It has been a while since my last ehow events blog post. Let me explain why it has been so long. I have been waiting for my ehow account to transfer over to Demand Studios. Finally I received a message stating the ehow transition was complete. For everyone who is wondering what it is like to be at Demand Studios, it is very confusing and frustrating at first.
I just submitted my first article for review on Demand Studios. Everyone cross your fingers that I don't have to re-write it over and over again. I heard that everyone's first articles that get submitted don't get accepted right away. The "How to" writing format is a little confusing on Demand Studios and it will take me awhile to get use to it. I highly doubt I will be publishing how to articles left and right like I did on Ehow. For those who do write several articles on DS, please share your tips and tricks with everyone. It may just be a publishing format that writers need to get use to. How many articles have you published on Demand Studios?
Ehow earnings are dropping dramatically with the new transition. I still have my remaining 123 articles posted on ehow and I have noticed that I will not reach my goal of $50 a month that I had worked so hard for. I have also noticed that my articles are dropping in the search engine listings. Could this be because they are re-writing everyone's articles? I feel like my ehow titles are being snatched away from me. Does anyone else feel or notice the same thing? Did you guys keep your articles published on ehow?
Ehow Events Featured Blog Visitor!
Some of you may have noticed that there isn't a featured visitor this week for my blog. This is only because I haven't been posting for awhile and therefore I haven't had many visitors. This week I will be posting more on this ehow events blog and will be looking for featured blog visitors for next week. For those who don't remember, the featured blog visitor gets there photo and link posted at the top left of this blog for a whole week. The featured visitor will be chosen by the most active and helpful visitor. Please let me know if you have went out of your way to provide a backlink to ehowevents.blogspot.com. Also, if you are chosen for the featured visitor, I will post your photo with a link to your ehow articles. If for any reason you no longer have ehow articles, let me know if you would like your blog or website link posted instead.
Comments are helpful to other online writers. I am looking forward to hearing how you are doing with the ehow transition to Demand Studios. You can share your latest articles in the comment boxes and I will enjoy reading them.
For those of you who write for ehow, you probablly know of the change that is going to take place....YIKES! There are many questions about this change. Bloggers and ehow members don't seem to be very happy about Ehow being moved to Demand Studios! I received a pre-approved email today stating I am already approved for writing at Demand Studios but I have to wait until the transition is complete to know all the details. This may or may not be a good thing for ehow members. What happens to those members who didn't get pre-approved to write for Demand Studios? Just like everyone else, I am still a little shocked about the whole ehow transition to Demand Studios.
I do not know all of the details yet. However, if you are wondering if you should continue to write for ehow right now, I would have to tell you to wait until there is more information on what will happen to our published articles. I also recommend saving all of your ehow articles in case they get lost in the transition. I will try to keep everyone updated on what is happening at ehow.
Two posts back, I told my blog followers that I would be running a contest on the most active What is happening at ehow visitor. Throughout the weeks I will will be checking my comments and seeing which follower to my blog has been the most active and helpful at this blog. This week, I have chosen Katrina as last weeks most active blog follower. Thank-you Katrina.
(Please take some time to click on her photo at the top left of this blog and view a helpful article or two.)
The featured blog visitor will have their photo displayed on the top left of this blog, Monday-Sunday. The photo will be linked to their ehow articles, or link of their choice so that other blog visitors can view their helpful articles, blogs or website. In addition to the advertised featured blog visitors photo and link, I will be stumbling some of their ehow articles throughout the week also. Backlinks will help with article views and earnings. Please let me know if you go out of your way to make a backlink or blog post to this blog.
Yes! The publishing problems at Ehow are finally getting fixed. After at least a week of dealing with the ehow mechanic showing up after submitting an article, he is gone for now. I was so shocked to see my article on "How to avoid your cell phone from breaking," I started submitting as many articles as possible before the publishing problem came back. I had a total of six articles stuck in editing mode. I wasn't able to submit them at all. Now finally today, my articles at ehow are submitting very fast. One tip that I realized was that if I saved and previewed an article then I wouldn't be able to submit it for a long time. However, if I just submited it, sometimes it would go through. Since I was in such a hurry to get my articles submitted today, I apologize for lack of steps and complete details. I just figured I could edit the ehow articles later after they were finally published. For an example: My article on "How to lose weight and improve your lifestyle?" has more steps and details to it.
