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 you have them. In Helium, create a Zone and push it around a little bit. This is a way to create pages that appeal to the masses and can net page views for you and other writers. Make your presence known on the sites.
Write Quality
Quantity is great but it's nothing without quality. Make sure that your articles are top of the line. Keep everything in order including your formatting. When you write quality articles, it will eventually be seen by more people. The reason is that you will begin to see yourself and your articles more frequently on the front page of the site. This nearly always generates a huge amount of page views that you wouldn't otherwise be getting.
Promote Others
You can generate page views for yourself by generating them for others. When another writer finds out that you have been helping to promote their work, they will often begin to promote yours as well. This doesn't mean sending them a message asking them to promote you. That is rude and unnecessary. Simple things like sending them a message to let them know how much you enjoyed their work can do wonders. Add links to their articles on your pages or within your articles when it is germane to the topic and let the writer know that you linked it. There are many ways in which you can do this. Sending another persons work to sites such as Reddit.com can help tremendously as well. You can add your own links as well, but you shouldn't post only your own links to that site.
Creating an online presence is the best way to promote your work. Getting more page views is as simple as networking yourself and using good SEO. Where most people want their profiles to be kept to a minimum viewing audience, an online writer wants everyone to know his/her name. Online writing sites will help you earn money. You don't have to do anything at all to get some page views. If you want to maximize it, you have to put some effort into it. Let your name become a household word.