An alert reader (and experienced web writer) commented today,
InfoBarrel, in my personal opinion, is a scam. They have a traffic counter so that you can see how many people look at your articles. However, that doesn’t translate into the AdSense traffic they promise. If you ask about it, they tell you that hundreds of bots are reading your articles, not people, so you don’t get the AdSense views. I’m sorry, but I have been writing content full time for years, and I have several of my own sites. I know Web traffic. You get a bot or two every few days, but hundreds a week? It’s completely ridiculous. I wouldn’t recommend InfoBarrel on a dare.” Continue reading →
Posted in: making money online, web content writing, writing for residual income, writing online for InfoBarrel.
Tagged: bots views · google analytics · info barrel
If you want to increase your residual income by working smarter instead of harder, my buddy, Chezfat (or Brian, as his wife probably refers to him), has done us all a great service by offering some strategies based on his in-depth studies of the subject, and I wanted to pass this on to you.
Some friends and I recently asked Brian to analyze SEO on a few eHow articles to find out if any particular categories seemed to be decreasing in earnings more than others. Brian likes math. I don’t. And he does a great job on his blog of analyzing article SEO factors. Continue reading →
Posted in: article SEO, building backlinks to articles, building residual income.
With eHow members trying to find old or deleted (censored) eHow forum threads for reference and documentation of the eHow UK scam, I decided to make those that I have available here as PDFs for you to download.
Not all deleted posts have been captured, but many have. Maybe enough to surprise even eHow.
They are searchable and printable and are secured against editing to the extent that the software allows. Not exactly hackproof, but I wouldn’t want anyone accusing us of tampering with them, so I gave it my best. Continue reading →
Posted in: eHow forums.
I Stumbled across this innovative tool to help overcome writer’s block today and wanted to share it with you. It’s called, “911 Writer’s Block,” from WEBook.com, and it’s geared toward fiction writers, but even if you don’t write fiction, you’ll get such a kick out of it that your mojo will bounce right back. It looks like this: Continue reading →
Posted in: writing tools.
Tagged: WEBook
Folks, it’s nearing the Day of Reckoning in the [alleged] eHow UK scam for Demand Media’s [alleged] chronic and devastating unethical practices toward their writers.
Because the people who don’t play that game are CATCHING ON. And please EXCUSE MY CAPITAL LETTERS, but it’s ABOUT TIME.
The news? Professor Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do? announced today on his blog, BuzzMachine.com, that he had declined Demand Media’s invitation to join their advisory board. Continue reading →
Posted in: eHow UK, eHow UK scam, eHow scam.
Enough of the eHow UK scam already. Every time I think it can’t get any worse, any scammier, any dirtier, it does.
One more scam came to light tonight, and if you don’t know enough to run as fast and far from eHow as you can by now, there’s no hope for you.
Either that, or you’ve got 1K or more articles tied up there and are overwhelmed at the daunting task of moving them. Or you’ve figured out how to use what you have there to drive traffic elsewhere. Continue reading →
Posted in: building residual income, content aggregators, eHow UK scam, eHow scam, making money online, residual income content sites.
This is what feeds the eHow UK scam and allows it to continue to thrive: members continue to accept non-answers and double-speak for their legitimate and important questions.
For the latest in non-answers to the eHow UK scam questions, we go to eHow’s community rep, Rich Noguchi. An eHow member asked Rich yesterday, Continue reading →
Posted in: eHow UK, eHow UK scam, eHow scam, ethics, writing for eHow.
Deleting the dead links to your eHow articles after you move them is IMPORTANT to keep eHow from unfairly competing with your moved articles if you want the relocated articles to rank well in search engines. One of eHow’s favorite tactics (and most unethical) is to compete against its own members. You can fight back.
When you delete your articles from eHow, they can step this unfair competition up a notch by redirecting your old link to either a list of their prepaid articles or to a (very) similar, prepaid article that they no longer have to pay residual earnings on. Continue reading →
Posted in: article SEO, content optimization, eHow scam, promoting your content.
My friend, Marty, always seems to know how to find the bright side of things. And the eHow scam is no exception. So for your entertainment, I present Marty’s eHow Mirror Wars coffee mug and T-Shirt. Great gifts for yourself or that former eHow addict in your family. Marty has more of these funny eHow mugs and t-shirts at the Zazzle store itself, Continue reading →
Posted in: eHow UK scam.
Did you think the eHow UK scam couldn’t get any worse? Well it has. And remember that train wreck analogy a few posts back where I said I couldn’t bear to watch? I peeked. And I’ll tell you what: A scam is a scam, and that’s what this train wreck is.
Now, the eHow forums, where members could at least discuss their questions and opinions until they were banned and/or censored, have eHow member-minions helping the scam along. The last couple of days, the suspected “secret forum moderators” (oh, please, tell me I didn’t just use that phrase with a straight face), have been throwing red herrings into the forum like it was Lent. Continue reading →
Posted in: eHow UK, eHow UK scam, eHow scam, ethics, writing for eHow.