Are you rushing around trying to get your ehow articles published too?
Hi Ehow members, followers and friends. I needed to make this post for everyone who has blogs. If you are not making money with your blogs, then you are missing out. If you write for ehow, you know how exciting it is to make money online. Here is another way for you to increase your online earnings. Make money with InfoLinks. I am sure everyone has seen the highlighted text that is placed in articles, you can make money by signing up and placing the infolinks code on your blogs or websites. Everytime your visitors clicks on the highlighted text, you make more money. I am placing a screenshot of my earnings for three months from Infolinks. If you write and earn from ehow, you will understand how every little bit adds up and those cents turn to dollars. You can sign up for infolinks here!
You can see proof of earnings by clicking on the image above. I also wanted to take this time to notify my followers of my big mistake. I changed the name of my other blog that many of you may have been following. Since the name change, my followers haven't been getting updated on my new posts. If you know that you were following my shopwithtammy blog, please check http://helpwithyourwebsite.blogspot.com to see if you are still following and are able to view posts. If you weren't following my shopwithtammy blog, please be aware that it is really a website help blog and you can also become a follower.
For all ehow members, I also have came up with a brilliant plan in the future to do Featured Blog Visitor. I want to post a featured blog visitor on this blog. Yes all of you ehow members can say that I am copying ehow in a way. I just want to feature blog visitors so that they have extra traffic to their ehow articles. My plan is to feature a What is happening at ehow visitor? Their photo and special link to their ehow articles will be posted every monday and will be featured for a week. I will choose the most active blog visitor for the week and feature them. I feel this is another great way to be featured instead of searching everyday to see if you are the featured member of the day on ehow, (like I do). Please let me know what you think in the comments box below. I look forward to everybody's feedback.
Hi Everyone, I am so excited! I reached my goal for March 2010. I made $50.15. I am going to include a screenshot of the earnings below. It also shows that I now have 126 articles published at ehow and I actually was updated today that I have 128 articles published. I am still unable to submit some of my articles that I have completed but it is just a matter of time before ehow fixes the publishing problems. How are you guys dealing with the publishing glitches?
I am hooked on stumbleupon, I have been adding my favorites to stumbleupon and creating backlinks to my articles. How many of you ehow members use stumbleupon? I think creating backlinks to my websites and articles is what helped me reach my ehow earnings goal for this month.
Please check out my favorite stumbles here and if you subscribe to me and thumbs up an article, I will return the favor.
How to save ehow articles? Jade's article should remind all of us the importance of saving our ehow articles. Ehow has certain article sweeps that deletes many ehow articles that are published. I have to admit that I am guilty of not saving my ehow articles. Sometimes I think, oh well if it gets deleted I can just re-write it somewhere else. That is not the way to think though because it would be pretty difficult to remember all of the steps, keywords and content that you had included in that deleted ehow article if it isn't saved somewhere. So don't be like me, save your articles and follow Jade's advice.
As of today, I need $5.01 to meet my $50/month goal at ehow. From the looks of my ehow earnings I should be able to meet my goal. I know $50 a month only pays for maybe one small monthly bill but we all need to remember that we need to set goals for ourselves when we write articles online. Also, stay patient with the annoying ehow publishing problems. Sometime it will fixed and we can all continue to submit and publish more articles.
What is your monthly online earnings goal?
"Pay it forward and get free backlinks" is an ehow forum thread that Jade Dragon just started. She is pretty smart when it comes to increasing views and earnings at ehow. Thanks Jade Dragon! She has came up with a plan to get free backlinks to ehow members articles. It is working because another ehow member just created a free backlink to my "stumble upon" article.
I am now returning the favor to my soon to be new ehow friend Joyce Mann. She is a wonderful ehow writer and has written a very helpful article on "How to get the most out of your good credit score". Although my credit score is far from being good, I have found that Joyce's article has all of the recommended steps, photos and contents of a great ehow article. If you guys/gals want to see what a wonderful ehow article consists of, I encourage you to read her article on how to get the most out of your good credit score.
