It has been awhile since I've written here - I'm such a slacker! I've been working hard at my real job and doing a lot of freelance writing on the side though...so it's time for an update!
Mahalo continues to be my consistent source of income. Right now, I make about $200/month without even logging into the website. That's pure awesome in my opinion. I love getting 'free money' essentially.
March however, gave me ignition to bust ass on Examiner. I have a new column now, and I am the National Facebook Games Examiner. I had inspiration to continue when I talked to another top Examiner who brings in over $9000/month on Examiner. I think I have what it takes to be just as successful as her. So, Facebook games is my way of doing that. I actually had one buzzy article make me about $130 alone this month. There *is* huge potential on Examiner for making big money. It just takes frequency, marketing, and a lot of networking. Please check out my column!
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Monday, January 4, 2010
Pennies at Examiner vs. Real Dollars at Mahalo
Every time I see posts like this, I just want to cry for them. In an entire month, with 95 ARTICLES, she made $33.00 on Examiner. How on earth is that worth the time spent to write them? I make that PER DAY on Mahalo. Easily. 95 articles on Mahalo not only would have made her a minimum of $437 dollars, but she would ALSO earn all AdSense revenue on those pages thereafter. She would have been probably up over $500 dollars easily if she were on the How To team. If you're writing just for fun, then sure - but you wouldn't have an passive income blog where you're tracking goals if you didn't care about the money being made!
On Mahalo, you can write about what you want, at your own pace. You control the content. Pages don't have to be "newsworthy" to perform well. Some of my biggest pages are actually related to video games, such as PetVille Cheats. I have become sad at Examiner that I have to keep writing articles to keep up my revenue, and even then it is so TINY. Dollars a day isn't enough for me, it has to be substantial to make it worth the hours I spend on it.
I'm now up to over $1500 made on Mahalo, and I've had fun doing it. There is such opportunity here for writers who want to write How To's (like eHow) and make upfront money + passive income on it. It's an actual career for some people.
On Mahalo, you can write about what you want, at your own pace. You control the content. Pages don't have to be "newsworthy" to perform well. Some of my biggest pages are actually related to video games, such as PetVille Cheats. I have become sad at Examiner that I have to keep writing articles to keep up my revenue, and even then it is so TINY. Dollars a day isn't enough for me, it has to be substantial to make it worth the hours I spend on it.
I'm now up to over $1500 made on Mahalo, and I've had fun doing it. There is such opportunity here for writers who want to write How To's (like eHow) and make upfront money + passive income on it. It's an actual career for some people.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Suite101 Forums are Discouraging
Over the past few months I have been doing some experimenting with various online writing sites. I have tried out Examiner, Suite101, Mahalo, Demand Studios, eHow, and more. So far, I'm completely sold with Mahalo.
Suite 101 Writers are a Bit Delusional
Without meaning to offend, I have spent a lot of time reading the Suite101 forums over the past two months. As of this moment, I have written 6 articles and I have made $6.67. I'm disgusted with this amount, but the people on the Suite101 forums say that is a GOOD start. These people are looking forward to and excited for their first $10.00 cashout! Some of them have been trying for MONTHS to get to the ten dollar cash out!
When you read the forums, there is a trend that always happens. One person sas "wow, earnings are low here". Another person replies "They do start off low, but its all about residual earnings and it will increase over time. Just look at the finance writer who brought in over $5,000 in ONE MONTH!". Everyone keeps bringing up this one particular writer who did well. I'm sorry - but that's not enough to keep me invested in an online writing site.
Regardless how you look at it, having to write hundreds of articles and then let them sit for a year to make piddly cash is NOT a good use of my time. The earnings there are so low, that it is not a good way to spend my time.
The Mahalo Comparison
The only reason that I can see people writing on Suite101 over Mahalo is because they don't know that Mahalo exists. Mahalo is hands down a better environment for writers and makes big money.
