As the internet continues to expand, companies are finding new ways to harness the internet to make a fortune. Most of these companies, like Twitter and Facebook, did not exist at the start of the twenty-first century. The internet giant Google, has dramatically improved its services over the past year, offering many more applications to avid internet junkies and to other people who frequently use the internet for business and other purposes. This enhancement of technology has opened up many doors of opportunities for aspiring journalists and budding authors. Today, there are several ways writers can promote themselves and gain exposure online.
Online Revenue Sharing Magazines
Online revenue sharing magazines are not the greatest way for a writer to make money. In fact, when starting out, it is highly recommended that a writer has a regular day job. However, online revenue sharing magazines do give writers the opportunity to promote themselves and build an audience of readers.
The key to building a large audience is to write quality articles that are flawless, write often, and write in various topics of interest. Articles should be informative, but rich in key words that pertain to article topic and theme, and should contain links to external sites within the body of the article or in a works cited list below the article.
Writers do not just want to write for any online revenue sharing magazine. Some revenue sharing magazines are more popular because they offer better advertising programs than other revenue sharing magazines. Suite101.com, HubPages.com and eHow.com are the most popular and highly rated revenue sharing magazines.
Blogging
Online revenue sharing magazines are a great way for writers to get exposure. However, writers who do not want to write for revenue sharing magazines can start their own blog. The one advantage blogs have over revenue sharing magazines is that the writer can personalize them according to their theme and taste in color. Writers can express themselves freely using their own unique writing style on a blog without having to conform to a certain style of writing. Blog platforms, like Blogger and LiveJournal, are also completely free and easy to use and maintain.
The one setback to blogs is that the companies who run blog platforms do not provide features that enhance blog promotion and advertisement . It is completely up to the bloggers to gain exposure. However, there are sites that actively promote and advertise writers’ blogs, giving them all the exposure online that they need.
BlogCatalog is an online community of bloggers. Writers who have a blog can post their blog on the site for free. Blogatize is an online company that operates as a blog network. The great thing about this online company is that it advertises writers’ blogs on Twitter and pays them according to the number of views bloggers receive.
Social Networking Sites and Online Writers Communities
The internet has made it very possible for writers to promote themselves. In fact, it is just as easy for a writer to promote him or herself online as it is offline. Social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook has revolutionized the way professionals market themselves.
More and more writers are now using Facebook and Twitter to promote their personal websites, blogs, books and any freelance writing services they may offer.
Online writers’ communities are also becoming more and more common. Some online writers communities cater to genre niches, others are more general. The presence of such communities on the internet is even making it much easier for writers to connect with literary agents.
The internet is the best way for a writer to gain exposure because it reaches a large audience much faster than offline networking.
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