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October 30th, 2009 · Writing for Residual Income

Writing has been in spurts

I would like to report that I have been writing consistently over the past few months. But truth be told, I have submitted less than a hand full of articles since June. I think that 3 is the exact number. Why? Yes, at first I had become discouraged by top producing articles being deleted from eHow. But I can honestly say I got over that a few months ago.

Homeschooling comes first.

Truth be told, I have been devoting the majority of my time to homeschooling. I’m sure that there is a way to homeschool and write articles consistently. But I haven’t figured out a way to balance the two yet. Of course my children’s education is a top priority for me, so writing will always be a distant second on my list.

Yay for residual income!

But the good news is that I am still earning residual income from articles that I wrote months ago. Some of the articles are almost a year old and I am still making money from them. So I am really glad that I invested the time when I had it available to me. I still make enough money each month to pay my car note if I chose to. And I make that money month after month. So even though it has become a bit tougher to write and earn residual income from content sites, it is still worth it.

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I’m trying to find a good time to write.

In our homeschool we have school for five weeks and then we take one week off. I am seriously contemplating trying to write a few articles during that week. Originally I was going to write in the evenings after the children were tucked in and kissed for the night. But I just don’t have the energy for that by that time. And for me, the weekends are for relaxing. So I don’t do any writing then either. So that one week seems like my best bet.

I’m no longer posting earnings.

I will no longer be posting my monthly earnings unless there is a substantial change in the residual income. But as of now, things have leveled off and the money is about the same every month.

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October 29th, 2009 · Privacy Policy

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Swagbucks: Earn Prizes for Searching Online

September 6th, 2009 · Swagbucks

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During my hiatus from writing online I found out about Swagbucks. It’s a site where you earn points for conducting searches. You can turn the points in for gift certificates and other prizes. I have to tell you that for me, it has been all about the Amazon gift certificates. Just over the summer I have earned $15 worth.  I like freebies just as much I like earning residual income. So needless to say, I am thrilled with this site.

It’s pretty easy to earn points. Just use the Swagbucks search engine to do searches. You earn bucks randomly for the searches you make. You can win anywhere from 1 to 5 Swagbucks up to 2 times a day. At least, that has been my experience. I have been able to win Swagbucks early in the morning and late in the evening, if I remember to utilize the site. I just make sure that I am searching for different keywords. For example, if I earn a Swagbuck for searching for “earn prizes for online searches” in the morning, then I won’t earn any more bucks that night trying the same term.

Pros to Swagbucks

It usually only takes a few searches to earn bucks. Just make sure that the searches you conduct are unique ones.

There are some prizes that only cost 1 Swagbuck. You can earn a $5 Amazon gift certificate after only acquiring 45 Swagbucks. (Did I mention that this is my favorite?)

You earn Swagbucks every time one of your referrals earns. Granted, I haven’t benefited from this yet. I earned all 135 of my Swagbucks from my own personal searches. I wanted to make sure that the site was legit before mentioning it here. But I’m sure that the bucks start to add up much quicker when friends who have signed up under you start earning Swagbucks.

Cons to Swagbucks

Their search engine is nowhere near as good as Google. But I don’t let that stop me from making Swagbucks. I use the search a few times until I earn my bucks. Then I just go back to googling. This is really a big deal to me. I have found some good websites from searches I’ve conducted on Swagbucks. So it isn’t a big deal to use the site long enough to earn some bucks.

Try Swagbucks Today

Sign up for Swagbucks today. It’s an easy way to get free gift certificates or many other items. Just check out the Swagstore to see all of the items that are available.

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Thank You Terry

September 6th, 2009 · Writing for Residual Income

I recently received this very nice comment.

Hello Cookie, I have been following your success with eHow and testing other sites for residual income. Although I have been inactive as late, I am also an ehow writer. I am so sorry about your articles being deleted. And very interested in your new directions into other money making writing sites. I like your idea to write for a site that checks over your article before publishing. Why contribute so much time and effort into writing if they could be deleted without notice. After reading your idea on this I think I will also try that. I will continue to periodically check this site to see how you are doing. Please continue to document your journey and don’t get discouraged. Thank you for your ideas, insights and inspiration.  Terry

Honestly, I had gotten a bit discouraged. So much so, that today is the first time that I have logged into my Writing For Residuals blog since I wrote my last post. My husband noticed that I haven’t been feeling writing articles lately. He encouraged me to start considering other avenues and to not give up. I have decided to go on with my residual income quest so I decided to get back to posting about my adventures.

It really felt wonderful to log onto my blog and to see Terry’s comment. So again, a huge thank you to Terry, my husband, and everyone who has offered words of support.

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July 2009 Earnings

July 2nd, 2009 · Writing for Residual Income, eHow

I did better than expected on eHow, considering my top earning article was removed. Again, next month’s earnings will decrease because a few days ago eHow removed 5 more of my articles. One of those how-to’s earned approximately $90 a month. But like I said in the last article I have no complaints.

Anyway, here is the residual income I earned in July 2009.

eHow: $353.53

Google Adsense: approximately $100

Associated Content: $10.18

The AC payment is an estimate. For whatever reason, my actual payment is usually a couple of dollars less than the estimate. I usually get paid from them around the 10th of the month.

