Updates Concerning eHow

Well I guess you know I have been slacking on my new blog. Yes, I'm ashamed, but I promise I am really trying to get caught up. I would like to report my eHow earnings for the month of January. I more than doubled what I made last month. The payment was $31.55, so I am happy with that. I did reach my goal of 50 more articles this past month, which left me with a total of 100 articles. Yipee!

Now, I know I had said I would try to produce at least 50 articles each month, but I have been swamped with all of my new adventures. I think I am going to take a couple of months off with ehow and just let my earnings grow while I catch up on some other work. I can honestly say, I should be trying to promote my articles more than I have been. Once I get an article finished, I do manage to submit the url to Google and blurb about it on Xomba, but that's about it. Occasionally, I will post about the article on some of my other blogs. I have got to start working harder on promoting, but it seems so time consuming.

I also managed to focus on keywords more, so we will see if that helps. I also started adding more resources to my articles from places such as Amazon. Any extra money helps, right? That's another great thing about Xomba. It gives me the opportunity to earn a little bit through my adsense account. I'm not giving up by any means. I just have to refocus and get myself in a more disciplined mode. I do have another adventure I want to share with you in a few days, so stay tuned for other ways to make money from home...or on vacation!

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Finding Out All Types of Information

As many of you know, my article writing days are getting a little better. My eHow earnings are growing daily and mainly because of some help I have been contributing to them. I have been reading all types of info from other peoples blogs, ebooks and forums.

One of the key factors I have found to writing is using keywords. I do this by using Google Adwords: Keyword Tool and Wordtacker's Free Keyword Tool. Yes, it takes time to research your keywords, but it has been paying off since I have started to implement this great feature. Apparently, the keywords is what gets the articles higher in the search engines. Everyone knows the higher you are on search results, the likely your article is to be read. This increases your chance for someone to click on your ads and earn you money. This is a good thing and should be something you take the time to do.

Now another great contribution to your articles would be telling everyone about them What better way than social networking. I was introduced to this site by a friend of mine. It has turned out to be a wonderful way to draw more traffic to my articles. It is called Xomba. The way I have been using this social network site, Xomba, has been by using the blurbs option. I write a small introduction to one of my eHow articles and enter the link, then submit. This draws more people to read my articles, but that's not all. I signed up for a Google Adsense account and entered my adsense info into my Xomba profile so I could get paid for the advertisements listed on my blurbs. So, I am benefiting two ways from my Xomba, isn't that great?

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My eHow Challenge

Around the first of December, I decided to get my feet wet in this eHow challenge. At first, I have to admit, I thought there is no way I could write half as many articles as some have on there. I just knew there were not enough "how to" articles in my little brain, but I decided to take the plunge anyway.

What attracted me the most was, of course, the Residual Income. Nothing is better than doing some work and continuing to get paid for an article for years down the road. So I started on the adventure and ended up with approximately 50 articles by the end of the month. Apparently, I had more in my head than what I gave myself credit for. I was so proud of myself, not to mention the fact that I made $15 doing it. I know that's not much, but from here on out I will continue to get paid for those 50 articles. Eventually, I will be paid beyond the amount I could have made writing one article for a company that pays me per piece or word.

Now since the beginning of January, I have only added approximately 13 more articles. With the holidays and all I was slacking. But my profit is already at $12.63 for this month, and today is just the 11th. So I am almost at the same amount I was for the entire month of December, and it has taken me half the amount of time to get there. I firmly believe in goals, and I have set a goal of 50 more articles for this month. Yes, I know. I need to get to work or I won't make it. Anyway, if you are a blogger or write articles of any type, then you can definitely write eHow articles. Of course, since I have started I have learned several key factors in making my articles better. I will share some of these with you later on in other post. For now, check out my profile and let me know what you think about my articles.

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