Infobarrel Update + Hubpages + Making Money Online

Ok, I've come a long way since first starting out this blog. There's many things about this blog that spell terrible SEO and I will fix someone of those stupid little things that are keeping it back. In case anyone was really wondering, I've found a little bit of success with making money online. Not anything that's large enough to quit work over but its still money nevertheless.

I've lately been making niche websites and monetizing them. I'm a strong believer in quality content and all of my niche websites are custom written by me or outsourced through freelance writers. Many of them have already paid themselves off for the cost of the domain name and will quickly pay off my hosting expenses. If you've been thinking about doing niche websites for money, go for it! I've had a lot of success and I think you will too. After selecting profitable keywords with little competition on the search rankings, you can find quite a bit of success (some of my sites make 1 to 2 dollars a day (very nice indeed). I have quite a few goals for making money online that includes making about $20 per day by Christmas. I know its totally doable and if I work at it I know I'll hit it.

Infobarrel has been a hit-and-miss monetary site for me. I think I've approached it completely wrong and I think there are ways to make good money with it. I do make a few dollars here and there (probably about $5 a week) but its not worth the hundred posts I made. I think the essential way to make money with Infobarrel is spamming articles about bad credit and financing things. After spamming those articles (50 or more), link them all together and then backlink them with outside sites (like Ezine Articles and HubPages). With the backlinks and good internal link structure, they'll get a lot of organic searches and give you a fairly good CPC and CTR. I know people have made $10 to $20 a day through InfoBarrel and that's how they did it. Plus, they combined it with sites like Unique Article Wizard which shot their InfoBarrels up the rankings which increase their traffic. By the way, definitely love Unique Article Wizard, which I've used for a few of my sites. Look it up on Google and see what people have to say about it.

I've joined the HubPages bandwagon and have been impressed and disappointed at the same time. It's been another great site for making some extra money but its lately has had lots of Adsense issues. Many people have been complaining (myself included) about the irrelevant ads showing up on pages. Some of my hubs have extremely unrelated ads which has killed my CTR and revenue. Since most of my money is starting to come from niche sites, I'm not so concerned about losing HubPage revenue. Instead, I've been using HubPages and InfoBarrels as a source of backlinks for my sites. They've got great authority with Google and the other search engines and when I post a one-way link from those sites to my niche sites, I get the robots crawling my sites within a few hours. In fact, I've had some new domains indexed the day through their backlinks.

In the end, if you're unable to buy your own domains and create niche websites, you should sign up with InfoBarrel or HubPages and start posting. You can make a few dollars fairly quickly and after a month or so of using their services and making residual revenue, you can buy a domain of your own. With your own niche site, you can have 100% of the ad impressions plus control the fate of your website. Websites like InfoBarrel and HubPages can't remain popular forever and will eventually lose their authority and love from Google. When that day comes, your source of income will dry away and you'll be a sad panda. So again, buy your own sites!

Never Stop Learning

So I've come a far way since I first started this blog. I've learned A LOT when it comes to internet marketing and I've discovered many strategies and tactics that are involved in getting ranked high on the search engines. While it's possible to make money online without spending of dime of your own money--it's not worth it if you want to earn money FAST.

Since starting this experiment I make about $15 per week through free sites like InfoBarrel and HubPages. So if you're interested in making money without spending money, article web sites like that are great for residual income. Seriously, join HubPages and InfoBarrel today and start writing.

I've also since joined the The Keyword Academy and it's been an eye opener. I've learned how to be quicker, more efficient, and a much better internet marketer. I now know what it takes to find the optimum keywords for the best success money wise on the search engines.

Leading Acne Treatment.com Indexed

So after 3 days of waiting leadingacnetreatment.com was finally indexed and hopefully will start seeing some good results. I laid some good groundwork for the site as well as back links, so if I'm fortunate enough, I'll start getting organic traffic. :D

The Trickle of Income and Expansion

So surprisingly (I guess not really "surprising") I'm starting to see some results with the articles I wrote for InfoBarrel. I'm seeing about a $1.50 per day which isn't shabby for a beginner inexperienced with SEO article writing and I'm sure as my articles age I'll start seeing a lot more success. So if you haven't seen InfoBarrel you should go now and see what it's all about.

