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Earning Residual Income OnlinePassive Income From Works Already Published
Web content can continue to earn a writer money as long as the work remains online.
Residual income is money that keeps coming in long after a piece of Web content has been completed. Until the Internet, residual income from writing was usually confined to royalties paid to book authors as their books continued to sell. There are now many websites that offer a similar way to keep money coming in. The residuals paid to Web writers are paid either for the number of views the page gets or the amount that is brought in through advertising revenue. Some sites pay as a combination of both factors. PageView Residual IncomeThere are sites that pay a fixed amount based on pageviews. Associated Content is one such site. The fixed price is $1.50 for every 1000 people who view the page. Revenue-Sharing WebsitesPaying websites are increasingly going to a format of revenue sharing. Sites like eHow have a proprietary formula that calculates a specific percentage of the money made by the writer's content and pays them residuals based on that percentage. Sometimes a revenue-sharing site will mix in an amount based on the number of pageviews or the growth of traffic coming to the page. Triond.com and helium.com both offer residuals based on revenue sharing. Both sites have general reputations for paying very little, but Web writers can increase the amount by marketing their work and bringing in more readers. Squidoo has a system that allows anyone to create sites, called Squidoo lenses, for a piece of the revenue they bring in. The lenses are ranked within the site and the higher the lens rank, the more is earned for that lens. There is no limit to how many lenses can be created. The income for many Squiddoo lenses is a few cents a month but some lenses bring in a substantial income month after month. Thisisby.us shares revenue from its Web content between the writer and the people who comment on the work. Writers can make residual income both by writing content for the site and by commenting on other people's content. Write Your Own Web ContentResidual income can also be earned by publishing works to the writer's website. The income can be derived from Adsense income, from other ads placed on the site or from affiliate income. There are many people who earn a full-time income from their own websites. But, marketing such sites and finding a large enough audience for them can take years. Writing for a website that publishes the work and offer a percentage of the revenue means that the writer has to share the income, but it also means that the site takes care of some of the marketing. A popular enough site, such as Suite101 and About.com come with an audience already in place waiting to read new content. When writing for residual income, keep the content evergreen to get it the biggest audience possible.
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