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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.

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 [...]

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. [...]

Social Bookmarking to Promote Your Articles

Social bookmarking really does work for promoting your articles. I learned this from a sharp eHow member “Write Now,” (Robin) several months ago, and have seen it consistently prove true over time. I use Traffic Travis (a free download) to find out which social bookmarking sites, and which user-generated content sites rank highest for any [...]

Collaborating With Other Writers is Powerful Stuff

Sounds nice, huh? Well, it is. But collaborating is no longer a nicety or a luxury. If you plan to grow your business by writing online, collaborating is now essential. The big sites are getting bigger, and you need to “get bigger” to compete. It’s like opening your coat when a mountain lion approaches you on a trail to scare it away. You’re not really bigger, you just look that way, thanks to collaborating with your coat.

4 Predictions for the Future of User-Generated Content Sites

3. This is a biggie. Search engines will begin ranking individual writers, rather than entire sites. I am pretty sure that Google already knows whether user ID “Herbs4U” on “XYZ Content Site” writes lame articles with spammy affiliate links, or whether they write timely, relevant alternative medicine articles…

SEO tips for content optimization: Do comments affect your articles’ SEO?

UPDATE: eHow comments are now indexed separately from your articles. So now the content that affects your article’s SEO the most on eHow (besides your article) is the Related Articles section and the titles of your last five articles, which are included with every article you write. This is a good reason to create separate IDs for each of your niches and choose related articles based on title keywords. Remember, you can’t go back and edit these on eHow after you save your draft or publish.