I am glad that I reached payout again for Adsense. For June and July combined I made a little over $200.

I haven’t really written more than a couple of articles for months now. And I doubt I will be doing any articles over the summer. This is the first time in my life that I received payment month after month long after the actual work was completed. It is a great feeling.

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eHow Deleted My Top Earning Article

June 11th, 2009 · eHow

It took me a couple of days to figure out why I went from making about $14/day on eHow to making $7/day. My top earning article, along with 5 other good earners, were deleted. OUCH! Other than that I don’t know what else to say. I really was enjoying residuals of over $400 every month from them.

But I guess that’s how it goes in the land of content sites. I’m not going to complain or get upset about it. The owners of eHow have the right to do what they want on their site. And I certainly can’t complain about the $1700 I made with them just since this January. So, you know. . . Take the good with the bad.

If I don’t have any more articles deleted from eHow then I’ll still make around $200 every month. That averages out to $4.25 per article each month. That’s about what Associated Content pays me just 1 time for an article. But with eHow, I will make that over and over again. That is - as I stated before - if I keep the 42 articles that I have left.

As I stated in a previous post, I am now moving in a different direction than how-to articles. But for the hours that I put in to write my eHow articles, I can definitely say that the time was well worth it.

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Earnings for May 2009

June 11th, 2009 · Associated Content, Writing for Residual Income, eHow

eHow $434.23

Adsense: approximately $90.00

Associated Content: $8.53

That is all the money I made this month. It takes $100 to reach payout for Google Adsense. So, no Google money for me this time. Also, my eHow earnings dropped again from the previous month. But this will be the most I will probably ever make from eHow again. I’ll explain why in my next post.

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A Fresh Start Writing Online

May 23rd, 2009 · Suite 101, Writing for Residual Income

Today I am turning over a new leaf in my writing endeavors. I admit that I temporarily got caught up in the pursuit of money. Specifically, I became pretty engrossed in earning residual income. It got to the point to where I produced quite a few articles that were not my best work.

But I’m done with that now. I thank God for being forgiving and merciful. And I thank my husband and children for overlooking the fact that I temporarily did not have my priorities straight.

As of today, here are the writing paths that I will no longer be pursuing.

I’m done writing for eHow. I stand by my previous posts that eHow is a great way to earn residual income. However, for me, it became a site to submit mediocre work to forn a quick profit.

I won’t be pursuing affiliate marketing for products I haven’t personally tried and liked. I just don’t feel right about it.

I won’t be setting up any niche sites. This is pretty much for the same reason why I’m no longer writing on eHow.

I will not do any ghostwriting. I feel dishonest letting someone else sign their name to my work.

I’m not saying that there is anything wrong with the above ways of earning money. As a matter of fact, there isn’t anything wrong with any of it. It’s just not right for me.

Here is what I will be doing as far as writing is concerned from here on out.

I will write in a way that I know is honoring God. That doesn’t mean that I am going to start writing “religious” articles. I just mean that I am going to work as unto the Lord.

I will be writing for Suite 101. This site has editors who ensure that the articles that are published meet the standards of the website.

For now, Suite 101 is the only site I will be contributing to. I like the fact that the site offers tutorials and takes you through the basics of how to write effective articles for the web. I researched and learned most of that through trial and error. But it is cool that Suite 101 helps writers start off on the right foot. It is a revenue sharing site. So the money earned there will be residual income. However, my main focus is writing articles that will help others.

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April 2009 Earnings

May 11th, 2009 · Associated Content, eHow

I only wrote one new article for eHow in April. So with the exception of $0.28, all of the eHow earnings are truly residual income. I also only wrote a couple of articles on Xomba and InfoBarrel in April. I don’t plan on doing any writing this month. The whole experience just started feeling too much like a job to me. So I am back to focusing on my real full time positions as a wife, mother, and homeschooling parent.

Anyway, here are my earning for April.

eHow: $450.84

Google Adsense: approximately $100.00.

Associated Content: $9.89 (estimated payment as of today)

Amazon Affiliate: $1.60

And that is pretty much it.

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Free Ebooks on Creating Niche Sites

April 16th, 2009 · Niche Marketing

I have to admit that when I started making some residual income I indulged in a few ebooks to help me further my pursuit of passive income.  A couple of the books were well worth it. However, most were not. I can’t even say that the books were terrible. They contained good information. But most of what I have paid for I have eventually found for free on the internet with just a bit of research.

Today - yet again - I was contemplating an ebook on making ebook niche sites. Of course the book promises “guaranteed results or your money back.” Believe me, I will ask for my money back if I’m not happy. But that is starting to get old. So instead I did a Google search and found a great free ebook on creating Wordpress niche sites. This book mostly covers the technical aspect of setting up sites on Wordpress. If you are already familiar with how to do that then just read this book on creating $5 a day niche sites instead. I read both books and found each one to be extremely helpful.

I am definitely going to be using the techniques in the $5 a day book. The techniques are simple and make a lot of sense.

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