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Lets Help the Infobarrel Community Grow

Alana | May 13, 2009 | Views: 422 |

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The InfoBarrel Community

I have not been a member of InfoBarrel very long, but already I can see the potential it has to create a great community of writers.

One thing I have noticed online is that Infobarrel is relatively unknown, and as this is a community of writers we should help to build the information available, which in turn will help all the members and community as a whole.

There are many people writing excellent articles here and putting a lot of time and effort into creating and sharing their knowledge. I personally have found the staff to be very helpful and quick to respond to any issues and overall Infobarrel has been a great resource for me.

So I think maybe its time to help, not only Infobarrel but all the members and it can be done very easily. Are you in?

Here are the things we (myself included) can all do to help build the community, the members profiles, each others articles and Infobarrels traffic.

Start commenting more! Feedback is essential and leaving comments is a great way to support one another, everyone wants more comments on their articles.
Vote up articles that you found useful, ok so you may not be sure what exactly this will do yet, but its right there at the top of every article and nobody seems to be using it much, so lets find out about it.
Tell others about Infobarrel, write an Infobarrel review on your blog, you will also get the added benefit of referrals from anyone who signs up through your link.
Make friends, another feature that seems to be going unused
Promote the articles you think deserve it, digg, stumble and tweet, it really dosent take much time and the more information out there about infobarrel, the more traffic it will create to everyones articles
Link to related articles you like from your own articles. Share the link luv.

So there are a few things we can all do to help build traffic, community and readership. I am going to spend time doing all these things.

Looking forward to getting to know more of you!

Tags: Infobarrel information; Infobarrel review; Infobarrel traffic; Help Infobarrel; Infobarrel community;

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greg

May 13, 2009 8:21pm

Excellent article, thank you for taking the time to motivate others to write and promote their content, as well as check out what other people have done as well.

In addition to using twitter to help get more views on your articles, I would post a link to the article on Facebook too. Get StumbleUpon, too!

Alana

May 13, 2009 8:25pm

Thanks Greg
I would love to see everyone joining in more and supporting one another, the benefits of self promotion are well known but so much more can be gained by supporting others and building relationships

rizzle

May 13, 2009 8:28pm

All fantastic ideas!

If everybody makes even one blog post about the site, with over 1300 members, we would definitely see a huge spike in traffic!

Alana

May 13, 2009 8:35pm

rizzle

the backlinks wouldn't be too bad either :)

rizzle

May 13, 2009 11:05pm

Yup, the additional backlinks would definitely help make Infobarrel an even bigger authority in the search engines.

It would help everyone!

lordkhomar

May 13, 2009 9:14pm

Mmmm, I love traffic spikes, except when I'm driving home of course....

brawnydt

May 15, 2009 12:24am

haha... traffic spikes...

good article, and I agree. Besides, the more we promote InfoBarrel with our affiliate links, the more we could earn as well!

Alana

May 15, 2009 5:05am

Brawnydt

Also true, with IB being so new and if you compare it to the amount of members from other sites like hubpages etc, there is actually great potential to build up a large list of referrals to help you earn even more.

Aside from the earning potential, I actually prefer IB to other similar sites and I look forward seeing it grow in popularity

Rudra

Jun 25, 2009 5:33pm

I do see the potential here. 2 articles of mine was indexed in 20 minutes and already in the second page of google.

retireyoung

Sep 8, 2009 10:42pm

Great advice. I hope Infobarrel continues to grow and become even more useful.

betterbody

Sep 10, 2009 7:25pm

Will follow your points. Thank you.

x3xsolxdierx3x

Sep 16, 2009 10:43pm

After growing one of my Facebook Groups to over 250,000+ members, I had an idea to do the same for an Info Barrel group....in a way that could benefit all its members....

The execution of creating such a large group will be a little tricky...however, sending mass invitations to friends is completely incentivized because anyone's referral link can be included in the comment box of any outgoing invitation...

10,000 Info Barrel Writers Worldwide Unite
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=141293313048

While small, this group has already gained attention of the admins/staff here. We can grow Info Barrel substantially (and gain it an even higher Google Page Rank with further views to all our articles) through the use of that Facebook group....

hope you will consider joining, and, if you do, be sure to include your referral link in any outgoing invitations to your friends!

betterlifemt

Oct 5, 2009 11:29am

this is a great post. I really like Infobarrel.. and we need to help it grow!

betterlifemt

Oct 5, 2009 11:29am

this is a great post. I really like Infobarrel.. and we need to help it grow!