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July 23rd, 2007 Subscribe To Our Feed

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Web content is BIG business. As a Web writer, the content you write is making lots of money for people. I hope it’s making money for you too.

If you’re a newbie Web writer, I urge you to learn as much as you can about how the Web works, including:

* The various kinds of Web sites - information, news, opinion, sales, niche, etc;

* How Web sites make money - and how much various types of monetization can earn a Web publisher;

* Where the content comes from on sites - is it new content? Has the content been repurposed? Is it content that YOU could write?

* How you fit into all of this - realize that you can charge as much as you like, if you can turn out great content for Web publishers. Good writers are always in demand.

To give you an idea of the profits Web publishers are making, read “Creating Content For Traffic Generation and Profit”. I got a chuckle out of this snippet:

A workaround is to find new guys on sites like elance, workaholics or rent a coder, who’ve yet to establish themselves and might be willing to do quality work on the cheap in order to build some positive feedback.

If you’re going along this approach, you might like to farm out a batch of 3 articles, and solicit 10-20 freelancers to work on your project. You could then do a ’survivor’ style elimination and work with your favorite 2-3 writers.

There’s competition for good writers, so your aim should be to become a competent writer, and then charge what you’re worth… and you’re worth a lot.

To repeat: web content is BIG business and you need to look at your Web writing as a business too.

If you’re looking at the out-sourcing sites and are thinking that $5 articles are the norm, they’re not. In my ezine and on my sites I keep hammering the fact that you must get known online, and that then you can charge appropriate fees.

Resources - my Web writing ebooks

* Writing For The Web

* Web Writing SECRETS: Beat Your Paycheck

* Cash For Content