If you want to earn more dollars in writing articles online, there are hard and fast rules that must be followed to be successful. Earning a significant amount from online articles will not happen overnight as there are many things to consider when writing online. In more than two years of studying the trade I came up with the following points in online article writing that I discerned through careful study of my online articles. These are the qualities of articles that must be written to enable you to gain more page views, thus earn more from your online articles.

I describe here the features of my high earning articles which have high page ranks as well as income. One of these online articles earned more than $5 in 10 days. My wish is to have a hundred of this. Well, anyway, here are the features of my online articles that earn more dollars compared to my other online articles that do not conform with these principles:

1. The online articles applied keywords that suit the requirements of search engines. Which keyword should you use? Use Google Adwords and select the best keywords.
2. The online articles are timely. Online articles that get read most often are those dealing with current events.
3. The online articles have good backlinks. Good backlinks to online articles are those that are built through time. This means that many people find your article useful so they linked with it. These online articles are mostly articles that deal with facts, not opinion.
4. The online articles tackle subjects that relate to economic improvement or those people can use in their daily lives. “How to” articles get read most often.
5. The online articles display fast. Articles that display fast are given higher page rank by search engines. Fast display is made possible by uploading less of graphics or video files in your online articles.
6. The online articles have attractive titles. The first thing that people read are titles. These titles should invite curiosity among users and should not be misleading.
7. The online articles do not beat around the bush. People prefer to read articles that go directly to the point. If people find your article boring, they will immediately leave the page and that increases your bounce rate. A high bounce rate means that people spend less time reading your articles, bringing your online article’s page rank down.
8. The online articles are free of spelling and information errors. There are integrated spell checkers in many writing sites; use it. Search engines dislike online articles with a lot of spelling errors.
9. The online articles are easily understood.
10. The online articles appeal to the interest of a large audience. Online articles that appeal to a large audience are those articles that help improve or uplift living conditions.

Well, simply stated, online articles that get read more and earn more than other online articles are  online articles that a writer spends time to figure out, check and recheck for errors, read and reread for easy comprehension before publishing. Online articles also need to be promoted in other websites like social networking sites, blogs, forums, among others in order to have good quality links that will increase the online articles page rank through time thus earn more.

A final note: Income will not be the same for all writers as it primarily depends on the person who does the online writing. It takes knowledge and skill to learn the ropes of the trade. So how do you get these knowledge and skill? That is by reading online articles like this and writing smart. Writing smart means writing quality articles that apply good search engine optimization techniques and writing with the audience’s benefit in mind. Applying these techniques will help your online articles earn more.

Happy writing and may you earn more.