Renting out your content?

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So you’re a writer, and think you can make a living with an adsense site?

Think about this, with a (generous) average of $10 per page per year for quality content on well trafficked sites, an article you write today will earn you roughly $0.03 per day for the duration. (Until it becomes so out of date that no-one wants to read it, anyway!)

So, how much do you need to live on (before tax and business expenses, that is) - $200 per day sounds like a reasonable figure.

At $0.03 per day per article, you’re goint to need roughly 666 articles on your website, with good traffic and reasonable CTR, before you even start to think about making any kind of living. Not to mention how Google has buggered everybody up with its smart pricing.

A big part of the problem for web authors and bloggers is the technical ability to optimize their site for adsense, and generate the kind of traffic required to make any kind of adsense income.

The web is full of web developers who spend their lives fine-tuning their search engine strategies, generating masses of back-links, and tweaking code to bring in the adsense income. One possibility for the budding author, is to team up with a web developer, and develop a site together. One takes care of the technical aspects of the site, whilst the other takes care of the content generation.

Another possibility is to rent out your content to an SEO expert. If you could generate $.0.3 per page per day doing all the work yourself, rent your words out for $0.02 per page per day to an expert, and let him take care of the traffic generation and click through rates. (You’ll want a multi-year deal to make this worthwhile - over three years you’ll get just over $20/article)
The upshot of all this is that the less time spent worrying about adsense ad positioning, backling generating etc is more time spent producing quality content