Working at Home Websites — eHow

Note from Lee: I have been curi­ous about eHow for quite some time now.  How do you make money from par­tic­i­pat­ing on this site?  Ezine writer Chris Pon­tine answers this ques­tion and offers his insights into eHow…

By Chris Pon­tine

If you haven’t heard of eHow yet con­sider your­self lucky that I am writ­ing about this web­site. Why do I say this? Well eHow is prob­a­bly by far one of the best spots to get started for an online busi­ness due to the fact of there very high rank on search engines and there very gen­er­ous rev­enue shar­ing pro­gram they offer as well. Per­son­ally I signed up for eHow not know­ing it’ ben­e­fit till about 5 months after sign­ing up. I wrote 1 arti­cle and left for a while and then ended up com­ing back real­iz­ing that I actu­ally made money on it monthly.

So eHow in a very sim­ple term is a spot to free­lance and write “How To” arti­cles on, yup really that is it. But truth­fully there are so many arti­cles that need to be writ­ten that it will take a very long time to start get­ting super cre­ative to come up with ideas. Let’s go ahead and take a look at all the great points eHow offers.

1. Great start for a writer: eHow offers a great way to get your name out into the world of writ­ing. With there very friendly rela­tion­ship with search engines your arti­cles are usu­ally likely to end up on page 1 or 2 of the search results of any user. I would say over­time though you will notice front page, and pos­si­bly even the first result. If need check my arti­cles out just for some proof. My eHow page.

2. eHow’s writ­ers com­pen­sa­tion pro­gram: eHow offers a very great pro­gram where you actu­ally get paid for var­i­ous rea­sons on your arti­cles that you write. Now they won’t exactly tell you what earns you money dead on but they give you an idea. Stated in there FAQ sec­tion it say’s

Q. What is my pay­ment based on?

A. You get paid per arti­cle. Your article’s earn­ing poten­tial can be based on a com­bi­na­tion of sev­eral ele­ments, includ­ing the amount of times it’s been viewed and its cat­e­gory. The more use­ful your arti­cles are to the reader, the more money you could make. Check out our tips and guide­lines, like adding pho­tos, and eHow’s most-requested top­ics page for How To ideas.

To get the most out of under­stand­ing there writer’s com­pen­sa­tion pro­gram I rec­om­mend stop­ping by there FAQ sec­tion to read up on it and become famil­iar with it as well.

3. User friendly web­site: eHow offers a very sim­ple face to there entire web­site. From sign­ing up to get­ting started, they offer tips and tricks to make sure you get what you need. As well, they offer a FAQ area to answer many ques­tions so that you under­stand it.

4. Net­work­ing: eHow is a great spot to really build up your list of friends that also write. It helps grow your own com­mu­nity so your name grows and over­time will really help your arti­cles out and in gen­eral you. Some other key areas they offer for net­work­ing are there abil­ity to “Cre­ate Groups”. Read my arti­cle “How to cre­ate a group on eHow” for more details on this area. As well, the abil­ity to send mes­sages inside the eHow network.

5. Per­sonal pro­file page: Your pro­file page on eHow rocks in my opin­ion. It offers a ton of updated infor­ma­tion such as arti­cles writ­ten, earn­ings for the cur­rent month, arti­cle views, fea­tured arti­cles, notes from friends, and favorite arti­cles. Be on the look out as well for more infor­ma­tion added to make your home page more user friendly.

6. Guar­an­teed to earn: I know guar­an­tees can be tough to throw out there but truth­fully it almost seems impos­si­ble not to earn off this web­site with a lit­tle effort.

Remem­ber, this is going to be a web­site where you can get a nice start at work­ing at home for a long term. Just remem­ber to keep writ­ing arti­cles that are ben­e­fi­cial, and as well to pro­mote them.

That is all for now my friend. Be sure to check out the eHow sec­tion here to get more tips and infor­ma­tion on eHow.

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Thanks,

Chris

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