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• Reply Michele on November 13th, 2008 at 6:36 pm I think that writing 100 articles on ehow and 100 articles on your own blog would be a better experiment. Just my opinion. Michele´s last blog post..You are what you eat

• Reply Write for eHow on November 13th, 2008 at 8:52 pm Pat, like you I see both sides of things. If you choose to go with your own blog or blogs, you’re going to be devoting a lot of time to finding a profitable niche, getting your site indexed in google, and coming up high in the search results. At eHow you really only have to create the content, keeping in mind some basic SEO. What if you did your five articles/day experiment, but not for an entire year. Maybe for two or three months. Then you could begin to get a feel for how things were going to play out. Either way…good luck. Write for eHow´s last blog post..eHow Writer Featured on Local News

• Reply tightfistedmiser on November 14th, 2008 at 3:04 am I’m going to be doing my own eHow experiment so I hope that writing for eHow is more rewarding than putting the articles on my own blog. Many of the articles I’m going to write wouldn’t be relevant to my blog and putting them on eHow gives them a chance of reaching a much greater audience. Any articles that are relevant can be used as the basis for a post on my blog. The law of diminishing returns does apply to writing more posts for my blog. I see this as extra writing. I’m not going to be writing for eHow instead of writing for my blog, I’ll be writing for eHow in addition to writing for my blog. I think the pros outweigh the cons but I won’t know for sure until after I do it. tightfistedmiser´s last blog post..November Income Challenge Update

• Reply Cyn on November 14th, 2008 at 7:09 am Writing for eHow is faster and easier because you get to use a birdshot approach, covering a broad array of topics and hitting a wider audience. If you wrote for your own blog, your articles would most likely take longer to write and would have to be about one niche. In your math post, you said it would take you 2 hours per day to write 5 articles (I wager that if you take about 30 minutes a week to write out a list of topics, you could bang out your articles in 5-10 minutes, rather than 20, btw)… so for the next few months, double that. Write 5 articles for eHow, and 5 for your own blog each day. When you reach 100, you should have an idea as to which is more profitable. My prediction is that they’ll both be making roughly the same amount of money. Why? Because your own blog will get you more revenue per click BUT your eHow articles will probably see more traffic and total clicks. (I say this because before I read your math article, and before I started writing for eHow, one of my blogs was earning me roughly $43,000… close to what you expect to be earning with eHow.) Good luck and keep us posted.

  • Reply Vik Dulat on January 2nd, 2009 at 2:44 pm @Cyn, Great point. I was going to say the exact same thing but you said in a much better and clear way. Vik Dulat´s last blog post..Top articles from 2008

• Reply Amber on November 14th, 2008 at 7:22 am Just a thought, but you retain the rights to your articles on Ehow… so why not start a new blog and post the SAME articles on your blog and EHow? Don’t announce the URL of your new blog to readers here. That could skew your experiment. Instead, see how many readers you draw straight from Google, and compare results with EHow. This could save you A LOT of time and energy on writing brand new articles for a blog. I write for eHow, and I’ve been a little unsure of how everything works. I’m not finding which “niche” truly sales… some articles do well, some do nothing, and there’s no rhyme or reason to it. I’m definitely not getting rich on eHow, but I’m hoping the residual income will one day build. I also look for opportunities to publish the same articles on Helium or Associated Content, with rights remaining mine. Amber´s last blog post..I need your help!

• Reply Sarah H. on November 14th, 2008 at 10:25 am Well, I would tend to agree with others that it might be useful to compare both approaches side by side. Right now you really have no way of knowing for sure which method will be better. Amber brought up a good point about posting the same articles on your blog as on eHow (however of course you know that you want to avoid exact duplicate content so google doesn’t ban you…yes I read that eHow article!). My plan on eHow will likely be to write summaries of my blog’s posts, link back to my blog, and hope that one can leverage the other. And then on eHow I can also add a few more articles here and there that I could never write on my organizing blog because they wouldn’t fit within the confines of my limited topics. In any case, I don’t think you should give up on eHow. Blogs can earn money too, but I am quickly learning that it is NOT easy and I imagine only few blogs get to a level of earning substantial income (vs. small passive income). Give it a few months and then re-evaluate your approach. I think it’s a little too soon to jump to any conclusions because you’ve only been on eHow for a week. Nevertheless, thanks for sharing your process with us! It helps me evaluate my own approach too. Sarah H.´s last blog post..I’ll Be Homemade for Christmas – Gifts Using Photos

• Reply onlinefrugalist on November 14th, 2008 at 11:13 am I’m not as savvy as most of these responses, but I am into the diversification of income streams. Also, eHow is really a “set it and forget it” income stream. I say invest time into both projects, then average the return between them and your other projects. Thanks for getting me thinking in this direction!

