs will use content marketplaces to sell their articles and/or content. There are not that many content marketplaces to choose from, but a couple that have a high page rank and a lot of visitors is Constant-Content. One problem many writers face is that fact that Constant-Content is overcrowded and unless you write on hot topics (which seem to change every couple of weeks), then your articles run the risk of just sitting on the site without making a sale.