As you'll recall I published 38 eHow articles in the last two days (see Day 11 and Day 12 posts) and I'm understandably excited by the prospect of finally making some strong financial progress (I increased my total earning by 67% yesterday alone).
At 10:30 AM (Pacific Time) my earnings finally updated - later in the day than usual.
To my disappointment I made a mere 23 cents (less than my Day 2 total). That figure seems depressingly measly because I'm coming off of my biggest one day gain of $1.92 the day before.
The random nature of the eHow earnings can be very frustrating.
What's especially frustrating is that the only explanation that eHow currently gives regarding how the payouts work is that it's a proprietary (secret) formula and that the determination of payouts are at the sole discretion of eHow.com.
I'm not trying to suggest that eHow is somehow dishonest, but I certainly would have more confidence in the system if there was more transparency - perhaps the involvement of a third party to track and distribute the earnings would instill more trust. I suppose it's understandable that eHow isn't forcing anyone to participate in their program. If someone isn't happy with eHow's payment structure they have every right in the world to find a better alternative.
I was able to put my frustrations over the random nature of the eHow payouts aside and stay motivated enough to publish another 15 articles (bringing my total to 96). As always I'm optimistic that tomorrow's eHow earnings will be better than the day before.
eHow Experience: Day 13 - Another Disappointment
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When you write these articles for ehow do you keyword research your topics to see what keywords or phrases people are searching for. If you do you might find your articles making more money for you because the more keyword loaded it is the more traffic comes to ehow. This is a great racket that ehow has, they get free, original, keyword loaded content which increased their rankings and traffic so that they can charge advertisers higher prices while the writers of the articles get very little in return. Like i said before, if you are that prolific a writer you might be better off with your own ehow type of blog.
Now john has his own racket, promoting his advertisers within the comments of his readers. Shame on you!
Please see my comment on Day 26 regarding the comment directly above this one. Perhaps I'll add a section on contextual advertising to this site to better explain the seemingly random hyperlinks that you might see on this site and others (like ehow.com).
I also have in text advertising on my blog as a test. Have you had much luck with it?
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