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Find a Good Archive Site
First, You will need a stable earning site. This doesn't have to be a high earner, but it should be one that you can safely archive your articles without fear of losing your account, being deleted or has very restrictive rules and guidelines.
If your articles are around 300-400 words, well written and original this should be acceptable for your archive site. All your articles will be published here first. My archive site of choice is
FullofKnowledge.com because the staff are friendly, helpful and interactive.
The nice thing about Fullofknowledge, among many, is that earnings are stable. I reference the earnings here like interest building on savings. As you add more articles, your earnings begin to build over time without much maintenance. For this reason, Fullofknowledge is the foundation of my online content network.
Second Tier Networks
Second tier networks are those that you will republish your articles to for additional performance pay.
Yahoo Contributor Network has an upfront-pay option and would be great for archives if they did not require you to wait 10 business days to review your article. After the 10 days your article may be denied, effectively wasting two weeks of your time for nothing. The upfront pay averages $3. It doesn't matter what Yahoo says on their site regarding upfront pay. It's $3 after 2 weeks of waiting after holding your article in limbo.
YCN is a 2nd tier network because of their performance pay which is a dismal $1.50 per 1000 views. You can republish an article on YCN for performance pay only and get your article reviewed in about seven days as long as you meet their somewhat lofty submission requirements.
It's fairly easy to get your article published at YCN for performance pay only. You can consider this a small boost to your Fullofknowledge monthly earnings. YCN pays to your PayPal account every month providing you have earned $3+ in performance pay.
There are other 2nd tier network options that I have found to be much too cumbersome in their interface, which requires massive self-promotion and garners very little earnings for the work you have to put in. YCN is the best choice as a 2nd tier network until something better comes along.
Third Tier Networks
These are often newer revenue sites that pop up and offer very high earnings. And some do earn very well for the writer. What makes these sites third tier networks are their performance record. There is some question of whether you will get paid or not - so keep this in mind. The third tier site I use is Bubblews.com.
Being fair, Bubblews has its issues paying writers. I have had a payment go missing as well as writers I know personally to be reputable who have had some payments lost there. it pays well when it does but it's not a reliable earner.
If your 3rd tier network pays you, it's wonderful. If they do not pay you, then you still have your 1st & 2nd tier earners building stable revenue.
Central Sites
A central site is a site where you can easily access the various parts of each network from one page. This can be any site you have admin privilege to access and has html coding ability. So, I created a page on my personal site to build easy to access links to reference, cite, source and submit my articles without having to hop around the Internet.
Your central site is where you oversee the overall performance of your articles. This is open to the user according to need. I have a button that displays my earnings across all my networks, my blogs, Adsense earnings, etc. Another area on this page has the buttons I need to research an article, find images, and submit.
Finally, I have an area on this page to share my published articles all at once across Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Google+, Pinterest, and Tumbler. Which leads us into our last portion which is sharing.
Sharing on Social Media
First, you should share your article on a site that actively rewards you for social medial shares. Some networks do not recognize visits from social media sites or they get paid for them but do not pass those earnings on to you. Regardless, you will need to test your sites out to see if you are getting earnings for your social media shares.
Arguably, you could reserve your social media shares to your archive site to build up a solid and reliable readership base. That would perhaps be the wiser choice. I, typically, share links to my articles on my current highest performing site which is also a tier 3 earner. I get instant gratification and the most for my page views. Again, I probably should be sharing on my archive network but I'm still young and require my heart to be broken before I learn.
So this is my how-to guide to online content. I didn't write one of these until I actually began to earn well online as to not put out any irrelevant, useless and vague commentary. I earn a reliable $500 monthly from online content from my relatively new tier model system described above.
Those earnings promise to eventually rise and become more secure as my tier 1 and 2 networks build up a solid library of articles.
Source:
Based solely on personal experience
This article was previously posted by me (Edenjaid) on Fullofknowledge.com
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