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How does eHow earnings compare with Mahalo, assume the same amount of work?
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Several WCP writers have hundreds of articles to their name, and are earning hundreds of dollars per month (my own payments are more than $1000 per month after nine months of participating in WCP). The most experienced writers at eHow earn over $2,000 a month and have seen steady increases in their earnings.
How does Mahalo compare with eHow?
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Several WCP writers have hundreds of articles to their name, and are earning hundreds of dollars per month (my own payments are more than $1000 per month after nine months of participating in WCP). The most experienced writers at eHow earn over $2,000 a month and have seen steady increases in their earnings.
How does Mahalo compare with eHow?
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I'm brand new at Mahalo, so I can't say much about the earnings here. But I do believe that making $1,000 a month at eHow is not typical at all. I think that's way out there at the very far tip of the earnings bell curve.
I did one article on eHow months ago, and it's made a grand total of something like 23 cents. While that's not enough experience to make a judgement about eHow, I do regularly read message boards where a lot of eHow writers hang out. I get the impression they become very excited when/if they start to make 3 figures a month. I never heard of anyone I know personally making 4 figures a month.
I think that in order to do well on eHow (i.e. make a few hundred dollars a month), you need to use good SEO practices when selecting your topics and when writing your articles, and you probably need to publicize your articles. They pay on ad revenue, rather than strictly on page hits, so both traffic and good ad alignment are necessary.
I do write for Demand Studios, and most of the DS articles end up on eHow, but at DS you have the option of getting a flat fee of $15 per article, which I like better than revenue sharing. You have to apply to DS, though and show a writer's portfolio, while eHow is open to everyone.
I think of eHow as a gamble. Some articles may hit it big, but you never really know in advance which ones. People who have done well there talk about one article making tens or even hundreds of dollars while most of the rest of their articles make pennies or nothing at all. They're often surprised at which articles do well and which don't.
I did one article on eHow months ago, and it's made a grand total of something like 23 cents. While that's not enough experience to make a judgement about eHow, I do regularly read message boards where a lot of eHow writers hang out. I get the impression they become very excited when/if they start to make 3 figures a month. I never heard of anyone I know personally making 4 figures a month.
I think that in order to do well on eHow (i.e. make a few hundred dollars a month), you need to use good SEO practices when selecting your topics and when writing your articles, and you probably need to publicize your articles. They pay on ad revenue, rather than strictly on page hits, so both traffic and good ad alignment are necessary.
I do write for Demand Studios, and most of the DS articles end up on eHow, but at DS you have the option of getting a flat fee of $15 per article, which I like better than revenue sharing. You have to apply to DS, though and show a writer's portfolio, while eHow is open to everyone.
I think of eHow as a gamble. Some articles may hit it big, but you never really know in advance which ones. People who have done well there talk about one article making tens or even hundreds of dollars while most of the rest of their articles make pennies or nothing at all. They're often surprised at which articles do well and which don't.
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Well, I think it is possible to make that kind of money on ehow, but you'd have to spend a huge amount of time, and be able to come up with a lot of unique articles that get a lot of views.
I've been writing on eHow for about 6 months. I don't spend a lot of time doing it because I have a full time job and a family. So far I have 26 articles, and have only made a total of $50.80 for the past 6 months. But I haven't really been contributing articles on ehow like I did when I first started. I really should have more than 26 by now, but I just haven't had the time.
http://www.ehow.com/members/krystyne20.html?view=3rd
In comparison, though, I've also been on Mahalo for about 6 months, and have $108.89 to show for it. The bulk of that money is from answering questions. So, not a whole lot of work has gone into it, since I mostly answer questions I already know the answer to.
If you want to talk to more people that write on eHow, you can go to this forum on the Work at Home Mom's website:
http://www.wahm.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=24
I've been writing on eHow for about 6 months. I don't spend a lot of time doing it because I have a full time job and a family. So far I have 26 articles, and have only made a total of $50.80 for the past 6 months. But I haven't really been contributing articles on ehow like I did when I first started. I really should have more than 26 by now, but I just haven't had the time.
http://www.ehow.com/members/krystyne20.html?view=3rd
In comparison, though, I've also been on Mahalo for about 6 months, and have $108.89 to show for it. The bulk of that money is from answering questions. So, not a whole lot of work has gone into it, since I mostly answer questions I already know the answer to.
If you want to talk to more people that write on eHow, you can go to this forum on the Work at Home Mom's website:
http://www.wahm.com/forum/forum_topics.asp?FID=24
voted helpful: ms_terri
One site where writers claim to earn a lot of money is Xomba. I wrote about 20 articles there in 2007/8 and I have earned $50.
You can sign up for Xomba here:
http://www.xomba.com/referral/77787b2f
You can sign up for Xomba here:
http://www.xomba.com/referral/77787b2f
voted helpful: davepamn
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What is your claimed pages rank?
You can see all my articles here: http://www.ehow.com/members/ds_marjori5765-articles.html
Demand Studios gives you a list of article titles, and you select the ones you want from the list. On eHow, you create your own titles.
When you say "claimed pages rank," do you mean here on Mahalo? My rank is 106. I don't know if that's good or bad ;) -- I've only been here a couple of weeks and don't know how things work here yet.
They have a lot of "how to" stuff on the list, so if you're good at things like home repair or electronics (which I'm not), you could have a field day with it.
I am earning around 200 dollars a month for ehow. You can earn money, and I wouldn't call myself an expert at seo, or promoting articles. I do it, and it helps. Making money on ehow is pretty easy. There are members making 500, to even 1000 dollars. Yes, you do need to write a lot of articles to get to that point.
Ehow isn't the greatest site. When it comes to pay it is, however it's not exactly honest. The people that run it have no problem taking articles from you for no reason whatsoever. People also claim to have had ehow hold payments for no particular reason. Trust me, there is a lot of bad things about ehow. I won't shy away admitting that, but earning money is not one of them.