While this is technically outside of the contest of this blog (to see if you can start a free blog and make real income with it) I started a new website using the SEO information I've aquired since starting with this experiment. From the communities dedicated to MMO (make money online) I've learned about topics and keywords you should write about if you're determined to make money online.

The website I created is Leading Acne Treatment, a website about the top treatments for acne. Using methods of SEO and income generated by Adsense and Amazon, I'm going to see if this money making strategy works. It only cost $20 out of my pocket, and assuming the website gets traffic, I think I can make the money back easy and then some.

Diversifying and creating residual income

So beyond this blog and InfoBarrel, I'm looking at many different ways for making residual income through the internet. I have had many projects in the past (both finished and unfinished) and I'm finally bringing them to light and also seeking to make some money with them.

One my latest projects is WORDClash which basically let's people type in two words or names and have them battle it out to the death to see which word is better. I'm not quite sure what to do to get people to go to the project, but I'm trying out different marketing techniques to maybe get it out virally.

Adsense is my primary source of residual income right now and I'm working hard on getting a combination of sources and sites together to really start cranking up the impressions and clicks. InfoBarrel so far hasn't been a huge success money wise but I'm still working at it and posting once or twice a day and hoping for the search engines will rain blessings upon my articles. But then again, my account is only maybe 2 weeks old and so I shouldn't really be expecting monetary results until the articles age a few months.

On a side note about InfoBarrel, I honestly don't get how some people can write so many bloody articles a day on that site. Maybe I don't like writing about acne, maybe I put more effort than other people in writing my articles, but seriously, some people crank A LOT of mundane articles each day. (And by A LOT I mean like 10+). But then again, they're probably don't work 9 hours a day and so have lots of free time on their hands.

Back to the topic of diversying and generating residual income--since Google Adsense is my main source of income right now, I'm looking at some other sources like Amazon and Ebay affilating. Apparently that side of residual income is pretty green and grassy so I'm going to experiment with different blogs and websites using those tools.

50 impressions from Info Barrel mark hit today

GOAL!!! Image by K·FREE via Flickr

So in some personal news, day 3 of posting articles (I have 12 posted) with an average of about 30 minutes to an hour per article, and I've hit 50 impressions today with 3 hours left in the day. Of course a lot of traffic is driven by the "newness" of the articles but I'm sure as they get indexed in all the search engines I'm going to start seeing some real results.

One disappointing thing so far though for day 3 is no clicks on any of the ads yet. But I'm feeling that it may take several weeks before I start seeing real results so I'm not going to give up yet. But one interesting fact someone might be interested about is this is day 3 of my account and I was given a pre-approved status which is nice because I'm can churn out a crapload of content now and not have a delay of 8 to 10 hours waiting for some posts to go.

My next goal for Info Barrel is to hit 150 impressions which I think is totally doable. Once that mark gets hit I'm going for 500.

Info Barrel the new million dollar goldmine?

While this isn't entirely relevant to the content of this blog I do need to recommend a new site that has been relatively untapped by users and can be a large gold mine for passive money generation. A site like Hubpages, Info Barrel features content and articles created by its users to be used by the Internet community and appear on search engines like Google.

Info Barrel is a great example of a shared revenue site where Info Barrel shares the Adsense profit with all those that contribute original and quality content. Basically how it works, is when a person looks at any given article, Info Barrel's servers will show the ads featuring your Adsense publisher ID 75% of the time. When a user clicks those ads with your ID, you'll get the money generated by that click/impression.

The great thing with Info Barrel is that it receives lots of love from search engines and so when you produce content for the site, that content is indexed relatively quickly (I've seen some of my ads appearing within 24 hours of posting) and Info Barrel gives excellent SEO juice when it comes to backlinks.

So currently, I've been focused on creating content for Info Barrel with the hopes of a high payback in residual and passive income in the future. Since Info Barrel is relatively young as a site their a wealth of high value key words that are untouched and many MANY articles that have yet to be posted about. So, joining other SEO/money making bloggers, I'm going to jump onto this bandwagon and see where it takes me.

So if you haven't seen Info Barrel yet I strongly you visit it now and create an account while the articles are hot and you have a lot to write about!

Occasionally I'll post updates on my progress and the type of results I'm getting with generating money.