Over the last few days I’ve been really studying my articles to see what’s working and what isn’t.

Although I’m not going to come out and say which categories are making money (gotta have some secrets you know…)  it is quite obvious where I should direct my efforts this month.

eHow doesn’t give you much in the way of tools to use when it comes to analyzing your article performance.  What you do have is the earnings page, just click on the month and start sorting by different columns.  You should see some trends show up, such as popular categories, common action words and so on.  I highly suggest you use this one tool.

One thing I did notice is I’ve actually achieved an 80% sucess rate with my eHow articles, by that I mean only 20% of my articles are non-earners.

Not counting this months articles (9), at the end of February I had 125 articles published with 106 of them earning money.

A breakdown by month

• In November I published 5 articles, all 5 are earners.
• In December I published 33 articles, all 33 are earners.
• In January 55 articles were published 43 are earners, 12 losers there..
• February saw 22 articles published 15 are earners, 7 losers
• And in March so far I published 9 articles with 2 earning, 7 not earning.

This is proof positive that article aging is indeed a reality, it also seems to me that it takes three months for full aging to take place.

Now that big surge in earnings I experienced a few weeks ago is clearly a result of my January articles starting to ‘age’ , this should continue this month and quite down in a few week.  Looks to be a dismal April though, I only published 22 articles last month

Anyway, I just wanted to share this with everyone, especially those new folks who may be a bit concerned with their earnings.  It takes time, so keep writing and also keep in mind that the articles you write this month will really start to earn 3 months from now.  Look at it this way, write a bunch of articles now and get a free weekend getaway in June.

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