I haven’t had time to write here for the past few weeks due to some new client projects, but this newest and final twist to the eHow scam deserves a quick note: After stringing writers along for months and denying that they planned to end the Writer Compensation Program, eHow just announced that they have done just that. Continue reading →
eHow Images Issues Unmasked
This is the last thing I have time for today, but many of you want more information about how and why your eHow image version that link to articles that are NOT yours are ranking higher in Google image search than the version that you originally uploaded into your article.
It doesn’t seem quite right. Continue reading →
InfoBarrel’s Ryan McKenzie on How InfoBarrel Works
In response to reader questions during the past few weeks about the viability of InfoBarrel as a long-term online money-making opportunity, I posed your questions–and mine–to one of InfoBarrel’s owners, Ryan McKenzie. Here are the questions I asked Ryan, and his responses:
Crunchy Data: The primary reason that my friends and readers ask about InfoBarrel is that it’s one of the more similar models to eHow and as you know, eHow has broken trust with its members in a big way. Writers are wary of investing months of their time in yet another online bait-and-switch scheme.
With that in mind, the most common questions that I see people ask about InfoBarrel are these, Ryan:
Will you reduce the revenue share for writers when your site becomes more profitable? Continue reading →
Does InfoBarrel Include Bots in Their View Counts?
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 →
Increase Residual Income Using Chezfat’s Tips
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 →
eHow Forum RSS Feed PDFs to Download
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 →
Fun Tool to Help With Writer’s Block
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 →
EHOW UK SCAM NEWS FLASH!!!
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 →
eHow UK Scam Part Deux: Or, When is an Answer Not an Answer?
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 →
Delete Your eHow Article Links After Moving to Another Site
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 →
