Mostly people copy the content of others who are in the same niche,doing so they lose the power to express themselves, lose their search engine rankings [Note: There is no duplicate content penalty, but there is a duplicate content filter], lose customers and at the same time lose everything including the fun of running a website or blog. If you wish to Make money blogging then it is easy when the content is yours, is unique & informative.

That is the reason why you must NEVER copy other peoples work, use your writing skills instead, if your run a blog, then your writing skills is all that matters alongside your passion for blogging & genuinely helping People in your niche. Now lets take a look at what you can get or expect if you use your own writing skills.

You get the opportunity to express yourself which is the topmost purpose of blogging, something that most bloggers these days don’t understand, you can create a loyal readership and spread the word about you, your website or blog, your products and gain exposure in your own style. But you might be thinking how is that useful to everyone else?

There is no doubt that not everyone has a blog or site, some people in fact make money online by just promoting  products and doing other miscellaneous things that don’t require a site or a blog, so whats the point of writing online?

How to take Advantage of your Writing Skills:

1. Article Directories: Use your Writing skills to write articles and submit to as many article directories as possible, add your affiliate links and site links to your articles resource box & you can get traffic and sales as well as your search engine rankings.

2. Review Writing: Writing reviews about a product you sell can empower your prospects into buying that product, and of course you can review sites and products for the sake of creating a satisfaction factor among your future prospects.

3. Paid Review Writing: Writing paid reviews on your blog or site can make you money from the advertiser who pays you to do so, this in return creates a opportunity for you to expand your knowledge base and create newer JV partnerships with advertisers.

4. Build a Community: Writing on discussion forums and community sites can open your product to million of eyes and creates back links which generates traffic and builds your list.

5. Write for Content Networks: Writing on get content networks can make you money, there is also a window of oppertunity to introduce your product or blogs to others and grows your traffic and readership base.

6. Freelance Writing: There are tonnes of freelance websites on the internet with hundreds of writing projects posted every day. Freelance writing WILL make you instant money but at the same time get you contacts to work with in the future without having to go job hunting. If you are really good you can earn a living of freelance writing & can even get high paying tasks such as copy writing, ebook creation, etc.

7. Write for other web sites: Similar to freelancing but with a twist, you can write guest posts or articles for other sites, this gives you the opportunity to expand your readers base, traffic, twitter followers, etc by leveraging other successful blogs or websites traffic.

To sum it all, writing Unique & Quality content always wins over duplicate content. Let me ask you something, will you read the same article which you have read on another site? of course not, why would someone waste their time reading the same thing over and over again, that is why you must use your own ideas and create unique content. Be passionate & write in an engaging way.

Below are Some great content sites where you can use your writing skills to generate traffic, money and sales or just make new friends and grow your readership, don’t worry you don’t need a blog or site,  in fact you can make money just by writing on these sites as most of them have an Adsense Revenue sharing program, while some of them will pay you based on the amount of views your articles generate.

Get Paid to Write Content Networks.

1. Helium – Helium is a article directory where authors can publish their contents for free and at the same time get paid for creating unique content based on the revenue that your article generates, its a good platform for anyone to test their skills and create a reader base at the same time make some cash.

2. Bukisa – Bukisa also servers the same purpose as helium and other paid to write sites that earns you on going royalties on your articles.

3. Triond – Yet another site with the same purpose but triond has its own set of sites that will display your articles on, and you can get paid based on number of article views.

4. Associated Content – AC is the perhaps the most famous Site that serves the same purpose with millions of active users and readers, it can’t be better then this to explore yourself.  Update: AC was acquired by Yahoo recently, so now its part of the Yahoo Contributor Network, They pay upfront payments ranging from $2 to $20 but only to US authors. If you are Non – US resident then you can join as a featured writer.

5. Xomba – Xomba has been around for a while now. They allow you to create articles, bookmarks & share other type of content. You don’t get upfront payments or payment for views, however you share the revenue from your articles via Google Adsense. This site is a good way to build a strong adsense residual income.

Make sure you make the most of these services, their are more but it will take me time to review and experiment with them. There are a lot of other popular sites that you can take advantage of by writing articles, revenue sharing or promoting your products via affiliate marketing.

Before i sign off, i will like to tell you that in my next post i will be showing you ‘how to write sales letters, articles, emails, reviews and posts’ that could increase your sales, traffic and create yourself a name. Update: The post is now live : Creating Killer Sales letter, articles and reviews!

anyways good luck with your internet marketing, make sure you keep checking the ‘Free Income Sites‘ category where i will add more information, tools and services as i find them. If you liked my post then please do share, subscribe to my RSS Feed & follow me on twitter @sameerjoad.

SJ