Entries from August 2009 ↓
August 3rd, 2009 — Experiments
Hey guys, I thought I’d give you all an update about my experiment regarding my Info Barrel earnings since I started the experiment last month and finished getting all 100 up within one week. It took a lot of work on my part, but they are all up and earning cash. So how much money was I able to earn with all of the effort that I put in?
Total Info Barrel Earnings In 7 Days: $95 Dollars ($13 per day)
Now you may be wondering why I have only earned this much money… To be completely honest, it’s mostly due to the fact that my pages on there are brand new. They are not yet marketed and are all about 1.5 weeks old. When your articles are only about one week old, you are going to need to definitely play the waiting game if you hope to increase their earnings. Some additional marketing would also be awesome because it would help drive traffic to my Info Barrel pages and really help me make a lot more money. You should make sure that you are signed up for Info Barrel if you haven’t yet… (yes that is my affiliate link, so of course I’d be happy if you used it to sign up).
What are my future plans with Info Barrel?
I honestly plan to crank out over 500 brand new Info Barrel articles within the next 2 months. It is a very attainable goal since I will be outsourcing some of my writing. I am still going to grind away with writing my own stuff, but I know that it will really help to change my average articles per day from 15 to 18… Adding just 3 more articles per day is going to be really awesome as far as I’m concerned.
Can “anybody” make a lot of money from Info Barrel?
The truth is that anybody can make a lot of money from Info Barrel, but I don’t think that many people will simply due to the fact that they won’t do as much writing as they need to in order to start making money on the internet. Most people give up well before they start to see the results that keep them motivated. Most people throw up maybe 10 or 20 articles and think that they should start raking in the dough, but it doesn’t work that way guys. You have got to throw up massive quantities of stuff and find out what works and what is getting clicks.
The exact same thing that worked for my HubPages experiment to make money online worked very well for my InfoBarrel experiment. Since I am much more experienced and learned exactly what niches would work well, I complied over 500 article ideas and began plugging away. If you hope to start making a lot of money with this website, then you are going to need to do a few simple things.
1. Do keyword research – This will help you get yourself on the right track as far as choosing fairly profitable topics to write about so that each time somebody clicks on an advertisement, you will end up making money. I simply use Google’s free AdWords Tool and make sure that I am using a good strategy when choosing my keywords.
2. Write a lot of articles – This is a step that a lot of people skip, but in my experience, you will need at least 100 Info Barrels before you start making at least $10 per day from them. I think my highest earnings from Info Barrel was at around $18 bucks in one day, but I wasn’t really that surprised because I have 100+ articles up there to help me make cash on the internet.
3. Target keywords within your post – Folks, you want to make sure that you are targeting keywords that are uncompetitive within your post. You want to make the use of your keyword natural as well (i.e. make sure that your sentence makes sense). Don’t just go spamming your targeted word around your article… I recommend using it about 4 – 5 times total within a 600 word article. I usually leave a gap of 100 words or so before I use the same keyword twice.
4. Write informative articles – A lot of people write very “trashy” quality articles and that is not for me guys. If you want to make money in the long-term and increase your earnings potential on Info Barrel, you are going to need to contribute good stuff. If everyone wrote junk on that site, it would soon start to fall down in the rankings. Each of my articles is at least 600 words of very quality information. Do not cop out by writing anything shorter than 450 words…
5. Link to your other Info Barrel articles – This step certainly helped me out with my Hubs, so I presume that it will do great as far as getting me some extra cash on Info Barrel. I am linking to at least 3 other of my Info Barrel articles within each article. You want to give your articles some extra juice by linking to them from other stuff that you have written. Even though it may seem a little bit tedious, I don’t recommend skipping this step!
What I don’t particularly like about Info Barrel
1. Adsense Earnings share subject to change - I honestly don’t care that I don’t own the content as much as I am unsure about whether the Adsense earnings will remain at 75% for the long term. I honestly think that when this company really starts to boom, they are going to claim more Adsense earnings per article and maybe drop it down to 60% or 50% earnings share.
2. No easy related articles feature – I wish there was some sort of interface that allowed you to easily add links to your related articles at the bottom of each post. Right now I link out to some of my articles at the end of what I write and I need to make sure that
1. The Contests – They have monthly contests that allow you to earn up to 90% of shared AdSense revenue, which is absolutely phenomenal. Though it is fairly tough to take down some of their top writers for the #1 spot, I’d say that most of you can do a good job at securing 90% Adsense earnings if you put in a little bit of work. Plus, their top 3 contest placers usually get some sort of gift card. First place is usually $100, second place is $50, and third is $25. I’m not going to let you all know whether or not I won a contest, because I don’t want to draw any attention to myself.
