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Anyone having success with infobarrel?

by Chris Lengley
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Anyone having success with infobarrel?
#infobarrel #success
  • Profile picture of the author rprost
    It depends what you mean by success, I make a little bit of money from them but nowhere near enough to be a full time income.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Using InfoBarrel is a long-term, slowly-growing, serious business proposition (and possibly a really good one). It's by no means "fast money".

      If it helps anyone, I believe this gentleman probably knows about as much about InfoBarrel as all the other Warriors added together know (and he's written an outstanding book about it). He's also posted quite a bit about it. The search function may help you find some ...
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      • Profile picture of the author Chris Lengley
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        Using InfoBarrel is a long-term, slowly-growing, serious business proposition (and possibly a really good one). It's by no means "fast money".

        If it helps anyone, I believe this gentleman probably knows about as much about InfoBarrel as all the other Warriors added together know (and he's written an outstanding book about it). He's also posted quite a bit about it. The search function may help you find some ...
        Thank you Alexa. I would definitely check his book. I hope it's still available, I just checked it.

        I have one more question. Can we promote our landing page(only) with infobarrel?
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        • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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          Originally Posted by Chris Lengley View Post

          I have one more question. Can we promote our landing page(only) with infobarrel?
          The last time I looked/asked, the answer was that regular contributors there were allowed to do that on some of their articles.

          But this information might be out of date now, for all I know, and you'd be better off checking with Howie.
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          • Profile picture of the author Chris Lengley
            Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

            The last time I looked/asked, the answer was that regular contributors there were allowed to do that on some of their articles.

            But this information might be out of date now, for all I know, and you'd be better off checking with Howie.

            Thank you. It's not looking as easy as I thought... It's tricky.
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            • Profile picture of the author troybh
              infobarrel sucks. They scrutinize every aspect of your article. You get rejected for too many keywords in article to the reviewer simply just not understanding your article. The articles also do not rank well in google and their interface for writing the article sucks. You are only allowed one link at the end of your article and if the reviewer doesn't like it it is rejected. Maybe some people will come on here and say oh they just want quality. This is a bunch of crap and dont waste your time with them.
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              • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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                Originally Posted by troybh View Post

                infobarrel sucks. They scrutinize every aspect of your article. You get rejected for too many keywords in article to the reviewer simply just not understanding your article.
                To me, these sound like advantages, not disadvantages ...

                I wouldn't want an article with too many keywords being published, and if their reviewer doesn't understand my article, I'd learn something from that and want it to read more easily to the "average reader" anyway. So that's all part of a valuable editorial service, which so many sites lack.

                Originally Posted by troybh View Post

                Maybe some people will come on here and say oh they just want quality.
                Indeed. The ones who aren't already here, that is ...

                Nobody without a firm commitment to quality will get very far with InfoBarrel, anyway, from my understanding of it. This is very apparent. I just wish this were more true elsewhere, as well.

                This is a very different income model from many article submission-sites. Call me a skepchick, but I suspect that many people (as with article directories, as with so many other things online, really) try to use it for a purpose other than what it's designed for, and then get frustrated that it doesn't work quite as they expect ... in any case, the answer to the original question, "Anyone having success with InfoBarrel?" is "Yes, some people are". I'm not one of them, because after an extensive look at it, myself, and reading a long book about it all, I decided that submitting previously unpublished content to a site I didn't myself own was ultimately incompatible with my own business model.
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              • Profile picture of the author hustlinsmoke
                Originally Posted by troybh View Post

                infobarrel sucks. They scrutinize every aspect of your article. You get rejected for too many keywords in article to the reviewer simply just not understanding your article. The articles also do not rank well in google and their interface for writing the article sucks. You are only allowed one link at the end of your article and if the reviewer doesn't like it it is rejected. Maybe some people will come on here and say oh they just want quality. This is a bunch of crap and dont waste your time with them.
                I have learned the hard way, better to have 2 percent keyword density than to saturate the article with keywords and no one fines it at all.
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              • Profile picture of the author rprost
                Originally Posted by troybh View Post

                infobarrel sucks. They scrutinize every aspect of your article. You get rejected for too many keywords in article to the reviewer simply just not understanding your article. The articles also do not rank well in google and their interface for writing the article sucks. You are only allowed one link at the end of your article and if the reviewer doesn't like it it is rejected. Maybe some people will come on here and say oh they just want quality. This is a bunch of crap and dont waste your time with them.

                You are allowed more than one link in the article and it doesn't have to come at the end, it just can't be in the first paragraph.

                I do agree that their interface for writing the articles is not good
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  • Profile picture of the author rprost
    You can promote your landing page but if you try to submit too many articles that are similar in topic they will start rejecting them which may make it difficult for you
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