Writing articles at home is a proven method to establishing a steady and legitimate online income.

All websites need constantly updated content to keep their search engine position. Without new content a website looses ranking with search engines which means less traffic and less income.

This is where you can make money at home writing articles. Most websites look for freelance writers to keep a healthy flow of new content on their sites. This has created a huge need for writers to keep the supply fresh and current.

Along with freelance writing you can also use articles to promote affiliate programs. Look around for affiliate programs that interest you and write articles to promote them.

Below you will find three tips when trying to make money at home with article writing.

Start by writing an article about something that interests you. Once you have finished look in to some affiliate programs and find one that goes with your article. Then submit the article to "free contant" sites. Remeber to include your affiliate link in the bio box. This is fairly easy, takes little time and can send many customers to your affiliate page to buy products.

After reading your articles, people may choose to click on the link and purchase a product. Having them on the free content sites also makes your articles available to other webmasters who may wish to publish it on their site.

If they do, your article will include your affiliate link. And anyone who reads the article can still click on that link.

As the list of your articles gets bigger and bigger, and of some of them start to appear on different sites, the total number of links to your affiliate page increases.

Major search engines place a lot of significance on incoming links to websites so they can determine the importance of a certain site. The more incoming links the website has, the more importance search engines attaches to it. This will then increase your placement in the search results.

There are also those who already have specific things they need on their mind but cannot decide yet between the many choices online. Chances are, they may stumble upon one of your articles, get interested by the content you wrote, go to your affiliate page and became enticed by the promotions. See how easy that is?

Search engines index published articles. So when someone searches for that same topic, the list of results may even the articles that you have written.

And to think, no effort on your part was used to bring them to your site. Just your published articles and the search engines.

The good thing with articles is that you can write about things that people would want to know about. This can be achieved in the lightest mood but also in a professional manner, with a not-so-obvious sales pitch added.

If you think about it, only a few minutes of your time is spent on writing one article and submitting to free content site. In the shortest span of time also, those are distributed to more sites than you can think of. Even before you know what is happening, you are getting more visitors than you previously had.

If you think you are wasting your time writing these articles, fast forward to the time when you will see them printed and wide-spread on the internet. Not to mention the sudden attention and interest that people are giving your affiliate page.

Try writing some articles and see what it can do for you. You may find that you begin to make some income online. Nothing like getting benefits for something you got for free.

 When writing your articles there are a few things you should keep in mind.

• Always write original content. Do not just post the same article everywhere. Change it make each peice of work individual for best results.
• Remember to use your bio box and include links.
• Try not to overuse keywords. Pretend you are your own audience. You are not an idiot and either are your readers. They will see right through your overuse.
• Keep your articles interesting and nicely written. Try and get a nice flow to your writing so your readers will stay interested until the end.