My Ehow History

I started writing for Ehow in March 2009. I had heard that it had much better earning potential than both Associated Content and Helium and I am happy to report that it is true.

While the way they determine payout is still sort of a mystery, I have found that it definitely pays more than the other sites I write for and is a great passive income opportunity.

This is because the articles not only continue to earn money month after month, but in many cases the income increases as your titles moves up the Google search engine ladder.

The more views your article gets, the higher it gets ranked in Google which then leads to even more clicks and increased chances of people clicking on the ads in your articles.

It appears that Google already loves Ehow to begin with and I have had quite a few articles show up on the first page within only a week or two after posting them which has been a ton of fun.

There are however some drawbacks to Ehow which keeps me from putting all of my eggs into that one basket. They have been preforming article sweeps recently that have deleted many authors articles without prior notification.

They claim they are doing this to get rid of a lot of the junk articles on the site (which they admittedly have - so I can certainly understand their position) but unfortunately it seems in many instances other high quality - high paying articles have been deleted as well with little explanation and replaced with lesser quality pieces produced by ehow staff writers.

There has been some debate in the forums that this is a tactical maneuver being made by Ehow so they can make more money off of proven high paying keywords, but I truly like the helpful staff at Ehow and give them the benefit of the doubt that they are indeed just trying to improve the sites' quality.

I believe this because as of the last sweep they did do their best to notify writers about what articles they were deleting and the reason why (though some writers didn't buy some of the explanations given).

As for myself, I have been fairly lucky so far. Out of 149 articles I have only had 3 deleted in the sweeps so far. One I understood completely because it read more like an informative article as opposed to a how-to. The other two however I was a little mystified about. And yes, one of them was indeed one of my higher payers.

But on the whole, I don't have much to complain about. I will simply keep my fingers crossed that I survive the next sweep fairly intact.

There are other reasons however why I do not want to make Ehow my biggest earner and that is simply because anything can happen. Ehow can decide to sell to someone else who will not give out these kind of payouts or Ehow's relationship with Google can change....there are many factors. So while I will continue to write for them, I am also branching out to other money making areas where I have a little more control.

Because I am writing this so late in the game I will give a quick snapshot of my earning history at Ehow to get you up to date.

March 2009 - total of 4 articles written - $0.39
April 2009 - total of 28 articles written - $2.51
May 2009 - total of 69 articles written - $13.96
June 2009 - total of 84 articles written - $23.45
July 2009 - total of 90 articles written -$36.64
August 2009 - total of 123 articles written $30.02 (not sure why this dropped from last month)
September 2009 - 144 articles written - $60.83
October 2009 - TBA

Total Earned to Date From Ehow - $167.80

As you can see one of the bigger jumps was between August and September. This is not only due to the increase of articles but also when I started to learn the importance of keywords and how to use them (makes a BIG difference I assure you - that was why I was earning so little with the first articles).

I know there are a lot of people who advertise WriterGig's book How To Make Money With Ehow and I will also be one of them because I really did buy it and it really did help me to make more money and learn how to better searches for keywords.

It also gave me other handy tips on how to get the most out of each article. One of the tips that I just went back and implemented was to add related Amazon books as references on each article for people who wanted more information on a subject and I found out that while people aren't buying in droves, I have in fact made some extra money from it.

The truth is, a lot of the information (including the Amazon tip I just gave you) can be found for free on the internet, but at the time I didn't even know where to begin looking so it was quicker and easier for me to simply order the e-book and I found it really did help me out.

Another way to get ehow article tips for free is to simply visit the Ehow forums. There are a great bunch of people there with interesting ideas that can help boost your articles.

So anyway, I don't think I will have much to report for the month of October when it comes to Ehow because I haven't had a chance to write any articles due to this new blog and research I am doing on Google Sniper, but I will get going again in November so I should hopefully start seeing some more jumps in earnings.