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eHow is Cutting Down on SPAM
Felicia | Feb 24, 2009 | Comments 5
Apparently eHow is clamping down on folks who are looking to get rich quick with eHow articles. Personally, I’m happy that they’re monitoring the articles placed there.
I’ve been writing form them for a couple of months now and have been pretty happy with the experience. I’ve got to admit, when I first started, I wanted to place as many articles on eHow as I
could. With less than stellar articles entitled How to Buy Clothes for Your Dog and How to Buy a Cheap TV, I think I scraped the bottom of the barrel.
Fortunately, I think those were the only two articles that I’m rather embarrassed to place my name to. The other 271 articles are a lot better. I wrote those very early in my eHow career (day 4 and day 5). Since then I realized that whatever you do on the ‘net, stays on the ‘net. I don’t want such drivel to come back and bite me later, so I stepped up my game.
Reason for eHowing
Every once in a while eHow writers (or any writer for that matter) should stop and think about why they write for the site. Aside from being a place to showcase your writing ability, it’s a place to share your special knowledge with the rest of the world. The challenge of being able to explain a process without using your hands to gesture where to place the 45 degree cut on the 3 inch piece of wood is exciting (I guess my tech writing background is coming through again).
On top of the ability to share your knowledge, there is a supportive forum with members who honestly try to help other members. I’ve mentioned it before, but eHow writers like WriterGig, Janet Ford and Anthony Delgado have each written eBooks full of information to help the least successful eHower become a financial success.
 WriterGig’s Book |
 Janet Ford’s Book |
 Anthony Delgado’s Book |
Oh and Another Reason for eHowing
You can make money on eHow. I guess the money making part brings out the worst in some people. After all, money has to be the driving force behind writing the same article 50 times, changing only one or two words. Let’s face it, writing How to Walk a Dog in New York, isn’t much different than How to Walk a Dog in Washington. There is no need to write about walking a dog in all 50 states.
Respect Your Audience
If folks wrote eHow articles as if they were writing it for their son, daughter, mother, father, Pastor or anyone they respected, I don’t think eHow would have needed to send out an email explaining why they had to remove several articles.
This is just my humble opinion.
Filed Under: Earning Money • eHow • Legitimate • Opportunities
hey there.
I am a ehow writer.
I am happy with what I am getting but would like to make more. So far, I had been getting paid each month since October 2008.
I also have Janet Ford’s Maria O’Brien’s ebook and some other ehow writer but in her ebook, she list other places to write at and not just at ehow. I love ehow but I need upfront payment.
Anyway, ehow has been a wonderful experience and will keep writing for them for a long time as long as I keep getting paid.
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I agree Janet – I don’t want people to laugh when I say I write for eHow. I hope it can become more professional!
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When all is said and done, the only things you have to trade on is your credibility and name. Everything you do, which places you under the harsh light of your readers’ scrutiny, must reflect who you are.
If you want to write articles like you’re processing widgets on an assembly line, then that’s what you get in return. I’m glad that eHow is reining in the nonsense. I’ve just signed up with eHow and am wringing my hands on what my first article should be. All writers should feel this “nervousness” when they want to write their best.
Thanks, Felicia, for articulating what all of the legitimate writers are feeling.
Amen! I agree wholeheartedly with you on this. I’m so happy ehow is placing these stricter controls on what content is allowed there. This will also serve to boost our reputations as ehow writers. When I tell people I write for ehow, I want it to mean something! And the more Google loves ehow, the more money we can all make with the resulting high rankings. Clone articles only serves to hurt the overall ranking so it is not only the writers who write the clone articles which pay a price, we ALL pay a price in the end. Thank you for mentioning my ehow ebook. I really enjoyed writing it. I’m very passionate about ehow and always excited to help someone else take this same path that I enjoy so much.
I am so with you on this!! Especially the 50 states articles. I just commented on that in one of the forums. I think eHow should have an application process like many of the other sites. I doesn’t have to be as detailed as Suite’s, but at least SOMETHING. I think that would get rid of some of the people who’s SOLE interest is to write 300 articles in a month on How to Pay Taxes in Colorado, etc….
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