The eHow Experiment: Week One

The eHow Experiment is a project I've begun to find the best ways to make money on eHow. Hopefully, this experiment will result in effective ways for all of us to increase our earnings. Here is the first week's journal:

Week 1: My plan was to write several articles per day; however, I had some problems with the eHow publishing wizard. These problems were apparently on my end, and were related to an outdated version of Firefox, and the need to clear cookies and my cache. Once these problems were cleared up, I was able to start publishing again.

During this time, I continued with my standard marketing methods which include bookmarking and submitting to search engines. For newer articles, I also began blogging my articles. I resubmitted a number of previously published articles to freewebsubmission.com, and bookmarked several that I had overlooked when they were originally published.

In the first eight days, my average daily earnings increased from $1.02 the previous month (September) to $1.68, a considerable percentage, but still not enough money to call my experiment a success.

Of course, I am marketing with legitimate methods. I am not increasing my earnings by clicking on my own ads (a big eHow no-no) or encouraging any of my visitors to click on ads. I am in no way padding my earnings with questionable methods.

As far as my new content, I am striving to write useful, informative articles on topics that have not been written to death already. This requires some research, but hopefully it will pay off in the end. Too soon to tell at this point.

eHow Experiment Update November 11, 2009

Promoting Your Articles-Xomba

eHow Experiment Update November 14, 2009

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.