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How to articles tend to make five Mahalo Dollars for every 1,000 views. They are very profitable--in fact the most profitable in the system I think.
Creating a How To article takes a decent amount of work: two or three articles would be a good number.
In another week we will have 10 days of data or so and you'll see that How To articles can make $25 to $2,500 a year. If you manage a page like that for three years I think you get the idea: hundreds of dollars.
I suggest folks look at pages from a three year perspective: if I spend an hour on a page ($7-10 worth of an average writer's time in the USA), how much will I make in three years?
Something making only M$1 a month sounds like a waste of time... until you get to month 36 and you've made M$36 for what was $7-10 worth of effort. That is why the revenue share program is soooo much better for everyone. As you guys invest in the system we can all earn money together.
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You can see a few comments and a bit of discussion in my question here:
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/mahalo2/are-the-traffic-stats-on-the-mahalo-pages-working-1
Personally, I'm playing the "wait and see" card right now to figure things out until I go full steam into putting a ton of work into the pages that I've committed to managing.
Best of luck!
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What is the average payment/views on How Tos?
I'm just wondering what the average view/payment is for a How To.
One page http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-get-a-passport had tons of effort and time spent on it, but only has 2 views, which makes it looks like a waste. I'm not saying its not worth contributing if I don't get money, but 2 views and all that effort?
One page http://www.mahalo.com/how-to-get-a-passport had tons of effort and time spent on it, but only has 2 views, which makes it looks like a waste. I'm not saying its not worth contributing if I don't get money, but 2 views and all that effort?
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| June 06, 2009 08:46 PM |
Creating a How To article takes a decent amount of work: two or three articles would be a good number.
In another week we will have 10 days of data or so and you'll see that How To articles can make $25 to $2,500 a year. If you manage a page like that for three years I think you get the idea: hundreds of dollars.
I suggest folks look at pages from a three year perspective: if I spend an hour on a page ($7-10 worth of an average writer's time in the USA), how much will I make in three years?
Something making only M$1 a month sounds like a waste of time... until you get to month 36 and you've made M$36 for what was $7-10 worth of effort. That is why the revenue share program is soooo much better for everyone. As you guys invest in the system we can all earn money together.
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June 06, 2009 08:03 PM
Sadly, the new system hasn't been active long enough for anyone to have any averages other than (I suspect) the Mahalo staff. You can see a few comments and a bit of discussion in my question here:
http://www.mahalo.com/answers/mahalo2/are-the-traffic-stats-on-the-mahalo-pages-working-1
Personally, I'm playing the "wait and see" card right now to figure things out until I go full steam into putting a ton of work into the pages that I've committed to managing.
Best of luck!
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June 07, 2009 03:21 AM
I agree with your theory of waiting, I'm playing that game. But I'm sure I'll be spending my summers and free time creating pages ;)
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June 07, 2009 11:53 AM
Doesn't look like we'll have to wait too long, Nichm!
I think that the system is already starting to stabilize. I'm starting to work on my pages now!
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I think that the system is already starting to stabilize. I'm starting to work on my pages now!
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However you didn't answer the average page views. I'm monitoring 15 pages that were created today, so I'll check back in a week and see what they average out.
I understand your analogy that over time it adds up, like interest in a bank. I don't think that work though for most people because they expect to do work and get a result right away. We'll just have to wait, it seems awesome so far.
Can't wait till next TWIST, and loving Mahalo 2.0 congratz Jason.