Post by Editor1 on Dec 30, 2016 10:25:21 GMT -5
Call me a nerd, but I've tracked every article I've done in a spreadsheet along with the payout, word count and time spent on the article. My original goal was to use it to try and find a general trend in what types of articles make me more money.
Obviously by calculating the word count, you can see that the shorter articles give a higher $/word payout, but is it that simple?
Interestingly, by using a pivot table I've been able to look at different relationships and found that while the shorter articles do generally give a higher $/word payout, the $/hr of the articles is nearly identical regardless of the article length. Based on the time I'm spending, 3,500-6,000 word articles are giving me the highest $/hr, but that payout is only 5% higher than the lowest payout I get.
This seemed strange to me in the beginning, but what the results seem to show me is that even though the shorter articles have higher $/word, I'm apparently spending longer on those articles. This is likely due to the level of English in those articles that requires more effort to correct and thus a slower pace of editing. For some reason, shorter articles tend to have worse english, at least for me.
Anyone else been doing productivity tracking and care to share their results?
Obviously by calculating the word count, you can see that the shorter articles give a higher $/word payout, but is it that simple?
Interestingly, by using a pivot table I've been able to look at different relationships and found that while the shorter articles do generally give a higher $/word payout, the $/hr of the articles is nearly identical regardless of the article length. Based on the time I'm spending, 3,500-6,000 word articles are giving me the highest $/hr, but that payout is only 5% higher than the lowest payout I get.
This seemed strange to me in the beginning, but what the results seem to show me is that even though the shorter articles have higher $/word, I'm apparently spending longer on those articles. This is likely due to the level of English in those articles that requires more effort to correct and thus a slower pace of editing. For some reason, shorter articles tend to have worse english, at least for me.
Anyone else been doing productivity tracking and care to share their results?
