3 Ways to Monetize Your Freelance Writing Blog

If you're a freelance writer, you probably blog. If not, you should consider it, as there are many ways to monetize your freelance writing blog. Following are three.

• Create a product/service to sell:

When most freelance writer start out, they do so with the intention of marketing their talents to professional companies in exchange for a fee. But, you never know where this "freelance writing thing" may lead. One day you may decide to publish a line of greeting cards, or create a line of t-shirts with your funny idiomatic expressions, or showcase and sell your photography talents along with your writing skill.

• Pre-qualify clients:

Your blog can pre-qualify clients in that it is a history of your writing. More than writing samples, a blog is an ever-changing entity (if you update it often enough) that showcases your ability(ies) to clients on many levels. Sometimes clients will hire you because they like your quirky writing style, as evidenced by your blog scribblings - something that they may not be able to pick up from a "professional sample."

Note: If you list your blog in your professional credentials, just be sure that it is appropriate. Remember, what you put on the web is there indefinitely - even if you cease to publish your blog, a history of it will always be on the web somewhere.

• Create passive income:

You can create passive income with a blog in a number of ways. Two of the most popular are monetizing it with Google AdSense ads. The other is taking private ads.

All of these can lead to a different stream of income, which is great for any freelance writer. A blog can help you accomplish all of these goals.

The Best Way to Drive Traffic to Your Freelance Writing Blog

For your blog to help you achieve the goals outlined above, you must drive traffic to it. Following is one way to do that.

• Unique, informative content is what drives repeat visitors on the web.

You need not only first-time visitors, but repeat visitors for your freelance writing blog to become popular and profitable.

The 30-Day Day Plan to Increase Traffic to Your Freelance Writing Blog

By writing an article a day and submitting it to at least five different directories, you can jump start your traffic campaign pretty seamlessly. As more ezine and newsletter publishers, webmasters, and other article directories pick up your article, you will be creating tons of backlinks to your site. Before long - anywhere from 30 to 90 days - you will start to see an influx of traffic that will make your freelance writing blog popular and profitable. Continue to submit 1-3 articles a week to five different directories, and your blog's traffic will increase that much faster.

About the Author: Yuwanda Black is an experienced SEO writer and the author of How to Make $250+/Day Writing Simple, 500-Word Articles. Ms. Black says, "You can work from home as a freelance writer in your PJs. I do it every day." Learn more about how to drive traffic to your site/blog in this article marketing tutorial.