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		<title>New InfoBarrel Contest!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 16:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ryan over at InfoBarrel started a new contest this month and I must say, it&#8217;s the best and easiest ever! The new contest isn&#8217;t limited to three winners, everyone who achieves a certain point level will enjoy a higher adsense share next month. The contest works like this&#8230; You receive points for every article you [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="KonaBody"><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div id="attachment_1823" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 398px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1823" title="info-barrel-logo" src="http://www.thecheapbastid.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/info-barrel-logo.jpg" alt="New Contest!!" width="388" height="89" /><p class="wp-caption-text">New Contest!!</p></div>
<p>Ryan over at <a title="Info Barrel Sign up" href="http://www.infobarrel.com/signup.php?ref_id=903" target="_blank">InfoBarrel</a> started a new contest this month and I must say, it&#8217;s the best and easiest ever!</p>
<p>The new contest isn&#8217;t limited to three winners, everyone who achieves a certain point level will enjoy a higher adsense share next month.</p>
<p>The contest works like this&#8230;</p>
<p>You receive points for every article you write depending on the number of words.</p>
<ul>
<li>1 point for 250 words</li>
<li>2 points for 500 words</li>
<li>5 points for 1000+ words  (Corrected, Thanks Ryan!)</li>
</ul>
<p>Depending on the number of points you receive during the month your adsense share increases next month.</p>
<ul>
<li>80% at the 15 point level</li>
<li>85% at the 20 point level</li>
<li>90% at the 30 point level</li>
</ul>
<p>15 points for 80% adsense share!,  that&#8217;s easy to do.  Personally I&#8217;ll be going for the 90% level.</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t signed up over at InfoBarrel yet I highly suggest you head over there and <a title="Info Barrel Sign up" href="http://www.infobarrel.com/signup.php?ref_id=903" target="_blank">sign up</a>, 80% or more adsense share is too much to pass up, especially when it requires so little effort.  I don&#8217;t know of any site on the internet that&#8217;ll pay such a high amount.</p>
<p>Remember, just re-keyword your existing articles and rewrite them so they aren&#8217;t duplicates but entirely new content and start publishing and making money at InfoBarrel!</p>
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		<title>The Contest Keyword is&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.thecheapbastid.com/2009/03/the-contest-keyword-is/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:02:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; GARDEN Publish the article on Wednesday and post up the URL. Good luck to everyone! Possibly Related Posts: A Quick Update &#8211; February 2010 December Earnings Updated My One Year Anniversary! I&#8217;m Back! Online Earning Totals &#124; May &#8217;09]]></description>
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<p>Publish the article on Wednesday and post up the URL.</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone!</p>
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		<title>A Contest!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:09:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think it&#8217;s time I ran an article writing contest. This one will be simple&#8230; On Monday I will publish a keyword, you will write an article based on this keyword and publish it on April 1st. You can publish it anywhere, it really doesn&#8217;t matter. In one month the article that earns the most [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="KonaBody"><!-- google_ad_section_start --><div id="attachment_1686" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 204px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1686" title="article-writing" src="http://www.thecheapbastid.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/article-writing.jpg" alt="Yay!! A contest" width="194" height="350" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Yay!! A contest</p></div>
<p>I think it&#8217;s time I ran an article writing contest.</p>
<p>This one will be simple&#8230;</p>
<p>On Monday I will publish a keyword, you will write an article based on this keyword and publish it on April 1st.</p>
<p>You can publish it anywhere, it really doesn&#8217;t matter.</p>
<p>In one month the article that earns the most will win&#8230;</p>
<p>Wait for it&#8230;</p>
<p>A one month link on my site to whatever you want AND you can choose the keyword for the next contest</p>
<p>2nd and 3rd prize will be a one week link to whatever you want.</p>
<p>I think this will be a great test to see how well you do on keyword density, asking for the click (legally, within Google rules) and promoting your article.</p>
<p>Like I said, you can publish it anywhere you like.</p>
<p>To win though, you must send me a screenshot of the earning page.</p>
<p>And now for the rules&#8230;</p>
<ul>
<li>You must use the keyword I choose as the main keyword, and that means I will use the SEO tool to check if it&#8217;s the most dense keyword on the page.  You can however use whatever earning keyword you want.</li>
<li>You may NOT use any form of self clicking, I can&#8217;t check this but Google can and will.</li>
<li>The keyword MUST be used in your tile.  You can add to it.  So if the keyword is &#8216;Laptop&#8217; you can use &#8216;Cheap Laptop&#8217;</li>
<li>If you link an Amazon item to the page I WILL count sales, I just need to see a screenshot of the Amazon earning page with the EXACT item sold.  Sorry, but I can&#8217;t consider alternate, related items.  The exact item linked must be the item sold.</li>
<li>I have no problem with you publishing the article on any or multiple sites, or publishing multiple articles, as long as you submit the best for consideration.</li>
<li>The article can NOT have been published before the start time, I will check this.</li>
<li>Earning will be based on the eHow earning for the month by article, if the site you published on is adsense based I need to see a screenshot of your custom channel sorted by month.</li>
<li>And finally, the link you win can NOT point to any questionable content, such as porn or drugs or whatever.</li>
<li>In the end I have final say on who wins so please be fair about it.</li>
</ul>
<p>Some tips..</p>
<p>Since there will be many articles going up with the same keyword I suggest you check to make sure you do not duplicate an article title.</p>
<p>Promote your article heavily, hold nothing back! Remember these articles will not have time to fully &#8216;mature&#8217; so work the promoting like crazy.  Make <a title="Xomba Sign up page" href="http://www.xomba.com/referral/777b8a26" target="_blank">Xomba</a> your best friend!!</p>
<p>I will NOT be publishing my own article, that really wouldn&#8217;t be fair since I already know the keyword.</p>
<p>Keep in mind even if you don&#8217;t win at least you&#8217;ll make some money and maybe learn something.  So you&#8217;re still a winner.</p>
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