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!