One of the goals of PFI is to discover, learn, grow, and promote passive income opportunities. One of these opportunities that I began to grow over 3 months ago was writing how-to articles on eHow. While it has taken some time to get this stream started, I am beginning to see the true potential of writing these articles. The key in building and growing these sources of income is hard work up front that pays off over and over into the future. I can say from my own personal experience as well as reading articles from other writers that eHow is no different. You need to spend the time up front to construct a clean and legible article, which could have the potential to pay you over and over. There are some writers who are pulling in thousands and thousands of dollars every month by writing articles on eHow. I believe that this is an incredible opportunity that cannot go unnoticed.
If you are interested in generating residual income from writing, I suggest you check out an inspiring post over at Smart Passive Income.
There are some bloggers who have expressed their opinions that writing the same article on your blog or website has much greater potential than submitting it to eHow. I don’t want to get into this debate again, but I understand this view and agree to a certain extent. The key for me (and should be for anyone) is to diversify your extra income streams as much as possible. If you had $10,000 to start a stock portfolio, most people wouldn’t just buy one stock, they would probably buy several. This is diversification and you should practice it with your passive income opportunities as you would with anything in life. As the saying goes – Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. My goal is to build a solid and strong portfolio of opportunities that can handle the ups and downs in life.
As I had mentioned before, I started to see some acceleration in my earnings from my articles during the last few days of November and the first couple of days in December. I increased my earnings in November by a small 4.3% compared to October, but saw a burst of activity into the last few days of the month. The following is a breakdown of the first 3 months I have written articles on eHow which includes the earnings and number of articles published –
- November
- Earnings – $8.16
- Articles Published – 8
- October
- Earnings – $7.82
- Articles Published – 3
- September
- Earnings – $1.46
- Articles Published – 6
GRAND TOTAL
- Earnings – $17.44
- Articles Published – 17
At this time, my grand total earnings are not going to make me rich by any means. I am only averaging a little over $1 in earnings per article. That is only .33 cents average per article per month, so I have some serious work to do. However, one thing that I have learned and picked up from more experience eHow writers is that you must be patient and allow your articles to grow and become better indexed by the search engines.
I have one additional analysis that I would like to share and I believe that several other eHow writers have the same feeling. There are certain topics that seem to do much better. To date, my articles on personal finance topics have done much better than any other topic. For example, my top 5 money earners include topics on trading stock options, saving money, and using coupons. Combined, those 5 articles are averaging $1.21 in earnings per month so far. They also make up around 92% of my earnings up through November. One of my reasons for using eHow is to allow a different avenue to write non-personal finance articles that I would not put on PFI. When I look at where my income is coming from, it is from these types of articles so it is something that I am looking at. I still plan on trying to write 10 articles per month for at least the next 6 months and will see what happens.
I published the following 8 new eHow articles during the month of November -
How to Buy a Call Option for Profit
How to Make Allergen Free Banana Bread
How to Reduce Stress During a Recession
How to Make Allergen Free Rice Krispy Treats
How to Stay Warm in Your Home
How to Save Money Dining Out With Your Spouse
How to Make Allergen Free Pumpkin Bread
How to Propagate a Golden Pothos
Fellow eHow writers, feel free to add me as a friend and I will check out your articles! You can find me under the name – pfincome.
How are your eHow results coming along?
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Thanks for the link love! I have to say I’m impressed with your numbers. Even though you only have 17 articles written, you’ve made over $1.00 per article average. That’s amazing! You should write more because it seems like you have the technique down =)
Al the best and Happy Holidays to you and your readers.
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I agree with Pat…your earnings are impressive. I also think there is room for both a site like eHow and your own blog in a writing portfolio. If nothing else, eHow can perform as a testing ground to see what topics work best. I’ve learned more about SEO in the five months that I’ve been writing for eHow than I did in the two years prior blogging.
Continued good luck to you! Residual income rocks!
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You seem to have great results so far! I am new to eHow myself and have 10 articles. My earnings are slowly trickling in, but that’s about it. Once a couple of months go by and I write more I hope to have better flow of earnings.
I added you as a friend on eHow, by the way. My username there is mosscampion.
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I think diversifying online residual and passive income streams is key to success. To that end, I have several niche sites (in need of work!) and a bank of nearly 300 eHow articles. As I posted on my blog, I received $1,600 from my 220 eHow articles in October. I expect this number to continue its upward trend as newer articles are indexed by Google and older ones move up in the search results. eHow can become a very good source of passive income.
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Congratulations on your ehow endeavours. It would be interesting to see how much you could make in a month when you don’t post any new articles. Instead you could spend the time to write 20 articles in December if you decide not to post anything in December and then post it all in January and February.
It’s sad to see that your main moneymakers are articles that would have done well in your main blog niche. I guess incorporating those subjects on your own blog could have potentially made you more money.
Anyways Ehow does sound interesting if you are only looking for traffic from Google ( which you are also doing on PFI, right). If you are looking for google traffic on both sites however, i doubt that you are “diversified”, as the “google risk” of banning PFI or ehow ( or decreasing your PR for whatever reason) is still present.
I am looking forward to reading your updates on your ehow progress. Even though I don’t believe in writing for other sites, I wish you to achieve your goals through writing! ( No hard feelings)
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Great to hear that eHow was your gateway into the whole passive income realm. I’m glad that you’re enjoying the site and I hope to see you keep up the good work.
-Rich
eHow, Community Manager
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Congrats on starting to make money with eHow.
Another site very similar to eHow but a little newer and less cluttered is Infobarrel.com
The revenue share is a little more generous than eHow with 75% of the Google Adsense impressions being credited directly to your Adsense Account.
I recommend checking it out when you’ve got some time.
Infobarrel’s last blog post..How to Start a Garden
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Thanks for writing this. I started in August of 2009 and wrote 2 articles and then stopped. I came back in Jan and saw I’d earned $1.36 and decided to research and write 14 more. I’ve now made a little over $3.00.
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pfincome Reply:
February 9th, 2010 at 7:45 am
@Elaine – That is great! While it is only a few dollars, seeing the earnings come in without taking any action is very inspiring.
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