My highest earning ehow article was swept away. OK- it sucked. It was very poorly written. If I was eHow,I would have deleted it,too.
However,it was bringing me over $30 a month. From 5 minutes of work.
I wondered why it hadn’t made any money this month,so I clicked it to see the ad alignment and found an entirely different article. by some guy named Bruce. Hey Bruce,wanna buy me a cup of coffee for all those incoming links I created?
It’s a crappy situation all around. There’s no way to ensure that all of my incoming links end up on my article- can a URL be redirected according to the referring page? And still- that wouldn’t meet eHow’s goal of making sure their content wasn’t crap.
Luckily- the fear that writers would have no access to their deleted work is completely inaccurate,go through the “edit”feature and there’s your stuff. I was able to verify that it was,indeed,a crappier article than I had remembered.
Just to be a good sport,I went ahead and redirected all those inbound links I had built to other articles in the same content web.
I’m not done with them,each site I write for has different editorial standards and I am not interested in becoming a famous writer,or having the best spelling,grammar or picturesque speech. My goal here is to bring in a decent online income,without spending 12 hours a day online.
So I’ll continue keeping my eggs in many baskets,I’ll re-post my crappy content somewhere that has no standards and in the future,I’ll keep a better eye on my high earning articles.