How to Make Money Writing
for Examiner.com
By AnnaLaura Brown
Social Media Examiner

 Would you like to learn how to make money
writing by using the website Examiner.com?
This website if you are not familiar with it, allows
you to write about a given topic and to get paid
according to the amount of traffic generated by
your articles. Although you will make some
money just by writing, you will make more
money if you follow certain rules and best
practices.

 Write regularly. As an Examiner you are
expected to write at least three times per
week although you will make more money
if you write every day, or almost every
day or even two or three times per day.
Staying active is also important if you
want to make money with Examiner's
bonus contests.

 Write interesting articles. Although this is
another given, many people do not follow this or
understand what makes an article interesting.
They think only about what they want to read
rather than what their audience wants. If you
are struggling to come up with ideas, then
survey your readers or other people you know
to find out what topics are interesting to them.
You can also do online research to find out
what your audience would like to read about.

 Use frequently searched keywords. The
articles on Examiner.com rank very highly
in the search engines, however, this will
not matter unless you use popular
keywords. Taking the time to do some
keyword research can go a long way in
generating natural search engine traffic to
your articles.

 Promote your articles with Facebook, Twitter,
Stumbleupon and other social media tools.
Although your articles will get some natural
traffic, you will get even more if you take a few
minutes each time you publish an article to
promote your articles using social networking
sites and social bookmarking tools. Although it
is not necessary to use all of the share it tools
provided, using at least two or three of them is a
smart idea.

 Choose a topic about which you are passionate
and knowledgeable. As a part of their
application procedure Examiner requires you to
prove that you have some knowledge and
passion for your topic, however, you still want to
think seriously about your topic choice. Once
you are approved for a given topic, you cannot
change topics and you will be writing hundreds
if not thousands of articles on your topic so it is
very important that you choose wisely.

 Promote your articles with your own domain
name on your website, blog, business cards
and anywhere else where it makes sense. If
you already have a well-established web site
and online brand then it only makes sense that
you should take advantage of it to promote your
articles. Having a separate domain name for
your examiner page can help people to
remember how to find your page without the
hassle of a long hard to remember url and
without having to do a search from the main
page in order to find your page.

 Encourage others you know to become
writers and to use your name as a
referral. From time to time they offer
referral bonuses as well as contests
where you can win prizes for referring the
most qualified new writers so it goes
without saying that you will earn more
money if you refer a large number of new
people to become writers.

 Would you like to share your passion for
writing and make money?
 Apply to be an examiner today at
 http://www.brownsocialmedia.com and
please choose AnnaLaura Brown as the
examiner who referred you.