Basic Advice for New Infobarrel Writers

Make Money Writing...Or Creating Video...Or Taking Pictures....etc
Infobarrel is fast becoming my favorite place to publish original content. Unlike many other similar websites, on Infobarrel you can actually contribute more than just your typical 'how to' articles. If you are an amazing photographer, you can show off your photos here. If you produce small videos, you will find this site extremely easy to use. And if you are a writer, of course, you can publish almost any type of article or review while generating a nice stream of income in the process.

If you are looking to make money writing articles, Infobarrel is a great place to call home. As a publisher, you are entitled to 75% of all of the Google Adsense impressions that your content generates. Additionally, if you are part of eBay's Partner Network, you are entitled to 75% of these impressions as well.

Any time you begin writing for a new site, it can be somewhat frustrating. Learning to manipulate the user interface, adjust image sizes and determining the most effective methods to drive traffic to your content are just a few of the issues involved. Here are a few suggestions that will help make your experience here at Infobarrel a more pleasurable and, hopefully, profitable.

1. Begin with the end in mind - Are you writing articles in order to express some inner ideas or expressions? Or are you writing to make money? Before you begin any new venture, it is essential that you define what it is that you hope to accomplish with your efforts. Many successful writers that I know personally would never even consider writing 25 words without having a plan for those words.

If you are writing to make money, I would suggest that you get extremely familiar with keyword research and basic search engine optimization. The best place I have found to learn is a website called The Keyword Academy. This blog has recently moved into my daily must read category, along with The Cheap Bastid and Passive Family Income. I am not suggesting that you write articles solely due to the types of ads that show up, I am merely suggesting that if you are writing about under water basket weaving, you may not make a whole lot of money from it.

2. Quality is Important, Yet Quantity Rules - Never produce content that is less than your best. With that being said, you do not have to be William Shakespeare to make money writing articles. If you are planning on making $100 a month, writing 10 articles is not going to cut it. Write, write, and then write some more. Here a funny story? Write an article about it. Learn something new? Create a new 'how to' article. The point is that is you want your content to be read, you must produce a lot of it.

Use good solid keywords and produce as much content as you can. Many writers I know think nothing of creating 10 unique articles each and every day. How much income could you earn if you wrote only 1 article a day?

3. Search Engine Optimization - When I started writing online, I have no idea what search engine optimization was. It all sounded so foreign and abstract to me. Educate yourself on how Google determines what pages show up in the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs). Are you including your keywords in the titles on all of your articles? A little hint....you should be.

Search engine optimization is a crucial key to your success online. You cannot hope to make much money online without it. One aspect overlooked by the average webmaster is building quality one way links to your site or articles. Using such techniques as 30 Minute Backlinks, you can drive large amounts of targeted traffic to your articles with little effort. Can you imagine how much traffic you could drive to your articles if you knew a few inside secrets. The possibilities are staggering.

4. Determine What is Working - The most successful writers are successful for a reason. To be like them, you need to determine what they are doing and how you can learn to do what they are doing. Simply copying people does not work. Typically the same author bios, or screen names, show up on numerous high-quality searches. Learn what it is that they are doing.

5. Rinse and Repeat - Once you have found a method that works well for your article writing, stick with it. Repeat the process hundreds of times. Become the Infobarrel expert in specific niches where your knowledge is greater than others.

Let's do a little basic math. If you wrote one article a day for an entire year, and each article earn only $2 per month, at the end of twelve months you would be earning $730 a month. I do not know about you, but that is some serious cash in my world. Could you use that money to help pay some bills; perhaps the mortgage? What if you kept doing that for two years, or wrote two articles a day? The possibilities can be rather exciting!

A Few Additional Thoughts
In order to be successful online, you have to be patient. It is sometimes overwhelming to read about writers making $1,000 or more each month online from articles they wrote months ago. It can be extremely frustrating when you feel like you are working so hard only to earn $5 or so. You could make a lot more money flipping hamburgers at a fast food restaurant.

The key is to create new, and unique, content as often as you can. Keep at it for a few months before you even stop to analyze how much money you have made. A major problem beginners have is 'statistics overload'. It was nothing for me to check my Adsense account twenty-five times a day, each time becoming more and more frustrated by my lack of progress.

Try and check your stats only once a week. This will allow useful trends to develop. Trust me, the article that you think is going to be a home run will be a strike out, and the sure 'dud' will turn into the prom king. It has happened to me hundreds of times already.

Using these simple ideas should help your Infobarrel experience to much more enjoyable, much more productive and much more profitable. If you have not signed up to write for Infobarrel yet, you can do soHERE!

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