Earning Revenue at HowToee.com
Writers stand to earn 50% revenue on their pages. A website link is allowed in the bio at the bottom of each article, which is good for promotional purposes, re: outbound and thus inbound site links.
As indicated at HowToee, additional monetization methods will be implemented in future.
HowToee.com Open to Canadians
I contacted HowToee today to see if this opportunity is open to Canadians and found out that it is. Canadian writers have long wanted a site similar to eHow, where they could submit easy-to-write how-to articles and make money doing so. I'm a fan of the how-to article format because these articles are so easy to create.
Pros & Cons of HowToee.com
Ownership of Articles--A drawback I can see with the HowToee site is that, once submitted, your articles become the property of HowToee. This policy of holding onto articles is similar to that found at Helium. I'm personally not a fan of sites that claim ownership of writers' articles because sooner or later, you may want to remove and place theses articles elsewhere--and are then not free to do so. If this is not a problem for you, then HowToee may be a good fit.
Newer Site--From the look of things, HowToee appears to be a newer site but it may attract traffic over time. Again, this may mean that the site doesn't yet attract enough visitors for writers to generate any real earnings; conversely, some writers have gotten in at the ground floor at newer sites and have found success writing for these. When I inquired about this, I was given the following information:
Those who establish a good position on this site, will be winners, because we will automatically link to all of the fundamental and initial articles. Learn more: What Kind of Articles Receive the Highest Amount of Traffic.
Make Money Writing for Howtoee.com--Tips
- Write 400-word how-to articles.
- Include links within your article body to your other related HowToee articles to increase article traffic.
- Add your website URL in the bio box that appears at the foot of all articles. This can be done via the Profile section, using applicable HTML tags.
- Write content-rich, longer pillar articles as outlined via the link above. These type of articles are assigned relevance with the search engines and tend to do better over the longterm.
*How To can also be found at Facebook as Howtoee.com.
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Hi,
ReplyDeleteThank you for your informative post.
Regarding the ownership of the articles, HowToee has updated that page and has clarified it:
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The articles published on HowToee can not be published anywhere else. Why?
The reason is clear. Nobody likes duplicated content. When an article is published on HowToee, search engines know it as the HowToee article, because first it was seen by them on HowToee, not on any other website/blog. If you publish this article anywhere else later (for example on your own website, or on an article directory), it will be known by the search engines as a duplicated content stolen from HowToee, even if the article is written by you. But, if your article stays here on HowToee it will keep on making money for you and sending clicks to your links forever. If you write articles for the purpose of article marketing, or to improve your online presence on the other sites, you have to forget about having the same articles on your own sites or on any other site, because you will ruin their effect by duplicating them.
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The above explanations can be found on HowToee on the below page:
http://www.howtoee.com/write-make-money/
Thank you for the clarification for readers. I was speaking, however, in reference to an article that a writer wishes to remove and use elsewhere. In this scenario, the article would not be duplicate content, since it has been unpublished. Sometimes a writer chooses to remove an article at one site, believing it may do better at a different site. Different sites attract different types of traffic. To illustrate: a recipe might not do well at one site but may do better at a different site. I've noticed these differences across sites I write for. After awhile, if one studies his/her articles, one gets a feel for what types of articles do best at which sites.
ReplyDeleteBest regards for your new site.
Hi Melody,
DeleteYou are welcome.
Un-publishing an article from one site and publishing it on another site will not also work, because as we explained, from the search engines point of view an article or content belongs to the site that it was seen on that site first.
By un-publishing of an article from one site you can not remove it from the search engines index and cache. The search engines will still have the article in their index - at least for a while - and when they see it on the second site, will know it as a duplicated or stolen article.
On the other hand, once an article is published on a site and stays there for a while, so many other sites will link to it and will have some part of it published in different places. Removing the article from the initial site, doesn't remove the links from the other sites. These links are known by the search engines as another proof of the ownership of the article. And all of them are pointed to the initial site.
The conclusion is that once an article is published on a website and indexed by search engines, it will be known as a duplicated content if published on any other website.
Thank you.
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ReplyDeleteYou raise some good points. I always thought that as long as an article was removed and not duplicated across multiple sites, it could not be considered duplicated content if only one version was "live."
ReplyDeleteYour points are well-taken about the article being stored in the search engines' index and cache. Also, your insights about other sites linking to these articles are sound also.
I'm aware that Google has some sort of clean-up function to remove dead links but your explanation about duplicated content from Google's standpoint has been very helpful indeed.
Thank you Melody :-)
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