How To Maximize Your InfoBarrel Earnings With Pictures
As many readers will know right off the bat, InfoBarrel is an excellent website to start an internet business and passive income portfolio of content. No matter if you like to write on a different topic every time you publish an article or a single topic over and over again InfoBarrel is a great place for novice web publishers to make money as well as more experienced web publishers.
Over the past few months I have posted a few InfoBarrel specific tutorials on how to make more money. To put some sort of chronological order to them you can review them in the following list if they are new to you.
- How To Choose Profitable Keywords – In Theory
- How To Choose Profitable Keywords – In Practice
- How To Submit Your InfoBarrel RSS Feed To Feedage
- How To Make Money On Amazon with InfoBarrel
- Do You make $1000 Per Month on InfoBarrel
- How You Can Make Residual Income Online
- Improve Search Engine Rank on InfoBarrel
Making More Money By Using Pictures
If you are a new or long-time writer here on InfoBarrel you should know that with every article you publish you have the opportunity to improve your earning potential at least a few times over. If you don’t know how to do it then you aren’t much different than me until recently.
Pictures are one of the best ways to dress an article up to make it look better to a reader. Pictures make an article look visually appealing and even trustworthy. It’s really easy to sit down and write a big article and then submit it to the site without including pictures but you are doing yourself a disservice if you don’t take the time to upload them to your articles. The reason for this is because your pictures each get their own unique URL or “Media Page” and on these media pages you can include a description of your picture for context. Each media page automatically links back contextually to the article you upload it to and each Media page is monetized, meaning you get paid for viewers who “see” these pages.
Let’s put it this way. If you publish 100 articles on InfoBarrel and each article takes you 30 minutes to write and publish then that is 50 hours worth of work for 100 monetized publications. Instead of doing that you can write and publish 100 articles and upload three pictures per article at 40 minutes a piece then you end up with 400 monetized publications that took your roughly 66 hours to publish. Does it make sense now?
Not only do adding these pictures end up giving you more monetized content but they also assist in indexing because of all the automatic interlinking between the articles and the media pages.
What is even more amazing is that you can upload a picture to one article and then use it on any of your other articles without having to re-upload it again. This means that if you write a series of 10 articles on TV Stands and upload 1-2 pictures for each article then you have a pool of 10-20 pictures that you can use between them all… this is all well and good, but it gets really good when you start contextually linking between your articles and your media pages.
Linking Your Articles To Media Pages
To run with the TV stand article let’s say you write an three different articles, one on oak TV stands, one on walnut TV stands, and one on black TV stands. Each article gets a picture appropriate to that article. Then you write a fourth article on the different kinds of TV stands. In the fourth article you can use your previously uploaded pictures for the first three articles and link them directly to the media pages. Because you can’t link them all to Amazon for affiliate sales, due to affiliate linking restrictions, you can link each one to it’s media page where you have briefly described the item. A viewer then has the opportunity to see the article that picture is associated with, click back, out, or an ad.
This isn’t about tricking anyone; it’s really just about interlinking your articles and your media pages. Anytime you can interlink an article you might as well interlink a media page as well. You’ll get more page views and more revenue in the long run.
One Note About Uploading Pictures
When you upload a picture to InfoBarrel make sure you use your keywords in the picture name. Before the upload make sure to change the name of the picture from blahblahblah.jpg to a descriptive keyword phrase like “oak-tv-stand-with-drawers.jpg”. Then on the upload screen you have the opportunity to title your picture – this is akin to titling your article. For this example you will still use the long-tail keyword “Oak TV Stand With Drawers”. Then in the description box of the upload screen make sure to properly describe the picture.
Don’t think of this as an article but do think of it in terms of good on-page SEO. Use your keywords and related terms in the description and use synonyms as appropriate. You don’t need more than fifty words or so just take advantage of the opportunity to get targeted content on the page. This will help with monetization.
