With the advent of blogs and con­tent sites, many peo­ple have been won­der­ing what’s the best way to gain resid­ual income through writing.

So if you’re think­ing about writ­ing your way to resid­ual income, I def­i­nitely rec­om­mend giv­ing this arti­cle a read.

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Agree to Dis­agree: Resid­ual Income and Con­tent Sites, Angela’s Side

This blog post and the one directly below it are a debate of sorts on con­tent pro­duc­tion sites and resid­ual income for free­lance writ­ers. You may want to begin with my side of the resid­ual income debate, which appears below, as it explains exactly what we’re talk­ing about.

I want to thank Angela Eng­land for this guest post. Angela is an accom­plished, vet­eran free­lance writer with cred­its in sev­eral mag­a­zines such as Moth­er­ing, not to men­tion a cache of con­tent arti­cles that pay her mort­gage every month! Be sure to visit her biog­ra­phy page and her web­site.

Angela’s Side

As an expe­ri­enced web con­tent writer, I will be the first to say this style of writ­ing is not for every­one. How­ever, when writ­ers are care­ful to select a web­site to write for that matches their writ­ing style and needs, free­lance writ­ers can cre­ate a healthy resid­ual income through web con­tent writ­ing. It may seem like a gam­ble to some, but a bit of research ahead of time can turn that gam­ble into a cal­cu­lated risk.

The key is to know what you’re get­ting your­self into as a writer, since both won­der­ful and hor­ri­ble sites exist — and every­thing in between. Free­lance writ­ers who want the web to sup­ple­ment their writ­ing income need to find out what a web­site will pay, what the edi­to­r­ial over­sights are and, most impor­tantly, what rights are being given away.

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