Wikinut Earnings - How to Write for Money - My First Month

Making money at Wikinut is relatively easy. In this article I report back on my first month earnings at Wikinut. Wikinut is an article submission site that shares 50 percent of the total revenue earned with the writer. Wikinut also has a referral program where you can earn 5% of the royalties on any new referral you make. Today I discuss the highs and lows of my first month at Wikinut and in particular what strategies worked for me.

Publishing Articles at Wikinut
The first point to note is that I have to date only published 3 articles at Wikinut. Now we all know that you can't earn if you don't publish however I decided that my approach would be to write somewhere between 1 and 5 articles and see what kind of success I had before I wrote more.

I joined at the end of July but did not publish my first article until August 3. I subsequently published two other articles. Three articles in total. Not a promising start to my freelance writing career at Wikinut but enough to get a feel for whether Wikinut was the type of site I wished to publish on.


All of the articles I submitted were rewrites of articles I have published elsewhere either on my blog or on other content sharing sites such as HubPages and Triond. They are unique however and although contain much the same information I have carefully reworded paragraphs and changed the keywords. So keep in mind that you can reuse other articles at Wikinut but I advise against posting exact duplicates of articles published elsewhere.

Wikinut Page Views and Earnings for August 2010
As Wikinut is a UK website earnings are in GBP. You can elect to be paid the equivalent through Paypal in US Dollars or several other currencies .


As you can see from the statistics above the number of page views for the month at Wikinut was 340. Some of the traffic came from within Wikinut. I gained 11 followers alone. There is no easy way within Wikinut to track traffic sources so I used Google Analytics to get a picture of external traffic sources and search terms used to find my pages.

Instead of publishing the articles all at once I chose to publish two early in the month and one mid month so I could observe the effect on earnings of publishing a new article. Daily page views varied greatly but were highest the couple of days following publication.

Most days at Wikinut I earned about 1 pence per day to end the month with 0.032 GBP or about US $0.50. While these figures may appear low to some my earnings are remember from just 3 articles. And what I earned at Wikinut is better than many article submission sites I have tried. Keep in mind that had I published these articles on HubPages for instance I very likely would have received nothing in earnings unless I was lucky enough to get an Adsense click through. With Triond that pay between $1-3 per 1000 page views I would have likely earned about 1 penny a day.

Income from Referrals to Wikinut
I had one referral to Wikinut generated from one of my articles that I published elsewhere at the end of August. My new referral did not make any earnings though so I derived no income for August. However I now will earn 5 percent of that new members earnings on any articles published on top of the earnings from my own articles.

Ability to Make Residual Income from my Wikinut Articles
The three articles I wrote were keyword optimized and were designed to keep earning for some time to come. One of the best things about writing for article submission sites is that you can earn residual income from your articles long after you publish them. How much that residual income is depends on four main factors: the level of topic interest, choosing paying keywords, SEO optimization of paying keywords and degree of article promotion.

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As you can see each article I have written has achieved a place within the first 40 results in Google. Only one article has made it to the first page of Google.

I need to promote these articles well or risk them being buried and not earning any residual income in the future. My strategy is to continue to socially bookmark these articles to create do follow backlinks at sites such as Propeller.com, Snipsly, Xomba and RedGage along with Facebook, Twitter, Digg and Delicious. If my articles gain enough quality do follow backlinks chances are they will be promoted higher in Google search engine results.

Summary Analysis of Wikinut Earnings Results
For a little effort and some time I was able to publish 3 articles on Wikinut. Each got a little traffic and together they resulted in earnings of $0.50 for the month. On the basis of my earnings results to date I would need to publish about 20 articles to make 5.00 GBP or $10 US the minimum Wikinut payout per month. With 23 articles published that would result in about $120 over $12 months or about $2 per article.

With greater promotion the articles are likely to rise higher in Google searches and my page view earnings would increase. If I choose topics that are being highly searched for I am even more likely to get elevated traffic levels. And by writing a cluster of articles on the same subject I am likely to get more page views per visitor.

However my earnings at Wikinut are likely to be a lot higher overall when I factor in my blog and other article submission sites. I have my articles linking directly to this blog and design my articles in such a way that I will not only earn money for submissions to Wikinut but I will get traffic and referrals to my blog.

In addition by rewriting my articles, using different keywords and publishing them on Triond for example I am doubling their earning potential. The true earning potential of each article is probably around $20 to $40 over two years and more depending on the number of ad revenue sharing sites I submit to. In my book writing articles at Wikinut is definitely worth the investment of time and effort.

Sign Up to Wikinut
If you are not registered at Wikinut it only takes a few moments to do so. If you sign up for Wikinut using the following link you will gain me as your first follower. Sign up to Wikinut and start earning today

If you need more information about making money at Wikinut before signing up please refer to my article Write for Money and Earn at Wikinut