How to Make Money From Your Content Over and Over

Posted on 27 January 2008

If you have ever tried to monetize a blog, you know how difficult it can be to make money. If you break down how much you are “getting paid” per post, chances are it is in the neighborhood of twenty-five cents. This scenario doesn’t have to be quite so depressing, because you don’t have to depend on your blog to earn money for your writing. Make your writing work for you outside of your blog!

The way to do this is to register at Constant Content. You have the option of selling content that you write three different ways.

Usage: This is the way that it works if you want to sell something that you have already published on a blog. This means that the buyer can use the content once on his or her website. The content stays on Constant Content to be sold again, and again and…again.

Unique: In this scenario, the buyer can add the content to multiple websites, and the content is removed from Constant Content. So, it’s a one-time deal.

Full Rights: Authors charge the most for full rights. This is because not only can the content not be resold again, but the byline can be removed, and the author has given up all rights to the work. It is not an option to sell previously published blog posts in this manner.

Of course, in order to make sales, you have to have the right kind of content. The type of content that sells on Constant Content are third person informative articles targeted towards niche markets, big and small. Articles with bulleted points, such as 7 Ways to Landscape on the Cheap sell quickly, in my experience.

Some people may be concerned about duplicate content penalties. At this point, I’m not. Page rank seems to be given and taken on a whim, and my blogs do not depend on having a high page rank, although for some activities having a PR of 3 is helpful. I’m learning that you can make quite a bit of money from a blog with a page rank of zero. At any rate, think about the last time you queried Google about a weight loss technique or something else that is fairly popular. Have you seen all of the duplicate content that comes up on the very first page? It certainly isn’t hurting those sites, so don’t lose money by worrying about something that theoretically could happen and probably won’t affect you even if it does.

There are other content sellers out there, such as Associated Content, that I would imagine you could do the same thing with. I haven’t tried Associated Content, so I’m not sure if it is as good of a market. It might be a better one! I’ve certainly heard about a lot of people using it. However, one of the things I seem to hear is that the sell prices are low.

Regardless of where you sell your work, make sure you aren’t being a tiny thinker and price your work accordingly!

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