130% increase for November earnings!!

The totals are now in and I made...$61.69 in November from residual income.

The breakdown:

eHow: $10.37
Suite101: $23.07
Factoidz: $1.61
Examiner: $1.03
Associated Content: $25.61

How does that compare to my previous months?

September 2009:  $23.78
October 2009: $26.87 (a 13% increase from September)
November 2009: $61.69 (a 130% increase from October)

Now, to be fair, November was the first full month of the $10K/month challenge, so my September-to-October comparison is misleading.

130% is amazing, though.  Here's the breakdown:

New articles in November


eHow:  2 (How to Find Swagbucks Codes and How to Find the Right Accelerated Nursing Program)

Associated Content:  5 (Accelerated Nursing Programs,  How to Get Swagbucks Codes, Health Benefits of Organic Coconut Oil, Wine of the Month Club for Christmas Gifts, and Organic Coupons Online)

Factoidz: 1 (Guide to Gluten Free Restaurants in Framingham, Massachusetts)

Suite 101:  20 (I'll just link to my profile on Suite 101)

Examiner: 5 (Fresh City - Gluten Free Restaurant, Restaurants Open on Thanksgiving in Framingham,  Framingham Food Banks and Food Pantries, Best Gift Basket Ideas, Gluten Free Christmas Dinner Ideas, and Americans Waste 40 Percent of Food)

So I wrote 33 articles total for residual income.  I'm not including any set-fee work I did (my set fee work increased by 433%, but that's largely a function of coming back from maternity leave!) in these calculations.

The Examiner work is new, and I'm only making pennies a day, but it's a topic I enjoy - food - and I can do a number of interesting articles in my community, but also strategically backlink to my articles on other sites.

 If I can manage a 130% increase for December, my earnings will be around $140 next month.  Let's see!

$14.85 at Suite so far

I'm doing far better than expected at Suite101, with 19 articles and $14.85 in income so far. Some of my articles went from 150 page views per day down to 3. Ugh. Google is reindexing and that may have something to do with the weird page view issue.

My latest two articles are: Cyber Monday - Best Message Boards

and

Evo Morales Favored for Re-election in Bolivia

Don't you love it? Two extremes. One article on grotesque capitalism-gone-wild and the other on rural socialism/agrarianism movements gaining momentum. Gotta love SEO writing.

Factoidz, 3 weeks later

I wrote a new article for Factoidz: Guide to Gluten Free Restaurants in Framingham, Massachusetts

I have about 10 people signed up under me, a result of posting my referral link at Associated Content's forum. 4 people have written articles (THANK YOU!) and I've earned about $.60 in referral income, and around $1.10 from my own articles.

I've com to the conclusion that the only articles worth posting on Factoidz are those that are written for their specific requests, because they categorize those as "high+", which means $3 per 1000 page views. My "med" articles that I wrote on topics of interest *to me* are earning half that.

I will plug along and post a few articles a month at Factoidz and see if it continues to be worthwhile. It's definitely promising, and not a complete dog like Askables. I've averaging nearly $.60 per article per month at Factoidz - that's better than my eHow rate! Hmmm....

Mayans, Santa,and Math, oh My!

So some more Suite articles:

Online Math Education for Gifted Homeschooling

This one had reasonably strong page views right off the bat--and I hope the Google adwords lined up nicely.

Now this one:

Mayan 2012 Predictions - Facts vs. Fiction

took off! I'm assuming it's because of the 2012 movie, but I have 200 PV already in 2 days!

And then finally:

Best Secret Santa Gifts - Last Minute Gift Ideas

This article has received more than 160 page views in less than 24 hours! Secret Santa articles are apparently hot right now. I never imagined that people would be searching for articles on this topic so far in advance of Christmas.

I passed the $10 mark at Suite101 ($11.44 as of today, actually), which means I've hit payout. I'll get paid next month. I have determined that I need to earn $.03 per article per day to reach $1 per article per month. So far, so good.

Venezuela Bans Most Video Games

How is that for a headline? Not quite what I wrote on violent video games, but it works:

Video Game Controversy in Venezuela

So far it's a popular topic - violent computer games apparently are! The article has been linked to on what appears to be a Russian gaming board. I hope they find the video game controversy article helpful!

My other new article, Online Math Education for Gifted Homeschooling, is cooking along nicely as well.

New Suite articles

SO life got ahead of me--returning to college teaching after a 5 month absence has been, um, interesting. My new client work is a lot on top of teaching, life, baby, and the 10K challenge.

So I've written two new Suite articles:

Cash Out UPromise--Without a 529 Plan

This article is based on an article eHow pulled in article sweeps--they took two more articles, reducing my total from 15 to 12. All three were high earners ($10 per 1000 page views +). Hmmm, wonder why...the "reasons" eHow gives are hard to believe, given that none of the articles were spam (they claimed the UPromise and Domperidone articles were) and the refurbished laptop article wasn't "common ense" any more than thousands of other eHow articles are.

So my other Suite article is Chavez Sends Troops to Colombian Border.

I'm focusing on Suite for now, as I am time deprived. I'm $.44 away from payout on Suite101 ($10). Not bad for less than 3 weeks and 13 articles now!

eHow article sweeps got me. So I am done.

eHow has been "sweeping" their site, removing articles that do not comply with their terms of service. MANY folks have complained for the past few months about this. in most cases, I believe the articles are removed because the articles are of poor quality or don't meet the eHow format.

However, many eHow writers have complained that Demand Media, eHow's parent company, has been targeting high-earning articles from eHow writers, removing them, and replacing them with articles written by Demand Studios writers.

I was skeptical before, but now...eHow just removed my highest earning article.

I've been a Demand Studios writer for 18 months now, so I have the eHow format down. My article was up for about 3 weeks and made me $3.45--quite a bit, for only 120 page views!

There was no click fraud, no format issue, and absolutely no duplication of the exact keyword phrase I used. In fact, that keyword phrase was so popular, apparently, that I'm going to turn around and write articles for Suite 101 and AC using it, and see how they do.

So with 15 (now 14) articles on eHow, I'm going to take my time elsewhere. If I am building good quality articles there and the powers that be are just going to pull them to replace them with their own (and piggyback off my work), then it's not worthwhile if I have other options.

I *do* have other options. Suite, here I come...