How to Write a Good Ehow Article

I have been writing for eHow for a while and I am still learning so much about it. I am starting to understand what really makes money on eHow and what does not. It is a very simple formula and it needs to be followed if you want to start making a solid income from eHow. There are a few ways to earn from eHow as well as ways you can use it to earn from other sites. I will share with you what I have learned so far.

You probably have heard this before, but keywords in your article are very important if you want to make money online. Without good keywords and proper seo optimization, you will not see any page views. If you don't see any page views you will not see any money. That is why it's important to use sites like Wordtracker and Google Adwords Keywords Tool to find words related to the topic of your article. Your keywords should be in your article as well as in your title. Doing this will increase search engine optimization and you will be ranked higher on sites like Yahoo and Google. This is very important because the bulk of your traffic will come from search engines.


Another important thing you should do is make sure your articles are long enough. You can not have short articles because search engines will not pick them up. A good article will probably be anywhere from 400 to 800 words in length. That is enough for the search engines to pick your article up and start making you some extra money. There is no use to writing articles of 100 to 200 words because no one will want to read them. You want readers to spend a good amount of time reading your article so it gives them a chance to click on the advertising.

Speaking about advertising, it is highly important to write articles that are ad friendly. Meaning, you need to write articles so readers will almost have to click on an add or to. The way to do this is by not writing articles that simply give the reader the answers, or all the answers. You still want the readers to keep searching for the answers which makes them want to click on the ads. An example of an article you should not write is "How to tie your shoes" (this is a bad example but it still is clear in helping me get my point across). Writing artilces like this may get your a great number if page views but no one will click on the ads because they have the answer right there on your article. A better article to write about might be "How to invest on the Stock Market," which is a bit more broad in scope. You may not be able to answer all of the readers questions about investing in the stock market but some of the ads along the side of your article will.

You can also add related articles at the end of your eHow article. This will increase your page views and it has the potential of increase your residual income. It will keep the readers on your articles as well so. Another thing you can place in the Related content is affiliate or even referral links. If you are a member of affiliate marketing sites like Commission Junction or Amazon Affiliates you can try and make some income using eHow. For example, after you write your article about how to invest in the stock market you can put affiliate links to books on the stock market from amazon or commission junction. Or, maybe you have reviewed a site which has a referral link, you can place your referral link at the end.

When you think you are not making any money or increase in funds from eHow, keep writing? You need to persevere and just keep writing more articles until you do start earning $400, $700 and over $1000 a month in passive income. Set smaller goals for yourself and keep raising the bar when you reach it.

eHow Earnings Experiment - Part 1

So I have been writing for eHow for a while and have seen my earnings grow since my joining. However, I must say that I am not very impressed with what I have earned so far. I have over 450 articles on my eHow account but am only reaching above $100 a month. Keep in mind though that my articles are only about a month old. But I am still averaging about 3-5 dollars a day with eHow. My Xomba and Infobarrel earnings for the first month reach a nice 20 dollars. My articles were not even a month old too. I earned the $20 the same month I joined and started writing on Xomba and Infobarrel. Granted, I am a much better online writing now than was when I started with eHow.

I think I will write a few more eHow articles based off the skills I have learned writing on other get paid to write sites. I may even tweak a few articles I think I can earn a bit more with. I remember reading another blog posts that earned them a great increase in earnings just from increasing a few of there articles on eHow.

My hopes for eHow was to be earning a few hundred dollars by now. I still believe in eHow and it's earnings potential. With all of the success stories and high earners on eHow I know I can achieve my goals of earning $1,000 a month with the site. I am going to write a few more articles on eHow and tweek them for SEO optimization this week. I will keep you updated and how much I increase from that.

In the mean while, I am definitely going to increase my articles on Xomba and Infobarrel. I am very happy with my first month on these sites and hope to increase my earnings by almost double. With a month worth of old articles (older the articles the better) and new ones on the way I know I will see big numbers in my Adsense account.

Hope you enjoyed the post.

Ehow Review: Residual Income Online

Then I found this site called Ehow. Ehow, is basically a site where you can write about anything you wanted to. Whatever is on your mind you can write about it (probably not about porn or any X-rated topics though). The catch is, it has to be in a 'How to" format. So basically, you write something where someone gains knowledge on any topic you have some kind of expertise in. You could write "How to make a 3 cheese Omelette," "How to stop being nervous on a date," "How to shave your Armpit Hair," etc. Anything you want to write about, and can put it in a how to format, you can post on Ehow.


There submission format is very easy to use as well as fast. You can choose to write about a topic or do video. The site than will automatically post it (no waiting periods like associated content) for all the world of Internet users to see. The good thing about Ehow is that shows up very high on search engines. You may be surprised to see how many Ehow articles pop up if you are looking for how to do something.

I checked out the forum, which is almost like a great community, and they have a lot of helpful hints and ideas about making more money from the site. The owners of the web site are very interactive with there member and do several contests every few months. They winners of the contests (which there are no limits of how many people can win) receive up front money (the last one people received about 100 dollars) and a gift (the last gift I saw was a free reusable grocery bag with the EHOW label on it) from the team. There are probably thousands of members on the site with probably a handful of "EHOW Stars." These basically are people who are the high earners (earning anywhere from 1,000 to 2,000 dollars or more) on the web site. Some of the members even sell ebooks on there own personal web site that help people earn the best money online at Ehow. I have not yet bought any of them but I will (maybe).


