Online Writing is basically called blogging. You can blog on your own site, or on a free blogging platform like Read Cash.
First of all, you need to be clear on what is your purpose for blogging. Do you want to blog for money? Do you want to blog for building readers for your articles? Do you want to blog for promoting your products/services? Do you want to blog for content marketing? Once you know your purpose, you can act accordingly. By the way, whatever your purpose of blogging might be, you need traffic on your blog. Whether you want to blog for money, for building readers, for promoting products and services, or for content marketing, you need traffic. Without traffic you cannot earn from ads, cannot earn from product sales, cannot build readers, cannot market products. Traffic is the blood and bones of your blog. The primary purpose of promoting your blog is to get traffic. You will have more traffic if you have more content (provided they rank well and you do promotion), however, your blog still needs traffic even when you have just one post. Well, when you have one article, your blog will look empty, but you can tell your readers that the website is under construction. In the meantime, you can also explain to the readers what you are going to publish in the future.
How to Earn More From Your Online Articles, or Blogs
Whether you publish articles on sites like Read Cash or maintain your own blog, you need to understand three things to earn more from your online articles and blogs
How to Attract Readers to Your Articles
How to Engage Your Readers
Writing For Humans Vs. Writing For Search Engines
How to Attract Readers to Your Articles
You will be able to pull an audience if you have a great title and introduction, however, you can make your visitors stay on the site only when your content body is great and it provides everything the visitor is looking for. IF the content body is not good, there is no way we can retain the visitors.
Readable content! That's correct, your blog should have readable content. No matter where your traffic comes from, people will stay on your site as long as your site offers something to read. If the content is not worthy of reading, people will not stay on your site. You can write on any topic but the content must be useful and interesting.
How to Engage Your Readers
In order to engage your readers, you need to first retain your visitors. You can retain your visitors only when you have engaging content. Therefore, retaining visitors and engaging readers both are interconnected. You need useful and interesting content, you need clean design, use a white background, limit the use of ads, etc.
A lot of websites I visit publish irrelevant content, a lot of blog posts are too lengthy because they provide unnecessary details on the topics. Visitors can tolerate your long content only when it provides relevant information. Becoming successful with blogging means having a lot of readers on your blog.
In order to become a successful blogger, you need to write for an 8th grader. Writing for eighth-graders means writing is so easy to comprehend that even eighth-graders easily understand your writing. Apart from the easy-to-understand writing style, you also need to remember a couple of things like formatting, adding subtitles, etc.
Writing For Humans Vs. Writing For Search Engines
Search engine algorithms are designed in a way that high-ranking posts will be also be liked by common people. There are exceptions, but in most cases, the content that is ranked high is useful, interesting, original, informative, and well-written, which will also be liked by the readers. Therefore, you should not be confused between search engine-favored content and readers' favorite content. If search engines like your content, readers will also like those content. The most important thing is to produce readable content, and content that provides information as well. Readers' choices will always be search engine choices.
Start Writing Online
If you are a writer writing in the real world, you have limited options to make money. You can either work in a publication as an article writer, work as a journalist, do technical writing, write textbooks for schools/colleges, or publish books. However, in virtual work you have unlimited options, for example, you can work as a social media content writer, article writer, blogger, books, and ebooks writer, teach writing, etc. When you want to publish books in real work, it is really difficult to get published because publishers do not want to take chances with new writers. However, in a virtual world, you can self-publish books and ebooks and you do not have to spend any money to publish books and ebooks. Even as an article writer, it is easier to get started online compared to offline. For instance, when there are a lot of platforms online where you can start publishing your articles or selling your articles. Getting a writing job offline is very difficult. One of the major challenges associated with a writing career whether you want to start online or offline is your ability to write. You need very good language and writing skills, you also need skills to write almost anything.
Start Blogging
Blogging means writing a personalized post on any topic and publishing it on the internet. You can publish your post on a self-hosted website or a third-party website. Self-hosted website means a website that you built by buying a domain name and hosting and installing website software on the servers. A third-party site means a site that you don’t own but you can publish your blog post.
Blogging is not something that is work today and get paid tomorrow. Blogging is work today and get paid two years later. I understood this by blogging for more than 2 years. Before you think about making money through blogging you need to consider building your skills in multiple areas. Writing is a basic skill, you need more than that. You need to know how to write for the internet. Writing for the internet is entirely different from writing for the print medium. When you write for the internet, you need to write search-friendly content, in other words, you need to write something that is searched online. In order to do that you need SEO skills. You also need digital marketing skills, you need to know how you can market through search engines, social media, advertising, etc. Traffic is the key t earning from your blog, you need knowledge and skills to bring traffic.