The How To Team at Mahalo makes both up-front cash and residual passive income. You can either write one of the tasks from the giant queue of available tasks, or request your own. So just like Suite101, you can write about what you want. The QC team is filled with people who help mentor you to be the best Mahalo writer you can be. So just like Suite101, there is a great team to help you out. Mahalo pays anywhere from $3.50 - $5.00 per How To upfront, and then you earn %30 of the Adsense revenue on the page. You have control over the layout of the page.
In almost all ways, Mahalo is better than Suite101. I have made over $1500 with Mahalo in the past two months, part time. Suite 101 is full of people hoping that their hard work will eventually pay off...while on Mahalo its been two months and I'm seeing my writing paying my bills. Here is information on joining the How To team on Mahalo.
Suite 101 Writers are a Bit Delusional
Without meaning to offend, I have spent a lot of time reading the Suite101 forums over the past two months. As of this moment, I have written 6 articles and I have made $6.67. I'm disgusted with this amount, but the people on the Suite101 forums say that is a GOOD start. These people are looking forward to and excited for their first $10.00 cashout! Some of them have been trying for MONTHS to get to the ten dollar cash out!
When you read the forums, there is a trend that always happens. One person sas "wow, earnings are low here". Another person replies "They do start off low, but its all about residual earnings and it will increase over time. Just look at the finance writer who brought in over $5,000 in ONE MONTH!". Everyone keeps bringing up this one particular writer who did well. I'm sorry - but that's not enough to keep me invested in an online writing site.
Regardless how you look at it, having to write hundreds of articles and then let them sit for a year to make piddly cash is NOT a good use of my time. The earnings there are so low, that it is not a good way to spend my time.
The Mahalo Comparison
The only reason that I can see people writing on Suite101 over Mahalo is because they don't know that Mahalo exists. Mahalo is hands down a better environment for writers and makes big money.
The How To Team at Mahalo makes both up-front cash and residual passive income. You can either write one of the tasks from the giant queue of available tasks, or request your own. So just like Suite101, you can write about what you want. The QC team is filled with people who help mentor you to be the best Mahalo writer you can be. So just like Suite101, there is a great team to help you out. Mahalo pays anywhere from $3.50 - $5.00 per How To upfront, and then you earn %30 of the Adsense revenue on the page. You have control over the layout of the page.
In almost all ways, Mahalo is better than Suite101. I have made over $1500 with Mahalo in the past two months, part time. Suite 101 is full of people hoping that their hard work will eventually pay off...while on Mahalo its been two months and I'm seeing my writing paying my bills. Here is information on joining the How To team on Mahalo.
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Writing For Mahalo - An Update
Aside from a couple articles this month on Suite 101 (which have made me just under $2.00, big whoop)....I have been concentrating full time on Mahalo. I have several new things to talk about with Mahalo:
New Mahalo Homepage
Mahalo is currently switching over to Mahalo 3.0, which is an overhaul of the site to make it more user friendly and have even better SEO to bring more revenue to our pages. So far, there is an overhaul on the Mahalo.com homepage, and on individual pages. Check out one of my recent pages to see the new look!
Vertical Managers
As part of the Mahalo 3.0 soft launch, they're rolling out a new feature which is "vertical managers". A vertical manager will no longer be in charge of managing their own pages, instead - they'll be in charge of a whole category on Mahalo (such as Finance, Shopping, etc.) They will earn 20% of all Adsense Revenue of all pages within their category (up to 3,000 pages). Considering right now, I have 100 pages...and I'm making about $2-3 dollars a day of passive income on them (with 40% Adsense revenue), I think this will be lucrative. Obviously, some categories have more potential than others because of high CPC and higher search traffic (like finance, health), but this is going to be an exciting opportunity for motivated writers.
I've submitted an application to become a vertical manager, and I'm really excited about it. I'm looking forward to reporting about it if it becomes official.
