How to calculate useful statistics for your ehow article views and earnings

Want to really know how well some of your articles are doing compared to others? Want to know how much a certain article is making per view? Well it's really simple to find out with some pretty basic math.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

1. my example For this entire article, I'm going to use a made up example. Just replace your article's stats with my fake ones to do your calculations. Okay so let's say I wrote 3 articles named Article A, Article B, and Article C. Article A has 2600 views and earned $0.69. Article B has 485 views and earned $0.29. Article C has 626 views and earned $1.01. Write down the same information for any articles you want to compare. I've found putting them in nice, neat rows and columns on a sheet of paper makes them easy to compare side by side. You can also type it all in Notepad or Wordpad separated by tabs instead.
2. continued example Now that you have all your articles' earnings and views recorded in one place, it's time for some math. One of the most important stats is how much you're making per view. It's simple to calculate. Take an article's total earnings and convert it to cents. You can just move the decimal point over two places to the right. So $1.25 is 125 cents and $23.95 is 2395 cents. Then take your new earnings in cents and divide it by the number of views and you have how many cents you get for every view. Unfortunately, it's usually a fraction of a cent. The lowest I've heard of is 0.026 cents per view and the highest was around 2.4 cents per view. By the way, this rate won’t be very accurate for articles with very low views and earnings. Wait until it has at least 200 views or at least $0.20 in earnings before you calculate the rate. Check out the attached image for all the calculated cents per view rates added. There are two important things you should keep in mind though. First, the different rates are due to the popularity of the keywords that the ads shown in your article are based on as well as how many people actually click on them. And secondly, if you click on your own ads or put language in your article that encourages people to click the ads, that's considered click fraud and you'll get in big trouble with the ad company and ehow so don't do that!
3. So exactly how much better is Article C doing than article A? Well to find that out, you need to divide the larger rate by the smaller one. So divide 0.16134 cents per view by 0.02653 cents per view. And you end up with about 6.08. So Article C is making money about 6 times faster! It's like every person viewing article C is like 6 people viewing article A. Why is this? Well, that's really complicated to completely outline in this article. But if you do try things to boost the rates in your poorly performing articles, you can recalculate it the same way using this method to see if the rate is improving.
4. my totals It's a little much to track all your article's rates every day to see how they're doing but luckily, there's a much simpler way to determine if overall you're doing better or worse for earnings and views. Every day, stop at ehow and log in and go to your earnings and record the total earnings since you started your account. Then go to your profile's overview and record the total amount of views since you started your account. Then just save these to a simple text file with Notepad or Wordpad and start a new row for every day. Attached is a screenshot of my actual earning and view totals from quite a while ago. Note that if you're gone for a day or forget to check it, make sure you insert a blank line for that day or my calculation won't work. Also note that in my example, the views or the earnings stayed the same between days when ehow failed to update the stats that day.
5. my totals Now that you've got a daily log, you can look back and see which days were really good or really bad. I've noticed by keeping this log that I tend to get a bit more views on weekends. Also obviously between the last entry and the second to last entry, I made an incredible amount of money compared to the rest of the days. That's because I introduced an article that apparently had really, really valuable ads that a lot of people clicked on. To calculate your average per-day income, subtract your very first entry's earnings by your very latest entry's earnings. So in my attached example, you'd calculate $8.43 - $3.39 to get $5.04. That means that since I started keeping track, I made $5.04. So obviously to find how much I averaged per day, I need to divide how much I made over all those days by the number of days. So simply count the lines. That's why it's so important to insert blank lines for days when you were done. So on my example there are 24 lines so I recorded 24 days worth. So $5.04 divided by 24 means I averaged $0.21 per day. Not a bad rate! And if you want to figure out what that is monthly, you can just multiply it by 30. 30 times 0.21 = $6.30 so I can expect to make $6.30 per month at the current rate. Do keep in mind though that usually, your per day rate will go up as more people send your articles to their friends and post them online and stuff so that's not a very accurate estimate.
6. my totals The same calculation can now be applied to views to see how many views you averaged per day. On my sheet I'd take 6,934 views and subtract 2,873 that I started with to get 4,061 views. And that's over 24 days so divide by 24 and I averaged 169.2 views per day. That's a pretty good rate and on most weekends I get about 300 views per day and weekdays are a bit slower.
7. So now you know how to do some basic statistics about how well you're doing on ehow. And remember, the best way to improve your earnings and views is to write more articles!