2. The Owners – The owners know how to run the company and are doing a phenomenal job at it. I really hope that the ownership does not change hands because this site has a ton of potential. If the ownership does change hands, let’s hope that it is to ME, because I would definitely love to add such a great site to my portfolio!
3. The Approval Process - I actually like how there is a delayed approval process because it helps weed out a lot of garbage content that gets submitted. This is one aspect that Hubpages is missing that I think they should integrate. You need to regulate the spammers and make sure that only good stuff is getting posted on your site. Otherwise you will turn into one big spam farm *cough* Squidoo *cough*… and take a turn for the worse like Hubpages….
4. Instant Search Engine Rankings - You will rank higher in the Google search index with Info Barrel pages than you will with Hubs… You will rank in similar fashion to well-written Ezine articles. If you do a good job with your IB, you will immediately outrank most (if not all of) your fully-marketed HubPages.
5. 75% Adsense Revenue Share – Having 75% of your revenue on Info Barrel is awesome. Like I mentioned earlier, you can get it up to 90% if you frequently contribute to writing a lot of articles on a monthly basis. You would be crazy not to take advantage of this earnings potential.
6. Adsense Layout - Now I know that they could certainly tweak their existing Adsense placement in order to make more money, but what they have actually works well. They have a decent sized advertisement placed in the upper left corner of their articles and more ads throughout the page. Yeah they could improve it, but I am pretty satisfied with what they’ve got. My only suggestion would be to try out some new stuff to see if they can get a slightly higher CTR…
7. Free Strong Backlinks – If you write an article, you can get yourself free, strong backlinks to your websites. This is another feature that I absolutely love. If you write a good article that gets a lot of traffic on IB, you are not going to have any problems redirecting some of that traffic to your own sites. The “link juice” is what matters most though, and you will get plenty of it from this site.
My future goals with Info Barrel
My future goals with Info Barrel are to really take things to the next level and start making $100 per day with the content that I put up on their site. I have a very good game plan that is going to be flawless and unstoppable in getting me to the place that I want to be as far as Info Barrel earnings are concerned. The whole key is for me to stay motivated enough to get the work done and seriously bust my ass for the next 2 months in order to get up all 600 keyword-targeted articles that I have.
I really hope that the same administrators stay working with Info Barrel and do not plan on selling the company anytime soon because they are doing a great job running the show. In all honesty, I wish that I had my own company like this because it has so much potential! If you haven’t already signed up for Info Barrel, you already know what you need to go ahead and do…
August 2nd, 2009 — Outsourcing, Recommendations
If you want to have someone help you with content creation to promote a website, then forget stressing yourself out by looking for somebody to hire. Instead, do yourself a favor and check out the Human Rewriter! Most outsourcing companies will charge you either: A) Too much money for good quality or B) Too little money to be able to offer you quality articles. Even if you are getting a pretty good deal with your current outsourcing method, the quality is probably not aligned with the price that you are paying (or vice-versa). If you are like me, you do not want to waste your money paying for outsourcing articles that are returned to you with a ton of grammatical and spelling errors or even worse, articles that don’t make any sense. I have experienced a lot of article outsourcing services and to be honest, most of them were a complete waste of my money!
To avoid frustration and get yourself to start kicking some major butt on the net, you want to make sure that your articles for marketing are legible, written in English, and actually make sense to the person that reads them! Submitting crappy content to promote your articles is really not going to do you much good, so you need to find a quality content generation service that charges a good price and delivers quality. If you are serious about making money on the internet by using articles to market your websites, you are going to want to check out the Human Rewriter or at least finish reading this review so you know what to expect. (Oh, and in case you were wondering, I am using my affiliate link throughout this article – if you found this review helpful, I’d appreciate it if you signed up with my link so that I can at least make the money back that it took for me to write this detailed review).
How the Human Rewriter actually works
The name “Human Rewriter” is pretty self explanatory. You submit any article that you have written (or found on the internet) and they “rewrite it” to make 100% completely unique content. They have a team of English writers that know what it takes in order to create a great article. The cool thing about the HumanRewriter is that they let you buy credits with your money. Each credit that you get is worth about $1 dollar – so if you bought 30 credits, that would be equivalent to spending $30 dollars.
You then spend however many credits you want for an article. I usually use up about 3 credits or $3 dollars per article, but you can use more or less if you would like. When the article that you initially submitted has been completely rewritten, you will be sent a notification. All you do from there is log-in to your account and you can look at the article that you received and compare it to the article that you sent them. They show you all of the disparities between the articles and you will quickly see that your article is 100% unique. You can compare line-by-line and see that your new article is very different than the one that you originally gave them. You can also read it over and check to make sure that it makes sense.
