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There are hundreds and thousands of people searching for ways to make money online on the Internet daily. Only very few are able to gain success and make money online. Does this mean it is very difficult to earn online? Are there limited opportunities to make money online? Umpteen legitimate opportunities are available online; however, I am going to discuss about making money online by way of writing articles. Here is how you should start your online writing career.

1. 1. Analyze your areas of strength: If you are good at writing articles related to education, focus on this particular category when you begin writing articles. Get to know about other areas and slowly write articles on other categories.

2. Decide whether you are going to work as a freelance writer for various freelance job websites or going to earn by writing for online writing websites.

3. If choosing the option of writing for freelance job websites, do the following:

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   1. Find out legit freelance job websites by doing a search in search engines. Few of them are Scriptlance, Getafreelancer, Rentacoder, eLance, and guru.
   2. Few of them do not ask for membership fee while others are paid freelancing websites. Decide whether you are going to work for free or paid websites.
   3. Sign up with these freelancing websites.
   4. Choose your areas of expertise when signing up.
   5. Confirm your account when you get the verification e-mail.
   6. You will start receiving projects that suits your areas of expertise.
   7. Start bidding on these projects.
   8. When you are chosen as the winner of a project, start working on it, complete the task as specified by the buyer.
   9. You get paid once the job is complete.

4. You may also write for various online writing websites. Most of these online writing websites are open to all while few are restricted to U.S. only. Some of the online writing websites are Bukisa, Triond, Associated Content, Helium, and Boddunan (only for Indian writers).

5. Create an account with these websites and start submitting articles you have written.

6. Once the articles are published, you earn money depending on either the page views your article generates or upfront payment for the written articles. Certain online writing websites pay both upfront payments as well as for the page views.

7. Promote your content by referring your friends and relatives.  

8. Another major point is to create a PayPal account as most of these websites pay through PayPal; only few send checks or wire transfer. Creating a PayPal account is very simple. Ensure PayPal is supported in your country; you can find this information in the PayPal website itself.

Hurray…you can start to make money online now by writing articles. All the best!

• Written by Anuradha.
• In category General Reference.
• 14 years ago.

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