Make Money Writing for the Web

Some college students will be able to make money writing for the web in addition to the money they get from student loans, scholarships, etc.

Today there are more opportunities than ever to make money writing for the web. I'll cover just a few of them here, but if your'e not already familiar with this way of making money writing online, then this will give your brain a good jump start.

One very popular site to make money writing for the web is AssociatedContent. AssociatedContent pays people to write articles for their site - if they approve the article and if it's about a topic for which they need content. The same rules apply for anyone interested in getting videos published at AssociatedContent.

The other nice thing about AssociatedContent is that not only can you sometimes get paid for your articles or videos up front, but they will also pay you residual money based on the number of pageviews your content gets (that was how it was done at the time of this writing, anyhow).

If all you want to do is submit your articles,news,videos, and other content for money, then you can just sign up directly at Associated Content here.

However, if you're not afraid of learning a bit more about internet promotion and maximizing the amount of money you earn for your talents, you might want to check out Luke Parker's Surefire Success System which is an ingenious system for cutting the amount of time it takes to make money by writing for the web, while still creating quality content, and generating residual income.

The other great thing about his system is that there is a private membership area for people using the system and there are no sneaky, hidden expenses along the way after the initial outlay for the system (currently $47.00).

Other popular sites people have been using to make money writing for the web are HubPages (this site), thisisby.us, and Squidoo.

Right now I favor HubPages, because they seem to have better quality control mechanisms in place, but Squidoo's is constantly involving and improving as well. Squidoo had a problem at one point because they were overrun by spammers, but this actually turned out to be a good thing in the long run, because it forced them to tighten up their quality control.

thisisby.us pays writers 50% of their advertising revenue & 5% of the revenue of anyone you refer. However, the 50% is distributed amongst all writers based on their quality algorithm which is explained at their site. Commenters get paid as well.

I won't go into all the details of how each of these programs can earn you money, but basically they each have a way of rewarding you for selling products from their sites as an affiliate and sharing the money they take in for displaying advertising with you. You can read about the specifics of each program at their sites.

There's also a new social networking website about to launch called Cagora. You can can click here to learn more about this new social networking website.

One of the biggest demands for writers online today comes from businesses looking for unique content for their websites. To fill this demand, several companies have come onto the scene.

Several of these companies are listed in the section below called "Freelance Writing Jobs Online".

If you're good at researching and writing articles, you might seriously consider making a modest investment in a book such as The Essential Guide to Ghostwriting. The information from this books on how to correctly charge for your services, how to bid on projects correctly, & how to get repeat customers is worth much more than the nominal price of the book (e.g., imagine knowing how you can get $2.00 or $3.00 MORE per article on an assignment to write 50 articles...and imagine having that knowledge for every assignment that you get!).

By the way, there is such a HUGE demand for ghostwriters right now you wouldn't even believe it, but the ones that are making the most know quite a few things the others don't.

I actually bought The Essential Guide to Ghostwriting for my Dad (a freelance writer for years) for his birthday!

If you're especially talented at letters of all sorts, you may be in luck.

A site called LetterRep will pay you every time someone purchases one of your letters that you upload to their site. And not just business letters...you can also write:

• Apology letters
• Condolence letters
• Christmas and holiday letters
• Letters to and from Santa
• Valentine letters
• Wedding blessing letters

and more...and of course there are all kinds of business letters that people need writers for such as:

• Sample cover letters
• Sample resignation letters
• Rejection letters
• Reprimand letters

etc., etc.

In fact the front page of LetterRep lists over 150 different types of letters you can write and upload to there site that you can get paid on every time someone purchases one of your letters.

To discover how you can make money writing personal and professional letters, click here to visit LetterRep.

Here's something for the more creative writers amongst you. Did you know that you can make money naming domain names?

PickyDomains will pay you to name domain names. Here's how it works:

If you want to be a contributor for PickyDomains, when they get a new order you'll be able to suggest your domain names. If a client decides to register your name, you get half of the fee.

In addition to the ones already mentioned, if you are serious about making money writing for the web or about making money writing in general, then you will want to keep the following list of resources handy:

• JournalismJobs.com - founded in August 1998 by Dan Rohn, a former copy editor and writer with The Washington Post, editor with America Online, and Washington, D.C.-based stringer for Money Magazine. JournalismJobs.com is the largest and most-visited resource for journalism jobs, and receives between 2.5 to 3 million page views a month.
• AbsoluteWrite.com - If you're interested in freelance writing, screenwriting, playwriting, writing novels, nonfiction, comic book writing, greeting cards, poetry, songwriting, etc., then this is a fantastic place to visit and hang out with other professional and aspiring writers.
• Preditors & Editors Page from AnotherRealm - this is a great starting place for finding serious sites about the writing profession along with writing scams to avoid. Be sure to visit the "Warnings" link where you will find links to their "Highly Recommended" writing websites.
• WebSiteTips.com section on writing for the web - includes annotated links to highly authoritative articles, tips and information specific to content writing, development, and preparation for Web sites as well as where writers, editors, content developers, and publishers can find each other.
• How to Publish a Book- Special guest David Copeland, Author of the Prentice-Hall BestSelling Book "How to Succeed With Women" (over 250,000 copies sold and translated into seven languages) reveals common myths about the publishing industry.
• The Write Jobs - The Write Jobs is a specialty job board and career resource for journalism, media, and publishing professionals.