Making Money with Articles

Shawn Collins of http://blog.affiliatetip.com talks about making money with your own and other people's articles.

Q: How can I make money as an affiliate with articles?

A: There are a number of ways you can monetize articles, and I'll share some things I am doing.

I am an EzineArticles.com Expert Author, and when other people post those articles on their sites, I get traffic from a link they have to include with the article. So in this regard, articles are a traffic source to my relevant sites.

In turn, I am able to monetize that traffic that comes from my articles. Plus, since these sites are linking to me, I get some degree of SEO benefit, as well, and I'd consider that a form of currency.

Also, EzineArticles.com has a variety of RSS feeds where you can import excerpts of articles to your blog. It varies from category to category, but I'm using a handful that have new content daily.

For instance, one you can take a look at is FatShawn.com. I initially created this as a fitness blog I intended to update regularly, but lost interest along the way.

So, instead of just shuttering it, I figured I'd start pulling in relevant content, and I began importing the articles on running from EzineArticles.com. I run some Google AdSense and affiliate ad units on the blog.

As far as pulling in the RSS feed(s), I use a WordPress plugin called AutoPost.

There are certainly other ways to monetize content, but these are a couple things I am doing.

My EzineArticles.com page - http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Shawn_Collins

EZineArticles.com RSS feeds - http://ezinearticles.com/rss/

FatShawn.com - http://fatshawn.com/

AutoPost plugin - http://blog.affiliatetip.com/autopost

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Howto & Style

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• articles
• marketing
• monetize

[affiliatetip]

@dmuirdesigns I will be transcribing the video and posted the text here (with links) soon.

[dmuirdesigns]

Thanks for the tip Shawn on Ezine Articles (you might like to add a link). Very informative.........thanks again.

[affiliatetip]

@sumopub It's called AutoPost from sitemile dot com.

I have tried free autopost plugins and have hassles - this is a paid one, but it's been easy to use.

[sumopub]

Shawn: What plugin do you use to pull in RSS articles?