As you all know, I had purchased an eBook several months ago to help me with my eHow residual income. Since reading this eBook and incorporating the tips in several of my articles, my earnings had went from $30 to around $80 without adding new eHow articles. According to Maria O’Brien’s eBook How to Earn Passive Income at eHow (the one I purchased), the earnings per article should average $3 a month. However, after calculating my average per article from last month, my earnings don’t even come close. My earnings last month were $71.33. I have 113 residual articles written and published. 113 multiplied by 3 gives me $339. At the moment, I’m less than one thirds of the way there.
So, in order to improve my eHow earnings, my first experiment is to optimize keywords by using a combination of keyword phrases, changing poor keywords to keywords with at least 10,000 global monthly searches using the Google Adwords tool, and maintaining a keyword density of 2-3%. My second experiment is to backlink all eHow articles that aren’t on page 1 of Google when I search for main keyword phrases used in the articles. My guess is that, when I improve my eHow article traffic by increasing keyword optimization and using backlinking strategies, I should receive more residual income, since I’ll be increasing my earning potential on eHow. By the time my eHow experiments are half way through and I edit at least 57 articles, I should receive a dramatic increase in earnings. I’m hoping that I’ll start averaging $3 per article a month or more by the time I’m done with my eHow experiments.
For the next few months, I’ll be working on 4 eHow articles a day, using keyword optimization and backlinking strategies to improve these articles. I’ll keep you updated on my progress every other day.
Tags: eHow, Search engines, SEO, Writing
