There is a lot of speculation about who is the top earner at eHow.com.  A lot of eHow-ers assume that the top earner is someone who has gone semi-public with their earnings.  When the question of who earns the most income at eHow pops up on the eHow forums, the names Writer Gig, Janet Ford, and David Sarokin pop up a lot.   Of the three, I know that at least two of them have said that they earn in excess of $2,000 per month at eHow.

So is one of those people the top earner at eHow?  Not if my sources are correct.  I have had a couple of people contact me to let me know that they earn in the “high four figures” each month at eHow.  One of them tells me that he anticipates that he will be earning in excess of $10,000 per month at eHow by January 2010.   He let me in on a little secret of his, and I plan to put it to the test to see if it will indeed increase my eHow earnings to his level.

Fingers crossed. 

An eHower recently contacted me to tell me that when she first started writing for eHow, she was hit with dozens of requests from other writers, asking her to “digg” their articles.  She says, “At the time, I didn’t know what “digg” was, and thought Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re a professional blogger who earns income by using Adsense on your sites, you know about “Google slaps.”  These are akin to penalties in football: various punishments dished out for various infractions (big and small) that a blogger might be guilty of.

I’ve recently become alerted to the fact that Amazon slaps, too.  Many Read the rest of this entry »

eHow writer 17of26 recently developed a new application that helps eHow writers keep track of their eHow earnings.     170f26 is the screen name of Chris Smith, a 37 year old software developer whose eHow articles usually focus on computer and technical niches.    I had the opportunity to Read the rest of this entry »

I’m taking a small break from writing for a while.  I’m working with my local American Cancer Society’s Read the rest of this entry »

Holy.  Freakin’. Cow.   Last month, I hoped (and knew) that I’d reach my $1,000 eHow earnings in a single month.  I just didn’t realize that I’d surpass it by so far.  So this is it, folks… this is my last earnings update (although I will continue to write the blog).  Last month, my earnings were $961.01.   My earnings for the month of March, 2009, are Read the rest of this entry »

Recently, eHow has been going through some changes on their site.  One of the things they’re changing is their earnings updates interface.  Apparently, the batch reporting has to be switched to a new system because (hurray!) there are too many eHow writers earning too many dollars every day.     So, while they are Read the rest of this entry »

I’ve seen an increase in my income from eHow every single month that I’ve been writing for eHow.  But this month just exceeded my wildest dreams.  I thought I’d maybe double or triple my income from January’s earnings.  I was wrong.  My earnings last month were $130.40 (which I was very happy with).  My earnings for February, 2009, are Read the rest of this entry »

Last week, I started an experiment at eHow (which I wrote about in a previous post). Today is the last day of the experiment, and my results are in.

To recap: The entire time, I didn’t Read the rest of this entry »

In all the time that I’ve been writing for eHow, I can’t count the number of times that the issue of the earnings algorithm has been discussed in the forums. Writers are always trying to figure out precisely how eHow figures their earnings. eHow’s FAQ page states: Read the rest of this entry »