http://crunchydata.com Web content writing tips and advice for writing online to build residual income Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:23:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://crunchydata.com/does-infobarrel-include-bots-view-counts/ 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 ... http://crunchydata.com/increase-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 ... http://crunchydata.com/ehow-forums-thread-post-history-pdfs/ 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 ... http://crunchydata.com/help-with-writers-block-tool/ 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 ... http://crunchydata.com/ehow-uk-scam-news-flash/ 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 ... http://crunchydata.com/information-abou-reputable-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 ... http://crunchydata.com/ehow-uk-scam-part-deux/ 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 ... http://crunchydata.com/delete-your-dead-ehow-links/ 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 ... http://crunchydata.com/the-ehow-scam-has-an-amusing-side/ 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 ... http://crunchydata.com/ehow-uk-scam/