Adding Advertising Links to Your Website or Blog with Infolinks

Tammy Frost posted some great information on her website the other day about Infolinks.  They offer advertising for websites and blogs.  They are the inline, highlighted ads you see on web pages and articles.

You can see Tammy's full post here:  eHow Members:  Make more money and be a featured visitor. 

After applying  you immediately receive a code to place in the HTML of your website, blog or article.  I placed the codes as instructed and within two days I had inline text ads on my sites earning!

Sponsored Tweets

The new advertising site Sponsored Tweets claims to provide ad revenue for those who have an established Twitter account.  Advertisers purchase adds from Sponsored Tweets and members tweet the info for pay.  The minimum fee $1.00/per ad.

2009 eHow Earnings Poll Numbers are In

Janet Ford, a contributing writer at eHow, posted a poll in the forums for writers to anonymously post their total 2009 income for eHow.  The results are in!

What was your 2009 ehow income?

Success Stories and Inspiration for Keeping your Goals

Need some inspiration (or a reality check) to keep your online writing goals on track?  Check out these fellow online content writers and their success stories:

• Freelance Writing Pays Off for Lena:  Suite101.com Writer Earns $4,940.77 in July 2009. 
• How to Get a 2 week paid vacation with ehow article writing by Wasatch
  
• My eHow Experiment  
• My eHow Statistical Trend 
• Writing for Retirement by CWilliams
• Residual Income Blog: eHow earnings by CM Herold.

List will be updated as I stumble across sites that are inspirational or detail driven, so bookmark this page or check back often!

Creating Residual Income for your Online Content Using RedGage - Tip 21

A fellow Suite101 contributor, David Harris-Gershon, alerted me to a new do-follow site for promoting articles, blogs and websites, RedGage.

From their site RedGage is defined as, "RedGage is a website that pays you for your content and monetizes

eHow News: Contributors will be Compensated for eHow UK site earnings!

Yes you read the headline correctly, eHow contributors will be receiving compensation for their cloned UK articles.  eHow just released a video blog explaining the details. I actually had to replay it a couple times to make sure I had heard it correctly.  Contributors that were affected by the cloned UK site will receive compensation for the issue with their January earnings.  This payment will be received in early February. 

This is great news for contributors and especially good news for those with large article libraries and those who have been contributors for a long period of time.  I expect some of these "bonuses" will be quite significant since the creation of the UK site dates back to April 2009.  This will be an interesting development to say the least - stay tuned!

Ehow Points - Tip 20

Currently there are three levels in the eHow point system, Novice (0-299 points), Enthusiast (300-2,000 points), Authority (2,000+ points).  These points are based on the number of articles and photos you have published as a contributor.