by Teresa Schultz

Created on: October 23, 2010

Passive income is when you do some work, in this example, work related to writing and marketing your writing online, then you do not have to do any more work, yet you keep earning!

It can be a slow process, and, obviously, the more you do, the more your passive income earnings increase.  Earnings may be very little at first, but if you stick to it, you can continue reaping the rewards for everything you’ve already done.  Do more work, and you earn more money.

Passive income from online writing is different from writing articles or web content for clients or as a freelancer.  Passive income from online writing is also different from writing articles to sell them on an online writing site or to a magazine.

You submit your articles to online writing sites, or add them to one of your own blogs or websites.

You market them a bit (or a lot) by linking to them from other articles you’ve already written, or will write in the future, or by linking to them from social and bookmarking sites you belong to.  Some bookmarking sites also have earnings opportunities for you.

If you do a bit of keyword research, you may also learn how to repeat important words in your articles that people are searching for on the Internet, and, if done correctly, your articles stand a good chance of also being found on the Internet by people searching for topics you write about.

Other members of the writing sites you join also view the articles you write.  You go view or rate a few of their articles; comment on their articles, and depending on how nice a comment you left for them, they may come and view your articles too.

The more views your articles get, the more you can earn.

How do you earn?

Some writing sites pay you small amounts merely because the pages your articles are on are getting views.  Why?  Their adverts that they themselves earn from are on the same pages as your articles.  You are rewarded for helping the site owners earn money.

Sometimes you can include your Google Adsense publisher id when you sign up to some online writing sites (you must have a Google Adsense account) and then some or all of the Adsense ads on the pages of these writing sites, where your articles are displayed, have your Adsense publisher id in them, and if somebody viewing your article clicks a Google Adsense ad on the page, you earn some money.

Never click your own Adsense ads.  Google will penalise you for this, possibly closing your Adsense account.

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