• Reply jen brister on November 14th, 2008 at 12:32 pm I like the idea of setting up an experiement with blog entries vs. ehow articles. I tend to agree with Cyn, however, and think that they might end up with about equal revenue streams simply because of the popularity of the eHow site and how good it is with search engines.

• Reply passivefamilyincome on November 14th, 2008 at 12:38 pm I agree with Tight Fisted. There are so many articles I could write on eHow that I would not put on my personal finance blog. For example, I just wrote an article about how to bake allergen free pumpkin bread. My oldest son has food allergies, so I thought this would be a great way to post information I already had while possibly making some money from it. I would never post this on my PF blog. I don’t have the time to create another Allergen Free Recipe blog, so why not use eHow? I think that is the difference I am using. BTW – I was also posed with the same question on my blog from a reader who questioned why not just write all your posts on your site. passivefamilyincome´s last blog post..If I had an Extra $1,000

• Reply WriterGig on November 14th, 2008 at 2:42 pm I’ve looked at both sides of this, Pat and I believe some content will eanr much more on eHow than on my own blog or niche sites. See, eHow has a very high page rank with Google and draws an incredible amount of traffic that’s hard to beat. I have a hard time believing that my top-earning article on eHow would have made the same $1,000+ on my own site (that figure includes $800 in rev sharing form eHow).

• Reply Michele on November 14th, 2008 at 3:05 pm I agree with WriterGig. How long would it take you to get the high page rank eHow has? Like you said in a previous post, whatever income you do earn from eHow you can save. I’d say not to let one comment from one point of view get you off track from reaching the goal you envisioned when you set out on this journey. I’m trying a similar experiment, although I haven’t been able to make the time to get 5 articles a day posted. Best wishes to you, whatever you decide! *smiles* Michele Michele´s last blog post..Guest Post: Even Writers Need to Back Up

• Reply Andy @ Retire at 40 on November 15th, 2008 at 5:53 am I think you have your pros and cons about right. I think it comes down to two things: * eHow is already established, has a high page rank and lots of people hitting it * however, you could earn more per click on your own website The only way to figure out which is best is to do your 100 article experiment and see which wins. Of course, you won’t know the outcome for a while since it would take a while for any new blogs to filter through the search engines and the rest of the internet. I’d say just go with whatever your heart tells you and go for it like a charging bull. Andy @ Retire at 40´s last blog post..Prioritising so You Can Have Your Chosen Way of Life

• Reply Michael on November 15th, 2008 at 6:34 am Hey Pat, I am glad you contacted me, I have sent you a mail. If possible please lemme know when u`ll be online. Michael´s last blog post..Tutorial : Collapsible Menus using jQuery

• Reply Felicia on November 15th, 2008 at 2:41 pm Pat, I can only advise you from my own experience. I have a few blogs and a few websites. They’ve been around for a few years. While I am making steady money from each of them (some more than others), I wish I knew about eHow before I started my sites. It’s highly improbable that a brand new blog/website will make what you can make as a newbie at eHow. Maybe I didn’t have the right SEO skills, but it took me close to a year with my first site to earn what I earned in 45 days at eHow. Not to mention that with your own blog you have to monitor the posts, check for spam, update the software if necessary, spend lots of time marketing your site, tweaking the ads for optimal placement, and so on and so on. Yes, you can earn much more with your own site in theory, but you also spend a lot more time working and tweaking it than you do with an eHow article. Another thing to consider is that if Google doesn’t index your site or you inadvertently end up in the Google sandbox, your earnings will drop like a lead balloon. You don’t have to worry about such things with eHow. Finally, it’s not an all or nothing situation. Why not do both? Eventually the more lucrative option will win out. Either way, I wish you the best. Felicia´s last blog post..Finding the Write Opporunity

