Five Article Marketing Tips: How To Make Money Writing Articles

Offering advice on how to make money writing articles is one of the article marketing tips that most people like me would rather not give to you! Why? Because it's a great way to make money, and the more that do it, then the less there is for the rest of us. However, I don't care too much for that since I have progressed beyond the actual writing - at least to an extent.

Writing articles is certainly a lucrative business if you can do it properly, and here are some article marketing tips on how to do it, although my real secrets, the ones that really earn the dough, are not available until you have understood and mastered the basics. You don't play Bach's fugues until you have learned your scales. Understand your pentatonics before stringing them together like Jimi Hendrix could.

OK, Article Marketing Tip #1:

#1: Write About the Title

I am amazed at the number of people that throw up a title for their article and the write about something different. A case in point: 'Using Twitter to Make Money' What does that title conjure up in your mind? Perhaps I am stupid, but to me it means how to use Twitter to make money, and not an article on what Twitter is and how to use it to make tweets, ending with; 'more on making money in the next part of this article'. I could use a word here, but it would result in this article not being published.

That word starts with B and end ends with s, with 'ollock' somewhere in the middle. Where is the next part of the article? Not attached to the first part, so who knows! I won't be there to read it. So write about your title as I hope I am doing here, or you will lose credibility and have no chance of making money from people that think you are crazy!

#2: You Don't Need a Website

Nobody needs a website to write articles and have them accepted for publication by ezines and article directories. One of my published eBooks explains how to make money using articles to advertise an affiliate product without you having a website, and shows a live example of me designing the article and then setting it up to make money with no website involved. It can be done, and I showed how. No 'the rest next time', but done there and then. Your readers will trust you when you do that, and that helps when it comes to making money.

#3: Articles can Advertise your Website

If you do have a website, however, you don't need to spend money on Google Adwords or any other medium to advertise your site. Write a couple of articles every week and watch the visitors appear in their droves. How much would it cost for a PPC advert for 1000 visits? Let's say you bid 50c - that would be $500.

I am likely not allowed to say how many visitors I get from my articles because the directories won't publish this, but it is a lot more than 1000 a day - all I do is write articles and optimize my SEO. You need traffic to make money, but you don't have to spend money to get it.

I lost my Adsense account last year through using the wrong PPC sites without knowing what I was doing, so have never used any since except one Adwords campaign that is now on hold. If anybody reading this knows how to get a new Adsense account . . . Worth my two major eBooks free.

#4: Be Believable

People will respond if they think that what you write is believable. If you write about earning $5000 a day using your methods, they will laugh and think they are being conned. If you tell them the truth, that they will earn about $100 a day or less at first and that could increase to $1000 with a lot of work, but is achievable and then you can duplicate that, then they will believe you, carry on reading and perhaps even visit your website. Be honest and truthful about what you are writing, and you will gain credibility. Credibility is worth its weight in gold, but easily lost with just one lie.

#5: Use Your Resource Profitably

If you want to make money writing articles you must master the resource. There are ways of writing a resource to almost compel reader to click on it, and that starts right from the beginning of your article, and reaches a peak at the end. Never give your reader all the information you have, and let them know that there is more available on your website - you must also persuade them it is to their advantage of course. Think about what you would need to make you make that click.

I have dozens more article marketing tips, but not enough room on the space the directories allow to give you them. There are ways to write articles that compel readers to visit the web page of your choice, and I could show you how to make money with your very first article, but that's for another time perhaps.

It's enough that you know that you can make money writing articles, and article marketing tips are not the substitute for your own ability and feeling for what you are doing when you write. Learn to write first before you try to be professional: just as Rome wasn't built in a day, you won't make money writing articles immediately, but the right help will make a massively significant difference to you.