Screenwriting
Writing screenplays is one of the best ways to make money through writing because screenplays get a lot of money if accepted. Do you know how JK Rowling made the most of money? Well, her books are best-selling, however, she made more money from her movie contracts compared to the books. Dan Brown is a popular author, but he made more money when his books were adapted for the screen. George RR Martin has made more money writing for TV shows compared to the money he made from his books. These are just a few examples; writers make more money writing for movies and TV shows compared to books. However, just because you can write does not mean you can write screenplays. You need special writing skills to write a screenplay. A screenplay is a story written through a camera lens. The screenplay will describe the scenes and dialogues through the camera. In order to sell your screenplay, you need a couple of things, one, a greatly written screenplay that captures the filmmaker's attention with the first scene, and two, originality. The story in your screenplay needs to be very original. It should not sound like something people have already seen in movies. Your screenplays also need great dialogues.
Copywriting
I have a few friends who work as copywriters in the real world. They make a lot of money by writing copies for big brands. However, they work for an ad agency. If you are not working for an ad agency or media house, it might be difficult to make money as a copywriter, though. When you want to make money as a copywriter online, it might be difficult though because it is rare to get employed by big brands. You might join freelance sites and apply for copywriting jobs. In order to become a copywriter, you need copywriting skills. Copywriting is not like writing an article or forum post You need to have mastery over the language, writing skills, and literary devices. You need the ability to express a profound idea through a few words. You do not have to leverage to write hundreds of words, you will have to express everything in less than 50 or even 30 words. Do you know what alliteration is, can you use this technique in writing? If you can't how can you write a copy? I am using this just as an example, there are many other literary devices that you need to have mastery.
How to Write Web Content for User Engagements
The main idea behind writing and publishing content is to generate traffic so that you can generate revenue. You can generate traffic and revenue only when you are publishing engaging content. So, how do you write web content for user engagement?
Write readable content
You can attract readers to your content only when it is readable. Readable not only means writing in the polished language and correct grammar, readable content means
Paragraphs are short
Sentences are simple and short
There are bullet points or block quotes
Content is divided into subheadings
There are videos and images to enhance your ideas
Convey ideas effectively
Keep your audience engaged with your content by conveying your idea through clear and concise content. Do not add any extra sentences and words, get straight to the point. Write in a conversational tone, do not try to impress the audience with flowery language, idioms, metaphors, etc. Online articles are not the place for you to show your creative writing skills.
How to Write Content Effectively
Whether you are a forum poster, a blogger, or a web content writer, you need to write your content effectively in order to drive traffic, engagement, and revenue. Content writing is not only about language and grammar, it is also about how you present your idea and what ideas you are presenting.
Research
When you research you will understand your subject and topic. When you research you will learn about your target audience and your competitors. The research will help you come up with fresh ideas, which means you get the spotlight.
Write the first draft
After you complete your content, it is the first draft. Never published the first draft, actually, the first draft is just a representation of your research and idea on paper/computer. Now, experiment with writing techniques, organize your ideas, simplify your sentences and paragraphs, identify the points that need more research, and find media relevant for your content.
Write to your audience
When you sit to write your final version, always address your content to your actual audience, your content should directly speak to your audience.
SEO Tips For High Performing Articles
I am not a writer, therefore, I am not giving you tips to write better articles. I am a content creator and I will be giving some tips on how to do SEO while writing articles so that your articles perform well on search engines.
High performing article means the article that receives a lot of search traffic and becomes viral on social sites (thus generating a lot of social signals and huge referral traffic). High-performing articles mean an article that gets a lot of engagements (views, social shares, comments, clicks on ads, clicks on product links, etc.), thus, reducing bounce rate and generating revenue.
Write “Guide” articles and “How to” articles: “Guide articles” are likely to generate 3 times more traffic than normal essay-type articles and “how to articles” are likely to receive 1.5 more organic traffic compared to general articles. Therefore, whatever topic you are writing on, make sure you write a guide or how-to article.
Add lists to your articles: Research by SEO company Semrush found that most high-performing articles have 1-2 lists for every 500 words. Articles that have lists included are likely to receive 68 percent more organic traffic compared to articles without lists.
