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How to Write and Make Money Online

I’ve heard from numerous sources that people were able to make a living from just writing online and was intrigued by this idea. I stumbled onto this very comprehensive post over at the Smart Passive Income blog and found out that one of the best writer share sites available today is called Infobarrel.

If I told you that you could make $1000/month passively, for the rest of your life….would you believe me? If someone said that to me, to be honest, I would have probably called them crazy. But I did some research and the idea doesn’t seem so far fetched after all.

How You Make Money From Infobarrel

Like many writing compensation programs available, writers submit content, which are published on Infobarrel. Infobarrel then displays an assortment of ads on the articles, which consist of adsense, amazon products, and chitika ads. Infobarrel retains ownership of the articles, but distributes a percentage of the earnings from the advertising they earn from the author’s article.

While this model is certainly not groundbreaking, what makes infobarrel unique is the revenue share program they have in place. Infobarrel shares a whopping 75% of the article advertising revenue with the article authors. This is significantly higher than the majority of other writer compensation sites available today. Infobarrel also shows pretty decent growth rate. The site currently has a Page Rank of 4 and an Alexa ranking of 10,466. The following graph shows the steady growth in infobarrel traffic since 2009.

The steady growth in traffic is definitely a good sign indicating the infobarrel is an up and coming revenue share site. And the page rank will help any published articles rank more highly in the google search engines.

My Infobarrel Expectations

I’ve read other blogs, where people claim to make around $3/month per article written. I’m going to call bullshit on this claim because it just seems too easy. I will make a very conservative assumption that I can make $0.30/month per article written. If I have 100 articles written in one month, this mean that I’ll be able to generate about $30 in revenue a month.

If I reinvest these earnings by hiring a ghost writer and continue to write for Infobarrel myself at a greatly reduced schedule, I should be able to steadily improve my monthly earnings.

My articles will mature and improve in ranking over time, and add to this the fact that if I add backlinks to my articles, my monthly earnings should improve even more. Once I had enough articles posted, I could theoretically just leave my articles alone. And for the rest of my life, I would earn passive income.

With that said, I want to see if it is possible to generate $1,000/month in passive income from Infobarrel.

My Infobarrel Plan

My plan is to write 100 articles in Infobarrel for the month of September. If I can generate around $30/month from this first batch of articles, I will reinvest this money and hire a ghost writer to continue to write articles for me at an approximate rate of $5/article. (I browsed through elance and this number seemed like the current market rate for decent ghost writers)

I know that I won’t be able to maintain the intensity in cranking out 100 articles, so in the coming months, I’m going to relax and strive to write 10 articles a month, or about one article every 3 days.

I crunched some numbers, and as you can see, with some very conservative estimates, in about 4 years I’ll be able to take kick back and enjoy a sweet recurring paycheck for $1,000/month. After about 2 years, the beauty of compound interest kicks in and growth seems to become more exponential. Of course, I will be diligently working on backlinks, among other SEO related tasks. And I hope that I can reduce this four year time-line significantly – to about two years or less.

But my research shows that infobarrel is indeed a possible source for passive income, so I’m going to move forward with my infobarrel plan. I will update everyone with the results on a monthly basis.

I would be interested to see how anyone else is approaching my infobarrel experiment. Please share some of your comments and insights below!

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