• Reply Online Dividends on November 16th, 2008 at 4:06 pm Pat, I kept writing a post response for a while, untill i decided to actually post it on my own blog, where it could be read more easily. Online Dividends´s last blog post..Passive Income as of 10/31/2008

• Reply Lindsay on November 16th, 2008 at 8:57 pm Hi Pat, Well, since you asked… I’d definitely treat eHow as a profitable hobby and focus more of your time and attention on your own sites. I don’t see any reason to ignore eHow altogether if it’s something you enjoy working on–sometimes it’s nice to have a number of different projects, so you don’t have to be locked into looking at the same blog every day. At the end of the day, though, writing for eHow vs building an asset you own and control 100% is… well, it’s the difference between thinking small and thinking big. Do you want to be a writer for eHow, or do you want to be the guy who owns eHow and sips maitais on the beach while other people write for him? There’s not necessarily a right or wrong answer–I’m still doing most of my own writing–but one route gives you the option of creating a real business and one does not. If you build up your own site, you have the freedom of scaling up and hiring writers at some point. I remember eHow before it got big–they used to whine on the DMOZ forums (I was an editor there) because we wouldn’t list them in a zillion categories. Even blogs can be scaled up with the work hired out. There are plenty of blogs these days that are staffed by multiple writers, and it’s not the hired writers who are building wealth–it’s the owners. Jason Calacanis hired writers for his network and sold “Weblogs Inc.” to AOL for $25 million a couple years ago. Anyway, I’ll just finish this up by adding that there’s no reason why everything you write about for eHow couldn’t be written about on a blog or site you created. eHow is just as much a niche as a site on making money–it teaches people how to do things. That’s the specific thing it’s known for. You could create PatHow Lindsay´s last blog post..How to Create Financial Independence with Your Writing (AKA Be a Dairy Farmer, Not a Cattle Rancher)

• Reply Debi on November 16th, 2008 at 9:07 pm Hi, Pat… Can you use a ‘Best of Both Worlds’ approach? By that I mean continuing with eHow and having your own site, but using cross-promotion. I always look at the URLs in an eHow profile when I’ve read a good article because I assume the writer must have more interesting things to say on their own blog. Conversely, you could sprinkle pertinent eHow articles (or references to them) throughout your new site, enticing the reader to go check out all you’ve written on eHow. Once there, a blog-estrian will be intrigued by your extensive catalogue of appealing titles to choose from, no? Just a thought, Debi Debi´s last blog post..Nice Guys Finish Last

• Reply Leanne b. on November 17th, 2008 at 6:09 am I would write for both, but don’t give up on your experiment. You seem to be doing quite well for a newbie on eHow, I would keep it up for at least a couple of months to see what comes about of it. It takes a little time to get established on eHow, but I am sure it will definately work out for you, and be quite profitable. Well I am sure you have quite a readership on your blog, you will definately get the attraction and views on eHow. If it doesn’t work, you will be earning that income for life!

• Reply WriterGig on November 17th, 2008 at 6:21 am This has been a very interesting discussion, and it’s funny to see the chain of events (or … blg posts and comments) that sparked it. Here is one big difference for me: I spend very little, if any, time on a daily basis actually promoting my eHow articles. The natural search engine traffic and large eHow readership produce tons of hits to my articles. However, in addition to writing for my own blogs and sites, there’s promotion, back link building, social netowrking etc. needed to be successful. For the time spent per article, my eHow article have thus far proven more profitable. WriterGig´s last blog post..Passive Residual Income Monthly Report

• Reply Sarah H. on November 17th, 2008 at 6:33 am This is a great discussion and I’ve really enjoyed reading everyone’s thoughts! Pat, I just wanted to drop by and congratulate you on having written almost 75 articles on eHow already…wow! From that point of view alone, I think you shouldn’t worry too much about your approach to eHow yet. It seems like you’ve been able to write articles with ease and after a couple of months at the same pace, you should DEFINITELY have a huge base of articles from which to evaluate your profit potential. Sarah H.´s last blog post..Don’t be tricked by toothpaste: Three money-saving tips

• Reply Write for eHow on November 17th, 2008 at 9:06 am Well that explains why we haven’t heard from Pat since he posted this. He’s been too busy writing articles at eHow! Write for eHow´s last blog post..eHow vs. Your Own Site

• Reply Sarah H. on November 17th, 2008 at 9:36 am @Write for eHow I guess so! Sarah H.´s last blog post..Don’t be tricked by toothpaste: Three money-saving tips

• Reply Cyn on November 17th, 2008 at 1:27 pm He’s not eHow-ing either. No articles since yesterday. Maybe he’s just thinking it all through. ?

