If you are going to go into the " How - to " niche, the following plan may work for you:
1. Pay Per View - The first 10 articles you write should go on networks like Yahoo ( your paid per view ) or Hubpages. Both sites have an influx of daily viewers and this allows you to list them on your portfolio ( getting paid each time someone reads your work even if you presented it to display your writing skills).
2. Niche Sites - There are a plethora of sites that place a call for articles paying over $10 per article, yet give you full credit. Utilize these sites by placing 10 - 20 articles on varying sites/ blogs of this caliber. You will be able to backlink the work in your portfolio, your paid upfront or upon acceptance and you get your name out there as an an expert in the varying topics you've provided content in. ( Example : If you are writing an How To article on hacking - place it on a site offering a decent upfront payment for the content and allowing you to have credit. You can then discuss if you are able to generate income from the traffic to the content, if not, that's fine, you can always rewrite the content from a different view on your own site but using the published content for a portfolio for potential clients).
3. Portfolio - Utilize sites that allow you to create a free content portfolio such as Contently. You can place the links to all the content you've published in one place, creating the perfect resume for potential clients, allowing you to focus on mass producing more quality content.
4. Apply! - Since your centering around How To content I would suggest applying for Demand Studios. You are able to generate atleast $15 per article. If you are seeking a way to just get paid for the content this is the best option because it opens the doors for more income down the line.
If you want to generate the income with no other companies involved:
Follow steps 1 -3 then:
1. Create a site, separating the How - To content into categories like Ehow.
2. CPA is effective but you may find adsense or like sites more effective. You have to have an audience so I would suggest the following: Try taking some time each day to locate forums, answer sites or blogs that discuss each category of your site. Offer a quick response to comments associated with any article on your site and place a back link. You may find it easier to sub contract this type of assignment out through sites like Shorttask for 0.04 per link back to your site. You can use the income from Yahoo to pay for this task to be completed.
Other Ideas:
1. Instead of mass producing so much content at one time with the hopes that it will make that much money why not split your time. Try writing content for your How - To site and writing for a content/ media company. You should generate about $5 - 20 per article if you write for the right media company and the articles you produce for your own site will generate effortless income if you wanted to simply publish them on a singular site. If you can write 20 articles a day : write 5 for a media company, write 5 for private clients and write 10 for your own site.
2. It's easy to aspire to just create a massive amount of content and the prospect of unlimited viewers but that doesn't happen overnight. Try using any additional income generated from writing for private clients to fund advertising. Once you've created your massive site of How To articles, you should have some money put to the side to pay for advertising through sites like Google or Bing.
I'm confident you can make more than 25 cents per article just make sure you have a back up plan.
