Making Money Writing Articles - How To Get Started

So what is Article Writing?
Article Writing is a great way to start earning money through the internet. You work in your own time writing articles about various topics and you earn money for doing it. The articles do not have to be very long, you submit them to special article sites and a nice steady income can be forthcoming.

How Do I earn money?
The great thing about article writing is that you do not need to sell anything yourself. You dont have to handle any payment transactions and you certainly dont need to deal with sending anything out to people who have bought something.

In its simplest form the way that you earn money can be described as follows:

You write an article and contained within it is a link to another website. The readers of that article click on the link and are sent to a sellers page. Because of the special code contained within the link you are credited with sending that person to the sellers page if they buy the product. The credit comes in the form of payment made to you! This is usually a percentage of the cost of the product.

These special links are called affiliate links and are very easy to include in an article.

So How Do I Get Started?
So you are probably wondering how you will get started. The first thing I would do is head over to clickbank.com and sign up for an account. Clickbank is a great site which handles the sale of all sorts of instantly available products such as eBooks and software.

It not only deals with the sale of the items, making sure that the buyers get their product, but it also makes sure you get your payment too.

Once you have signed up you will then be able to search the site for a product to earn money on. There are thousands to choose from. You will see that the site provides information on the products. For example, letting you know the percentage of commission that you will earn. I would say to choose a product that pays you at least 50% commission and pays at least $20. You can then obtain your link from the site which you will then use in your articles.

The Clickbank site also lets you see the sellers page and it is certainly a good idea to take a look at that. You dont want to be trying to sell a product which has a terrible sales page which nobody will buy from.

It is also a good idea to buy the product yourself so that you can speak knowledgeably about the product and which will also allow you to write a much better article.

Other Affiliate Choices
You dont just have to go through Clickbank as there are lots of other sites which provide the same sort of service as that site. For example, Commission Junction is a similar site but which deals with company services such as insurance and memberships of clubs etc. The same principle applies though and you will get their special affiliate links to include in your articles.

One further point about affiliate links and articles
I would add that a number of article sites prefer that you do not include affiliate links linking directly to the sellers sales page. Instead you must link to a page of your own. This page of your own can be the one that has the affiliate link contained. Therefore, you can set up a Usfreeads.com page or a Squidoo page. I personally like Squidoo and you can see that there is a link below that will take you to a Squidoo page of mine.

Get Started Today.
I would therefore advise you to get started today as the more articles you have the quicker that revenue will start to appear. If you would like further information I would certainly recommend that you click on the link below to find details of a useful guide which I found helpful to get me started.

About the Author
Details of a STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE of how to make money writing articles can be found here. Information about a guide to teach you where to submit your articles to, how to include money making links and how to start earning today can be found by CLICKING HERE.