Transparency
One thing that frustrates me about sites like Examiner and eHow, is how you're not technically allowed to report your earnings. Mahalo takes a completely different angle on this, and provides total transparency. You can see leaderboards of what everyone is earning. You can see a preview of the upcoming payout coming this month, which is what everyone is earning. Here is the payouts for last month. You can really see the earning potential in Mahalo.
So that's it, this month has been great. I've earned probably $900 this month on Mahalo, and I'm not really trying ALL that hard yet. It's a shame that more freelance writers haven't discovered it yet.
New Mahalo Homepage
Mahalo is currently switching over to Mahalo 3.0, which is an overhaul of the site to make it more user friendly and have even better SEO to bring more revenue to our pages. So far, there is an overhaul on the Mahalo.com homepage, and on individual pages. Check out one of my recent pages to see the new look!
Vertical Managers
As part of the Mahalo 3.0 soft launch, they're rolling out a new feature which is "vertical managers". A vertical manager will no longer be in charge of managing their own pages, instead - they'll be in charge of a whole category on Mahalo (such as Finance, Shopping, etc.) They will earn 20% of all Adsense Revenue of all pages within their category (up to 3,000 pages). Considering right now, I have 100 pages...and I'm making about $2-3 dollars a day of passive income on them (with 40% Adsense revenue), I think this will be lucrative. Obviously, some categories have more potential than others because of high CPC and higher search traffic (like finance, health), but this is going to be an exciting opportunity for motivated writers.
I've submitted an application to become a vertical manager, and I'm really excited about it. I'm looking forward to reporting about it if it becomes official.
Transparency
One thing that frustrates me about sites like Examiner and eHow, is how you're not technically allowed to report your earnings. Mahalo takes a completely different angle on this, and provides total transparency. You can see leaderboards of what everyone is earning. You can see a preview of the upcoming payout coming this month, which is what everyone is earning. Here is the payouts for last month. You can really see the earning potential in Mahalo.
So that's it, this month has been great. I've earned probably $900 this month on Mahalo, and I'm not really trying ALL that hard yet. It's a shame that more freelance writers haven't discovered it yet.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Earn over $6,000 on ONE PAGE on Mahalo!
I'm a Mahalo fangirl through and through. I have earned almost $1000 there in a short time by writing and managing pages. And now, up on the Mahalo How To blog, you can see that some writers are making $2,000 - $6,000 a year (projected) off of just ONE page. I own 115 pages or so there, and my numbers are creeping up.
Check out my guide to getting started with Mahalo.
Check out my guide to getting started with Mahalo.
Monday, November 9, 2009
October Earnings Report
Here is my earnings report for the month of October. Note that I did a lot of switching around my focus from week to week, so there wasn't a lot of concentrated earnings.
Mahalo - $458.00 (only about $20.00 of this was passive earnings)
Demand Studios - $47.50 (only wrote a couple articles)
Examiner - Pennies (didn't write anything in October)
eHow - zero with 3 articles
Suite101 - $0.76, 3 articles
Adsense - $12.80
Total: $519.06
Not too bad for extra side income with writing. Now to get more of it to be passive...
Mahalo - $458.00 (only about $20.00 of this was passive earnings)
Demand Studios - $47.50 (only wrote a couple articles)
Examiner - Pennies (didn't write anything in October)
eHow - zero with 3 articles
Suite101 - $0.76, 3 articles
Adsense - $12.80
Total: $519.06
Not too bad for extra side income with writing. Now to get more of it to be passive...
Passive vs. Upfront Earning in Online Writing
I am still trying to balance and figure out whether I should concentrate on writing for passive income potential sites or upfront pay.
I know in my prior post I was explaining my frustration with Suite101. I think the main problem is that I've not grown quick enough at writing articles yet. When I spend a couple hours on an article and watch it make zero dollars, it frustrates me. Sometimes I feel that my time is spent better elsewhere where the money is upfront and guaranteed. This is why I wrote a glowing review of Demand Studios not too long ago.
