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If you are looking for freelance writing work online, you may have come across sites such as Helium, Suite101, Bukisa, eHow and Associated Content.  These are all sites that pay you each month for either the amount of times your articles have been viewed or the amount of advertiser money that your articles have generated.

When you write for these sites, you do not get up front payments, however, if you know a few things about SEO and online writing, you will likely make more money per article than you would writing for up front pay for a site such as Demand Studios.

The big question is, how do you maximize your earnings on these articles and make sure that each and every article you write will be making you passive income for years to come?  There are a few things you need to do to insure the success of every article that you put online.

1. Write Evergreen -  Articles that are related to news items are fine, as long as there will be as much intrest in them next year as there is today. Make sure that every article you write will be relevent several years down the road.

2. Careful Keyword Selection -  If you know anything about SEO (search engine optimization), you already know that you need to search for the right keywords to include in your article and title.  You can get a general idea of the topic you want to write about and then search for it in the google adwords tool to find keywords that have high search volumes.  If no one is searching for the keywords in your article, then no one will find it and you won’t make any money.

If you do this correctly and you are writing for sites such as eHow and Suite 101, who have excellent page ranks, your article can easily rank on the first page of google for your keyword!

3. Use Social Bookmarking – Each and every time you write an article, you should be submitting it to digg, reddit, stumbleupon, redgage and any other social site that you can think of. This gives you backlinks to your articles and exposure.  You can also publish a link to them on your facebook page!

4. Streamline the Process – Madonna was right – get into the groove.  Once you find your pace and can streamline that process of keyword selection and SEO, you can write more articles that will make more money in less time.  One way that I do this is to use the Micro Niche Finder tool.

A lot of people use this for finding blog keywords, but it works just as well for finding keywords for articles.  You just enter in your general topic and a list of keywords is generated along with the ad cost per click for each keyword,  and the number of searches it has per month.  You can also get a SOC (strength of competition) number – the lower the better. If the SOC is is green, you know that you have an keyword term that you can rank highly for.  When I find a keyword that I like, I usually search it in google and check out the page rank of the first 5 results.  If they are all page rank 3 or lower, I know that my article can rank on the first page.

Check out the video below to see how Micro Niche Finder works and start making your freelance writing work for you!

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