Blogging Your eHow Articles

Hopefully, as an eHow writer you are taking the time to blog your eHow articles. The most effective way to do this is to write blog posts that relate to your articles rather than posting a snippet from already published content. If you aren't sure how to do this, you can take a look at this blog post: Holiday Sanity Savers.

In the last few days, I have published several holiday season articles on eHow.

How to Cook for the Hectic Holiday Season
How to Protect Your Holiday Mail from Thieves
How to Shop for Vintage Holiday Gifts

Rather than just post a list of recently published content, or pull quotes from these articles, I wrote an entirely new article. Holiday Sanity Savers offers tips on how to get through the holiday season, get everything done and still have the time and energy to enjoy your family and friends. In the article, as you will see, there are three links to my eHow articles.

To take this one step further, once you write and publish a blog post, you should link it to the articles that were mentioned on your blog. In effect, it is creating a circle of links. But it really does much more than that. It helps to boost your page ranks so that people can find your articles.

Maybe you are still wondering what the point of back links is. Simply put, without going into a long explanation, they are a valuable tool to drive traffic to your articles. Even if you don't fully understand why, you should still be creating backlinks for all of your articles. Blogging is a great way to do this.

eHow Updage August 5, 2009

As of yesterday, August 4,2009, my eHow earning were a measly $3.58. Today, August 5, $4.44. My goal for the month of August is no less than $1,000.00. I know. Seems like a lot, especially when you consider my past performance.

Well, let me tell you what has changed. Husband lost his job. Which means I need to seriously get serious about my writing. I have a plan, which I began implementing August 3rd. First, I plan to write at least three eHow articles a day, plus do all of the promotional stuff that goes along with it. I said at least three articles each day. I need to write more. Today I've written four, and I am not done.

Second, I have to promote every article I write. That means submitting to search engines, social bookmarking, linking to other articles and vice versa, and networking. Today, I have written four articles, which have been bookmarked for backlinks, submitted to FreeWebSubmission.com, and backlinked on my blogs: www.InlandEats.blogspot.com, www.juliemcm.blogspot.com, and this blog, www.woodstreetjournal.blogspot.com.

Third, my plan is to publish articles in series. In other words, to write a series of related articles. Today, on eHow, I published the following articles, each related to one another in some way. They are:

How to Live Healthy in a Toxic World
How to Buy the Safest Non-Organic Produce
How to Join an Organic Food Co-op
How to Wash and Prepare Fruits and Vegetables to Remove Pesticide Residue

If you haven't figured it out yet, the links you just read above are backlinks to my articles. Backlinks are key to building page ranking, views and earnings. So, anywhere you can post them, do it.

Fourth, I am trying to introduce the eHow community to the concept of posting anchored backlinks for their favorite authors. The eHow community is all about support, but honestly, just reading, rating, commenting and recommending doesn't really build all that much traffic. If groups of eHow friends would post backlinks for one another, our views would skyrocket. It takes a few moments to post just a few backlinks with keywords. It is one way we can all help each other. Today I began posting backlinks for some of my most faithful friends who keep coming back to my articles. (If I haven't gotten to you yet, I will.) I was dropping a PM into their inbox letting them know what I had done and asking them, if they had time, to do the same for me. Then it occurred to me, why not let them know in the comment I post that I had done this. Then maybe more eHowers would get the message, and we could all start drawing more traffic to our articles.

That is what I am doing to build my online writing income today. So far, four articles. Hopefully will have time to publish more.

Tomorrow, I'll be talking about how I am coming up with ideas for publishing articles in a series. I am using a really cool tool Google just put out in May called the Wonder Wheel. The Google Wonder Wheel takes the guess work out of finding related searches. Check back tomorrow to find out how to use it.

Best Ways to Get Anchored Backlinks to Your Hubs Without Social Bookmarking

What is the Best Sandwich You Have Ever Eaten?

If you have been writing online, you know that getting backlinks to your articles boosts your page rank, and therefore your income. As an online writer, I spend hours not only writing, but also promoting my articles and pages through forums, Yahoo Answers, social bookmarking sites and submitting to search engines. I have a routine down, but I still need to make more money. If you need to earn more money as well, I want to help you. I will be posting a number of questions for you to answer on one of my favorite rev share writing sites. I have chosen this site simply because we can all benefit (i.e. make more money) if we work together. If you are not a member, it is very easy to join. As a member you can earn money from your articles, from members who join under your referral code, and from links you post to other members' articles.

The question I have posted is, "What is the Best Sandwich You Have Ever Eaten?" To answer this question, click on the link and write your answer. If you are not a member of HubPages, you will need to join first. I will be tracking answers, blogging on the answers and writing articles about the answers. And, to your benefit, I will be posting links to your answer so that you can earn more money. The more backlinks each page has, the higher the search engine ranking. Please be sure to use good keywords/tags.

If this works according to plan, we can all increase our earnings. I will be posting a number of questions on HubPages in the coming weeks, so please keep checking back and answer as many as you can.

Quantity and Quality Content

To be financially successful as an online writer, you have to be a writing machine. That is, assuming you've already learned about page ranking, anchored backlinks and SEO keywords. And you are putting that knowledge to work.

Your goal is to earn money from the articles you write. Think of each article as a separate deposit into an investment account. Obviously, the more deposits you make, the more interest income you will earn. That is a very simplistic view of the quantity of work you publish.

What about the quality? If each article is a deposit, then each deposit would be for a specific value. If you are publishing poorly written content, or content of little or no interest to anyone except yourself, the market value of your work is very low. You may as well be writing in a personal journal. On the other hand, if you are producing high interest, well written work, the monetary value is higher. That value will increase as you produce more quality content because your readers will begin to trust you, and read more of your work.

Quantity plus quality is the winning combination, and should be what you are striving for as a writer.