• Reply Michele on November 17th, 2008 at 6:54 pm I had to come back and comment again, because I’m doing my own eHow experiment. I’ll tell you that my blog I’ve had since 2007 has only recently started earning adsense revenue and within the first few days of having a few articles up at eHow, I’m earning income! It’s steadily rising and I couldn’t be happier! *smiles* Michele Michele´s last blog post..Guest Post: Don’t Lose the Joy!

• Reply Cyn on November 17th, 2008 at 7:30 pm Michele (and perhaps we should continue this discussion somewhere else LOL), but I’m the opposite. With my blogs (one in particular), I saw adsense income right off the bat, and now earn a really nice sum from it each month. eHow not so much. 45 articles in 5 or 6 days: $0.86. For the experiment to work, you would need to run articles on eHow and on a personal blog, BUT the articles on each would have to be on the same subjects (not necessarily duplicate articles, but duplicate theme). (IOW – how to make grilled cheese x 2. How to shave a pig x 2. How to bathe a tuba x 2. – you get the point.) I’m thinking with such a wide-reaching variety of topics, the articles on eHow would earn more, because nobody would really be stopping by the personal blog of a guy who writes about making sandwiches one day, and shaving pigs another day. BUT (”everyone I know has a big but”) — if he dedicated the same amount of time writing 5 daily posts on one dedicated subject for a niche site… THAT would bring in the most revenue. So now I change my earlier statement, because I realized something while thinking “aloud”: In order to get a TRUE idea of where five articles a day would bring more revenue, you’d need to write fifteen articles per day. Five for eHow. Five for a personal blog, with articles that would echo the eHow articles. And five for a niche blog. In the end, my guess is the results would be (in order of highest income to least): 1) niche site 2) eHow 3) weird anything-goes blog.

• Reply Michele on November 17th, 2008 at 7:40 pm Wow, Cyn, thanks so much for your comment! I’m actually surprised that in the few days I’ve been writing on eHow (I’ve had the account for a while now but just started writing and submitting to it), 4 of my 17 articles have already earned $0.85. So, I’m looking forward to what happens. One of those 4 articles made $0.56 of that. I’m really curious just to see where it leads. I do have another blog that started earning Adsense revenue pretty much right away, but it goes back to what WriterGig and some of the others said of us having to promote the blog/site and having to try to get a high page rank, right? I’m still not a genius on the SEO stuff, but I’m learning. And, I think Pat might like reading all our thoughts on this! LOL *smiles* Michele Michele´s last blog post..Guest Post: Don’t Lose the Joy!

• Reply eHow experiment - New Passive Income Stream? on November 17th, 2008 at 8:48 pm [...] writing for eHow has numerous benefits, as pointed out at Smart Passive Income. The writing interface is extremely easy to use, the articles are Google friendly, and I can write [...]

• Reply PFI Weekly Updates - November 18 (2008) — Passive Family Income on November 18th, 2008 at 10:04 am [...] time – Writing articles for eHow vs. Writing articles on your blog. Check out the comments over on Smart Passive Income. It seems that most people commenting are leaning towards writing articles on eHow, but there are [...]

• Reply kcjo on November 20th, 2008 at 10:24 am I have been using ehow for 50 days now and i have made over $130 so far. I am up to about $6-$9 a day now and i have only had a few days where my blogs were over $2. Now i am no expert blogger but i have seen so much more money using ehow then i could even imagine using blogs. Im sure if you advertise and take the time to work with your blogs then you could make more money but when you publish an ehow article then it already has a high ranking in the search engines. I get about 20 times more views on my ehow articles then i do on my blogs. I like ehow better anyways because of the user-friendly template and you do not have to mess with HTML or any other nonsense.

