I’m thinking of canceling a few half-baked websites. I started them with the great idea of just using WordPress to build regular websites. You know, stick a few good articles on them, update as I feel led, but more or less let them sit like a normal site.

Thing is, after the first few articles/posts, I lost interest. One site has only 4 articles, 2 of which are basically affiliate pitches. Another site has about 1/2 dozen detailed, step-by-step articles, a few of which are relatively popular with the search engines. Another is just junk, and that’s going away no matter what.

The one site, I figure I can submit the articles to Associated Content as non-exclusive just for a little dosh. A very little, but it’s better than what I’m getting now. AC seems to rank well on Google, so I’d probably get some decent page views (I can’t believe the articles that grab the page views on AC!), which only translate to cash on my site if someone clicks an ad. I think it happened once.

The other site is the one I’m unsure about. Like I said, it’s getting decent search engine traffic, and I’ve had compliments on how clearly the instructions were written. And no, this is not my craft site. Anyway, I was thinking of submitting them to AC as non-exclusive for the same reason as the site above, and yet…. I hate just handing them all of my good material.

I signed up with eHow a while ago, but never submitted. I’ve been hearing that they’re non-exlusive, but I don’t know if they’d accept previously published articles. I have links to some of them on this blog (way down in the archives), and I could simply take the posts where they’re written and turn them into links directing the searchers to eHow until it stops getting search traffic (at which point, I’d remove the blog entirely).

I’ve heard good things about eHow, and I think these directions would perform well there. But I just don’t know if they’d take pre-pubbed articles like that. Their faq is a little unclear, and I suppose I could try contacting them, but I was hoping that someone here would know? Please? If you know, tell me, and I’ll think really positive things about you until I forget. Pretty please?

Also, I’m up for any other suggestions. I considered combining them all into one big mesh since they’re all search traffic, but that just seems like too much effort for too little pay out. I’d rather be a small cog in a huge, well oiled machine, than a small cog in the middle of a swamp.

My ears are open, and my mouth is closed. For once.