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InfoBarrel gets a New Office!

We’ve had a few different locations over the last year and a bit, but it has been a while since we’ve made a solid office upgrade!  While we aren’t officially in this new office (at least on paper), until the beginning of November, the land lord has let us move in and start working here [...]

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Posted October 27, 2009 by ryan under Infobarrel News

Revenue Sharing with Chitika now Available

Great news everybody!
We have officially enabled revenue sharing through Chitika on top of our current Adsense sharing.
How does Chitika revenue share work on Infobarrel?
We’ve spent the last two weeks testing earnings and click through rates using Adsense and Chitika in different positions.  After a few different tests we’ve come to the conclusion that combining both [...]

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Posted October 22, 2009 by ryan under Infobarrel News

Tweaking ads for Higher Click Thru Rate + Chitika

Hey guys,
After placing Chitika ads at the bottom of our articles, we’ve noticed the click through rate for this position to be extremely high.  So since Google Adsense generates substantially more than Chitika, we’ve decided to replace the right Google rectangle ad found on most pages with a Chitika ad, and we’re going to place [...]

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Posted October 14, 2009 by ryan under Infobarrel News

Testing Chitika ads

We’ve got some great news here at Infobarrel.com
We are going to be expanding the ways that authors can make money here on Infobarrel in the very near future.  In the coming days you may notice Chitika ads on your content.
Don’t worry, we are just testing it out.  Provided the ads are capable of earning some [...]

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Posted October 6, 2009 by ryan under Infobarrel News, New Features

InfoBarrel.com Hits 10,000 Published Articles

Today is a monster milestone for Infobarrel.com as we finally surpass the 10,000 unique article mark!
We launched July 31st 2008, and didn’t crack the 1000 article mark until late March 2009, but the site is growing at an amazing rate.  Hopefully six months from now we will be blogging about reaching the 100,000 article mark!
Here [...]

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Posted September 29, 2009 by ryan under Infobarrel News, New Features

New server, more speed!

Hey everybody,
Over the last month we were starting to run into some server issues thanks to the tremendous growth we’ve been seeing.  You probably noticed the server was running slower than normal and issues were popping up left, right and center.
In order to allow for substantially more growth we’ve completed a major migration to a [...]

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Posted September 25, 2009 by ryan under Infobarrel News

Lets Create Some Blog Buzz!

Hey guys,
Moving forward we are looking to start creating a little more buzz in the blog community.  To do so, we are going to create a a page dedicated to those who blog about InfoBarrel.
Want to get your site mentioned?  All you have to do is write about InfoBarrel on your blog, link to any [...]

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Posted September 15, 2009 by ryan under Infobarrel News, New Features, Uncategorized

Labor Day Weekend Queue Backlog

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Posted September 7, 2009 by ryan under Infobarrel News

Additions to My Content Page

Hey all,
We’ve made some additions to your My Content page.
We’ve added a new tab called “Pending Articles”.  Under this tab are your articles that are currently in the queue awaiting approval.  We’ve had a few emails over the last couple of weeks from users wondering where their articles went after they hit the Publish button.  [...]

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Posted August 10, 2009 by admin under Infobarrel News, New Features

Update to Blank Article Template

We have been doing some experimenting with the Blank Article template over the last month and we’ve decided to move the ads around a bit to optimize them for better performance.
Our numbers to date have been very promising, so this is definitely something to get excited about if you are currently a writer for Infobarrel.
All [...]

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Posted August 6, 2009 by admin under Infobarrel News