eHow Experience: Day 2 - My First 26 Cents

To say I'm very motivated to write and make some more progress on eHow today would be an understatement. I'm chomping at the bit.

eHow stats: I now have 6 recommendations, 96 friends, 204 article views and most importantly...

I made 26 cents! I'm actually ecstatic about 26 cents . I do have 21 articles (several of which are repeats of the same idea - see Day 1 post) but I still didn't expect to start seeing monetary results so quickly.

Upon closer inspection I see that it was actually one eHow article that made all 26 cents. The article that made my first 26 cents on eHow is: "How to dial phone numbers with "letters" on a BlackBerry Pearl."

I'm not sure if the 26 cents is a fluke or if I can expect 26 cents every day into perpetuity. Hopefully it will only grow. No matter what happens with this article seeing monetary results on eHow is extremely motivating.

I'm finishing the day with 32 articles (11 new ones) and I'm at 4,120 points. A few of my postings are duplicate type articles. For instance I have an article called "How to Get An Internship In Any City" and by just changing around a few words I was able to make new posts with similar titles like, How to Get An Internship in Boston, How to Get An Internship in Los Angeles, How to Get An Internship in Chicago, etc.

On one hand I can understand how doing this dilutes the useful information on eHow because it sort of creates duplicate information. On the other hand though I think that when people search for this sort of information they're searching for specific cities so it should be useful information for the reader while at the same time getting more people to the eHow website (therefore making money for eHow and me). Everyone wins: the reader, eHow, and myself.

I'm having a hard time finding anything specific about whether or not eHow allows this.

Maybe I'm not looking hard enough, but it seems to me like the eHow Terms of Agreement are so vague that the eHow team can just interpret them however they want as the site evolves. I suppose that makes the most sense for eHow, but for me it puts me in the position of just leaving the articles up and seeing if they get taken down.