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Mahalo Guides cashing out for over $1,000 a month
- rwebb 17y agowhat a joke.
- vijayr 17y agoThat’s what it is for most folks, but the top users tell us they are playing this game for 20-50 hours a week. The top earner in that screen shot is 2200. 200 hours a month, for $2200 = $11 per hour. Joke indeed.
- ojbyrne 17y agoActually, if you dig a little you'll find that: "One Mahalo Dollar equals: $0.75 in American Currency"
- numbchuckskills 17y agothe only 'joke' is that you fail to realize JC is getting great workers for pennies and they are actually enjoying it enough to stick around. He is laughing at you.
- allenbrunson 17y agoOf course he is! Laughing at people is the new web 2.0 business model!
- petemack 17y ago"the top users tell us they are playing this game for 20-50 hours a week" What's that work out to hourly about $7/hour? Doesn't seem worth it to me.
- unalone 17y agoSeems like it might be worth a shot to me. I'm a college student with free time on his hands and this might be both fun and profitable. Probably teach me a thing or two about information organization while I'm at it.
- vijayr 17y agoIf you have time, you could check out sites like ehow. some ehow writers make more than $2k per month, but the difference there is you write once, and earn money every month (ehow shares its adsense revenue with its writers)
- chollida1 17y agoFair enough. I'm guessing you don't live in a country where $7/hour is alot of money. In some countries, that's a great salary.
- lpellis 17y ago$7/hour is around R55/hour in South Africa, which is actually a great salary for most. But that figure is just for the top earners, I doubt most of the guides earn anywhere close to that.
- callmeed 17y agoLook how fast the earnings drop off. Once you get around the 20th spot, you're < $100/mo.
- alaskamiller 17y agoWasn't this the point of squidoo, ehow, wikihow, about.com?
- dentonbros 17y agoyep. Mahalo is the new squidoo. Lame.
- jwesley 17y agoThose 5 sites are a plague on the internet. They toss poor workers pennies to churn out reams of forgettable content which clogs up the search results because of the huge authority of those sites. Most of the writers simply research the content at other websites and rehash the exact same ideas. If they even attempt to credit their sources with a backlink, those links are always nofollowed, with pagerank only allowed to pass to related internal pages. The ones that do allow followed links (Squidoo) are relentlessly spammed. The result is bad for users and smaller competing sites. I remember reading on the eHow CEO's twitter page how they produce the amount of words equivalent to War and Peace every day, as if flooding the web with more watered down garbage was doing the world a favor.
- jonknee 17y agoSo he's blogging again? Guess that email list didn't work out.