How to Make money online using Yahoo answers and EHow.com

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

Ehow.com account
Yahoo.com account
Computer
Pay pal account

Step 1

Sign up for a yahoo email account. To do this you will need to log onto www.yahoo.com. In the top right hand corner you should see a link that says sign in (if you currently have an yahoo email) or sign up (for new yahoo users). By creating a yahoo.com email account it also creates a profile for you as well which will allow you to answer questions on yahoo answer.
Step 2

Now you need to sign up for an Ehow.com account. To do this you will need to log on Ehow.com in the top left hand corner you can click on Log in (in you already have any account) or sign up for a new account (if you are a first time user).
Step 3

Now you need to sign up for a Pay Pal account. Go to www.paypal.com. Sign up for a new account. You want to select a personal account so you can simply accept payments. You will need to confirm your external bank account and credit card details in order to activate the account.
Step 4

Ok now that we have established the basic requirements lets go over how this process works. The cash is created by making "How to..." articles on EHow.com, which pays you through paypal on a monthly basis.
Step 5

Make sure you write your articles in a professional manner and always spell check.
Step 6

The topic that you write on is important, if you write articles that are popular topics and are largely supported by online advertising, will u to do better.
Step 7

Having a great set of keyword in your article is the key to making the most money, the most popular search topics are going to help you drive traffic to your articles, however the advertisements are where the money is made. The keyword with the strongest search results should be used in the introduction and in each step. You can use a free tool like Google AdWords or WordTracker to compile a list of the most highly searched keywords for your topic. It is important to determine which keywords have a good amount of traffic, but are not oversaturated in the search results.
Step 8

The more detailed and well answered the article, the more likely you are to receive comments and feedback.
Step 9

You also want to self advertise as well. When you publish your article it will ask you if you want to publish the article in your Facebook profile, this is a great way to advertise. You also can copy and paste the hyperlink code to add your top 5 articles to any social networking site that allows for direct codes to be added.
Step 10

To add this custom widget you will sign into Ehow.com with your user ID and password created in step 2. Click on the "My Profile" tab and on the bottom left of the page you will the link "Custom Widget" you want to click on "Get Started". Follow the instructions from there, and it will give you the code to copy and paste to your social networking site.
Step 11

You also want to add the link to your page in your email signature.
Step 12

Ok now that we have establish how to make money using Ehow.com. We are going to incorporate how Yahoo Answer can dramatically increase the traffic to your articles.
Step 13

Once you have log onto Yahoo Answers with your Login and Password from Step 1, you will need to select a category that fits one of the articles that you have written on. For example if you write about Finance like I do, then Business & Finance would be the category you want to start with, then get into the more detailed subjects. Of course this would differ for you if you are writing articles about something else.
Step 14

Find as many questions as you can that your article answers correctly, for two points each. You want to make sure that your answer is appropriate for that question, as yahoo may delete your account if you are incorrectly answering questions.
Step 15

Once you find the article you want to add the link to your article in the answer. You are going to show preference to the questions with less than 5 answers on it so your will show prominently. You may want to put a space in the link somewhere so yahoo answer doesn't recognize it as a link.
Step 16

You accumulate points on Yahoo Answers by participating for 100 points (when you first answer a question), get "thumbs-up" rating (up to 50, 1 per "thumbs-up"), have your answer chosen as best answer (10 points), choose a best answer for your question (3 points), and/or voting (1 point)
Step 17

To get to Level 7 on your profile you will need to attain 25,000 points this will help establish credibility and reputation, and create more likelihood that people will follow your links back to EHow.com, which will increase your profits as long as you have a good set of Keywords that have a large amount of advertisers.

Comments

alwayananswer said

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on 12/7/2009 Good information here. Thanks so much.

omary33 said

on 8/30/2009 THANK YOU
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on 8/13/2009 Regarding PayPal accts: Personal accts are ONLY for receiving money from relatives. When it comes to earnings from advertising under our personal name (non-business), a Premier Acct is necessary. To do otherwise is against the IRS "earned income" codes. We're not W-2 income earners. e-How issues us 1099 income statements making us SOLE PROPRIETERS needing Schedule C. Better read e-How's Terms! The small fee PayPay charges for a Premier Account is deducted on Sch. C as an expense against income (Bank Acct. Fees).