Infobarrel Looking for Guest Bloggers ($$$)

[InfoBarrel]

Whats up guys?

Ryan from InfoBarrel here!

We are looking for some more people to do some posting on Infobarrel.com

If you've never heard of Infobarrel.com before we are a pretty large mutli user web site with over 300,000 visitors a month. (Alexa 37K)

Compensation:
If you have a Google Adsense account, you can plug your Adsense publisher ID into your account on Infobarrel and we'll give you 75% of all the Adsense Impressions.

Also, if you want to place a link to your blog in the context of your articles, we are more than happy to let you link back to your site (provided its not spammy or malicious).

How much you can make really depends on what you write about, but I have written a few hundred articles myself and some make as much as $5 a day while others make less than 30 cents/day.

Signup at at http://www.infobarrel.com/signup.php

If you do signup, PM me on with your username, so I can make sure to keep my eyes peeled for your user account to make sure you get taken care of.

[DanFaggella]

Hey infobarrel. For some reason or another I couldn't PM you. However, I'm definitely interested in getting some guest articles up on your website. My writing mainly has to do with personal development - but that covers a wide range including productivity, learning, etc..

I'm going to click to sign up right now and check things out. Talk to you soon.

[QuirkyJessi]

Originally Posted by DanFaggella

Hey infobarrel. For some reason or another I couldn't PM you.

You have to have at least 10 (it might be 15 now) posts in order to be able to use the PM system. It's to cut down on spamming.

[InfoBarrel]

Hey guys,

I swear I had received pms in the past... but it has been a while since I last logged in, maybe I've lost my mind.

Dan.. I can now accept PM's, so either PM me, or just leave a note in this thread and I'll make sure to approve your stuff when it comes in!

Don't forget to put your adsense publisher ID in your account to get credited for your work!

[stephen todd]

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We are looking for some more people to do some posting on Infobarrel.com

If you've never heard of Infobarrel.com before we are a pretty large mutli user web site with over 300,000 visitors a month. (Alexa 37K)

Compensation:
If you have a Google Adsense account, you can plug your Adsense publisher ID into your account on Infobarrel and we'll give you 75% of all the Adsense Impressions.


How much you can make really depends on what you write about, but I have written a few hundred articles myself and some make as much as $5 a day while others make less than 30 cents/day.

QUOTE]


I was tempted - for about 5 minutes!

I did a few searches on your site for various article title keyword phrases

the adsense ads on the article pages don't match the article "theme"

i.e. How to Buy Bonds - Info Barrel

the adsense ads on this article page are for water butts, movies, door locks, wine barrels

visitors aren't going to click those ads - and I'm not going to make any money - so why should I waste my time submitting articles?

I build blog sites - on all sorts of themes - and the adsense ads match no matter what the article is - e.g. Sell Indian Government Bonds, Buy Stocks, SocGen Says - Bloomberg at Buy Stocks

that page has a very small amount of "content" - just a google news item but the adsense ads are relevant

honestly, a blank page on one of my blog sites will have better matching adsense ads - if it's a site on "stocks" I get stocks relevant ads, if its a site on "car insurance" the adsense ads are relevant to car insurance

get a SEO!

[InfoBarrel]

[quote=stephen todd;68041]

Originally Posted by InfoBarrel

We are looking for some more people to do some posting on Infobarrel.com

If you've never heard of Infobarrel.com before we are a pretty large mutli user web site with over 300,000 visitors a month. (Alexa 37K)

Compensation:
If you have a Google Adsense account, you can plug your Adsense publisher ID into your account on Infobarrel and we'll give you 75% of all the Adsense Impressions.


How much you can make really depends on what you write about, but I have written a few hundred articles myself and some make as much as $5 a day while others make less than 30 cents/day.

QUOTE]


I was tempted - for about 5 minutes!

I did a few searches on your site for various article title keyword phrases

the adsense ads on the article pages don't match the article "theme"

i.e. How to Buy Bonds - Info Barrel

the adsense ads on this article page are for water butts, movies, door locks, wine barrels

visitors aren't going to click those ads - and I'm not going to make any money - so why should I waste my time submitting articles?

I build blog sites - on all sorts of themes - and the adsense ads match no matter what the article is - e.g. Sell Indian Government Bonds, Buy Stocks, SocGen Says - Bloomberg at Buy Stocks

that page has a very small amount of "content" - just a google news item but the adsense ads are relevant

honestly, a blank page on one of my blog sites will have better matching adsense ads - if it's a site on "stocks" I get stocks relevant ads, if its a site on "car insurance" the adsense ads are relevant to car insurance

get a SEO!

Hey Stephen,

I appreciate your concern, but most articles actually do have relevant ads. When you have nearly 1500 posts on your site, some of them are going to be irrelevant, its just the way it goes.

Here are a few examples:
SEO article - Quick Guide to SEO for Beginners - Info Barrel
Car Rental - How to Avoid Scams at Car Rental Agencies - Info Barrel
Custom painting - How to Custom Paint Xbox 360 Controllers - Info Barrel

Aside from that, I can guarantee you that your articles will rank better on Infobarrel naturally than 99% on your own blog on your own server unless you've spent a long time building links.

Whether you want to write or not is up to you, I haven't gone out requesting for new writers in quite some time, but there are plenty of happy bloggers out there who have started contributing and started making more money off Infobarrel then they were making off their own site.

Here are a few decent sized bloggers who are loving Infobarrel
The Cheap Bastid
Passive Income
Passive Income

Thanks again,

Ryan

[stephen todd]

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Originally Posted by stephen todd

Hey Stephen,

I appreciate your concern, but most articles actually do have relevant ads. When you have nearly 1500 posts on your site, some of them are going to be irrelevant, its just the way it goes.

