eHow Experience: eHow Experience: Day 6

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Since getting my repeat articles flagged and removed (see Day 5 Post) I've found a new sense of pride in creating quality articles. The new strategy is quality over quantity ... well hopefully quality and quantity- it's definitely going to take time and effort.

In an effort to get my readers to notice the ads around the screen when they're reading my eHow articles I'm going to try writing articles that encourage people to look around the screen. Of course I want to incorporate these prompts for looking around the screen seamlessly into the eHow articles so it's not obvious, distracting, or annoying. Let me try to better describe what I mean.

My plan is to incorporate phrases like the following examples into the text of my eHow articles: "look at the picture to the right" or "see the link at the bottom of the screen" or "pictured above." Once I start seeing results (or not seeing them) with this new eHow strategy I'll let you know.

Another thought that I'm having is that writing technical or home improvement type eHow articles might be especially profitable because these are the types of answers that people look for online.

Regrettably, I have at best minimal knowledge about technical and home improvement issues. Articles about making money online or working from home seem like they might be good ideas as well since this is a prime focus for the eHow community that logs a lot of hours on the site.

Maybe making money on eHow is completely about quantity and I'd be better off quickly publishing low quality articles on such exciting topics as How to Get the Mail or How to Make a Sandwich.

I still suspect that quality informative articles have the best chance of being profitable, if for no other reason because well written articles could end up on the eHow homepage where they'll get tremendous exposure. I'm not sure how much of a long shot it is to get an article on the eHow homepage but I've just decided to make that my new goal.

Finally, I've noticed that some of the first eHow articles I wrote have started to gain momentum, not a tremendous amount but it's definitely noticeable. Maybe articles gain steam over time because the longer they're on eHow the more likely they are to get linked to other articles. I also suspect that as an article accumulates more views over time it begins to come up earlier in eHow searches.

2 comments:

Brian said...: I started at the beginning and this is as far as I've gotten, so I don't know if this is the problem, but... It's against Google's Adsense terms of service to call attention to the ads to get people to click on them.

Maybe that's why they kicked you, so you wouldn't endanger their adsense account.

It would have been nice of them to warn you first, though.; January 28, 2010 9:33 PM
John D said...: Brian, you make a good point and one that I considered.

Keep in mind that I was never specifically suggesting that people look at the ads. I was mostly just trying to get readers to casually look around the whole page instead of subconsciously blocking out the ads.

I would venture to say that Google (and any other advertiser intermediary) wants people to notice ads. Google opening makes recommendations as to the most optimal places on a webpage to position ads so that they get the most exposure.

I agree that when taken to the extreme of specifically asking/telling people to check out ads that crosses the conservative line that they want to maintain.

Thanks for the comment.; January 29, 2010 9:33 AM