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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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Looking Forward to May ’09

admin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:43:18 +0000

As April draws to a close I’m starting to think about what I should do next to increase my online earnings.

Like most of you out there I have no shortage of ideas and things I’d like to try, but, I need to have some focus and pick my projects and see them through, not try to ‘shotgun’ 3 or even 4 different things at one time.

I’ve decided to try the One Week Marketing course, it’s $47 dollars but I’m sure, if what people say are true, I’ll make that back in a few months.

So, starting in May I’ll be devoting most of my time to that, hopefully it’ll start to pay off by June.

In the meantime I’m still converting my eHow content over to Xomba as I’ve already finished my first pass moving content over to InfoBarrel.

I’m also starting to do some serious promotion on my IB articles using Xomblurbs (perhaps the greatest passive income tool in my arsenal!)

For the rest of the month both IB and XB will get my total attention, I’ve actually accumulated about 25 article ideas that I’ll be publishing as well.

Now, with all that being said, let’s talk about eHow….

Is anyone else seriously dissapointed with their eHow earnings this month?? I was cruising along nicely and as soon as this whole purge thing started earnings just fell off to pitiful levels.

You know, when I choose to publish an article, like most of you, one website comes to mind automatically, sort of your home base as it were.

Well, eHow used to be that place but I just can’t trust it anymore. So now, InfoBarrel will be my main publishing site.

With IB I don’t have to worry about purges and cryptic earning algorithms or any of that nonesense.

Publish my article, get some views, make some money

That’s all I want and I’m sure that’s all you want too.

Does that mean I won’t publish on eHow anymore?

Of course not. One can’t ignore it’s popularity and pagerank. BUT, I just can’t rely on it right now.

Anyway, that’s all for this update/rant

Let me know how y’all are doing this month so far!

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First pass complete over at IB

admin — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 02:41:55 +0000

As most of you know I spent the last couple of weeks moving my articles over to InfoBarrel and Xomba.

I’ve actually just completed my first pass through my article library, moving a total of 75 articles.

I avoided moving any winter or holiday articles as well as any poor performers, I concentrated on those that are seasonally relevant and doing well at eHow. That was a mistake actually, as I indicated on my previous post. What does well (or bad) on eHow really is determined by the keyword that you’re using.

Anyway, I’ve now started doing the same at Xomba, moving over the most relevant articles. Once thats done, which I estimate will be in mid May, I can start making new content again.

My new content will be split between article sites and my own niche sites. I see Dusty, Cookie and Scarlett making niche sites and I certainly can’t let them have all the fun

My strategy going forward will be any new article I write will have three versions, one for eHow, one at InfoBarrel and one at Xomba.

3 for the price of 1, can’t beat that with a stick!

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InfoBarrel/Xomba Update

admin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 23:40:00 +0000

When I get home from work I always sit down with a nice cup of coffee and go through my earnings pages for the day.

As I was looking at my adsense page, which, once again is over $1.50 today I realized that I haven’t had a single, zero dollar day in over a week.

I know I’ve said it before, but I’m beginning to wonder, as I watch my adsense earnings approach my eHow earnings, just how little is eHow giving us?

Anyway, it’s just a thought. The point is between Xomba and InfoBarrel I’m starting to make some nice money through adsense.

I haven’t published an article on eHow in about two weeks now, and probably won’t get back to it until the end of April or even may. I still have another 50 articles to get up on IB, and then I’ll start doing the same on Xomba. Only after all that’s done will I start publishing on eHow again.

Anyone else starting to pull in some nice adsense numbers?

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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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Using Xomba to Promote your Articles and Make Money

admin — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:10:38 +0000

: Xomba for traffic and cash!

This is a site that I only recently discovered. In just one day not only did I make some adsense earnings but there was a visible increase in my eHow earnings as well.

The unique thing about Xomba is that you can post up not only original articles, but links to other articles, blogs or websites.

So for you eHow and Bukisa writers you can publish an article on one of those sites and link to it from Xomba for additional traffic.

Every page on Xomba, whether it’s an article or link has ads on it. Xomba shares 50% of the ad revenue with you when an ad is clicked. This is a nice setup, not only do you get some additional traffic, but you can earn some cash as well.

Xomba has a referral program. Basically if someone signs up using your referral link you’ll get 10% ad revenue from their clicks. The new user does NOT lose money, your cut comes out of Xombas 50% share, so it’s a win-win situation for both of you.

To earn money on Xomba you’ll need an adsense account.

First sign up with Xomba here, this is my referral link. Since it cost’s neither of us any earnings please use it to support this site

Then go to google adsense here and sign up using your Xomba profile page URL.

Once your adsense account is approved you can start earning money. It usually takes up to two weeks for approval, but in the meantime start linking to your articles for additional traffic using what they call Xomblurbs.

Here’s one of my ‘blurbs linking to my eHow article..

It took me all of 3 minutes to create this Xomblurb, but as you can see already 11 people have read it, and probably continued on to my eHow article. I’ll continue to post up a ‘blurb for all of my new articles, and eventually catch up linking my older articles as well. It should be interesting to see what my adsense income is after I finish linking all my new articles.

If you’re serious about earning money online writing articles I highly suggest using Xomba, it’s free, it’s easy and best of all you get paid to do it!

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