Make money writing short articles on an Adsense revenue sharing site

Come on South Africans – and, actually, just about anyone else from anywhere else – if you have a computer at home, and are connected to the Internet, you can make some money at home, in your spare time, or even fulltime if you work hard enough at it. It’s not that difficult – time-consuming perhaps, and may take a while before you earn a fairly decent income online, from writing, but you can if you want to.

It is not even essential that you get your own website or blog to write articles and earn from clicks on your Google Adsense ads that would be displayed on the pages of your blogs or websites – you can join a site, for free, that shares it’s Google Adsense revenue, like Xomba does.

So why not rather just start your own blog since there are many free ones like Blogger and WordPress, that you could use to have yourself set up in next to no time?

I’m not saying never consider your own blog, and, ideally, using both Xomba and your own blogs would be a good idea, but if you’re not yet too sure of how to go about blogging, but still enjoy writing, then perhaps start out at Xomba, and grow from there.

Another reason to write short little articles (minimum 150 words) or write short little bookmarks (minimum 50 words) on Xomba instead of, or in addition to on your own blogs, is that Xomba gets a lot of traffic. You ultimately need visitors to your articles for the ads next to them to be seen. If your site or blog is still new, or you feel you are still learning a lot about the Internet and making money online from your writing efforts, start with Xomba, or use it as well as starting your own blogs.

Yet another reason to join Xomba, is the community aspect of it. Get to know the other writers, make new friends, comment on their articles. They will visit your Xomba article pages too, just because you’re nice and friendly (and do be genuine!), and, thus, your article receives even more hits, helping it climb in search engine rankings, so that the general public also find your article when they’re looking for more info on a topic you’ve written about and, perhaps, click on your ads (which are mostly related to what you have written about, so should also interest the readers of your article).

Write about just about anything that interests you, it makes it easier to write more often. Really, it’s not that difficult to write 150 words (this article right here at this point is already 440 words) – what may, however, be difficult for you, is to write often, uploading your content to Xomba often. You need to write often if you expect to make money from writing on Xomba – but don’t let this put you off. If you browse around on Xomba, and read some articles by other members (related to how much they’re earning from Google Adsense via Xomba), you will see they, too, didn’t make anything at first, or made next to nothing, but they stuck to it, and their efforts were rewarded – I haven’t gone through every last article, I don’t think, but some members are claiming to be making as much as R18 000 per month from Xomba. This is obviously not just from uploading one article every two or three days, so if you’re not prepared to put in effort, to be patient, and not to give up, you may as well leave this page right now, and carry on trying those so called get rich quick schemes, but, in my eyes, trying to make money from something that seems to be really honestly working for others, even if I try for a year or more, seems better than joining various get rich quick programs for a year, and nothing comes from it. Hey, even if, by some bad luck, your topics are not that interesting and not too many people visit them, at first, anyway, you can always start a more interesting blog later, that turns out to be pretty successful, and incorporate linking to your Xomba articles within your blog, and get more traffic to them that way (and more people seeing those ads next to your Xomba articles).

So, what is an Adsense revenue sharing site? Well, Xomba, is one, and this is what happens:

You sign up for a Google Adsense account (if you don’t already have an account with Google Adsense, otherwise you just add your Adsense publisher id to your Xomba profile settings) and when Xomba displays ads next to your articles or bookmarks, and they get clicked, the money Xomba earns is split 50/50 with you!

You can earn even more on Xomba by referring others to join. Whatever those who signed up using your affiliate link earn, you get 10% (and they don’t lose 10% off their Adsense earnings, Xomba does.) Cool, huh?

A warning, though, don’t run around merely promoting your affiliate link and never writing anything on Xomba if you expect to earn – imagine if all others did that too – no articles and no ads displayed! – the other thing is that once a person clicks your affiliate link (wherever you have it displayed) is that they need to join Xomba before leaving the site – and how many people browse around first, when they visit a new site, and come back only later (they won’t be your affiliate if they come back only later), so don’t totally rely on that. Write write write is the answer.

Look, if you don’t want to click the Xomba links I have further above this point, just because you’re thinking “hm, all she’s doing is trying to get others to join up so that she can earn from THEIR efforts,” then don’t. Click this one, which just goes directly to the site (you can check lower left corner of your screen and see there is no affiliate link after the address.)

I pretty much want to help South Africans (and anyone else too) see that it is indeed possible to earn a living from writing online (or at least some extra income) online, if they only just try, and put in the effort. Nothing will happen if you do nothing (besides maybe shriveling up and dying from dehydration and starvation.)

Also see:
Adsense Revenue Sharing sites: Xomba, HubPages, and Triond
What’s nice about Triond?
How long before Google Adsense ads appear on Triond?
Make Money Writing Online

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