by John Louie Ramos

Created on: May 17, 2010

Since the advent of the internet, myriads of writing communities and websites have started to sprout from nowhere. Likewise, in these times of financial collapses and global recessions, people have started to be more keen on finding ways on how to increase their income. Given that we're in the 21st century, there are a lot of earning opportunities available online and one of them is content writing.

Some people find that online writing is a great source of extra income. For others however, writing seems to be lucrative enough for them to leave their day jobs.

Now if you're thinking that you can probably earn a living through online writing, you aren't mistaken. But then again, it's a tough call. Bottom line - it's difficult but it's possible. Here below are tips and tricks for you to maximize your online earnings and make a living through contributing online content for various websites.

Learn Basic SEO Principles

The first and foremost thing that you'll need to do is learn some Search Engine Optimization basics. Boring it may be but online writing is a marketing strategy. SEO generates traffic and brings audiences. The fact is there's a huge difference between a successful book/real-world writer and a successful online writer.

The former has a great command of literature and knows how to captivate the readers while the latter doesn't necessarily need to be a literary genius. The sad truth is online writers write for traffic by inserting keywords. The quality of the article rarely matters in online article writing.

Search engines, most of the time, won't look at the quality of the article. They'll just examine the frequency of keywords and how it adds to the relevancy of article.

SEO is a must, literary brilliance is a plus.

Here are some SEO tutorials and resources you might just need:

http://www.webconfs.com/seo-tutorial/introduction-to -seo.php

http://www.myseoblog.net/

Focused on Residual Earning

The key in attaining wealth is by creating multiple streams of income. It's quite similar to the game of real estate investments. The hard work of today is tomorrow's rewards.

You can probably sign up and write to every writing websites you've stumbled upon but after some time, perhaps some analysis, focus on the more rewarding ones and leave those who just pay pennies.

You must put in mind that living is a long-term and it's just logic that if you want to live by means of writing, your writing should also be of long-term proponents (unless you want to live on a

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