As you get more familiar with using pictures you will likely find that editing the pictures in the HTML view of your article becomes necessary. When you do this it becomes easy to start linking one or two of the pictures you use in your articles directly to Amazon and the others to Media pages. The point is that if you have an article which references many different products you want to be able to link to Amazon on some of the products to grab some affiliate commissions but the other products need to be linked to something. If you don’t have an article to link those terms to then make use of the Media pages.
When used properly a good focus on adding pictures to your publications should double or triple the amount of monetized content you have published on InfoBarrel. I’ve also found that click through rates tend to be higher much higher on Media pages likely because viewers of these pages have already been on site for some time. You may not receive a lot of search traffic to your media pages but if you title them with super long-tail keywords you should see the occasional search visitor who by the way will be highly targeted.
Good luck with using pictures and if you have any questions or comments make use of the comment section below. You can also find more tips and tricks and useful information on making money on InfoBarrel by taking a look at my profile page.
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Thanks. Great information as always!
you're welcome Amer - I hope this can help out, it's kind of hard to explain and still get across the importance.
So I guess I've been doing it right. I try to use pictures for every article I publish. Only thing I'm lacking is to use keywords in the title section. Thanks for the info, bud!
Make sure to interlink to your pictures from other articles too - this is something few people do and it's amazing how much it helps.
Thanks for the information. I have been putting in pictures but not doing the extra things that you have mentioned here in this article. I will be trying out your ideas.
Good luck! It takes a bit of time but I think it's time well spent.
On Infobarrel, the pictures are not saving with the same filename. Even in this article, your photo is called
It looks like you are right - this may be an extra step which only makes things a little simpler and quicker to do. Titling and describing during the upload process is still the most important part though... as is linking to these media pages. Thanks for the catch Javr.
www.infobarrel.com/media/image/47172_feat
great articles .... I have much to learn. I'll need to experiment a bit with the interlinking to pictures from different articles. Never knew you could do that.
Once again, I have learned from a great teacher! Thanks Chez!
Chez-how do you edit a picture (write a description) that is already uploaded in a published article?
You know I am not a techy...could you provide a step-by-step guide?
Thanks!
I figured it out!
very helpful for me as I'm new to all this, thanks
Thanks Chez, I like to use pictures but didn't know about the linking. TY
enjoyed this article, I'm having issues with pix also...
Excellent article and now tweaking images, creating a match title, link and adding a description to the image. Thanks so much.
Terrific article and very helpful for all of us to earn more.
Excellent content-filled article. Thanks for the details details details.
I also didn't know you could add links to pictures. Thanks for the info!
Great article, very easy to understand.
Wow, great article with a lot of information. I always try to put photos in my articles, but haven't done anything you mentioned here. I have a lot to learn yet...whew.
ok, so let me just clarify: when adding images to an article, you add the keyword rich title and description and also in the description is where you link to your other articles talking about the same subject? i hope this is what you mean. i'm also off to read your interlinking article. thx for sharing your knowledge with the IB community and beyond!
You've got it Mona. In the description you have the option of either linking to other related articles, no articles, or even throwing in an affiliate link to the actual product in the picture. It's up to you.
Lots of useful information here. I even learned a few things from the comments. Thanks for taking time to explain the importance of adding pictures.
Thanks Chez. I've been reading up on how to get pictures up and always appreciate your articles.
This article should be linked to its supplement (or I missed it) http://www.infobarrel.com/How_To_Interlink_Pictures_On_InfoBarrel_To_Their_Media_Pages
This is exactly what I was looking for. Excellent article!
Chez? When uploading a picture of a product not from amazon, how can you be sure that you have the right to post your photo without some kind of interference from the company who originally took the the photo?
Wow... once again you have blown me away with your knowledge and willingness to take the time to share with us! I have a lot of work to do on my higher traffic articles! I also have several of your other articles bookmarked and a list of things I need to learn how to do! Thanks
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