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 [...]
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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 [...]
How to Build Residual Income with HubPages
Many people want to know whether HubPages links are do-follow or no-follow. The answer is that they can be either; it just depends on your status within the HubPages community. If you keep your HubScore (the score attached to your profile, not to individual hubs) above 74, your links will be do-followed. Your links will automatically be no-followed if your score falls below that.
What is Linkbait?
Yesterday, as I quickly scanned my RSS Reader to make sure I wasn’t missing any interesting news during my busy day, one title intrigued me enough to click through: “Target Stores – An SEO Challenge.” Ian Lurie’s blog, “Conversation Marketing” is one of my favorites already, so that added to my interest. And I was not disappointed.
How Changing Article Headlines Breaks Backlinks
Guess what? Your blog now links to a non-existent URL, so that anyone clicking that link in the future will get a 404 “Page not found” message, or will be redirected to other articles, and the search engines will no longer give your article credit for that link. Your article’s rank will plummet, and it will now be competing against its “old self,” which has already aged and earned a nice place on page one of Google search results.
Backlink Building Strategies for Articles
In a nutshell, a good backlink building strategy is to point backlinks that you can control to articles you cannot control, such as those on web content sites, and save the backlinks that will live onin spite of your wishes, to your own blog posts and web content. This will help you to avoid having your newly transplanted articles compete with your original, defunct articles in the search engines.
