eHow removing user-added articles

I just got an email because I wrote one article long ago for promotion purposes and put it on ehow. They're removing all of the user-submitted articles and completely shutting down their compensation program where people make revenue through Adsense. Any article not submitted through their cutting "vetting" process, aka Demand Studios, is going.

I know several people who make good, good money after putting hundreds of articles on eHow over the years. This is no doubt huge for those who enjoy passive income from the site.

Always diversify, because this could happen anywhere you don't own the medium.

Shelley

Tell your friend to take those articles, change them a little bit to be less like eHow and more like a general article (if they're the how-tos) and put them on Hubpages, and assign her adsense to them. She'll make more that way. Even if she makes $5 in a year's time rather than the $4 they're offering, at least it's in her pocket and not theirs. She could make much more. A lot depends on the articles, the keywords and how active you are on Hubpages, I'm told.

One Internet marketing guy put 100 articles on Hugpages in a months. He reliably makes around $400-$500 per month with those--at least he did before Google big shift a couple of months ago, I don't know if he does know. I'm guessing he's probably at least close. He knew which keywords to hit, of course, but it does show that a person can probably make at least a little money without too much effort.

Constant Content is another option. She can offer them all probably with very little time spent. It's worth looking into, at least.

Shelley

Given that, demand is talking out of both sides of its mouth.

If they're removing all the user-submitted articles because of the lack of fact-checking and quality issues, why would they offer to buy them? eHow has always had a review process whereby poor quality articles were turned down.

They're just using that excuse, it seems like, while they'll be keeping articles but paying a pittance for them outright and then collecting all the ad revenue from here to eternity instead of sharing it with the writers as they used to. What a screw-you deal.

Shelley

tinasamuels said:

I decided to take the $1600 offer they gave me simply because I've no use for the articles that are on the site and they were all so very old to begin with

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Tina, I'm curious how many articles you had? Is what they offered reasonable given how much the articles earned per month?

It could very well be that small groups of slow earners get offered very little while the higher earning articles, particularly large batches, are getting offers more in-line with their potential.

I'm glad to see they're not offering every single person just a few dollars. (And I'd have probably taken that, too, especially if it's a lot of articles. Time putting them somewhere else counts, and may not be worth it.)

Shelley