by Dawn Hawkins

Created on: June 05, 2009

Writing online articles is a great way to make a little bit of extra money. Part of those earnings is to generate page views so that you get performance payments (clicks to your article). The more clicks to your articles, the more your money will grow. There are several ways in which you can generate more traffic to your online writing sites.

You first have to study a little bit about what works and what doesn't. Spending too much time trying to get traffic to your site can turn out to be fruitless because you may be going about it the wrong way. Here are the best ways to generate traffic to your writing:

Keyword Usage

Learn as much as you can about how to use your keywords properly. These words are what people will generally enter into a search engine to find information on. There is a lot of information about learning good SEO techniques on the internet. You simply do a search for it and then you can learn as much as you want. Learning to place the right keywords into your articles without making it sound redundant is a difficult task. It can be done if you set your mind to it.

Social Networking

FaceBook, Myspace, Twitter and many other social networking sites allow you to post your article links there. You can have them automatically posted to these sites when you publish your work. People are curious by nature. They may click on the link just to see what it's all about.

Friends and Family

Sending links to your friends and family through email can help add to your "click" money. Every little bit helps. These are the people who love you and want to see your work and it's progression. Allowing them to view your work will not only land you some great feedback, it helps boost your "sales".

Blogging

You can earn money blogging and boost your clicks on your other writing sites as well. Blog about a certain issue that you frequently write about. Use good SEO (Keywords) and pass this along through the social networking sites as well. You will soon find that you get a great deal of hits on your blog, which can generate money and on your articles which definitely make money.

Within The Writing Community

Find friends within the community that you share interests with. Other writers will get curious about you and click on your Biography page, which often leads them to read your articles. Socialize a bit on the site. This means being active in answering questions posted there and asking questions when

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