I have been apart of Ehow since January 2009 and have only been heavily posting Ehow articles in May 2009. I had around 400 articles by the mid of June and my daily earnings have been going way up. Back in January through April, I would only get a couple cents here and there every week. But as of mid June 2009 my earnings have gone up to $3.50 a day. Now Ehow is a bit secretive on how you earn your income but it is basically on how many people click on the ads on your article page. The best part is, those earnings will only stay the same or go up from there. The high earnings make an average of $30 to $40 a day. Now even if I or those high earners stop posting they will still reach that $30 to $40 a day average. Now if that is not passive income, tell me what is.

I have also just recently been posting on a site called Bukisa. It is fairly new as of June 2009 so the owners are going through a lot of changes and with page rankings but it is an amazing site. It kind of works like Ehow except you are paid for how many page views you get. There is something on the site called a Bukisa Index and this is how they base there payments on the site. Say the index is 5 dollars, so that means every 1,000 page views you get you will receive 5 bucks. So the object of Bukisa is of course to get the most traffic (visitors) to your articles. They pay you on a monthly basis (like Ehow) through paypal (like Ehow). There are quite a few Bukisa articles appearing on the 1st page of search engines now (including my articles) so it is getting much better in terms of ranking. You should sign-up with Bukisa and Ehow to start making passive income from writing online.

How to Make More Money with Ehow Articles

I have been writing for Ehow since January of 2009 and have learned a lot from how to make money from it. It is a great site where many have earned various amounts of money every month. Some make only a few bucks, others in the hundreds and others in the $1,000+ a month club. I am no where near the $1,000 (yet) but I have read and done research on what the high earners have been writing about. Here is what I have learned:

Write for Keywords. One of the most important things about writing online in general is that you must make sure people can at least find it. Writing a book is much different than writing online. There is no need for long academic words, intellectual metaphors and phrases that would make Tennessee Williams cry. It is about making sure you have the right keywords in your title and your writing. This is how search engines rank a lot of web sites. How sites end up on the front page of search engines and others on page 22.

Write about products. It would help to write about something that people could buy because this can help you have more relevant ads. If you have an article about Plasma TV's there are more than likely going to be a few ads on them. Your articles don't have to all be about products but definitely write one if you are out of ideas.

Keep Writing. The more article you have the more money you will earn. It may be discouraging at times to only see a few cents come in at first. But you have to remember that Ehow is for a passive income stream which means it takes time, quality and quantity. Over time those few cents a day will turn to dollars. Write a large quantity of quality articles and your money will start increasing.

Give your Articles time. It takes time for your articles to really start earning money. The first few weeks are going to be slow because it is a new article and the search engines have to track it. So give it some good amount of time and you will see more views and in turn more money.

Promote your articles. There is one school of thought at Ehow that believes you should have a lot of articles and just keep writing. While others believe you should have a good amount of articles and then promote them. You can promote your articles on Digg, Reddit, or other social networking sites. It is a good way to get more page views and essentially more money.

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How to Get More Traffic to Your Ehow Site

Ehow is an awesome place to earn money online. There are many ways to get traffic to your website. Some are easier then others but all of the ways can help you get more traffic and potentially earn more traffic. I have found a few ways that you can start getting more traffic to your existing articles and ways you can create traffic building ones.



Start By Writing a lot of articles. You will need to write at least 100 articles before you can get a good look and review how your articles are doing. Once you have a fair amount you can look back and see which ones are getting a lot of page views and which ones are not. Try to figure out why this is so. If you have an article that has 1,000 or more page views in one month that you could try writing an article off of that. Ex. Say an article that you wrote is 'How to Make Paper Airplanes" is getting a lot of page views. Write an article that deals with how to make a paper boat or how to fly in an Airplane. Can you see how many article possibilities you can write from your popular one?

Post related articles at the bottom. If you have a lot of articles on your Ehow account you might have articles that are related to each other. If not, you should definitely start because you can post related or similar articles at the bottom of your Ehow article. This will keep readers on Ehow and reading your articles which will help you earn more money.

Write about current events. Pay attention to the news to see what you can write about in an Ehow article. There were so many people writing different forms of "How to prevent Swine Flu" when the outbreak was spoken about on the news. So turn on your TV or open a news paper and check what are some topics that are being written about.


Use Wordtracker. You can use this site to look for keywords that people search for on search engines. This is usually where most of your traffic is coming from. You can simply type in a word like Tennis and see the score. If it is a good score then write an article that is related to tennis.

Use Google Trends. You may have to start early in the day if you want to use this effectively. Google Trends is basically a site that tells you what people are searching for on google at any specific day including today. They have an enormous list of what people have searched for on Google and even have history of what people searched for most in previous years. But you should be worried about the now. So look at what people have been searching for in the last two days. Usually if a topic is searched for yesterday that was in the top 10 searches, it will be in somewhere in todays.

Question For You: What do you do to get more traffic to your Ehow articles?