Recently, after doing quite a bit of reasearch, I decided to sign up for InfoBarrel. Although InfoBarrel is relatively new – it went online in 2008 -, it looks like a good opportunity for making money and and getting valuable backlinks.
InfoBarrel is very similar to HubPages and Squidoo where you write one page topics. But InfoBarrel has one distinctive advantage over the others: You can get up to 3 ‘do-follow’ backlinks right away. You do not have to wait until you get a certain quality score before your backlinks become ‘do-follow’.
Like many others, I first heard about InfoBarrel from Lissie at Passive Income Online. She posted a great article titled “What is InfoBarrel?“ that you might want to read. It is the best discription of InfoBarrel I have been able to find so far.
Will you get paid by InfoBarrel? No. You will receive 75% of the revenue on the AdSense ads that appear on your pages and you can further monetize your content by using eBay and other affiliate programs. I guess this means that you will have to write a great number of articles in order to make a lot of money. I won´t go so far as to say that it is impossible to earn a decent income - it is just that you will have to write a lot of popular articles. And you need to know how to trigger high paying AdSense ads with your articles.
Another similarity to HubPages is that if you refer someone to InfoBarrel you get a percentage of the impressions of advertising on their articles (from InfoBarrel´s share, not the writer’s).
Since the people at InfBarrel are only interested in serious contributors and quality content you probably won´t be able to make money right away. The Terms and Conditions state that the first 10 articles will need an editors´ prior to publication. Fortunately, they work fast and let you know within a few hours if the submitted article meets their criteria. Once you are past your tenth article all further material will be approved instantly. I guess this measure is their way of keeping spammers away.
If you are interested in InfoBarrel visit their home page and sign up at: www.infobarrel.com.
I am pretty sure that I shall be making money on InfoBarrel in the near future. It may not be through the sharing of revenue, but the ‘do-follow’ backlinks are priceless. Moreover, I have noticed that Google seems to like InfoBarrel, therefore it is quite easy to get your page(s) indexed. I hope that Google will continue to treat this site favourably, at least for a while, because it has the potential to become as popular as Squidoo or HubPages.
I’ll be writing some pages over at InfoBarrel and check back from time to time to let you know if it is really worth your while.
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