I tried something a little different today. Yesterday I was reading a post over at DayJobNuker called 4 Ways to Make Money Without a Website. In this article he talked about Associated Content. I was familiar with this site but saw it from a different angle.
Associated Content will pay you for your articles. Many articles only get 4 dollars each, but it can be up to 10 dollars. They also run contests which pay as well. It occurred to me that I could pay for my hosting fees for my blog by doing this. My hosting fees will only be 10 dollars a month. You can submit an article as non exclusive, which means you can publish it other places as well. So following DayJobNuker's advice I can write articles I plan to publish to my blog, once they are accepted I can rewrite them a little then post them to my blog. (you don't want duplicate content, so you change them up a little)
It will take a little forward thinking, which is not really how I do blog posts, I usually get some inspiration then write, but I think I can do it. I also have articles I have written throughout the years I can also submit.
The only problem with this plan is you can't submit the articles to ezinearticles.com. They won't accept articles that have already been posted there. However, I have been seeing associated content articles pop up on google quite a bit lately.
Another issue, you also don't get a resource box at the bottom, but you do have a link to your profile at the top of the article. You can add websites to your profile which allows people to get to your stuff.
I see this site being useful when used in a couple of ways.
1. Use articles off topic from marketing. Just get paid for them. (making 4 dollars/article I only need 3 articles per month to pay hosting fees, or OJeez upgrade fees)
2. Use articles I will later blog with. Get paid, get traffic via profile and blog
3. Use articles later to be used in Squidoo lenses ~ where I can add affiliate links.
I think it can be a consistent and reliable way to make money to cover the small costs I have each month. :) Yay I may get my hosted blog yet!!
So for today,
Wrote an article on Blog Carnivals ~ 20 minutes
Posted to Associated Content ~ 15 minutes (had to do some TOS reading and learning)
Wow it seems I have strayed pretty far from the original plan of this experiment. oops. But I have managed to write an article every day! That's good, and it feels good to know I have managed to do one thing consistently for the last 17 days.
Have a great day!
Jackie Lee :)
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