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What’s the deal with eHow?

admin — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:14:27 +0000

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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admin — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:07:26 +0000

Over the course of the past few months I, like many of you, received a few of the dreaded eHow ‘About your eHow Articles’ emails. You know what those are, the email that tells you that one (or more) of your articles aren’t up to snuff and will be deleted.

Truth be told every time I get one of those it sort of takes the wind from my sails so to speak. I just ask myself why I even bother publishing over there.

And then, as usual it hits me.

There isn’t a single site on the net that makes me more money for me than eHow.

So, if you get a bit discouraged just keep in mind that for every article you lose there are probably dozens that remain (or even more)

Keep writing, follow their guidelines and absolutely keep a copy of your articles on your local drive just in case.

Now over the course of the past few months I must say that my earnings over at eHow have indeed gone up by about 15%. In fact I make more now with less articles than I did before the dreaded article sweep began.

So all in all I think it’s a good thing, they didn’t implement it very well or keep us writers informed but in the end It seems to have benefited us.

Over the next few weeks I’m going to start publishing over there again. I think I have a handle on their standards well enough now to publish safely, with little chance of a deletion.

If anyone has any thoughts on this please chime in, we’d like to know what you’re thinking!

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admin — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:10:52 +0000

You know I’ve had some incredible earnings this week, far above my normal 3-5 dollars a day.

There is a slight possibility I’ll break the $100 mark this month, which would be incredible!

Anyone else having better than expected earnings over the last few weeks?

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