The Cheap Bastid

What’s the deal with eHow?

What's up with eHow lately??

The latest news from eHow is that they’ll no longer allow the use of the resource section in any new published articles.

I have to say that the Amazon links I’ve placed in my articles have been a great source of income for the last year.

So the question has to be asked..

Does eHow really care if their writers make any money?

First the article sweep, then the UK ehow debacle and now the elimination of the resource section.

It seems that not only do they not care if we make any money, but they want to milk as much profit as they can from those people who actually do publish articles there.

Personally I don’t see the problem with affiliate links in the article as long as those links add value.

For example…

If I write an article about how to pick out a great toaster oven then I don’t see why placing an Amazon link pointing to a top rated toaster oven is bad. The link provides an actual real world example of a top rated toaster oven that can only help the reader pick out one that’s good. In fact, it can be argued that the visitor is reading that article because they DO want to buy a toaster oven.

To me, this is yet another nail in the coffin for eHow.

I love the site but seriously, the writers need to make some money for their efforts.

If you publish on eHow what do you think of this latest development?

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This post was written by admin on February 20, 2010 Comments (1)

Adsense Earning Lower than Usual? – Try this

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I’ve noticed my adsense earnings have been horrible low for the last few weeks. At first I attributed this to the ‘after holiday’ cool down that I assume many advertisers are going through.

But, after checking around I’ve noticed that this isn’t being reported consistently around the net. In fact, some people are saying their adsense earning are normal, or even up.

Well, I checked my profile and noticed that my settings have changed in my adsense account, I changed them back and my earnings are starting to climb up again.

It seems, from doing a bit of research that Google periodically sets some users to use ‘Interest Based Ads’ even though they may have opted out in the past.

I’m not sure if this is a bug or not, probably is, but you need to check this on your profile page and set it back if your earnings are unusually low.

Try this for a week or two, and, if no improvement, set it back.

Here’s how to do it..

First go to your adsense account settings.