eHow Earnings Review: Is eHow a Scam??
I just received my payment from eHow, for my November earnings. Even though it’s not a lot of money by anyone’s standards, I am thrilled to 1) find out that eHow really “works,” and 2) to have reached payout within 18 days (from what I’ve read in the forums, some people take months to accrue enough to reach pay out). Here is a copy of my eHow earnings payment in my PayPal account. Because eHow is owned by Demand Media, the payment is from DM, and now eHow. You can click the image, and a full-size image will open up in another page, so you can read the numbers.
So. $16.14 for the last couple of weeks of November. Not too bad. I am going to treat my husband to a movie this weekend. 
Someone in another forum that I frequent told me several days ago that eHow is a scam, and that I was wasting my time writing for them. I am pleased to find (and prove) that eHow is not a scam. If eHow was a scam, I wouldn’t have this payment in my PayPal account, and I wouldn’t see my December earnings adding up already.
I can’t wait to see what December’s payment will look like. As I said before, when I first started, I wrote a lot of articles before I’d figured out some of the “secrets” that I started using in late November, which help me increase my eHow income. Since I’ll be writing most (if not all) of my articles in December using this information, I’m sure my earnings for December will be more than double my November payment.
I’ve found that the number of views on my articles are definitely NOT being tracked accurately. My article hasn’t been removed, it just isn’t recording how many people actually view it. My emails to ehow asking for an explanation have been ignored. Can anyone explain to me what is going on? If the compensation formula is based on # of views (among other things) then it seems like ehow has a financial interest in having their counter give artificially low results. Someone please prove to me I’m wrong. I want to believe it’s legit, but so far it seems like a waste of time.
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writing for ehow seems tricky. i have been writing for ehow since feb.09 and i’ve only made about $40.00. that’s not the problem though. the problem is when you began to get a high volume of readers ehow will cancel your article. thus giving ehow more exposure instead of you. i’ve had about 10 articles accepted then rejected. some they told me why they were rejected and some they didn’t. some they didn’t even tell me was removed. i had to notice it myself. be careful though when posting on ehow. after they accept it then reject it you can’t post it no where else because it shows and a article submitted to ehow. triond is a pretty good one. you can write about anything worthwhile and triond will get you paid.
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Well, big george, I can hear where you’re coming from, but I have to respectfully disagree. There are several high-earners at eHow who have earned hundreds of dollars for some of their articles.
I know that the article-pulling is frustrating, but eHow doesn’t do it arbitrarily. I have had some of my early articles pulled, and I totally understand why they were removed.
Try reading the posts on this site to get a few tips about how to write articles in the format that eHow wants (and demands). Any articles that don’t fit the bill are removed (eventually).
Just fyi: there’s at least one writer who has an article that has earned $1,000. Yes, a thousand dollars for a single article. (So to say that eHow “cancels” your article once you have “a high volume of readers” isn’t really true….)
Good luck, George. And keep me posted on your eHow earnings!
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