When 99% of you visit this site, you’re probably wondering how to make money without investing a lot into courses, coaching, ebooks, etc.  I’m going to give you one tactic that you can use to start making money in as little as one week.  It will consist of writing articles for payment (small payment, but payment nonetheless), as well as earning residual money from your article performance.

The site that you’re going to be submitting your articles to is Associated Content.

The first thing you’ll want to do is get an account set up at Associated Content.  You also need to set up your own Paypal account.

Now that you’re signed up at both sites, we’ll begin.  There are two things that we want to keep in mind when writing articles for AC.  They pay an upfront payment for the article, as well as the pageview bonus.  Don’t expect a lot for the upfront payment, though.  My average payment is around $3 - $4 per article.  They will occasionally offer more money for certain subjects, so be on the lookout for those when they show up.  Generally, though, you should expect around $3.50 per article when starting out.  I have had a couple that earned me $8 in the diabetes niche, so certain niches may earn you a little more.  Anyway, back to the subject.  Along with the $3.50, you can expect to earn $1.50 per 1,000 page views.  This is the residual earning that they offer.  It may not seem like much, but I earn about $2 - $3 per month without having to do any extra work at all.  If I knew what I’m about to share, then I would be earning much more with the same amount of effort.  In keeping with the whole “Hour per day” concept, I’m going to track this as a Case Study, and will follow through with it for about 2 weeks.  I’m a decent article writer, and figure that 2 articles per hour should be reasonable.  If I can nail out 3 - 4, then that will be a good day.  I don’t expect you to do that when you’re just starting out, but using my techniques, you should easily hit 2 per hour.

The basic steps for each article are going to be the same.  We’re going to find a niche that we can write about.  This can be one that you already know, or something that you’re interested in.  If you aren’t interested in the subject, then it’s going to take you longer to write your articles, and you won’t earn quite as much.  Now, once you become good at it, you’ll be able to write articles on anything you want, but until then just stick with the easy stuff.

Step 1: Pick A Niche

Step 2: Do Keyword Research

Step 3: Write Your Articles

Step 4: Get Paid (Hopefully)

The nice thing about this is that it isn’t something you have to do all at once.  If you work an hour one day and then can’t do anything else for 2 more days, then that’s fine.  You just won’t earn as much money in the short timeframe, but you’ll still be able to do things on your own schedule.

I’m going to try to do all of this in a 2 week case study.  As I complete my steps, I’m going to show you everything I do, as well as show you the results of the actions.  If I can write 2 articles per hour for 13 hours (the first hour will be spent on keyword research), then I anticipate earnings of around $91, plus the performance benefits.  Proper keyword research should easily get us thousands of organic hits per month, which help keep us motivated toward that goal of earning a living online.  You won’t be able to retire from this strategy, but if you can keep it up for a month or two, then you should have a couple hundred dollars to use for things like domains, hosting, and everything else that you need.  Assuming that your keyword research is accurate too, you should hopefully earn anywhere from $5 - $10 per month completely on autopilot.  It may not seem like much, but you can get some decent hosting for $5 - $6 per month, so it would easily cover that cost.

Make sure you check back for the first step in my case study.  I’m going to pick a niche to write articles about, then do my keyword research to find keywords that I want to target.