OH SAY CAN YOU SEE --- many are still on the UK site

http://sitelife.ehow.com/ver1.0/Forums/DiscussionRss?plckDiscussionId=Cat:eHow GeneralForum:100Discussion:f7351708-e40d-4cf3-b8ce-8d448de8303d

EVIDENTLY MANY are still on the UK site. It doesn't take rocket scientist to find the US members that are still not earning money on their articles. If you are not checking your articles, then you snooze = you lose. Old saying but so true. ARE you a snoozer or a loser?

Frustration and Anger are mounting that eHow is stalling or at very least not fixing things adequately. AS one woman I know said, "Don't come and clean my kitchen, because the halfdone job just wouldn't cut it".

What do you think.. is this half done job? Mistakes? or is it a nefarious plot to pull away from member articles and earn even more corparte dollars without sharing revenue. Right now I could use a few missing dollars for dental, cars and groceries. What about you?

NEWER ARTICLES ARE NOW REDIRECTED - Stay tuned for answers to the BIG Question

Richard's Post from Ehow Foruns appears below... Click Title to Link to Forum
We've put the fix in place, so all member articles should now re-direct to the US site. Once again, sorry for the error. I know some of you would like to know if we are going to remove the member articles from the UK site, and I'm on top of it, so expect an answer on this as well as to other questions soon. Also, let me know if you see any issues with the re-directs. And, finally, don't forget to clear your cache-- you may keep seeing an older page show up, so you can do a hard refresh by hitting CTRL-F5. Thanks.
-Rich

                    What do you think and does this change anything for you?

Learning Where to Write As We Wait for Ehow Announcement About UK FIX

While waiting for the announcements from Ehow about how they are fixing the quicksand UK issue, I decided to surf around the internet and see if there was any tidbit of information about passive residual income and where to write. For #Ehow forum members the topic is always popular: How to Increase Backlinks Writing on Other Sites, Where to Put my Writings, and mostly WHICH WRITING  SITES  PAY BEST. 


The answers vary depending on what is happening.  Life 123 was gaining in popularity until it closed down. Today on the forums Suite 101 is having a great advertisement going. Honestly, Word of Mouth rules in marketing and sales. You cannot buy advertisements like that - unless you are advertising on the Superbowl (and the that would be another sweet topic!) .


WELL VIOLA'  -  This radio podcast may not be what you expect but it may offer something for someone to consider and expand their internet article  world. The title is Where to Sell Your Writing  This podcast is about the Hidden Web and accessing information outside of Google.  To be honest I have not vetted the whole podcast.  I am listening as I write and I can see a value here for those that may not be familiar with places to find research information, advertising, or for possibly writing for a site that is out of your normal sphere. 
What are you experiencing out in the big WWW?  Are you branching out with your own blogs, exploring other sites?  Or are you digging in and reworking articles on the site you already write for... Leave a comment and let us know what challenges you face. Listen to this podcast by clicking on the widget below!

UK issue hit the mire again! - do you know where you writings are?

Click the title linked above -  if you dare.  It will take you to the forums which contain discussions that address the fine tuning of points that will make small things appear larger than life!

People are fed up with things taking so long to be resolved.  Patience in the passive income, residual income, or article earning field is not a common virtue.  Months of waiting to get resolve, have a "fix" and then finding out that new articles are being directed to UK again is exasperating.

Will EHOW fix this?  I have faith they will. Will this continue on? It seems it will.  EHOW seriously needs to
"VAMP UP" its ability to respond quickly.  Maybe a first responder team would be in order, much like the people that address national emergencies.  

#EHOW is a wonderful place to write, learn, and socialize.  It has great staff that are hard working.  Can they improve - lots of room for that.  Will they improve?  Let's hope they continue trying. Their blog was good effort and start at establishing good communications about touchy subjects.

EHOW if you see this on my tweets - the newest EHOW articles are going to the UK and not being redirected. Consider it an emergency!  If you are an #EHOW member - make sure to check your latest article links.  Check Google too, make sure your profile is showing... if you need help ask!

Speed Posting and Rating

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speed read & rate friends articles

Rating articles can take a lot of time. Part of Social Media is contributing to friends and their success.

The balance is making time and have good time management techniques in place. It is important to develop skills and shortcuts that will help with your time management. This technique can be used for BLOG posts as well.

EHow Carnival - add your article

                    

Add your carnival posting by emailing original poster in this eHow Forum Thread. 

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Blog Carnival Submissions Due Sunday posted at 2/3/2010 7:22 AM PST

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After a brief hiatus due to out-of-state travel, the eHow blog carnival is ready to ride again. Please pm or email one eHow article you wish to promote to me by Sunday. My email is netwriterm AT gmail DOT com For those who are not familiar, this is a cooperative way to get back links and boost page rank of your work. More information can be found here: http://ehowblogcarnival.blogspot.com/2009/12/how-ehow-blog-carnival-works.html Cheers M

In Defense of the Ehow Vblog (video blog) - #Ehow rocks

Okay a bunch of people are not being nice on Ehow forums,. These people on eHow staff went out of their way to provide a personal touch with a video blog to tell us that the UK earnings loss will be compensated this coming February.