• Reply Cyn on November 20th, 2008 at 10:48 am Wow, kcjo, congrats! That’s excellent that you’re making that with eHow (and so soon, at that)! I need to sit down and rethink my eHow articles, I guess. I’ve been with eHow for a week now (8 days, I think). I also have a few blogs. One of my blogs averages about $120 per day. My eHow earnings so far: $4.95. I’m happy with it, but I could be happier. Congrats once again.

• Reply Studenomics on November 23rd, 2008 at 11:37 pm is ehow offered to Canadians? Studenomics´s last blog post..When Should You Not Save Money?

• Reply Pat on November 23rd, 2008 at 11:40 pm @ Studenomics, Unfortunately, eHow is only offered in the U.S. at the moment. If I ever hear anything new, I’ll definitely let everyone know.

• Reply Studenomics on November 23rd, 2008 at 11:43 pm NEVERMIND. I just found out us Canadians are excluded. I guess all I can hope for is that everyone checks out my blog =D

• Reply Kevin on November 24th, 2008 at 9:08 am I would think that a logical hybrid would be to just write. Anything and everything, just write it. If the article fits a particular niche that one of sites occupy use it there, if you can shop it as a guest post on some other blog do that, finally, if the materially is completely unrelated to any of your current ventures, post it on eHow.

• Reply jolocol on November 24th, 2008 at 12:02 pm Why choose? I do both and I feel both will grow. You own your articles on eHow so they could appear on both. Just a thought!

• Reply Amylaine on November 24th, 2008 at 1:26 pm Wow, this is such a interesting blog post convo. I have been very successful with ehow as long with several others. However I know some writers have not. It really depends how your writing style fits. I agree that a side by side experiment would be the only way to know.

• Reply DARLA on November 25th, 2008 at 6:28 am HEY PAT, read this post first and see how long it takes you to recognize me, before checking my name link. This is great blog. My blog is a joke and I need to totally start over. For me, getting adsense and blog together to make money was just too much work with my lifestyle. I learned a lot doing it and that has helped in other areas. AT any rate, check out this article. It isn’t about just one thing its about working smarter. Earnings are not high for me right now, just steady growth. You seem to be a good go getter and so your experiment is going to pay off whatever you do. Great start on eHow- Kudos! I have asked the eHow PTB to allow us to put on third party functions like counters on our articles. Give us control of webpage looks on groups: and eventually I will ask for user webpage with layout control. That said, I have asked for RSS feed for article lists like a dripping faucet for months. I believe a RSS on article lists would expand readership. I wont’ mention the other possibility I see with that. I learned from I think it was ProBlogger, or maybe it was Dwaud, that if you do it once you can do it again. You repeat the successes. Makes sense to me. DOI. The article I mentioned to read it this how to: http://www.ehow.com/how_4562904_double-writing-dollars.html

• Reply Master Dayton on November 27th, 2008 at 9:40 pm I think you should proceed with your ehow experiment. First of all, ehow has a fantastic standing with Google, and if you’re going for Adsense from blogs, you need very narrow niche blogs for each topic, which means you might be doing a ton more work and you might not be able to rank the way you could with ehow. Also, ehow allows the huge array of interests for those of us who have trouble staying with one niche (myself included). Besides, if you want, print the ehow articles so you’re making something, then re-format and re-write them for your own blogs and see what happens. You should be able to figure out pretty darn quickly whether it works or not. Master Dayton´s last blog post..Freelance Writing in Recession

• Reply ALRADY on December 1st, 2008 at 1:08 pm One thing I didn’t mention is that Ehows has a higher readership than many sites you would think. It is in the top 10 sites I believe. Last year it averaged over 11million hits per month… ( i wish they all went to my best article. )

• Reply Katherine on December 4th, 2008 at 9:42 am I wouldn’t stop writing for eHow. Success online depends on creating multiple income streams. Pick the ones you enjoy and move on. More pros for eHow: Ability to promote your own work through articles and forum posts eHow has high PR so the articles get ranked – one of my articles is in the number one spot on the first page But what I’d do is scale back. You have a strong base of 130 + articles which is more than enough. Now, why not just write five articles a month, participate in the site now and then, and spend the rest of your time working on the blog? I’ve been writing 7 articles a month for over a year and my earnings increase every single month. It’s like wine that way, I guess. Katherine´s last blog post..Making Money Online is About Doing the RIGHT Things