Lately, I've been thinking more about the potential of passive income. I'm hearing about folks who have made decent money on Suite101 and eHow just by writing 100+ articles and letting them sit there. The idea of continuing to bring in money in the future without extra work has really been growing on me and getting more and more appealing. I'm starting to understand why getting the quick $15 from Demand Studios isn't nearly as exciting as watching my revenue grow from my online work.
This is why I am putting Demand Studios on the backburner for awhile. I feel like the articles I wrote for DS took a LOT of time because their editorial standards are high and the topics are more difficult. I got paid my $15 each, but now they're just sitting out there making money for someone else and not me. That frustrates me quite a bit.
My new concentrations in their order of importance are:
Examiner is something that I'm waiting on to really start getting into. I am in the process of switching my topic from Social Media Examiner to San Diego Uptown Examiner. I think it will be fun to report on local events and news, and something new for me. I'm not necessarily driving for tons of extra cash with Examiner (I know that won't happen anyway), I'm mostly doing it for the fun and experience.
My gaming blog has a focus on feminism, LGBT issues, and how they interact in virtual worlds and online games. It's been going for a long time but I only recently started introducing advertisements to it. I'm hoping to continue blogging there and step up to more frequent postings.
Suite101 is something I was ready to abandon before, but now I'm going to give it a chance. I wrote a couple more articles for Suite this weekend and I'm hoping to just write my minimum of 10 every three months and an extra one here and there. It's a good place for 3rd person articles on informative subjects, which really isn't my specialty. The community of writers there is EXCELLENT though. They've been a great resource.
Digital Journal is something brand new that I'm just starting out with. It's a citizen journalism site that allows you to write about whatever topic you want as long as it's news focused. With a rating system to encourage views, the pay works by splitting revenue with all the writers according to contribution. Since I don't expect to write there much, I doubt I will see much pay. We'll see.
So that's my order of priority right now. I'm sure it will switch again. :)
I know in my prior post I was explaining my frustration with Suite101. I think the main problem is that I've not grown quick enough at writing articles yet. When I spend a couple hours on an article and watch it make zero dollars, it frustrates me. Sometimes I feel that my time is spent better elsewhere where the money is upfront and guaranteed. This is why I wrote a glowing review of Demand Studios not too long ago.
Lately, I've been thinking more about the potential of passive income. I'm hearing about folks who have made decent money on Suite101 and eHow just by writing 100+ articles and letting them sit there. The idea of continuing to bring in money in the future without extra work has really been growing on me and getting more and more appealing. I'm starting to understand why getting the quick $15 from Demand Studios isn't nearly as exciting as watching my revenue grow from my online work.
This is why I am putting Demand Studios on the backburner for awhile. I feel like the articles I wrote for DS took a LOT of time because their editorial standards are high and the topics are more difficult. I got paid my $15 each, but now they're just sitting out there making money for someone else and not me. That frustrates me quite a bit.
My new concentrations in their order of importance are:
- Mahalo
- Examiner
- My gaming blog
- Suite101
- Digital Journal
Examiner is something that I'm waiting on to really start getting into. I am in the process of switching my topic from Social Media Examiner to San Diego Uptown Examiner. I think it will be fun to report on local events and news, and something new for me. I'm not necessarily driving for tons of extra cash with Examiner (I know that won't happen anyway), I'm mostly doing it for the fun and experience.
My gaming blog has a focus on feminism, LGBT issues, and how they interact in virtual worlds and online games. It's been going for a long time but I only recently started introducing advertisements to it. I'm hoping to continue blogging there and step up to more frequent postings.
Suite101 is something I was ready to abandon before, but now I'm going to give it a chance. I wrote a couple more articles for Suite this weekend and I'm hoping to just write my minimum of 10 every three months and an extra one here and there. It's a good place for 3rd person articles on informative subjects, which really isn't my specialty. The community of writers there is EXCELLENT though. They've been a great resource.
