Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Writing for dollars day for learning

Its been an interesting day for me . Today I have had to remind myself that this is truly a learning experience , and it is a process.

Today I found out why Xomba has come up with a big fat zero for me. When you first sign up for Xomba, you need to add in your google Adsense number manually . I think you can guess what I did , yes.. I left a number off at the end. So I wasn't able to receive any income from what I had posted on Xomba. I fixed it this morning , and checked my Adsense account this afternoon, I had earned .45 already . So , while I did lose a week of income, I was able to fix it , and a BIG thank you goes out to Prism , without her , I would have never thought to check to make sure it was set up correctly.

I also sold my first affiliate sale with Amazon today. I nearly fell off my chair when I saw I had money in my Amazon account. I have been adding links in my articles in the resource area, pointing to sales on Amazon. So first sale! It wasn't for much, but it was neat seeing it there for the first time.

Monday, February 2, 2009

Earnings on eHow for January

Well, I finally have a tally on earnings. According to eHow, they might not be correct , and it could take up till mid week to get everything caught up. But , I will take what I have now. Ready for the grand total?

$28.28

I know this may seem like a small amount, but as you can see it has defiantly grown from the $1.26 for December, and that IS writing for dollars! In theory, this number should continue to double , as the articles start reaching the top of the search engines ,and I write new articles.

When I first started really getting into eHow, I heard seasoned writers talking about giving each article 30-90 days to really get picked up by the search engines, and start to generate traffic. I am just starting to see this happen, with a few of my pieces I wrote 20-30 days ago.

Last week I completely changed the way I wrote and how I chose eHow topics to write about. This should be interesting to see how this impacts my earnings for February. While this new style of writing isn't as fun as what I was doing- it should be more profitable. We shall see!

On Bukisa I only have 4 articles. The funny thing is , they continue to earn a little every day.. which is more than I can say for some of what I have wrote. I will be trying to contribute one thing to Bukisa every day this month, and see how that goes.

Xomba - No earnings at all. But then again my effort there is really sub par. I can't see how anyone earns there, the adsense ad's are so small, they are easily overlooked ... I talked to one person there who said one of the top earner on Xomba earned $800 for just one of the things he submitted. I guess anything is possible!