There are two types of income streams, active and passive.
When someone hires you to write an article, and pays you for it, that's an active income stream. You've had to do something to earn money, and you won't earn more money unless you actively write a new article, or rewrite and submit an old one to someone else, and so on.
Most of our earnings come from active income streams.
But passive income streams can be very profitable as well.
If you have a blog or a website - and really you should have both - and place ads from Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble, Google Adsense or Clickbank, or any other affiliate program, the money generated from those ads - if any - are passive income streams. You don't have to do anything - the money just comes in.
Now, the money won't come in unless you get a lot of traffic to your blog or your website, and so it's in your best interest to make sure that you do get traffic.
How can you do this?
Well, you have to take action. ;)
Search Engines won't index blogs - or at least, not very high - unless you post in them on a regular basis. Once a week is not enough. Three times a week is barely sufficient, five times a week, or even seven, is best.
You can do SEO (Search Engine Optimization) on your blogs as well.
Even if you don't want to place Google Adsense ads on your site - and lots of people prefer other adverts - you should still join the program (it costs nothing - you don't need to give them your bank details unless you want to be paid) in order to gain access to their Google Keyword Tool. (The Google Keyword Tool used to be available to anyone but that changed rather recently.)
Use the Google Keyword Tool to input a topic, and see what kind of Search Phrases people use to find out information about that topic. Then, when you write an article for your blog, make sure you use that search phrase a couple of times in your writing. Don't stuff your entry full of that Keyword phrase - use it normally, but use it at least a couple of times.
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