You can turn writing articles into a great home business. However, unless you think about what you're doing, you could spend your time writing for sites which pay poorly. To make more money, you need to improve your strategy.

Here are three ways you can do that.

1. Improve Your Topic Selection

Every article you write is written for a purpose. People buy articles to add more content to a website, or perhaps to sell specific products. When you're writing for others, your topics will usually be chosen for you.

One way to sell more articles however, is to write articles on money-making topics that you choose yourself. If you choose your topics well, and can show that they will be profitable, you'll line up more clients than you can handle.

2. Focus on Your Client Selection

Although some writers make great money on the outsourcing sites, many don't.

I call this the "rush to the bottom syndrome". Writers on the outsourcing sites tend to believe that the lowest bidder wins. They never stop to consider that if this is so, that you've really won nothing at all, except a lot of hard work and minimal pay.

If you want to make money faster, decide that you will never work for clients who won't pay your base rate.

Set your base rate at a reasonable level and never bid below that. You may be surprised that at all it takes is a decision on your part, and you'll get the money you want. Buyers who want articles at the lowest possible price aren't worth your time and energy. (Unless you're a beginner, at which time you should write for anybody who will hire you, until you get experienced.)

3. Match Topics and Clients

When you know how article writing works, and your articles make money, it's time to start matching article topics and clients.

For example, perhaps you've decided to write a batch of articles on the Apple iPhone. You know that this is a hot selling product, and there's lots of demand for information. Once you've written your articles, offer them to a blog or a website which is focused on technology, or on products made by Apple. If your articles are good, they'll sell; you may even land an on-going job writing for the site.