I also encourage all ehow members to follow the ehow thread that Jade Dragon has started so that you can also get free back links to your ehow articles. Login into ehow and visit the forum, it will be in the ehow chatter section called "pay it forward and get free backlinks". I have also provided you a link to the ehow forum thread at the beginning of this blog post. Oh yeah, before I forget....As of today March 25, 2010 the publishing tool at ehow is still having problems. This is a great time to work on your backlinks and sharing of your articles.
Hi all Ehow members! Diane, the community ehow manager finally made a post in the ehow forum updating us on all the bug fixes. You can view her response on this ehow forum thread. I have noticed that the "unavailable" status is getting better for my articles. I still have two ehow articles that are stuck in lala land somewhere on ehow, but they seem to be slowly fixing the ehow publishing problems.
Many high paying ehow members have stated the importance of backlinks to your ehow articles many times. I have to admit, I have ignored the sharing button in the past. I have recently been stumbling my ehow articles after they are getting published. This is helping with my earnings at ehow. For those who don't know what "stumbling" means, it means to share your ehow articles with the Stumbleupon website. It is surprising how many views that you might get when you share them. Backlinking helps increase your ehow article views and will eventuallly help with your ehow earnings. You can view my stumble upon page here to see what favorite links that I have stumbled.
If you need to know how to get more subscribers to your stumbleupon account, read my ehow article here. Until my next post, may all of us complete our ehow earnings goals. Please let me know if you stumble any of my articles and I will surely read, stumble and share yours also.
Hi everyone! Something strange has happened with ehow. It is all over the forums. When some articles are being saved and not finished, they go directly to "unavailable" status. How are we sopose to edit, complete and submit articles that way?
I guess we have to give step by step details on what buttons we pushed when saving the article, we need to provide the article title, date and time to Dianne (ehow manager). I know how frustrating this may be for a lot of us and I agree with those who state that ehow is getting more buggier everyday. If it isn't one problem it is another problem.
Earning updates at ehow seem to be off schedule as well and it is better to take a break from ehow and give them time to fix the publishing problems. Try to save your self frustration and time by waiting 2-5 days to try to publish your ehow articles again. I wonder if ehow understands that they are also losing money when they have publishing issues?
How many of you ehow members have earning goals? Are you reaching your goals? So far for me, I am earning from my 124 articles but not very much. I had a minimal earning goal of $50 a month at ehow and I don't know for sure if I will reach it this month or not. I am inserting a screenshot below of my ehow earnings for March so far. I have made $23.56 as of the update for March 18, 2010. Feel free to leave your comments and ehow earnings below.
As of today March 08, 2010, I have 6 articles that are still in the "unavailable" status on ehow. I try to stay positive, patient and continue to write my helpful articles on ehow and it is like they are testing to see how far I can be pushed before exploding. What is happening with ehow?
Not only are my articles taking forever to publish, but my earnings went down last month and I never reached my $50/month goal. Yes, I understand that February was a short month, but if ehow would of published my articles that have been unavailable for so long, I would of earned from my pending articles and made up for the short month.
On top of it all, my comments tab is still not working correctly. I have to enter "on" after "comments" via the comments url to view my comments page. If any of you are wondering why your ehow avatar is blurry, don't be alarmed because so is mine. I know a lot of ehow members make very good money writing for ehow. I have seen proof of it. Such as CM Herold's ehow earnings showed here.
Many of you may also know of WriterGig (Maria) who makes over $1,000 a month writing for ehow. Those who have showed me proof of their ehow earnings are the people who keep me motivated to write more "How to" articles on ehow. I want to tell all of you ehow bloggers Thank-you very much for sharing your success. Maybe someday I will be proud of my ehow adventure too and make good money with my ehow articles. What am I doing wrong?
Please feel free to post your comments, tips, and concerns via the comment box below. My next post will show a screenshot update of my earnings. As for now, I am not sure how I will do on earning at ehow for March.
