How to Earn Passive Income Writing for eHow

Passive income refers to income that is earned without the need for additional work. Online, people can earn passive income writing for various websites. Writing for eHow will allow people to earn passive income online by writing simple how-to articles. Most articles can be written in less than an hour, and the potential earnings (in the form of passive income) are unlimited.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

1. Register with eHow.com. Registration is open to anyone ages 18 and over. Members must be at least eighteen years old, because you must have a PayPal account in order to be paid, and PayPal rules state that you must be at least 18 to have a PayPal account.

2. Register with eHow's Writers' Compensation Program (aka "WCP"). This will enable you to be paid by eHow for the articles you write. While anyone is allowed to write for eHow, the WCP is only open to writers in the United States.

3. Write articles for eHow. You can write them directly in the eHow article submission interface if you'd like, but it's safer and better practice to write your articles in a word processing program, so that you can save copies of your articles on your computer.

4. Follow eHow's rules regarding the articles that you submit. A list of the rules can be found in eHow's FAQ, as well as in the eHow forums.

5. Write articles that are useful and timely. In order to earn passive income writing for eHow, your articles must be useful. You get paid in a variety of ways, but the popularity of the article among readers is one of the most important factors in how you'll eventually be paid. In order to reach a lot of readers, you must write about topics that readers search for. For example, articles about how to clean a musket rifle would probably not earn much money, because people in modern society don't search for information about cleaning musket rifles.

6. Submit your article for publishing. After your article has been submitted, wait a few hours and log on to view your article. Make sure that relevant ads are running alongside and/or beneath your article. These advertisements are crucial to how much passive income you can earn at eHow. If your article is about how to make bread, and the ads are about maternity clothing, you will not earn much passive income from eHow. Scan your article to see if you have used enough keywords (words about your topic) to "tell" the advertisement bots what the article is about. Make minor adjustments to the wording. Check again in an hour or two, until the correct type of ads are running with your article.

7. Log in to your eHow account often, to see which articles are earning you passive income, and which are not. Using this information, you will know what topics will help you earn more passive income at eHow.