I have a theory that Google’s new Caffeine is a mess still. Another writer and I discussed this at length, and we believe Caffeine has a lot of kinks in it. It doesn’t make sense the articles that are showing up as #1 rank hardly have text, but have literally 100 links.

I also think Suite keeps doing weird, experimental things with ads. And I’m not too happy with the new article box in our articles, which sometimes leads to your articles and sometimes don’t. They said it has increased revenue, but I would be curious to hear whose and how.

I’m like you, I’ll stick with it. I’ll become more evergreen. But it’s becoming quite disheartening looking at revenue.

Thanks

ps I wish I had written for eHow. I missed that revenue train!

Despite writing an additional 40 articles since January, my income is still far below my January level. The only reason I remain with suite is because of my per article rate. Although, as I analyze my numbers from year to year, my per article rate seems to be hitting a plateau.

When I take my annual earnings and divide it by the number of articles I’ve written each year, my per article rate climbed from $6.93 in 2007 to $78.13 in 2009. So far in 2010, my per article rate is only $1.58 higher than it was last year.

I don’t know what is going on over at Suite, but it seems that I would have to work harder just to maintain a lower rate of earnings. In my book, that doesn’t make sense. I continue to honor my contract, but am experimenting with other writing venues.

By contrast, my eHow earnings continue to grow and I haven’t written anything for eHow since March when they discontinued the WCP.

I was just curious as to how your page views and revenue is for Suite?

I’m a FW as well, but we write in completely different areas. I had great months in May and June, which is opposite of most Suitees, but then I started to see a steady decline in revenue for July and August, 20% less of May and June.

I’m getting a bit concerned bc Sept has been abysmal, I believe for other Suitees as well. And it’s abysmal for page views as well.

I’d be curious to hear about your experience, thank you!

One further note. On the Suite101 site there are a list of writing resources, articles really on how best to write an article, what title format to use etc.

I don’t know if you actually need to be accepted as a member before you can access them, but if you can, it might be worth having a look at them. I printed them all off and found them to be full of helpful information. You might see something you can apply to your own articles.

Best wishes.