Writing, writing, writing

Writing online has been my most profitable venture online by far. I started writing on Ehow about a year and a half or so ago. Since then I have joined Associated Content, Bukisa, and Firehow.

Ehow has made changes to there site, so I no longer write for them. Even though I no longer write for them I make $100 a month in residual income. I do still go to the site and update my work from time to time to keep it up to date, but I do not work on the site much.

Bukisa is a site that I have not put a lot of work into, but I make a little money on the site every month. I am sure if I would put more work into the site I would probably make quite a bit more, but nothing compared to my other sites.

Associated Content has been one of my top earners with the exception of Ehow. I have made more than I had expected. The only thing I would say about the site is to push for upfront offers. I make money every month from the views, but the upfront offers pay quite a bit more.

Firehow is one site that I feel is a very good up and coming site. The views on my articles have been increasing at a great rate, and my income has as well. If you like to write "how to" articles I recommend this site.

I also use another site to write on occasionally, but I use it more for promoting my articles. The site is Xomba. Xomba is a site that pays you through Google adsense. You can write articles, promote your blog posts, and promote your articles. I use it quite a bit for my blogs and articles. It has pushed me very close to getting my payout on a regular basis. Even if you do not use Xomba for writing, you should use it to promote your work.

I have not had a lot of motivation in the last few months to get to writing, but I am getting my passion back. Once I got through some very difficult times I realized that this is something that I enjoy doing, and I can make a decent income doing it. Writing is something that I will continue doing for a long time, and I hope that I can keep my passion this time, and keep it up.

To anyone wanting to make an income online you should really consider writing. It has been a way for me to make money and express myself through my words. It did take me a little time to get the hang of everything, and start earning, but it has been worth it.

Home Income Weekly Update 2/23/10

Well it is that time again. Time for my home income weekly update. I have had a couple of days of discouragement this week, but I am getting through it. My main focus is to make a full time income from home, and it can be a slow process. It also takes a lot of work. I have to keep my focus on what I feel is important; working from home.

This has been another slow week for Google Adsense, but my other online income sources have been doing fairly well. I have made about $20 again this week, which is OK. It is $20 more dollars on my way to reaching my goals. I will be so much happier when I can report a great earning week, and provide an increase in my home income on a regular basis. I am a positive person, I will get there.

Home Income Goals For The Week:

• Write at least 5 articles for each site
• Update my Blogs twice
• Promote all of my articles (Most have been promoted on a regular basis)
• Find ways to increase my earnings on other sites, not just my writing sites
  

Plagiarism and Online Writing

Plagiarism is something that all of us online writers have to deal with, and it is very unfortunate. Some of these instances people may not understand what they are doing, and others is just plain stealing our content. When we have articles plagiarized we lose views, and when we lose views we lose money.

What is OK for others to do:

We like the sites that copy our introduction, then link back to our articles. This helps us build backlinks. Backlins help increase our level on search engines, and get more people to view our articles. Any links to our article is a good thing, unless they share the entire article.

What is not OK for others to do:

Plagiarism is not OK at all. This is when someone copies our articles or blog posts without our consent. Even if they make adjustments to the article, it is still your article. I had one person take one of my articles and used words with different meaning throughout, it was still stealing. I had it removed.

What you can do to have these articles removed:

• Leave comments if they are allowed. Comment on there article or blog post, and provide a link back to the original article. Ask them to remove it immediately.
• Contact the site and let them know about the incident.
  
• Flag the content if you can. Explain why if you are asked.
• Report the site to Google if they are using Google adsense.
  
• Let the site you are writing for know about the situation. If the individual has stolen your content, they have probably stolen others from the same site.

Plagiarism hurts all online writers. It reduces our search engine rankings, it reduces our views, and it makes us lose money. We will never completely stop individuals from stealing our content, but we may slow them down if all of us watch for these issues.

I have personally went through a couple of sites and let the people that originally wrote the content know about the article. It took a little time out of my day, but it was helpful to the writing community.

If you are knew to writing:

It is great for new individuals to begin writing online, but they need to have basic knowledge. To begin with, never plagiarize other peoples work. It is wrong. If you want to use ideas from others, touch on the subject in a completely different manner. If you learn to respect other writers, you will begin to get respect.

Earning Update January 22, 2010

I missed the earnings update for last week, so this will be for two weeks. It has been an up and down couple of weeks. The writing sites have been doing fairly well, and my Google adsense account has been gradually increasing. I do think the promoting is working on some of the writing sites, but I do not think it is working on the AC articles.

Total online earnings for the last 14 days- $81

2009 Earnings & 2010 Expectations

Happy New Year!

2009 was a pretty good year. I discovered that there is ways to make money online, and I did pretty well since August. I had did a couple of things before August, but that is when I really put a lot into my new found home business.

I made about $600 since August. That is an extra income considering a lot of it was residual. The majority of the earnings was from my writing income on Ehow, Associated Content, and Bukisa. I am involved in a couple of survey sites, but I only make $40 or so a year with them. I stay involved with them because I only spend a minute or so a day earning money with them.

I just recently discovered Google Adsence, and have only made $20 so far. I did not put that in my earning total. I now have three blogs, and put earn from sites like she told me.

2010:

I am planning on making a decent income this year. I am hoping for at least $1000 a month by the end of July, or sooner.

How I plan to reach my goals-

Write more articles on my writing sites
Focus more on SEO when writing
Promote my articles in more ways
Update my blogs regularly, and possibly start a couple of other blogs
Discover more earning opportunities

This is just the beginning of 2010, so I am sure my goals may change during the year. I will share them all with you. I am hoping I can share a true online success story with all of you.