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InfoBarrel and Xomba | Glorious adsense earnings!

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:25:44 +0000

As you all know I’ve been singing the praises of both InfoBarrel and Xomba for a while now. In fact I’ve spent the last month or so moving my content from eHow over to those two sites (of course rewriting and re-keywording them). This month I’m seeing the results of all that hard work.

Check this out…

$100 minimum payout? Who cares!

Nearly $10 in one day. As a matter of fact my per day average has now exceeded $4 a day. It’s hard to believe that even a month ago I was worried about getting a payout every month.

If you haven’t started using InfoBarrel and Xomba I highly suggest you start publishing articles over there. There’s no ’secret’ algorithm or artificial socializing you need to do, you earn exactly what you’re supposed to earn.

InfoBarrel continues to climb the Alexa ratings and Xomba is set to release their new redesigned website soon. In both cases now is the time to head over there and boost your adsense income.

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Use Adsense Channels to Track your Articles

admin — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:42:08 +0000

One of the best things about publishing articles on sites like InfoBarrel and Xomba is that you can track each articles performance (and earnings) by setting up custom Adsense channels.

Here’s how to do it…

First log into your Adsense account, then click on the Adsense Setup tab.

Click the Adsense Setup tab

Next, click on the Channels link..

Click on channels now..

Under Adsense for Content you have ‘Custom Channels’ and ‘URL Channels’ Click on the URL channels..

Click on URL channels

And now, click on ‘Add new URL channels’..

Now click on 'Add new URL channels'

After you click on ‘Add new URL channel’ you’ll see a box, just go to your article page, copy the URL and then paste it into the box and then click add channels..

Paste the URL(s) into the box and click 'Add Channels'

And that’s it, you’re done. Make sure you go back to all your articles and get the channels setup. Google limits you to 200 custom channels so keep that in mind.

Tomorrow I’ll show you how to setup custom reports to really track your articles!

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Article Writing Tips | A startling Xomba discovery!

admin — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:12:31 +0000

As most of you know I’ve been singing the praises of Xomba for about two months now, and, without a doubt have seen significant traffic increases because of it.

My Squidoo lenses have much greater rank because of my Xomblurbs, and, as you Squidoo users out there know, it’s easily traceable right on the Squidoo dashboard.

Now one thing I love doing is analyzing things, seeing what works best and making adjustments whenever I can to maximize the effect of whatever I do. I hate doing extra work. And, as my drill Sergeant said to me long ago…. “If you don’t plan on doing it right, plan on doing it again”

Those words ring true here, as I was analyzing the structure of the much loved Xomblurb I noticed something…

To me, they just aren’t worth doing, SEO wise. The Xombyte is much more effective.

Look at the photo below of the SEO optimization tool analysis of one of my Xomblurbs.

Argh, no description or keyword field...

As you can see the title is dead on. But there is no description tag and not keyword tag. This is terrible. So once again it’s not really worth it to kill yourself over inserting keywords into the keyword field. The keywords are probably for internal searches and have no effect on the SEO placement of the ‘blurb.

What you can’t see here is the keyword density, I was truly shocked at this. I used my target keyword 4 times in 7 lines of text. My 3 word keyword was #3 in the keyword list which is horrible.

Why is this, well that’s simple. Every Xomba page has tons of other text on it, including a listing of the most recent Xomblurbs and Xombytes, all of which have keywords in their titles as well.

Now, I’m not saying for one second the Xomblurb is useless, quite the opposite. It has it’s place as a quick and easy traffic driver. Xomba has ‘no-follow- links so you won’t get any SEO goodness from the Xomblurb, but possibly some traffic.

In my opinion the Xombyte is a better choice for me moving forward. It suffers from the lack of description and keyword field as well, but with it’s greater length you can pack way more content (and keywords) into it so in my opinion it’ll be more effective long term.

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Article Writing Tips | Avoidable Xomba Blunders – Part 1

admin — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 13:00:34 +0000

This article writing tip concerns Xomba, specifically the xomblurb. For those of you who do not use Xomba (shame on you by the way) the xomblurb is a wonderful thing. It allows you to link to one of your articles and drive traffic to it, and, possibly make some adsense money as well.

Unfortunately, despite the wonderful potential of the xomblurb some people, myself included, have not used it correctly, or more specifically, have made a terrible mistake with it.

Consider the following xomblurb (one of my first)

Huh? Same article name and description!

You see the problem here. I just copied the article title and first paragraph into the xomblurb page. This is a big mistake.

Consider this, somebody types ‘best bbq pit’ into google, now which do you think will be listed first.

The 50 word xombyte with an Alexa rank of 2900
The 500 word eHow article with a rank of 400

Exactly, the eHow article will place much higher in the search engine results and that means your xomblurb is wasted since it’ll place much lower. I should’ve targeted a different keyword, changed the title and wrote a new description.

So for the xomblurb one of the most important article writing tips is to target a different keyword and change the text a bit. You efforts will be rewarded.

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