The best part about the service is that you can read the article and choose whether or not you want to accept it before you use up any credits. If you are not completely satisfied with the job that was done on your re-write, you do not need to pay anything. Simply send it back and they will completely re-do the job for you. I have never had a problem with getting a bad article – but if you ever do, you at least do not need to pay for it.
What is the overall price of Human Rewriter?
You can get yourself a 450 word to 475 word article rewritten all for just around $3. On their website you will find that it costs about fifteen cents (yes 15 cents) for one solid sentence. It all averages out to a very inexpensive rewriting service that you should definitely take advantage of if you want to have article that you can market with.
Completely Unique Content – The best part of this service is not only that you get completely unique content, but it is very high-quality. Most rewriters are just trying to get as many articles done as they can in an hour and could care less about the quality of their work. All of the articles pass the CopyScale test and are well written for an outsourcing business.
Quality Content – If you are not happy with the quality of the content that you get back after having one of your articles rewritten, you can outright “reject it” and have them do it again until they get it right. I have never had a problem with receiving quality from these people, so I doubt that you will either. But in any case, you have the final say as to whether they did an acceptable job before you pay them any money for your article.
Low Price – At just around $3 for a 450 word article, you are getting yourself one heck of a good deal. Now you may know about other article services that charge a similar price, but the primary reason that this is such a good price is due to quality. If you do not care about quality, keep paying a low price to flood the net with more crappy content. If you actually care about putting good information out on the internet that somebody can actually read and relate with, then this price is very reasonable. In fact, I would not be surprised if this company does not raise their rates in the future.
Human Re-Writes – No people, you are not going to have a person from India working on your article that doesn’t know proper English – you are going to have a person from the United States crafting and putting a completely unique spin on any one of your articles that are submitted.
You Save Your Fingers – Folks, I’ve written hundreds of articles in order to get my foot in the door in this making money on the internet business. You are not going to want to spend all of your time typing away, rather you are going to want to reinvest your profits towards having a service help you. I have experienced plenty of burn-out from writing an average of 15 articles per day at over 800 words each. Trust me, you will not want to have to deal with the headache of doing this much writing. Now, I can easily average about 15 articles (without having as much of a headache).
Free Content Spinner – They also have a free content spinner that allows you to tweak various sentences in your articles… for free on all of your purchased rewrites. This means that if you had a sentence like: “These vitamins may help promote vital organ growth and promote healing across your body” – you would get a few different variations in return by just using their generator. They may look something like this:
“These/Some/A lot – of the vitamins/minerals/supplements – may/can/will – help/aid/promote – organ/bodily/muscle – growth/expansion/health – as well as/in addition to/and also – healing/recovery/regeneration – across/throughout/among – your body/ the nervous system / a person’s brain.”
You get the idea of how it works. It is not quite as intricate as the example as I laid out above and is actually much easier than having to tweak your sentences that much. I recommend that you do not use the spinner all the time though, because you are going to need to make sure that your content is completely unique. Sometimes the spinner does not produce 100% unique content and you can definitely get yourself into some trouble if you are not careful with this.
Turnaround Time – In all honesty, I don’t even consider this to be a disadvantage, but some people have complained that they don’t like the 36 hour turnaround time for an article to be completed. You can have your order expedited for a fairly cheap price if you need your content ASAP. I recommend just paying and then waiting for your article so that you do not end up spending more than is needed. Oh, and in case you were wondering, you will get your articles back in the order that you submitted them, so there won’t be much confusion as to which article you should have gotten back first, etc.
Human Rewriter Review – Final Thoughts
Let me say that if you are serious about doing any kind of work with internet marketing, you are going to want to buy yourself some Human Rewriter credits and put it to use. You can save yourself a ton of time that you would normally have spent writing your own content by having educated English writers write it for you. I absolutely love the Human Rewriter and as of now, they really don’t have any competition as far as quality and price goes.
Do you outsource all of your content with them? No, I take the time to write solid articles for my websites, but will use their services to help market my sites. If you want to make any kind of money on the internet, you are going to need good articles to use for marketing. Take the time to make sure that you get the job done right with the Human Rewriter. This service seriously rocks for the low price that they currently offer!
Skeptical? Get Yourself a Free Trial!
Don’t take my word for how good this service actually is, just go there and give it a shot for yourself to see whether you like it! You can get yourself a free $5 dollar trial if you are a little bit skeptical about spending money. I am always skeptical when trying out a new service like this, so you should definitely test the waters before you actually place a bigger order. Also, be sure to use the coupon code “warrior” (all lowercase) if you place an order for $25 or more because it will get you 10 free credits. If you make use of the free trial and use the coupon code (with your $25 or more order), you are going to get 13 articles for about $25 – a very low price.