Hi,

I appreciate that not all adsense ads can be relevant - especially on new pages as adsense ads can be flakey on first seeing a page

the page I quoted had a problem because like a lot of people you have placed your website name in the title - i.e. "Info Barrel"

that has resulted in "barrel" related adsense matching - i.e. wine barrel, lock barrel, water barrel

it's a flaw of your own making - it happened to me when I had an article directory - and I fixed it by editing the php code so that the site name was not added to the page titles

I've reloaded the page and the adsense ads are now relevant - so its likely that the adsense spider had not been active on that page

your pages are spamming the description metatag i.e.


<meta name="description" content="Entities issue bonds to raise capital to finance activities or expansions. I said entities because bonds are not exclusive to companies, as a matter of fact all levels of government issue bonds as well. You have probably heard about U.S. series EE, or state bonds, or even municipal bonds.
Bonds, whether issued by a corporation or government work in the same way. When bonds are first issued, you, as an investor have an opportunity to buy bonds at face value. By buying bonds you actually become one of the creditors. In exchange the bond issuer promises to pay you a yearly interest, for an 'x' amount of years after which it will pay the amount listed on the face of the bond.

By face value of a bond it is understood that we are talking about the value printed on the face of the bond. Depending on market conditions, you may be able to buy or sell a bond above or below face value. However when the bond matures, the bond holder is entitled to the face value of the bond.
Interest rates change, (I bet you did not know that), and with interest rate changes the sale price of bonds change as well.
Investing in bonds is usually considered safer than investing in equities (stock), but it is important to know that even bonds may not be repaid when companies go under. Stick with high quality bonds, or government bonds, and keep in mind that those bonds that have a high yield are the riskiest, did you ever hear the term junk bond?
Federal bonds may be purchased directly through Treasury Direct. Other bonds can be acquired through a broker. If you already have a broker account log on to your account and see if bonds are available for trade. If your broker does not offer bonds research other brokers that offer this service, and make sure that the fees that come with a brokerage account are reasonable." />


but that's a different story!

[InfoBarrel]

[quote=stephen todd;68071]

Originally Posted by InfoBarrel

Hi,

I appreciate that not all adsense ads can be relevant - especially on new pages as adsense ads can be flakey on first seeing a page

the page I quoted had a problem because like a lot of people you have placed your website name in the title - i.e. "Info Barrel"

that has resulted in "barrel" related adsense matching - i.e. wine barrel, lock barrel, water barrel

it's a flaw of your own making - it happened to me when I had an article directory - and I fixed it by editing the php code so that the site name was not added to the page titles

I've reloaded the page and the adsense ads are now relevant - so its likely that the adsense spider had not been active on that page

your pages are spamming the description metatag i.e.


<meta name="description" content="Entities issue bonds to raise capital to finance activities or expansions. I said entities because bonds are not exclusive to companies, as a matter of fact all levels of government issue bonds as well. You have probably heard about U.S. series EE, or state bonds, or even municipal bonds.
Bonds, whether issued by a corporation or government work in the same way. When bonds are first issued, you, as an investor have an opportunity to buy bonds at face value. By buying bonds you actually become one of the creditors. In exchange the bond issuer promises to pay you a yearly interest, for an 'x' amount of years after which it will pay the amount listed on the face of the bond.

By face value of a bond it is understood that we are talking about the value printed on the face of the bond. Depending on market conditions, you may be able to buy or sell a bond above or below face value. However when the bond matures, the bond holder is entitled to the face value of the bond.
Interest rates change, (I bet you did not know that), and with interest rate changes the sale price of bonds change as well.
Investing in bonds is usually considered safer than investing in equities (stock), but it is important to know that even bonds may not be repaid when companies go under. Stick with high quality bonds, or government bonds, and keep in mind that those bonds that have a high yield are the riskiest, did you ever hear the term junk bond?
Federal bonds may be purchased directly through Treasury Direct. Other bonds can be acquired through a broker. If you already have a broker account log on to your account and see if bonds are available for trade. If your broker does not offer bonds research other brokers that offer this service, and make sure that the fees that come with a brokerage account are reasonable." />


but that's a different story!

Hey Stephen,

Yea, the name of the site is in the title for branding purposes. I've been doing it that way for over a decade and have never experienced negative results in the search engines. It will definitely affect new articles until the Adsense spider rolls through, but the spiders usually rip through pretty quickly.

In regards to the meta description, that is actually a bug and I thank you for pointing that out. It happens when users copy their article from Microsoft word and paste it into our WYSIWYG editor. You will notice weird things happen in Wordpress as well if you do this. I went and stripped the html tags from the article and reposted it and now the description is only using the first x amount of words.

Thanks again for your feedback.

Ryan

[stephen todd]

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Originally Posted by stephen todd

Yea, the name of the site is in the title for branding purposes. I've been doing it that way for over a decade and have never experienced negative results in the search engines.


In regards to the meta description, that is actually a bug

I doubt if you'll change anything now - but changing that title add-on to "Information Article" or something similar will do you more good than "Info Barrel"

I wouldn't have it at all - I'd just leave it at the title if you are posting original article titles - and only have an add-on if you feel you are getting "duplicate" article titles submitted

its always been a cause of friction between SEO's and site owners - SEO's say don't do it, it doesn't do any good - site owners want the branding

I checked another article page and you're right - the description was a single line - still way too long - but not spamming - the search engines will simply ignore anything after about 160 characters including spaces - so no harm done

[stephen todd]

Making Money Trading Stock Options - Info Barrel

Another one to edit!


I've been checking out some of your article's rankings in Google and decided I'll give it a go and see if I make some cash

I also checked out the article feed on the home page and it was busted - that often happens with my Wordpress blogs and probably only temporary due to a bad post