Digital Journal is something brand new that I'm just starting out with. It's a citizen journalism site that allows you to write about whatever topic you want as long as it's news focused. With a rating system to encourage views, the pay works by splitting revenue with all the writers according to contribution. Since I don't expect to write there much, I doubt I will see much pay. We'll see.
So that's my order of priority right now. I'm sure it will switch again. :)
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Mahalo - A Writer's Beginners Guide
For the last month I have been writing for Mahalo as my main writing gig. Note that I do have a full time job, so this is just in my spare evening and weekend times. Mahalo has several ways that writers can make money, and I've been doing very well there. I'll start off with the facts that people want to know.
I've made over $600 there, part time, in the last month alone.
How does Mahalo Work?
Mahalo is more complicated then eHow or Suite101 or Demand Studios, because there are more ways to make money. Mahalo is basically a collection of pages that contain partially original text, and partially automatically generated text. For example, take a peek at my How To Stream Movies to Your XBox 360 page. The actual steps are steps that I wrote. Same with the note on the right, the related pages, the tips. I added the video at the top and the commentary. The rest of the page Mahalo automatically generates for me. They put in the images and the resources, and more importantly - the ads!
So you're wondering how this page makes me money? Well, if you look in the lower right, you can see that I own it.
I earn money for page views and ad clicks on my page. This particular page has earned me $2.03 in the past month and a half, and the rate of earning is increasing. In this regard, it's very similar to eHow.
When you first get started with Mahalo, you can't write How To pages. You can write regular pages which are things like Alienware Coupons or Farmville Ribbons. To write a page, you search for the page title you'd like to write on Mahalo.com. If that page already exists, it will come up. If it doesn't exist you'll see a list of search results with a request box to the right.
If you click "Request" you can put in the amount you would like to receive for writing the page. Note that the price is in Mahalo Dollars (M$) which is US $0.75 per Mahalo Dollar. Generally, putting in $2-3 is a good amount. They'll check out request and then approve it (or not) based on if they think it would make a good page. Once it's approved you are then assigned the task and you write the page. You make not only that upfront pay, but also 40% of the Adsense revenue on the page going forward.
That's one way to make money on Mahalo.
Mahalo Tasks
You can also work on tasks, which are available here. Tasks are pages that the Mahalo Staff have decided they want written, and they have a preset dollar value on them. Sometimes the tasks are "Barnraising" tasks, which means that they're all of the same theme and there are prizes for the users who finish the most of them. For example, right now there is a Thanksgiving Barnraising where all the tasks are related to Thanksgiving and whoever completes the most pages gets a reward.
There is a great guide for how to do tasks here.
Remember that even when you do tasks, you still earn 40% of the Adsense revenue for being the page manager. Being a page manager means that you are responsible for keeping the page up to date throughout it's lifecycle and making it the best possible page on that subject.
How To Team
The biggest money making opportunity on Mahalo BY FAR is the How To Team. There is a page that details exactly how you do this. What it basically comes down to is, you claim a Rush Week How To task here, and you do an absolutely awesome job at it. To do an awesome job at it, read these posts:
How to Build a How To Page
How to Build a Mahalo Page
How to Write a Guide Note
Once you submit your Rush Week How To, the QC team will approve it or add suggestions and have you resubmit. The best submissions are then filtered out, and their writers are invited to join the How To Team. Once you're on the How To Team, you can write an unlimited number of How To articles at M$5 each. Upfront pay (although small) PLUS residual passive income through revenue sharing. It really is the BEST of both worlds!
Page Management and Promotion
I could write a whole article about this, and I probably will. Once your task is approved, you own the page. It's your responsibility to knock it out of the park and make it awesome so that it rises in search engine rankings. This is a big difference between Suite101/eHow and Mahalo - you don't just submit your article and expect it to be done. You have to continue to maintain it and refresh it. This is a GOOD THING because it means you have more control over your page's SEO. You can use tweaks of the content. It takes a little time before the pages will start bringing in cash, but some start earning instantly.
