Writing articles on the web for making money is the latest and most successful 'work from home' concept which thousands of people all over the world have started today. Some people do it full time while others have taken it as a part time hobby. Internet blogs are the best examples of this technique. Apart from expressing opinion in the internet, these people earn money by displaying relevant advertisements on their website (or blog) by signing up with an advertising service like Google Adsense or Yahoo publisher. Even though many services claim that to build your website you need no experience, personally I feel to give your site a unique look and add features you will certainly need some web expertise or rely on free templates.

A big challenge that I feel with creating your own website is how to publicize it. Honestly it is a difficult job, there are millions of websites on the internet fighting to get web users, it can be a bit challenging to create your space in this internet world, especially because brand new websites take time to create their reputation with search engines. A lot of times when running your own website, you may not be able to recover your full investment of hosting, domain and programming fee (if any). This is where shared article directories come into play. You can sign-up with these article directory websites which offer revenue sharing concept. These sites will delegate certain days in a week when you will earn advertising revenue from your articles when a visitor clicks on those relevant advertisements, on other days they display their own advertisements to cover their costs and make some profit. The traffic received on these sites for your articles is usually far better than what you can get by running your own new website since these websites already have a loyal base of users. This is a win-win situation for everybody. These sites do require you to signup with an advertising platform like Google's Adsense but after that you can publish your articles with ease and not worry about any technical implementation at all. Just fill out some simple forms and your article is ready and published. This is a great work from home concept for Housewives, students and people willing to generate extra income besides their regular job. It is like a community website where everybody makes money.

The best part is the payment, since the authors get directly paid by the advertising platform (like Adsense) there is no way that these revenue sharing sites can cheat you of your money. Since your success depends on the quality of articles, you can relax and concentrate on writing 2-3 articles everyday without worrying about hosting costs, web traffic and programming. By writing articles frequently you may eventually make a loyal base of readers who will read your articles on a regular basis.

Make sure you follow simple rules of writing articles like keyword optimization (repeating your main keyword of article multiple times), selecting good title (selecting a good title is the most important part of your article) and writing articles of about 500 words. Never mention any personal information like phone number or email address in your article as spammers and telemarketers can get hold of it. Break your article into topics and paragraphs. Add some interesting numbers and statistics if you can, bold the important sections and even use bullet points if you can. More than anything your article should contain useful content and always try to provide correct information as much as possible. Use examples to explain your point wherever applicable. Use H1 tags to highlight your headings, your file names and folders should be short, easy to read and descriptive. Create a unique theme and you will boldly stand out from zillion of other articles on the internet. Title of your article is the first impression searchers usually look at after they perform a search query of your listing. Remember eventually content is the king and regardless how well you do everything else, the quality of content matters the most. Be prepared to wait to see any significant revenue from your work, it can often take up to 6 months to good revenue. Also if you are using pictures then make sure your image filenames and captions include your keyword phrase.