Nov 19, 2008

How to Generate Passive Online Income Using Articles - Part 1

The webmasters and online marketers are seeking unique articles for their websites. You can write unique articles for them to get a one-time payment for each article you send them. It is nice to get paid for each article you write, but do you know that you can also use your articles to generate passive income.

If you weren’t already known about using articles to earn passive income, it is where you write and publish articles once and later they will earn money for you continuously. This means that you can make money from an article that you wrote 6 months ago.

There are a number of options of generating passive income using articles. Before looking at these options, it is important for you to know that the articles written for this purpose wouldn't earn you profit instantly. The earning will start coming in soon, but it may take some time (5 days, 10 days, 1 month, etc).

Publish Articles on Revenue Sharing Article Directories
One of the most common ways to earn passive income is by publishing your articles on the AdSense revenue sharing article directories. These are the article directories that let you place your Google AdSense ads on your article pages to earn Ad revenue. Usually the sharing term is your AdSense ads will appear on 50% of the page view of your article pages. So, once you published some interesting articles, these articles will attract traffic from time to time which will earn you AdSense revenue constantly. The article directories that share revenue are Articlesrevenue.com and Articlecodex.com and Shareyourexpertise.com.

Write for WorldVillage Bloggers Network
There is also a blog network called WorldVillage Bloggers Network that shares 50% of AdSense revenue. It is owned by the famous AdSense e-book author, Joel Comm. Joel has been building up his WorldVillage Bloggers Network for years and now it is generating thousands of visitors daily. If you become an author of WorldVillage and contribute informative and keyword optimized articles for some time, you might be enjoying nice passive income from those articles.

I was an author of WorldVillage Bloggers Network and published about ten articles on the network one and the half year ago. Those articles that I published really generate traffic and they earned me about $35 monthly AdSense for a consecutive of 6 months. If I have the time to write on a regular basis, then I may be able to earn tripple or more of that AdSense figure every month from this network.

To become an author of WorldVillage Bloggers Network , you may got to http://blog.worldvillage.com/sys/signup2.cgi to send your application. You need to include a sample of your work in the application.
Blogger Blog Tip: Increase Your AdSense Revenue by Displaying AdSense Ads Within the Post content
Blogger.com has got out of beta last year. The new platform of Blogger.com provides more features to users in optimizing their Blogspot blog without having to know much about HTML code.

One of the good features added in is the 'Show Ads Between Posts'. With this feature, you can place your AdSense ad units between blog posts to increase your AdSense ad revenue. But, this optimization technique doesn't actually increase much of the AdSense revenue.

There is a better way to boost your AdSense income. It is by placing your AdSense ad unit within your blog post. The AdSense unit can be in the top left, top right or just the end of your post content. This makes your AdSense ads easily noticed by visitors. The highly relevant AdSense ads showing up within your post content will catch the attention of your visitors. The visitors will become interested to click on your AdSense ad to find out what the advertiser is offering. And you will experience a nice increase of click through rate and AdSense earning.

But, Blogger doesn't provide a feature or tool that lets you place your ads in various positions within your blog post. So, how you are going to do that?

The Blogger templates are now XML-based. To put in AdSense ads into your blog post, you must have a special technical knowledge. But don't worry, it is not very difficult to learn it. Mydigitallife.info has published an article about this. The title of the article is 'Place AdSense Ad Unit In Various Positions Inside Within Blogger Post Contents'.

The article teaches you exactly what you need to do to get your ads displayed on the position you want within your blog post. It will involve copying your AdSense code and directly pasting it into your blog template.

When you implement this AdSense optimization technique, remember that you can only have a maximum of three AdSense ad units placed on a single page. Adding more than three ad units is against the program policies of AdSense.