Getting Traffic to Your Website While Making Passive Income

Most of the time when you use article marketing for getting traffic to your website, you will tend to turn to EZine, ArticlesBase, or another reputable free site.  What if you want a little bit more money out of your article marketing?  You should consider revenue sharing article sites.  You can direct traffic to your site and get paid extra money for it.

What is Revenue Sharing in Article Marketing?

Revenue sharing is essentially where you allow other businesses to post ads on your articles for a percentage of the click-through revenue.  Unless you have a huge bundle of prewritten articles, this doesn’t sound very profitable, and it may be counter intuitive.  What if your competition is advertised?

Think of it this way.  Most revenue sharing article sites have A LOT of affiliates.  The chances of getting a singularly pesky competitor on one of your articles are miniscule, especially if you write about a wide variety of topics.  Besides, if you think of it, you’re taking money from them anyway by allowing them to advertise on your articles.

Brand Building and Profit Building

Just like putting articles on EZine or ArticlesBase, posting articles on a revenue sharing article directory will help you with your personal brand building.  Your authority and reputation will grow as you post more articles.  This will also improve the strength of the link back to your site.  Something else will happen that you should thoroughly enjoy.

With each article that you submit to one of these websites, you have more revenue sharing opportunities.  The more articles you have on the site, the more passive income you get.  Suite101 recently stated that one of their writers earned more than $4000 in a month.  While it seems like small potatoes compared to your affiliate marketing income, consider this fact: It would be $4000 per month that you didn’t have otherwise.

Back to the Point:  Moving Traffic to Your Website

While all this talk of revenue sharing is well and good, you may be wondering just “how” this is moving traffic to your website.  When you complete your writer profile, you simply enter your URL in the personal home page section.  The URL isn’t usually displayed, but it’s a hyperlink labeled “Personal Homepage.”

Now, whenever an interested party reads one of your articles, they have the option of viewing your profile.  If you’ve proven yourself to be an authority in your niche, they will want to know more about you.  Your profile, if it brags on you well enough, will provoke them to follow the link.

In short, revenue sharing as part of your article marketing strategy is a gift that keeps on giving.  Even better than that, the more you put into it, the more you get from it.  Considering that the minimum required articles is usually 10 per month, imagine what you could do with your outsourced writers generating at least triple that.  Who doesn’t want more money from their traffic strategy?