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It’s already getting close to mid-February. Where oh where does the time go? I’m back posting an earnings report for last month (January 2010). Overall I’m very pleased with my results. I wrote a few articles for Demand Studios and posted some new articles on Suite101 as well. I’ve kept up with some niche blogs but I’ll really be pumping articles out during this month (February).

Here’s the earnings breakdown for January 2010:

**Numbers in parenthesis are to show the difference in earnings from the previous month Read more…

The New Year is here and I have earnings to report for the last month of 2009. I added one new income source this past month (December 2009) and that is FireHow. It’s a site very similar to Ehow. I contributed just 2 articles about mid-month and they generated a few pennies. Not bad for getting only 11 views between the two so far though. The articles haven’t been promoted at all yet either. I may start adding content to FH occasionally. If I do, it won’t be very much to begin with because I have an EzineArticles challenge ahead of me for this month. Read more…

It’s that time again. It’s almost a new year and before the new year starts, I like to think about what I’d like to accomplish in the next 12 months. I believe that if you don’t set goals, then what are you working for? Or towards? It’s very easy to get off track and lose motivation if you don’t make small goals for yourself. How else can you measure how far you’ve come? Read more…

It’s already December, I can’t believe it! I did not meet the goals that I had made for November so my earnings haven’t changed much since last month. Preparations for Thanksgiving and Christmas shopping, not to mention my children, have all had an effect on the amount of work I didn’t complete this past month. Ehow earnings are WAY down from last month. Doesn’t help that they deleted another 15 articles of mine. GRRRRRRRRR.

Here’s the breakdown: Read more…

It’s been a little over a week since I started my very own personal Ehow challenge. I love Ehow because of the fact that you can make money online from home (or anywhere) for writing “how to” articles and as long as your articles remain on the site, you will continue to earn money in the form of passive income. I want to increase my monthly earnings over there so in the beginning of November, I set a goal to complete at least 30 new Ehow articles in 30 days. I’m currently 1/3 of the way there as I have published 10 new articles this week. None of them are currently showing any earnings, but combined they have produced a total of 57 views. Three of those articles were published yesterday and have no views at all.

I have been using Micro Niche Finder to find some great Read more…

Okay. I am all about Ehow and I have honestly agreed with the articles of mine that have been deleted up until this point. The ones that have been deleted were deserving. They were articles I had put up when I had just begun my career of web writing. But this time…I have a problem with an article they deleted. Problem being: It was a requested article that THEY had to APPROVE before it went live. It was very well written, contained actionable steps that you could perform to complete the said task.

What really makes me mad is that Read more…

Okay, so here’s what has happened during the past few months. Ehow had their first article sweep when I got to about 220 articles, they then wiped out 22 of my articles. Then I got back up to about 212 articles and they took 18 more. More recently I got up to 202 articles again and then they removed 4 so now I’m back down to 198.

First of all, I wholeheartedly agree with most of the articles they took down. Truth is, they are all from when I first started writing for Ehow, before I bought Maria’s Ehow Ebook and before I knew much at all about SEO (search engine optimization). The articles I had that got deleted were Read more…

Way back at the beginning of the year, I laid out the goals I have for 2009. After looking through that post, I’m proud to say that I have achieved all but one of them so far. I planned my wedding and got through it without being a nutcase. I lost all of my pregnancy weight and am now back down to my pre-pregnancy weight. I have continued getting niche blogs online.

My last goal was to add 222 new articles to the Ehow site which I have not done. I have added only 64. That means I need to add 158 more before the end of the year. Hmmm…. Read more…

If you are currently a contributor over at Ehow, you know that they have been seriously cleaning up the site lately. I was waiting for my turn and it finally happened yesterday. I logged in to find that I was 22 articles short of what I had the day earlier. So I went from 212 back down to 190. Boo!

It’s a little frustrating but I can understand why they’re doing it. They state on their site that they want actionable steps and many “How-to’s” on the site are in list form and that isn’t how they want their content written. Read more…

As many of you know, I have been writing for eHow since July 2008. I dabbled and submitted a couple of articles and made a few cents. Then, as a regular WAHM forum reader, I came across WriterGig’s ebook somehow, purchased it, followed her instructions and made $25 on eHow my very first month – July 2008!

On February 20, 2008 I hit over 200,000 page views! To be honest, I can’t remember the exact number, I think it was 200,067. Today I’m averaging right around 1075 article views per day and I have 191 articles up on the site – trying to get to 200. I had to take an eHow hiatus for the last month and a half to work on my niche blogs, but I’ve written another 11 articles this week and I’m hoping to be at 200 articles by March 1st.

If you have not yet signed up with the eHow Writer’s Compensation Program, you need to. (Open only to U.S. residents) If you work at it, you can definitely make a nice residual income from eHow because your articles will continue to get views and make money for as long as they’re posted on the site!

It is important to not put all of your “eggs into one basket” though. Don’t fully rely on ehow to make money, but do put it a nice effort there and you’ll make some nice cash every month. Some other content writing sites that pay include Bukisa and Infobarrel.

I know this is a tad bit late, but nonetheless, I’m here to report eHow earnings for December of 2008.

Interestingly enough, I added 43 articles in November and I also added 43 additional articles in the month of December. Weird. Anyhow, my earnings for December were Read more…

Welcome to December! A new month means an eHow earnings update! First I just have to say that I can’t believe Christmas is just 21 days away already. Time is going by way too fast!

I added a total of 43 articles in the month of November and my earnings ended up being Read more…