• Reply ALRADY on December 4th, 2008 at 1:40 pm One other thing Pat, in looking at all the responses, a majority are from eHow users. That means you are successfully networked there,with friends & drawing a following of links from your articles and forum posts. If you were to do that with other social media as well would your earnings be higher? For instance my wall has helped me. (link to wall on name) Twitter and Stumble have helped me and now I am learning Digg. I love the post about why not start a Pat-how. You actually touched on one of the problems with my blogs is that I am too varied. And since Ehow I have not had time for the one niche blog that actually earned me more thant 18 cents. (i’m up to $9.78) I think that successful bloggers, who come to eHow have a distinct advantage in making money quickly. The best thing is that all rights are retained so articles can be listed on ehow and blog at the same time.

• Reply LilBlackDress on January 6th, 2009 at 9:51 pm I enjoy writing for eHow and after a couple months was/am up to a few hundred dollars a month. A lot of that was from learning from the pros like David, AmyLaine and WriterGig..thank you so much That is how I earned so much so quickly. Regardless, I want to make more and opted to start my own websites. Now Pat contrary to what you mentioned, one can do affiliate marketing at eHow to some extent. For example if you write about how to make more money on eHow you could include a link to WriterGigs ebook. You can include appropriate links at eHow. But with ones own website you are in total control and can sell more effectively if that is the goal. I have had some articles chart at google from eHow overnight and I know that is not going to happen with my own websites. But I also dont believe I can build the kind of money at eHow that I can with sites that i control. I am also surprised Pat you do not do affiliate marketing….I think you could really do well there.

• Reply Stephen on January 26th, 2009 at 9:30 am Both have their place. I consult with small (and some large businesses) on SEM. Sometimes I post an article relating to a niche business area and it will rank very high on Google. I then show a business how they can have a top Internet ranking by posting an informational article and then linking back to their business website. Sometimes I write an article before a meeting, and then show how high I can rank in a potential customers keywords. It’s a very compelling sales tactic that few companies use. Stephen´s last blog post..Image Search

• Reply Sarakastic on January 30th, 2009 at 9:09 am I have several of my own blogs & have for the past 3 years. I had the same concern about eHow & sites like it, I didn’t want to share the percentage. I started writing for ehow a few months ago & by no means am I a success story. However, my blogs are all very niche related so ehow has let me put up articles that don’t fit there. Overall I get a lot more clicks on my ehow articles & that’s where I’m focusing more of my time.

• Reply Bella Casa on February 8th, 2009 at 11:39 am I just wrote my first ehow article, How To Make A Phone Charging Station. I even have an Amazon.com affiliate link in it…can’t wait to see how it goes. I think this is a good outlet for me!

• Reply RachelB on April 5th, 2009 at 11:29 am This is an amazing discussion. Like so many others here, I have learned so much from the veteran eHow writers who are so generous with their knowledge about how to make the most out of writing for eHow. It’s great conversations like these that are a part of what makes eHow so special, at least in my opinion.

• Reply Melissa on April 30th, 2009 at 7:32 am Hi Pat, Before I answer I have to give a little background about myself and a few observations about you and your website. First of all, you seem to have this thing together! I love your site and am inspired by the design, content and thoroughness of your blog. I am a new SAHM who picked up blogging to share my knowledge (none of which includes html, computer-savyness, or any of that.) I simply use blogger so I can pretty much write and publish about baby stuff. I also write on Ehow as newmama. This is my fifth month and I have seen a great increase in my earnings over the last few months. This will be my first $100 month. I write a lot of ehow articles about mom stuff, baby related articles, homemaking, saving money, etc. These are the same types of things I write on my blog. Infact, I link most of my ehow articles through my blog. I have made nothing more than .18 from adsense on my blog. I guess what I’m trying to say is – even though I write similar content for Ehow and for my SAHM blog I can’t even compare the profits. I think it’s because Ehow has such a wide audience. I can reach so many more people through ehow. I think the biggest reason is because of how Google ranks ehow articles. Anyway, that’s just my 2 cents….in a longwinded kind of way!