Check out these resources for maintaining your page:
Mahalo Page Management Guide
How to Market a Mahalo Page
So that's the very beginnings for getting started. I'm having a TON of fun on Mahalo. It's great to see my income going up even though I'm doing this for fun. I love how the earnings are all public too, so you can actually see what people are making. (Notice that I'm near the top for last month - this is PART TIME work and I've just gotten started). I can only imagine what my earnings will be when these pages rise in search rankings and start pouring in cash for me. :)
Any questions? Let me know!
I've made over $600 there, part time, in the last month alone.
How does Mahalo Work?
Mahalo is more complicated then eHow or Suite101 or Demand Studios, because there are more ways to make money. Mahalo is basically a collection of pages that contain partially original text, and partially automatically generated text. For example, take a peek at my How To Stream Movies to Your XBox 360 page. The actual steps are steps that I wrote. Same with the note on the right, the related pages, the tips. I added the video at the top and the commentary. The rest of the page Mahalo automatically generates for me. They put in the images and the resources, and more importantly - the ads!
So you're wondering how this page makes me money? Well, if you look in the lower right, you can see that I own it.
When you first get started with Mahalo, you can't write How To pages. You can write regular pages which are things like Alienware Coupons or Farmville Ribbons. To write a page, you search for the page title you'd like to write on Mahalo.com. If that page already exists, it will come up. If it doesn't exist you'll see a list of search results with a request box to the right.
That's one way to make money on Mahalo.
Mahalo Tasks
You can also work on tasks, which are available here. Tasks are pages that the Mahalo Staff have decided they want written, and they have a preset dollar value on them. Sometimes the tasks are "Barnraising" tasks, which means that they're all of the same theme and there are prizes for the users who finish the most of them. For example, right now there is a Thanksgiving Barnraising where all the tasks are related to Thanksgiving and whoever completes the most pages gets a reward.
There is a great guide for how to do tasks here.
Remember that even when you do tasks, you still earn 40% of the Adsense revenue for being the page manager. Being a page manager means that you are responsible for keeping the page up to date throughout it's lifecycle and making it the best possible page on that subject.
How To Team
The biggest money making opportunity on Mahalo BY FAR is the How To Team. There is a page that details exactly how you do this. What it basically comes down to is, you claim a Rush Week How To task here, and you do an absolutely awesome job at it. To do an awesome job at it, read these posts:
How to Build a How To Page
How to Build a Mahalo Page
How to Write a Guide Note
Once you submit your Rush Week How To, the QC team will approve it or add suggestions and have you resubmit. The best submissions are then filtered out, and their writers are invited to join the How To Team. Once you're on the How To Team, you can write an unlimited number of How To articles at M$5 each. Upfront pay (although small) PLUS residual passive income through revenue sharing. It really is the BEST of both worlds!
Page Management and Promotion
I could write a whole article about this, and I probably will. Once your task is approved, you own the page. It's your responsibility to knock it out of the park and make it awesome so that it rises in search engine rankings. This is a big difference between Suite101/eHow and Mahalo - you don't just submit your article and expect it to be done. You have to continue to maintain it and refresh it. This is a GOOD THING because it means you have more control over your page's SEO. You can use tweaks of the content. It takes a little time before the pages will start bringing in cash, but some start earning instantly.
Check out these resources for maintaining your page:
Mahalo Page Management Guide
How to Market a Mahalo Page
So that's the very beginnings for getting started. I'm having a TON of fun on Mahalo. It's great to see my income going up even though I'm doing this for fun. I love how the earnings are all public too, so you can actually see what people are making. (Notice that I'm near the top for last month - this is PART TIME work and I've just gotten started). I can only imagine what my earnings will be when these pages rise in search rankings and start pouring in cash for me. :)
Any questions? Let me know!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Where to spend my freelance time?
