Update: eHow was Good in May
This summer I'm definitely going to be hitting the writing schedule much harder to get those articles out for eHow. I wrote two eHow articles on the 30th: one article on How to Learn Effective Self Defense, which was partially inspired by a hub I wrote on HubPages about Learning How to Brawl, and another eHow article that is titled How to Identify and Treat Sun Poisoning. These two articles are a nice combination because they're so diverse. The self defense article is an evergreen topic that is going to be good now, in winter, and year after year since self defense is always and issue. The sun poisoning article I think will still be good year after year, although better for late spring and summer. This is one that I could see doing really well in summers if I can hit the first page of Google.I will probably write a couple more articles tonight, and I'm eager to see what my final income for May is. Already, I know this is my best month by quite a percentage, and the earnings haven't updated in at least a day (or today, either). These two articles put me at 92 articles total, and I've only written 8 articles this month. Not counting these last two, which have been online less than 24 hours, 5 of my 6 May articles already show earnings - which is fantastic as since with anything online time is your friend.
Right now my total for May stands at $35.42, and I suspect that number will increase by a couple bucks before payment. My April earnings were $25.90, and my March earnings were $21.24. This is a nice jump considering I've basically wrote for eHow whenever the whim hits, and haven't done keyword research, haven't concentrated on higher money making topics, and haven't done any promotion. Making this investment could really sky rocket the earnings, and everyone on eHow seems to agree that the longer an article is online, the more traffic it will get, and the more income it will make. The number game is also a big difference maker.
The other nice side effect I've noticed with writing for eHow: putting in some Amazon affiliate links has helped me go from $3 a year selling for Amazon.com to $10 a month consistently. That's a very nice bonus. So what if I write good keyword based articles in money making categories every day for the entire summer, and include affiliate links with all of these articles? There are many writers on eHow who make several hundred dollars a month in passive income, and a couple of the best who even make a full time living off of eHow.
The self defense article I wrote for eHow also has started another experiment: using Click Bank products as well as Amazon affiliate products to see if having a lot of links on a lot of eHow articles will bring in another stream of income. We'll see over the next few months if this can be as successful as Amazon has been, and how the numbers change when I go from 90 unconcentrated articles to 400 researched, well written, and promoted articles.
A lot of people estimate earnings on eHow from $1-5 per article per month, on average, given a long period of time. I've found mine average $0.39 an article, not including all the extra affiliate sales. In defense, I've had very few articles up for long periods of time, and the 6 month and one year time frames do have a big impact on the search engine rankings of articles.
So that's it for now. As the summer comes in, my goal is a minimum of 4 articles a day, every day, over the summer. We'll see how well this plays out with the move and everything else, but that's the over all goal for the summer.
