The top Examiner earner makes $8,000 a month. I’m sure it’s not easy, but if you are ambitious and if this venue is a good match for your writing skills and interests, you can earn a good residual income writing content for Examiner.com, too.
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Backlink Building Strategies for Articles
In a nutshell, a good backlink building strategy is to point backlinks that you can control to articles you cannot control, such as those on web content sites, and save the backlinks that will live onin spite of your wishes, to your own blog posts and web content. This will help you to avoid having your newly transplanted articles compete with your original, defunct articles in the search engines.
What happened to eHow?
A lot of web content writers are wondering: What happened to eHow? And the answer is that no one but eHow knows for sure.
Based on more than three months of data analysis of five eHow accounts by three eHow writers, I can offer some possible–and probable–explanations…
Promoting your web content with Squidoo
If you have heard, as I had, that making a Squidoo “Lens” is complicated and time-consuming, take heart. I made my first Lens today (squidoo.com/the-content-writer), and it only took 1 1/2 hours from start to finish. That included adding an Amazon book widget, and I’m pretty sure future lenses will take an hour or less.
Writing content for Examiner.com vs. writing for eHow.
The highest known earner at eHow, based on last year’s public award to Maria O’Brian, makes approximately $2,000 per month. Many speculate that this year’s winner will have earned more than $3,000. It takes writing a few hundred articles that are well-optimized for keywords to make good money on eHow, but anyone who puts their mind to it has the opportunity to do so.
Writing articles for eHow
EHow offers one of the best residual income opportunities available online, and anyone can write for them. You can dive right in, but I suggest you spend at least a couple of days learning basic keyword research and SEO content writing techniques before you begin.
The Content Writer Blog
Writing web content means writing articles, blog posts, web copy. Anything that is published online is web content. Writing online to build residual income generally means writing for content aggregator sites like eHow, Examiner, and Suite 101, to name just a few of the top sites that pay writers over time for writing individual articles.
