Writing on hot trends on Squidoo

Many people struggle to find inspiration and ideas for their writing, and occasionally I am one of them, but normally I am bursting with ideas. If I am stuck and my mind is blank I normally focus on hot trends or current trends, whether it be the latest Disney character or a particular season.

One hot trend I have written about is Fifty Shades of Grey, my Squidoo page '10 books like fifty shades of grey' is one of my best Squidoo lenses at present. I do know that this is not an evergreen topic but I have found that you can do quite well with hot topics. This page is ranked second in Google for the keywords 'books like fifty shades of grey'. I should work on backlinks and move it to number one spot,as there is quite a difference in traffic between number one and number two position in Google.

If you are looking for current trends to write about I would suggest Valentine's Day themed articles, St Patricks Day themed articles and even Easter pages

Why am I a freelance writer

Well throughout this blog I have talked about various writing sites I use to make money, but did I ever tell you why I actually write? If I did apologise for being repetitive.

I write because I enjoy it. The thing I enjoy most apart from making money, is seeing traffic spikes to my online content. The majority of my online writing is at Squidoo where I am doing very well. I am finding my offline job stressful due to long hours including nightshifts and weekend work. I like many other people believe life is for living and it is far too short so I want to maintain a balance between work and play. When I am not at my offline job I am either on the internet or with my family or boyfriend. I want to devote more time to online writing and my family and less to my offline job, therefore I have asked for less hours in my offline job. I have only been able to do this because I have worked so hard online building up my portfolio of work. This has helped me overpay my mortgage significantly reducing my debt and monthly payments. I like to play it safe so if my online portfolio disappeared completely and I had less hours in my offline job I could still manage. Therefore I will be spending as much of my free time as possible expanding my horizons online and paying down my mortgage debt.

Why do you write?

Freelance Writing Earnings December 2012

Well it has been a while, since I updated my readers on my freelance writing earnings! There have been some massive changes in the past few years, most of which have been positive. I now spend most of my online time at Squidoo, where I have built up a large online portfolio of content. As a result I am earning through Squidoo Tier payments, Squidoo Amazon, eBay and Cafepress sales, as well as my own Amazon associates account. I will not disclose my exact income as I do not want copycats. I put down my success to spending hours working on particular niches, particulary gift guides and watches. I also sell Squidoo lenses and am available if you would like me to build a lens for you. I am investing my freelance writing earnings in bonds and overpaying my mortgage! I made four figures writing online in December and if you read back in this blog that was one of my aims a few years ago!

January 2011 Writing Earnings

I have been very lazy and once again abandoned my lovely writing blog, mostly because I am writing elsewhere or publishing my earning reports on other sites.

But in January I managed to earn $1034!! This excites me greatly because January is always supposed to be a bad month earnings wise. The majority of my earnings come from Google Adsense!! I never thought that I would be able to earn $100 never mind over $800 with adsense in a month. And the good news is that February is looking even better than January despite it being such a short month.

In future I will be updating my earnings on several different sites including:-

My Google Adsense Earnings

My Freelance Writing Earnings

My Triond Earnings

August earning reports 2010 and news

I have abandoned my beloved blog for the last 3 months!! But now I am back. First things first here are the sites I am currently working on and my respective July income:-

Webanswers £134.08 ($213)
Helium $128.64, $55 of which was upfronts and the rest pageviews.
Hubpages £46.30 ($74)
Amazon Affiliates $38
Snipsly £44.80 ($71.50)
Total Adsense £248 ($396) (other adsense is from xomba, triond and blogs)
Kontera $3.67

Total July earnings is $566.31 A NEW RECORD!! Wonder can I do $600 in August :)

Last month represented a great month earnings wise, as I reached £248 from Google Adsense in total. I had a very successful Hubpage, which was based on a longtail keyword, which did very well in both Google Adsense and Amazon, and possibly Snipsly.

As for Helium I wrote many quality articles and started promoting my articles through social networks. My next article will be on the promotion tools available for freelance writers and how they can drastically increase your earnings.

May Earnings Report- See my record earnings for April 2010 over $500

April was a fantastic month for me, I had my highest ever google adsense earning. I am so pleased, it will be very hard to match this month. I also purchased the last of the premium bonds taking my total holding up to £1200. I think I will use my online earnings for overpaying my mortgage. I also got my first Adsdaq payment, into my paypal account.

Google Adsense Earnings Summary

Total Google Adsense Income April £303.46 ($465.30)

Webanswers google adsense income £183.26 ($281)
Snipsly google adsense income £50.25 ($77.04)
Tinybitsofthisandthat Blog income £28.08 ($43.05)
Football Blog Income £19.75 ($30.28)
Xomba google adsense income £14.73 ($22.58)
Hubpages google adsense income £2.97 ($4.55)
Triond google adsense income £1.86 ($2.85)

There were other smaller sources of google adsense income such as infobarrel

Other advertising income

Chitika $2.50
Kontera $9.51
Adsdaq $9.08

Other freelance writing income


Helium $35.50
Associated Content $5
Triond $0.31 ( not counting google adsense income shown above)

Amazon Affiliate income $32.42

Next month I hope to be sharing Mahalo Income. I did make around $30 from their in April 2010.

Total April 2010 Earning is $589.61 which is £385

April 2010 Earnings Report- see how much I earned in March 2010

I love doing these freelance writing earnings posts to let other writers and bloggers know that it is very possible to earn hundreds of dollars every month from the internet. I was on holidays twice in March and still managed to get my second highest ever google adsense income, plus I did something I never managed to do before. A record month for adsdaq too and I am very happy. April has also started out rather well for me.

Google Adsense March 2010- £233.04 ($354)
Half of my google adsense came from webanswers, and the other half came from two of my blogs, snipsly triond and xomba.

Helium- I managed over $19 in page views from Helium in March 2010, another record in page view earnings. As a result I am super motivated to make $25 from pageviews in April, and have written three new helium articles already.

Triond - $0.32 from pageviews. It is also important to mention that I got over $5 from Triond in google adsense. I am pleased with this cos I no longer write at Triond. I am considering submitting some more keyword research articles there.

Associated Content- $0.73. A site where I no longer write, although I always had dreams of getting to clout 10 lol.

Adsdaq- I worked hard on my blogs this month and did get good traffic on some days. My March earnings at Adsdaq were $15.24. This took me over $62 in total on Adsdaq, so now I am waiting on my first payout. This shows me how good a money maker blogs can actually be and encourages me to build some niche content blogs with backlinks which will help sustain traffic.

Chitika- $0.80, not great. But better than nothing. Plus payout is at $10 so should reach it by year end.

Kontera- $0.61, I only started using Kontera during the middle of March.

Amazon Affilates- now for the thing Ive never done before. Yep thats right I eventually sold two affiliate products from amazon off my hubpages getting me $9.68. Hubpages". Hubpages is a great way to earn google adsense and sell affiliate products.

March 2010 writing total earnings $400.55 (£263). Can I earn more than $400 in April 2010? I hope so. If you want to know keep following my freelance writing blog