It's totally possible to make money online by writing very short how-to articles on eHow. Some people are making a few thousand dollars a month writing online so it's possible to make $500 from eHow. If you work smart and know what to write about you can make a nice chunk of residual income each month. Read on for info on how to make money with eHow.

If you really want to make money on eHow you need to manage your time wisely. Just because you are working at home doesn't mean you can get lazy. When you are writing articles to make money online that is what you should be doing. Don't waste time going on social networks like Myspace, Facebook or Yuwie. Take eHow articles like it is your own business, which it is.

Try to get a goal for how many articles you want to write on eHow. Maybe a minimum of 3 article a weekday and 5 on the weekend might be good. This will keep you on a steady course to making $500 a month.

Make sure you have a good amount of keywords in your articles. You can use Google Adwords: Keywords Tool to find key phrases to add to your body and title. Having great keywords will help your SEO (search engine optimization) and earn you more page views on Search engines. Ranking high on the search engines means more traffic (readers) and more ad revenue.

You should give you articles time to really mature and start making you money online. It can usually take up to three months to get them indexed within the search engines. You can also promote your articles yourself to earn even more visitors. You can submit your site to social bookmarking sites like Stumble Upon and Digg for free. This is a great way to earn a backlink (which search engines love) and earn you more traffic.

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