15
votes

A Recipe for a High Earning Online Article | Please Add Your Own Ingredients and Comments and Share Your Knowledge

posted March 16, 2009 - 9:51am
A Recipe for a High Earning Online Article | Please Add Your Own Ingredients and Comments and Share Your Knowledge

Based on a tried and tested, “top of the board” sales and marketing method (evolved over more years than we care to mention in various sectors) and on writing and publishing original articles online for more than two years, this is our recipe for a High Earning Article.

Please share your knowledge and add ingredients you think we may have overlooked (or not discovered yet) in the comments section below. If not a member of this community yet, you can join HERE FREE

How to write a high earning online article:

Ingredients

One Hook

– this is a title which attracts people’s attention when they are searching. Also it can be seen as a way of targeting the very specific audience you want the article to attract. For example, say for instance you want to “annoy an Aries”, you might type “annoy aries” into a Google search engine. Try that and see the results you get –

Rapport

-an high earning article will develop rapport with its reader – in just the same way as a top salesperson will. This will be done almost automatically in a good article (or sales pitch) because the reader (prospective buyer) will be interested in the article’s content (or product or service for sale) anyway. Only extremely successful articles will be able to develop an interest where none existed before – but they will do that by developing rapport. See rapport being developed as a change in colour from Blue (cold) to Red (hot).

Dwell Time

A bit like rapport but not to be confused. The high earning article will demand to be read from start to finish, read again and forwarded to the readers friends, colleagues or any other person the reader sees fit to forward it to. One way of achieving this is to build in cliffhangers.

A Close

This is the most difficult to achieve without the ingredients above and is different to that used by sales and marketing people for article writers. A successful close for an article writer is a reader who performs the desired action. Typically article writers make money via Google Adsense or affiliate programs. Successful articles put their readers in the mood to buy or explore more on topic. If the adverts are contextual or the affiliate program relevant, readers are more likely to performed the desired action – e.g. visit your affiliate link and purchase goods for sale their.

Original Content

Plagiarism is illegal and if you are discovered to be copying from another source you should be prosecuted and we hope you are. Google take action against copyright infringements and if Google bans your Adsense Account you will lose the best method of making money online. You must write original content!

Optional:

A mixture of Knowledge and Enthusiasm – you can leave it out (really) but articles written with knowledge and enthusiasm shine out, become popular, attract more readers and make more money.

Images

Successful articles often include images. (You must own the copyright or use copyright free articles)

Pots and Pans:

These are essential for article writers, salespeople and marketers. They include communication skills – the ability to get your point across, make sense. Proficient spelling helps, as does grammar and layout of your article.

To make a comment or share your knowledge of writing a high earning online article (if not a member of this community already, you can join XOMBA HERE FREE)



Comments

Income ideas

My strategy to earning honest online income is to diversify, write articles, maintain new websites and keep changing as the environment changes. Keeping fresh and relevant topics is important. Avoid most paid survey companies. I have not had good luck with Clickbank or Comission Junction but have had luck with Amazon

Page Views much lower than Readership - Why?

I couldn't put it better myself, thanks for confirming my suspiscions ... Appreciated Mythy

AndAnotherThing2 writes COMEDYand is Xomba's first featured HISTORIAN

"Names Do Not Matter to Us ... CHOMP, SUCK" LoL @AndAnotherThng2

Readership, Clicks: I don't care which-is-which, but (if you're talking about the things I think you are) one's 'the number of times your articles get surfed' and one's 'the number of those surfers who don't block-out the ads.' ---Give Your Opinion Too!, & Google MIGHT find some extra money for you like they do for My Review of TheatreOCU's Recent Awesome! or http://www.mylot.com/mythman?ref=mythman

---when You Join Xomba, you can join this- and MythMan's other-hot discussions!

The difference between page views and readership numbers is

not too sure but I think: a page view is a reader who has been served with ads by Google whereas a reader sees the article but not the ads. My sister (for instance) doesn't seem to get Google ads anywhere when she surfs. There must be a better way of explaining this - please add it of you can. Must dash x x

AndAnotherThing2 writes COMEDYand is Xomba's first featured HISTORIAN

cliques?

Clicks surely

AndAnotherThing2 writes COMEDYand is Xomba's first featured HISTORIAN

"Share Hobbies with Sums"? @AndAnotherThing2-veghead-mythman

I have no idea why one 'cliques ads' (I know, it sounds like you spell it "clicks") Alls I know is 'we writes gooood'; so-good we writes that sometimes our friends at Google shows our reading-friends some nice things. Nice things are niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice! Yup yup yup! ---Give Your Opinion Too!, & Google MIGHT find some extra money for you like they do for My Latest Work!

---when You Join Xomba, you can join this- and MythMan's other-hot discussions!

Money Making Articles

Thanks for the comment - I think. It is a pity we can't track all our articles and website pages via google as without the full stats why doesn't/does an article make money is impossible to guage. The question I'd like answered wouldn't be even if I could (track all articles and web pages). This is: Who clicks the ads? Any thoughts?

AndAnotherThing2 writes COMEDYand is Xomba's first featured HISTORIAN

Want $$ .. Translation? You Lack a Way to Provide Value @AAT-veg

That is the meaning of 'wanting to make money.' School presumably teaches one to translate the value one provides INTO money. If the value you provide doesn't translate the way you would like, find out why it doesn't and/or how it does! ---Give Your Opinion Too!, & Google MIGHT find some extra money for you like they do for My Latest Work!

---when You Join Xomba, you can join this- and MythMan's other-hot discussions!

Thanks jdubhub - How to add a Widget

Thanks for the link - I'm sure it will be useful for some readers of this article and for me...

AndAnotherThing2 writes COMEDYand is Xomba's first featured HISTORIAN

Here's the information about Widgetbox

Here is the link to the article I wrote about how to create a Widgetbox banner to post with your articles or on a blog page. http://www.xomba.com/widgetbox_putting_web_world_wide_web I don't have any statistics per se for increased readership, mostly because I write exclusively for Xomba right now, but I have noticed that I do get articles read and comments left on my Xombytes that are older than the seven days of the Highest Rated articles and which don't always appear on my latest works in my profile. Overall, I would say Widgetbox is useful because it places an attractive banner with a profile photo to drive traffic from other places. Sure, you could just as easily leave a hyperlink somewhere, but it wouldn't have the same impact. CLICK HERE TO JOIN XOMBA TODAY!

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

Post new comment

  • Lines and paragraphs break automatically.
  • You can use BBCode tags in the text. URLs will automatically be converted to links.
  • Allowed HTML tags: <p> <br> <b> <a> <em> <strong> <cite> <code> <ul> <ol> <li> <dl> <dt> <dd> <img> <span> <object> <param> <embed> <table> <tr> <td> <div>
  • Web page addresses and e-mail addresses turn into links automatically.

More information about formatting options

Join Xomba Today

Do you like to write? Would you like to make a little extra money on the side? These people do. Join the Xomba community today.
Become a Member