Hi ehow events followers! I wanted to write this post to tell you how I am doing with my ehow earnings for this month. February 2010. It is a short month and I don't think I will reach my $50 a month at ehow. I will provide a screen shot of my earnings so far below. It is February 25th, 2010 and I have made $37.55 so far. Yeepee that is surely better than nothing. How are your earnings? Putting all of the buggy problems aside, I have got to be thank-ful for ehow. I haven't found a better paying writing website yet. I have calmed down a bit since my last post about the uk compensation. So I am back to the positive and motivated Tammy. I hope everyone can forgive and/or forget about the uk compensation issue and continue to earn at ehow. Have you continued writing articles and do you forgive ehow for their problems?
Today I received the ehow compensation for the UK website displaying my articles. You can see in my previous post, I earned $52.20 for the month of January 2010. My payment that I received today Feb.11, 2010 was $54.47. Therefore, I received $2.27 for my UK compensation. For those who are already lost by this statement, Ehow posted ehow member articles on the new UK ehow website and then today compensated us for not earning for 6 months. While our articles were producing earnings and traffic to their newly built website, we were not getting paid for 6 months. And now they decided to re-imburse us for our lost earnings.
What a joke? $2.27 payment makes it really hard for me to believe that this is all that I lost in earnings. I am not a happy ehow writer right now. On top of the small reimbursement that I received, my daily earnings today was cut down around $2 of what it usually is. I usually earn around $2 to $3 a day with my ehow articles.
What un-motivates me lately for continueing to write for ehow is not only the UK earnings but also the bugs that ehow has. The comments on my ehow member account hasn't been working for days and I still have articles that are un-published. There are articles that I have written that need attention and published. I look forward to reading my comments everyday and I haven't been able to do so in a long time.
Please understand that I do like writing at ehow and I really enjoy having all of my ehow friends. I just can't help noticing the negatives compared to the positives. I will keep everyone updated on how I do and my next post will contain another interesting screen shot of my earnings at ehow. If you have something to vent about concerning ehow, please leave your comments below. I will appreciate any feedback on what is happening with your ehow experiences.
What is happening with ehow? I can't help myself to constantly check my ehow stats every day. As some people may hate ehow, and others just love ehow no matter what, I am mutual. I have my moments where I am so upset with ehow but I still check my stats everyday. Usually at 10:00a.m. everyday, my earnings update and I am so thrilled. Seeing my earnings increase a couple dollars a day makes me wonder if it matters if I continue to write articles or just leave the ones that I have to earn the money by them selves?
My ehow comments tab is still not showing up and I have two articles that are still not published and I wrote them about a week ago. Yikes, how patient can somebody be? I want my articles published and contacting support at ehow is no longer working. Ehow says they are fixing the problems but how do we know for sure? Oh and another thing that has me curious is the UK website compensation that we all are waiting patiently for. Why can't we get more details on this?
I finally made my first $50 a month at ehow, YeePee. I had pushed myself to write 100 articles and in January of this year, 2010, I made $52.20. I am including a screen shot below of proof of earnings for January and so far in February, I have made $11.88 with 111 articles. I seem to be earning on average $2 a day from my earnings. Does it look like I am on track with everyone else? Please feel free to state your comments, postitive or negative in the comments below. Also, if you enclose your article links url or your ehow blog address, I will certainly take some time to read your articles.
What is ehow? Ehow is a "how to" writing website where you can earn money from your written articles. Within the year 2009 I was an ehow member for five total months. Within those five months, I managed to earn a total of $95.98. (I will provide a screen shot image of my earnings below.) I know that doesn't sound like much money for someone who is looking for ways to make money online but it was extra money that I really needed to help take care of my bills.
If a ehow member dedicates their free time to writing articles on ehow, in a couple years they can be earning up to $1,200 or more a month just writing articles on things that people are searching for. I have seen proof of these earnings and I am looking forward to the day that I see the 4 digits in my monthly earning column. I will continue to write articles and earn from ehow. If you decide to write at ehow, become a follower of this blog for future earning tips. There are secrets to earning more money at ehow. See my ehow earning progress for 2009 below. click the photo to make it easier to view. Please keep in mind that every month, I slowly increased the amount of articles that I wrote. I didn't get to 100 articles until January 2010. In my next post, I will give you updates on how I am doing on January and Febuary's ehow earnings.
