I only heard about Infobarrel through Liz’s blog and reading MMO with SEO.
I have used Hubpages for a while and I have to say, I don’t like the interface of Infobarrel. Until you write 10 articles and get approved by an Infobarrel manager, every article needs to be approved by a human reader. I don’t mind this, but I just had a problem with seeing if the article had been entered into the system successfully or not. To be safe I re-pasted it into a new article and it looks as though my first attempt at saving an article with InfoBarrel failed. Fortunately I wrote and saved my article in OpenOffice, which I recommend doing.
Since articles need to be approved by editors on Infobarrel, Google apparently places more trust on the site. The effect is that you are supposed to get the equivalent link juice as that of ezinearticles.
I feel so motivated the past couple of days, producing actual content on my sites and on sites like Hubpages. I think I have been kidding myself that I was working by reading forums, using facebook and twitter. While I think I still think this is important, it shouldn’t be how you spend the majority of your time.
I am going to try and make a conscience effort from now on at creating content on my own sites and income sharing sites like Hubpages and Infobarrel and rather than using forums and commentating on other blogs to try and get traffic. I also want to try and write more articles on ezinearticles to get traffic and backlinks.
I will updated my progress on my new little experiment.
Hi Mike,
I’ve been trawling through your archives and reading lots, plenty of interesting stuff here. I kinda get bored reading posts from people earning 10s of thousands of dollars every month. Following you on twitter now too, hope to chat soon. I’ve just started weekendaffiliate.com my own site similar to this.
Thanks for your comment Dan. I will be sure to check out your site.
Hey Mike,
This is funny to read because I seem to be at the same point you are at as far as the articles writing thing goes. I am giving it a go as well. I’ve written a handful over on EzineArticles that have been approved but I hadn’t heard of Infobase at all. I will give them a look too. I know about Hubpages mainly because of Lis but haven’t given them much thought either until now.
I am hoping to kick my link building efforts into gear and I keep hearing that these are some of the best ways to go about it so I’m giving it a try. Unfortunately the article ideas don’t seem to be flowing as well as I would have hoped, but I will try your ide aof writing ideas down for later and see how that works.
I will be interested in seeing how this goes for you. Is your motivation earning more through revenue sharing or just to build links for your wn content to get that earning revenue?
My motivation is both to earn money and get links for my other sites, which in turn is to basically to help me earn more money 🙂
So far the strategy is working out for me, which is good enough to keep working at it.