My Writing for Money Journey July 2010

About the beginning of July 2010 I made the decision to begin writing articles for ad sharing websites to promote my blogs and to develop new income streams. This is an account of my personal journey toward my goal of becoming a self-employed freelance writer and making my living from the internet.

My Strategy to Build Multiple Income Streams
My strategy to build multiple income streams meant that I needed to concentrate on signing up for some content sharing sites.

1. I choose Xomba to start with because it sounds like a good way to build backlinks. To experiment I started backlinking to a lot of my older articles on my Easy To Scrapbook blog as I have given very little attention to promoting any of them or indeed that blog. Find out more about backlinking and potential earnings on Xomba
   
   
2. My second strategy was to start writing for HubPages. HubPages shares ad revenue from Google Adsense and affiliate sales from Amazon and eBay earnings with writers. I chose HubPages because of the level of community support there and the ability to earn revenue by recommending articles by other writers.
   
   
3. The third site I concentrated on was RedGage. RedGage allows you to post links and articles that direct readers to websites and blogs. It is a good vehicle for me to start generating traffic to this blog. Plus links created at RedGage are "do follow" so it helps to raise the Google PR of I Make Money Blogger and other blogs and articles I choose to promote. Read about My RedGage Make Money Challenge
   
   
4. One other content sharing website that I have also joined is Triond. Triond is good for article writers because it pays by page view. At the present time it is approximately $3.75 per 1000 page views. In addition it has a 50/50 ad sharing revenue structure which I am hoping to take advantage of.

Set out below is the tracking I have undertaken of my article submissions to various sites RedGage, Triond, HubPages and Xomba and a summary of how much revenue I am generating at each website for my efforts throughout July 2010.

July 3

Xomba
Signed up for Xomba and wrote an article about Charlie the Unicorn video Also bookmarked a scrapbooking page.
Articles = 1, Bookmarks = 1
Balance = $0.00

July 5

HubPages
Signed up by way of experiment and began crafting my first article Make Money Writing on Xomba
Articles = 1
Balance = $0.00

July 6

Xomba
Bookmarked my HubPages article about Xomba.
Articles = 1 , Bookmarks = 2
Balance = $0.00

July 8

HubPages
Article number 2 submitted at HubPages. I doubt I am going to be prolific here but will slowly drip feed my articles. Travel Writing - 8 Story Angles for Travel Writers
Articles = 2
Balance = $0.00

July 25

Triond
Signed up for Triond today and published my first article Potential for Making Money Online with Xomba
Articles = 1
Balance = $0.00

HubPages
Published my third article. Complete rewrite.Work From Home Micro Jobbing at Microworkers
Articles = 3
Balance = $0.00


July 28

I Make Money Blogger
Published Make Money Writing on Squidoo
Balance = $0.00

July 29

HubPages
Published Article Writers Make Money on Squidoo. Virtually all my article traffic is coming from within HubPages.
Articles = 4
Balance = $0.00

July 30

Triond
Published Get Paid for Writing at Squidoo
Earned my first cent after only 6 page views!
Articles = 2
Balance = $0.01