Do you know that there are many things that you can do with articles and these things can earn you huge amounts of money? Articles are more than just a bunch of texts that you post on your site. Through correct article marketing, you can convert these texts into cash. Here are 7 surefire ways on how to earn from them.

1. Promote your products

Write articles related to your products, or give solutions to problems (with the help of your products) or provide a general information on matters that you think are interesting. Write a Resource box at the end of each article that tells briefly about you or your products, with a link to your site. Submit these articles to free article directories or post them on your blog, personal website, business website and social networking sites.

By submitting your articles to different sites, you are driving visitors to your own site — your product site — through the links in your Resource Box. 

2. Promote a service

Article marketing is not limited to promoting a product. You can also promote your services, say you’re a medical transcriptionist, a writer, an SEO specialist, a lawyer, a dentist, a physician, a graphic or web designer, software developer. 

Write articles about your job, trade secrets that you can share to other people, or give tips on how to be a pro designer or a high earning medical transcriptionist. With informative articles scattered around the internet with your byline on it, people will see you as an authority or an expert in your field.

Posting articles on a daily basis to your online portfolio will also increase your chances of being seen on the web.

With the traffic that articles drive into your site, you’ll get ‘monster’ projects in no time.

3. Be an affiliate

If you don’t have time to create products to sell or don’t have a service to offer, you can earn through articles by being an affiliate. As an affiliate marketer, you’ll have products instantly without lifting a finger. Of course, these products are created by other people. You earn from their products by PROMOTING them.

In short, as an affiliate, you are a SELLER, a MARKETER. In offline marketing, it is called being a middleman. 

Every sale you make through your marketing, you earn commissions. And in affiliate marketing, you can earn as much as 50% for a single item. What’s more, there’s no limit as to how many products you want to sign-up with as an affiliate.

You can promote your affiliate products through article marketing. As mentioned above, just write articles that provide information or solutions, and your articles will create waves of traffic to your affiliate site.

4. Create a site and earn through ads

Have you noticed that whenever you need an information you always go online to search for it? Well, you are not alone. Nearly all internet users — millions of users — rely on the internet for information, trivia and solutions. 

This is the reason why advertising agencies open up an ad revenue program for information driven site. Since billions of people needs information, sites that give just as that — INFORMATION — will definitely have tons of visitors for the information that the articles on these sites provide.

To cash in with this trend, create your own informative site and insert here and there ad revenue programs such as Google Adsense, Text Links, Chikita, and Amazon.

5. Create a blog and earn through pay per blog

If you want to start earning without shelling out money for domain and hosting cost, you can do so by blogging.

You can blog for free using free blogging services such as Blogger and Wordpress. You can integrate your Google Adsense banners through these blogging platforms. 

Moreover, if you blog regularly, you can apply for programs that pay you every time you blog. These programs work with the agency giving you a set of keywords and a link to the site of advertiser. You must blog about the advertiser using the sets of keywords given to you. 

A blog entry about the advertiser may be in a form of review (both negative or positive) or simply a general information of the products and services that the advertiser offers.

For every approved blog post, you’ll be paid a minimum of $5. This amount is just for a short blog entry of 100 to 150 words.

6. Compile them to make an ebook

Collect small articles and compile them to become a twenty or fifty-page ebook. 

Sell your ebook through article marketing. You can also add a few article packs related to your eBook as a bonus for people who would like to be an affiliate. Yes, with your own ebook, you can create your own affiliate network!

7. Compile them to create an e-course

If you were an expert at something or have skills that is worth sharing about, then you can create an e-course for a fee. 

Compile small articles to create a module and deliver them to ‘enrollees’ of your e-course through email or RSS on a certain frequency, say daily, every other day or once a week.

Write, right now?

Of course! Begin your online business empire with articles. Don’t wait for tomorrow and write, right now. Article marketing is not just a potential income maker — it is A PROVEN INCOME MAKER. You only have to invest a large chunk of your time during the early stage of your project. After a few months to a year of consistently doing article marketing, you’ll start to experience the life altering experience you thought would never come: the money starts coming in. The reward of hard labor has begun!