I have a 40+ hour a week fulltime job, so writing is a side project for me in my spare time. However, my spare time hasn't been all that plentiful lately. How do I decide which website to spend my efforts on?
Demand Studios requires a lot of work on my part per article. Most of the articles are not in my comfort zone and require a lot of research to write an article that won't get rejected. The money is good, but it's all upfront money. There's nothing I'm really looking to purchase or pay off right now, so I'm really looking for passive income.
I signed up with Examiner and I am the San Diego Social Media Examiner. I quickly saw that even with decent traffic, I'm looking at $1-$3 a day. I'm already making that on my horse forum with Adsense revenue. I just don't see the point in devoting time and resources to writing articles for the Examiner when I could post the same content to a blog and SEO the heck out of it to get hits. I also tried Suite101 and eHow, and I'm feeling similar sentiments there as well. I've written three articles for Suite, and am no where near earning anything. If I'm going to do a revenue share-type product, I at least want to know a guarantee that I'll be paid something.
This is where Mahalo comes in. I have been on the Mahalo How To Team for over a month now, and I go back to it on and off. I have about $180 Mahalo Dollars there (which is unfortunately only 75% of the actual dollar value) and most of it is just from passive income on pages over the past month or so. I'm up to almost a dollar per day at Mahalo and I have definitely seen an increase. I'm confident that my numbers will get higher as my pages live on the site longer and I update them more. I have about 50 pages right now and rising, and I'm starting to really snag some pages that I think will blow up.
Mahalo works by letting you claim pages and write them, and then earning 40% of the AdSense revenue. You also get up front money for creating the page, anywhere from $2-10 Mahalo dollars. So there is a small upfront bonus and also the revenue share. If my pages perform well and I snag good pages, there is a money making opportunity there. It's also FUN to own and build pages. I really like having a chance to put my expertise and research ability to a fun use.
I'm working hard on building out more pages right now. I'll report back on how these daily earnings go up as I spend more time and increase my collection of pages.
Demand Studios requires a lot of work on my part per article. Most of the articles are not in my comfort zone and require a lot of research to write an article that won't get rejected. The money is good, but it's all upfront money. There's nothing I'm really looking to purchase or pay off right now, so I'm really looking for passive income.
I signed up with Examiner and I am the San Diego Social Media Examiner. I quickly saw that even with decent traffic, I'm looking at $1-$3 a day. I'm already making that on my horse forum with Adsense revenue. I just don't see the point in devoting time and resources to writing articles for the Examiner when I could post the same content to a blog and SEO the heck out of it to get hits. I also tried Suite101 and eHow, and I'm feeling similar sentiments there as well. I've written three articles for Suite, and am no where near earning anything. If I'm going to do a revenue share-type product, I at least want to know a guarantee that I'll be paid something.
This is where Mahalo comes in. I have been on the Mahalo How To Team for over a month now, and I go back to it on and off. I have about $180 Mahalo Dollars there (which is unfortunately only 75% of the actual dollar value) and most of it is just from passive income on pages over the past month or so. I'm up to almost a dollar per day at Mahalo and I have definitely seen an increase. I'm confident that my numbers will get higher as my pages live on the site longer and I update them more. I have about 50 pages right now and rising, and I'm starting to really snag some pages that I think will blow up.
Mahalo works by letting you claim pages and write them, and then earning 40% of the AdSense revenue. You also get up front money for creating the page, anywhere from $2-10 Mahalo dollars. So there is a small upfront bonus and also the revenue share. If my pages perform well and I snag good pages, there is a money making opportunity there. It's also FUN to own and build pages. I really like having a chance to put my expertise and research ability to a fun use.
I'm working hard on building out more pages right now. I'll report back on how these daily earnings go up as I spend more time and increase my collection of pages.
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