H2, H3, and H4 Tags: About 47 percent high performing articles include H2, H3, and H4 tags.
How to Write a High Performing Article?
Here are some tips to write high performing articles:
Add Images: If you include 7 or more images, infographics, and other relevant images, your article is likely to generate 116 percent more search engine traffic compared to articles with no images.
Add videos: If you embed or share at least one video on your article, you are likely to get 83 percent more traffic compared to the articles that do not have videos. Adding videos to your articles also increases the chances of gaining organic backlinks. If your articles have at least 3 videos, the chances of gaining organic backlinks increases by 55 percent compared to the articles with no videos.
Write long articles: Normally, people believe that long articles do not perform well because people are not interested in reading articles. However, research has shown that long articles perform well because the readers will see if the topic is well covered or not. It has been found that articles with 3k or more words receive 138 percent more traffic than the articles with less than 500 words. Longer articles also get shared more. About 78 percent of articles with less than 500 words are never shared on social sites.
Note: The data is based on the Semrush survey. Semrush is an SEO company.
Content Writing Tips for Bloggers, Vloggers, and Content Creators
Content writing is one of the basic skills you need to have if you want to work and earn online. Everything begins with content creation, for instance, you need to write content if you are a writer, blogger, vlogger, marketer, influencer, etc. Here are a few tips for content creators to write better content for blog posts, video content, social media posts, etc.
Begin with competitor keyword analysis
Choosing the right keywords is a daunting task. You should be using different types of keywords in your content depending on your target audience. Include, short tail keywords, long-tail keywords, product-specific keywords, and geo-targeting keywords.
Check your competitors
Before you sit to write your content, find out who your actual competitors are and learn what they are actually doing., Check what they are publishing, what keywords they are targeting, etc However, don’t copy the content.
Outsourcing
You are a content creator does not mean you should be doing all the work, you can outsource works like keyword research, competitor analysis, etc.
How to Make a Lot of Money as a Writer?
If you search on Google to find out what is the best way to make money online, you will see writing listed as one of the best methods to make money online. However, when you start writing online you will find it is not very easy to earn as a writer. There are two reasons for this, one, you cannot write well, and two, you are not prolific. If you want to earn well by writing online, you need writing skills, and you need to write a lot. So, how do you deal with this issue?
The answer is: Use an AI-based writing tool.
What is an AI-based writing tool? An Artificial Intelligence based tool is a tool that is programmed in a way that you can generate high-quality posts, either short posts, or long articles. AI tool follows certain code to create content for you.
What do these AI-based writing tools do?
These tools will help you come up with clever headlines for your posts, google ads headlines for high conversion, engaging copies, etc. AI tools will help you write sales emails, marketing copy, Facebook ads, product listings, video scripts, blog posts, online articles, etc.
If you are a blogger and writer you will be able to write Blog Articles, SEO content, and even an eBook.
Using Speech-To-Text Programs For Content Creation
Writing is not easy for me. Even though I am earning money by writing online, I do not consider myself a writer. This job is reverse for the people with great knowledge of language and skills with writing. Just because you can write a few paragraphs correctly does not mean you are a writer, however, it is also true that if you can write a few paragraphs correctly, you may be able to make money from your writing. The easiest platforms to get started earning from writing are paid to post forums and writing sites. Making money from these platforms is quite easy. However, you still need writing skills. If you are good at speaking but bad at writing, you might find the Speech-To-Text program quite handy.
You can use the Speech-To-Text program to write content. My average typing speed is 40 words per minute, when I have to think and write, I can hardly write 20 words in one minute. However, I speak more words per minute compared to the number of words I can type per minute.
There is also a disadvantage. Just because you have text to speech program on your computer does not mean you can easily create articles. In order to do voice typing, you need to be a great speaker, if you can not fluently speak, how can you create articles through voice typing. In order to voice type, you should not only be fluent in the chosen language but also need to have oratory skills. If you want to write an English article and if your language is not English, you might find difficulty with voice typing because you will need time to think. Furthermore, you are also likely to make a lot of mistakes when you are speaking, which means you will have to spend a great deal of time correcting your mistakes. You cannot just sit and start speaking on the microphone, you need to make points for speaking and this calls for writing down the points and ideas that you will be speaking to, you will be working more than directly writing an article.