• Reply Rich on June 1st, 2009 at 6:08 am Hi Pat, I’m curious as to why you chose to do the experiment with eHow rather than Squidoo? Did you consider Squidoo or other options before deciding to go with eHow? Thanks. Great website. You are an inspiration to me and other IBMA members! Rich

• Reply Marshall on June 1st, 2009 at 8:45 pm Why not duplicate your work on a number of sites. I do that with all my articles and increase my income many times over.

• Reply Rachelle Williams on June 21st, 2009 at 3:03 am Hey Pat, how are you? I am a bit like you in that I will research something to death until I come up with the right answers. Everything that you mentioned is true on both the pro and con side. I have had the same questions myself. What I decided to do was to write one blog for each of my passionate niches (three) and write on eHow for everything else; why not just do both? I have been writing on eHow for just under a year now, and I didn’t take them seriously until December of last year. There is GOOD MONEY to be made on eHow, why not take advantage of both ideas? Whatever you decide, I Wish You The Best of Luck, and keep on churning out these wonderful blog posts!

• Reply Cory on July 6th, 2009 at 2:31 pm My opinion on the Ehow thing… Is it not possible to profit from both places? Your Blog and Ehow? If you write a blog entry that has a “how to” structure, you can simply adapt the format to ehow. I think this can give you 3 advantages. First of course is the increased passive income. Secondly, if you put your blog address in the ” resources” window, you will get your link in front of that many more eyes. Lastly, that same linkwill be spidered by google etc. Just my opinion.

• Reply Cyn on July 6th, 2009 at 2:36 pm @Cory I don’t think there was a question about whether or not either would earn income… it was a question of which would earn more, in the span of a year. Yes, he could write similar articles for his blog and for eHow, but –unless all of his eHow articles were about one specific niche– the blog would be a willy-nilly compilation of unrelated posts. Such blogs are usually not as successful as niche blogs.

• Reply passive income on July 12th, 2009 at 1:56 pm What I do, and I think you’d really make more money with it, is to post your articles FIRST on one of your sites (you can have many sites, of course), and then, after google has found it, go and post it on eHow and other sites that share their revenues. I know a few ways to “repurpose” articles, and if you go to that effort, and put original work on the various sites, you’ll get the best of both worlds.

• Reply Jeremy Miller on July 20th, 2009 at 10:45 am I recently started my own eHow experiment and I am completely shocked at the results. I earned $190 in the month of June and I am over $350 for this month. I started on May 28th of this year so definitely not too bad after 2 months! Your website has some great information on it. I have started my own blog at http://makemoneyonehow.com. I’d love to know what you think about it! Thanks for the motivation, tips and excellent blog! Jeremy

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• Reply Julia on October 29th, 2009 at 9:01 am Pat, thank you for being so willing to share details, it’s really helpful for someone just starting out. As you can see, I’m trying to sort of deconstruct the numbers of your success to see what is possible when it comes to traffic and SEO. So from what I can figure, you are really driving huge amounts of traffic to Greem Exam Academy. For a $10,000 month, you’d need about 125,000 visitors to your home page, of which about 11,000 would go to your sales letter, of which about 285 would actually convert to buyers. Does that sound about right? Seems like a daunting number of visitors to recreate for a newibe like myself.

  • Reply Pat on October 29th, 2009 at 4:18 pm Well, I do have varying prices for different products, so those numbers you mention are not totally exact, but at the peak of my website just a few months ago, those numbers sound just about right. Mind you, I was a total newbie when this happened to, so never say it isn’t possible. With determination, hard work (and yes, some luck), it can happen. All the best to you Julia!

• Reply Corletia on November 12th, 2009 at 10:29 pm Pat, I haven’t read all the responses, so I might be repeating something that has already been said…but I feel that you would make more money on your own website. You mentioned that you could write several posts about the engagement & wedding stuff you all went through..well I think you could create another income stream from this & have it tie into your blog. Write a “how to” ebook called “How My Passive Income Paid for My Dream Wedding” and base it on your wedding posts. And if some of the wedding services you used have an affiliate program…you get the picture, more cash. Even branching out with a series of ebooks such as Smart Passive Income Streams for Beginners, Smart Passive Income for Kids, (because kids have been known to have Squidoo pages), etc. You could start out with posts for these too. P.S. I like your random mood swings, it makes people “think”.

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