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Chasov Blog, Solid insights. Sometimes people ne...

2009-11-16T15:55:18.075-08:00

Chasov Blog,

Solid insights. Sometimes people neglect the simplest rules of success - you can never go wrong with quality.

eHow is a great site, but you have to be careful a...

2009-11-16T14:46:39.187-08:00

eHow is a great site, but you have to be careful about plagiarism and spamming. In order for eHow to remain a favorite of Google and provide quality content they need to weed out all the spammers and people that steal content. Writing a thousand repetitive useless articles in one week isn't going to do anyone any good. You can earn much more from quality 100 articles than with 10,000 worthless articles. If you continue to write quality, informative How To guide you can eventually earn enough income to live on every months. Remember eHow doesn't have to be your main stream of income it can be just one of the streams. Good luck to all.

ehow is making hay with other peoples sweat. Like ...

2009-08-13T12:07:49.992-07:00

ehow is making hay with other peoples sweat. Like some of your readers commented that's the way of the internet now. Only things that make money are scams. But I'm not giving up, I dont know if I am willing to share the knowledge I have gained over the last 5 years of blogging for dollars for free with the readers of ehow. If I could somehow drive this traffic to my own blogs I would gladly do it but ehow is enslaving their resources (us writers) and reaping the rewards with their advertisers. Of course ehow doesnt want you to feature affiliates on your articles, that takes the reader off their site. They wont even allow links to other sites in comments to articles. Bad strategy on their part because people are getting angry.

I'm now in the process of this same thing. Ugh! ...

2009-05-11T17:11:00.000-07:00

I'm now in the process of this same thing. Ugh! Apparently they have an issue with cloning, but I have been making contact with them and they are giving me the chance to make it right. Hopefully it ends up a positive experience...

And...?

2009-04-18T06:40:00.000-07:00

And...?

EHow is extremely overrated, unprofessional and a ...

2009-04-16T16:56:00.000-07:00

EHow is extremely overrated, unprofessional and a total disgrace. They have a set $600.00 a year (year 2008-09) budget (public knowledge)[It was $900.00 in '07]. To keep them from going over it, they throw excuses (when they feel it necessary-they barely talk to anyone unless they deem it important) to members- They remove articles saying that they're plagiarized and/or spamming (and other crap like that), then have their "editors" write the EXACT same article (of yours) and post it as a new one (to save money on ad revenue of course). . . so basically, they get YOUR work, but under THEIR staff name.

Since Feb.-April '09; They were (still are) removing a lot of articles. Members were (still are) complaining of it, of course. Within 24 hours of almost each article removal, that article was made public again on eHow (they'd let you know because, strangely, it always made the front page), BUT this time, the article was re-written by an eHow staff member (editor)[some words moved around, lingo/(some)vocabulary changed which means the original author lost the revenue from it, not to mention, the credit. This upset A LOT! I wasn't the only one to witness this.

The reason they did (and DO This): claimed the article was plagiarized BY THE MEMBER (which it wasn't) and therefore, they lost all the ad revenue from it and credit, of course.

And this started right before the 1099's were scheduled out -which they sent out only 9 days before it was legally due in to the IRS; by the way- Some feel (along with myself) they freaked out with this past ad revenue and had to do something.

This is just ONE of the reasons that I left.

I've been writing for a few weeks now with $1.12 t...

2009-03-30T11:24:00.000-07:00

I've been writing for a few weeks now with $1.12 to show for 6 articles and noticed that one article is 5 star while others are dead. As I searched out friends with similar articles thinking It would raise my rankings. I found your website. I have an affiliate web site one month old and intend to use E-how to drive traffic to me. So far E-how contributes to 16% of my views with the rest coming from other blogs. I long for more results from your delima.

Very good site and articles with a conclusion that...

2009-03-26T15:47:00.000-07:00

Very good site and articles with a conclusion that shows the real face of the internet business today.

But to say the truth I am not really surprised.

Most web businesses are now mature (Ebay, Amazon, ...) and that do not rely on affiliates as strongly as 10 years ago.

Today these businesses like you to implement links toward their site, BUT rather dislike that these same links make to much money to their owners. A money that they need more and more to cover the costs of their business scheme.

The end of an era.
The cycles are even more short.

The compensation is based on people being interest...

2009-03-25T21:13:00.000-07:00

The compensation is based on people being interested in the ads around your article. The views don't directly relate to earnings. Let us know specifically what you hear back from eHow.

WOW this is discouraging. I've been on eHow about ...

2009-03-25T20:34:00.000-07:00

WOW this is discouraging. I've been on eHow about a week, wrote one article and have earned .46 cents with only 40 views after the second day. I now have 96 views after a full week and still only .46 cents???? I don't understand how the compensation is calculated so I sent an email 2 days ago, I'm still waiting for an explanation.

This exact same thing happened to me; almost exact...

2009-03-23T07:19:00.000-07:00

This exact same thing happened to me; almost exactly. One month; 60 articles, about 15 dollars. What the shit.

I hope you will follow up with the final reason fr...

2009-03-20T21:48:00.000-07:00

I hope you will follow up with the final reason from eHow. Hopefully, they will give you a reason. I have been learning a lot of these same things along the way, so it has been cool to find some one else learning this stuff the hard way. Check out Affilorama for more info on Affiliate marketing. eHow does allow you to post your own articles on your own webpage, and so I've been copying what I've written so that I still have access to my material in case of what happened to you happens to me. I've made more with AdSense than on eHow anyway.