When you include pay per click advertisements, such as Google or Yahoo Ads, on your blog or websites, it is easy to determine how you make money. If someone clicks on one of your ads, then you make money. If they do not click on your ads, you receive nothing. It does not really work this way, however, when you publish articles on eHow.

Almost every day, a new eHow user posts a question about earnings on the forums. Basically, the question revolves around how your earnings are calculated. This is a question that everyone wants to know, but no one actually knows the whole truth.

While, in my experience, it appears that most of your revenue is generated primarily when a reader clicks on a Google Ad, other factors need to be considered. Recently, I wrote an article in which everyone of the keywords paid out at more then $15 per click. Imagine my surprise when earnings were finally posted and this article earned $0.15. How is that even possible?

I double check all of my articles after publication to ensure that the ads that show up are relevant and include the keywords I am aiming for. The ads for this particular article were dead on, so something else must be factored in. When you look at your overall article, you will notice that there are numerous GREEN links, which are also ads (probably Kontera or something). As the author of an article, we have no control over which words are linked to by this secondary company. If fact, these ads may or may not be relevant to your article or not.

The key thing to remember is that eHow is not ripping you off. They do have some method to calculate your earnings. If you are unhappy, you are more than welcome to create your own PAGE RANK 7 revenue sharing site. Personally, I will take whatever they give me!

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