Some not so nice public remarks have been made about the UHMS used in the vblog. To this I say good thing they have a lot of UHMS - they fit in with politics today. GREG and RICH for president and vice president 2012. TO VOTE FOR GREG & RICH ON INDEPENDENT TICKET - LEAVE YOUR VOTE IN COMMENTS.

Presidents always have speech gaffes and they have way more experience in public speaking (at least to my knowledge). SO here is an example done by David Letterman back when the campaign trail was hot. Now President Obama - formerly Senator UHM.
HIT IT!

EHOW COMES THROUGH!!!! YEA EHOW UK resolved

DRUM ROLL PLEASE $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Ehow Writers Will Be Compensated For Their Articles That Have Been Hosted on the UK Site


Okay now this may not please all the people all lot the time.. But having UK issue solved and with elegant touch of a video blog we are happy here at ehow.com/alrady

Rich and Greg you look great and its nice to see you again. THANKS for all the hard work. Putting this on my twitwall so that everyone knows. THANK you again.

CHECK THE VIDEO HERE !!

EHOW BLOG UK COMPENSATION

aLSO THEY have donated to Haiti read the details on their blog linked above.
To QUOTE: "Today, our parent company, Demand Media, made a donation to the High-Tech HelpHaiti Fund on behalf of our websites and member communities, as well as our employees and freelancers from across the country."

What is cooking with UK links on Ehow.com

Well its been several days and Rich the community manager has asked everyone to be patient while they find out about compensation and other issues. Backtracking I cannot find the posts that were indicating that ehow was even thinking of compensation.

It would be smart move on their part though, since finding out that they earn 11 thousand plus per month in ad revenue for just the UK site. Now not all of that is from the USA members articles... remember there are contributing authors and UK members that are also brining in the revenue. No one knows the amount that is attributed to the USA authors.

Some members are saying they are impacted deeply but only a few numbers have been batted around. If Ehow is only making 11K per month in ad revenue for UK, then estimating how much is made would be up to someone better than me at math.... anyone care to give a guesstimate?

Meanwhile posts are being deleted, name calling has slowed to a trickle, and at least one or two members have written me to say they can no longer post due to being blocked. People are weary of the topic, but not giving up. People are having a stronger negative reaction to the delays.

MAKE NO MISTAKE: THE UK articles are still up even though most are redirected, there are some that are not. ALSO if you are a UK member and writing articles hold on to your hats, some of your articles are being REDIRECTED to the USA. I saw one about Sussex Pudding that was redirected to USA. Others remain with the UK url. Are UK articles earnings being hosed???

Search still often shows url's from the UK for USA member articles and some members have reported that their articles have dropped out of search. This has forced extra work for members to track, resubmit manually and stay on top of the issues. Good LUCK.

Ehow is great but they really need to step up to the plate on this one. That is just my opinon - what is yours?

US - UK - ARTICLES REMOVED ???

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Grab a slice of pizza, a cold beer and SIT DOWN. A week or two earlier than I expected, Ehow has corrected the problem.

If you read the ehow forums, you may know the end of the US- UK fiasco is here! The articles are removed and the links are redirected to the corresponding USA article. That means that all clicks on the uk backlinks will redirect to the USA article and you will receive compensation. RICH was very clear in his forum thread.

The articles are removed, however there has been no mention of compensation for those most affected. My prediction is that there will be no offers of compensation, judging by past experiences.

ONward and upward all new articles should start indexing into Google properly. GO FORTH - and make money! $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

US - UK - is the end in site ???

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Ehow's community manager yesterday announced that the US - UK solution is near. He said that he will announce when the articles are down and that the solution will be implemented soon. Right now all new articles are being directed to the UK.com site just as before. The new articles "feed" will be stopped when articles are removed from the UK site. Many members are still angry and want answers.

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UK- USA issue for eHow writers revenue is SETTLED

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It takes courage to admit that something ain't right... . My hat's off to eHow and Rich (the community manager) for admitting that something isn't right and communicating it to the members what will be done.

Many are very thrilled that eHow is taking action. Some won't be happy and I can understand why - with how long it took earnings are lost and the anxiety of the sitaution.

It took weeks of posting and others a lot of digging and finding out information to get eHow's ear. Once eHow heard the affects they dug in and analyzed the situation and decided to remove articles form teh UK site that could not receive compensation.

Thanks to everyone that posted data. I personally did not experience a downturn or the Google search upset but I saw others with that problem. Thank you to those people digging further and voicing their finding.

EHow I do appreciate that you care about members and are doing the right thing ethically. :)

For those wanting to see the posting stating that the UK site did not generate earnings for US members and that they are taking down the links within a couple of weeks here is the link.

EHOW forum posting by Rich quote: "We’ve listened to your voices and since we are unable pay WCP participants in the UK, we’ll be removing your articles from eHow’s UK website within the next few weeks"