How to Make Money on the Internet

O.K. Everyone! Heads up!

ezArticleLink will be launched on 22 Feb 10pm EST.

Get there early and sign up for a free (Silver) membership. The free membership lets you get quality backlinks to your websites and lots of free content, all at no cost to you!

Then look at the differences between the free (Silver) and the paid (Gold) memberships and decide if you want to upgrade.

The first 100 that upgrade get in for only $24 a month! That’s a heckofa deal for that many features and unlimited quantities of quality, anchor-link-in-text backlinks!

Take a look at ezarticlelink!

To Your Internet success!

Jorge Chavez

Here’s an interesting solution to the problem of how to build lots of good backlinks fast.

There are several alternatives, contenders on the Net, for the backlink-building need. Almost all of them have serious flaws, most of which only became apparent after they were in full operation for a good while. The prominent flaws/structural design errors are:

1. They are entirely blog-based, get you backlinks from new blogs without PR or authority. So you get the links but the SE’s discount them deeply because of the low ranking status of the source blogs. And there is no built-in way to promote and raise the status of those host blogs.
2. They only indirectly help your “money” websites, by giving them links to increase rankings.
3. They automate, speed up the acceptance of postings without close human screening, and so fill up with low-grade almost incoherent posts, which lowers traffic towards zero and further devalues the post host.
4. They use blogs, not articles, so the “shelf life” of each post is lowered to 90 days or so (for blogs) rather than a year or two (for articles).

The guy behind EZArticleLink, Kenneth Koh, seems to have learned from all this and worked out ways to avoid all those mistakes. He has now come up with an impressive new system that:

1. Builds-in the promotion for the sites on which their articles are going to be posted, from the outset. You get three KW’s as in-text anchor links per article but you only get 80% of the backlinks. The other 20% are used for links back to KW’s in the article title, to promote the host site.
2. Deals primarily with websites, not just blogs
3. Uses human review of articles before publication to avoid low-quality, badly spun or trash articles ever getting into their system
4. Works on developing full-scale Article Directories on your websites. That should boost page count, be helpful to the host website. This also encourages members to put quality sites into the system to gain from this benefit. Result: Higher PR sites, more site authority the sites that host the article directories!

Yes, they spin their posts. Yes, they have a free membership (Silver) as well as a paid membership (Gold).

They got my attention. I signed up for a free membership a little over a month ago. Experience has been very good. Still in beta, but I like to start with projects in beta, help to shape them, learn the details of how they work.

I don’t know if you can still get a free membership or not right now, but the product is scheduled to launch and become available to all on February 22, 2010. The first 100 to sign up get in at only $24 a month, a steal at that price. The price will go up with every 100 new members until it levels off at $47/month.

If you are interested in helping with the launch, you can find details here.

I will post a link to the launch site here on the 21st or so…

To your Internet success!

Jorge

It’s now 8 weeks and 4 days in (just about 2 months since I started) with my My Article Network test project! Here is how the stats stand now:
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Jorge’s Statistics

Site Statistics

Overall, you have 25 sites registered on the system. For those sites you’ve been presented with 1,311 articles for consideration.

You’ve approved 929 and rejected 382, which means you’ve rejected 29%. You have 0 articles waiting for your decision.

In total, the system has successfully published 929 articles on your sites.

Article Statistics

You have 30 articles registered on the system. Those articles have been presented 789 times for consideration by site owners.

The articles have been approved 658 times and rejected 4 times, which means your articles have a rejection rate of 1%. A total of 127 copies are still waiting for a decision by site owners.

In total, the system has successfully published 683 copies of your articles. This number may differ from the number of approvals received for your article. When owners remove sites from the network, the article approval count is affected, but this published count is not affected.”

So to summarize the first two months, I have:
Spent 2 x $47 = $94
Written 30 articles
Gotten 683 well-spun copies of my articles published. Each article has 3 keyword phrases embedded in the text, which means 683 x 3 = 2,049 backlinks to my websites!
That comes to a cost of $94/2049 = $0.046 per backlink or 4.6 cents each!
In addition, 25 of my websites have gotten a total of 929 articles of “free” themed content. My webhosting sites have webhosting and related articles, my health and fitness sites have health and fitness articles, and so forth.

I say “free” because I am allocating all of the costs to the backlinks, none to the article content. If I allocated 10 cents of my total cost to each article placed on my sites for content, then that would burn up $92.90 of my $94 cost, and the backlinks would be essentially “free”.

Not too shabby, eh?

I am still not happy at the article approval backlog, with 127 copies of my articles still waiting for site owners to approve them.

Nor am I exactly thrilled that while I have provided publishing space for 929 articles, MAN has only managed to find space to publish 683 copies of my articles on other members’ sites, a 246 articles published difference.

The two are not unrelated. If that 127 copies waiting for approval backlog were taken care of it would reduce that difference to 119.

Still, is the glass half full or half empty? 4.6 cents per (permanent) backlink makes the cost look like money well-spent.

Jorge Chavez

It’s now 7 weeks and 3 days into this test of My Article Network. Backlinks continue to increase, but weaknesses and faults of the system have begun to appear.

First off, here’s my stats as of today:

Jorge’s Statistics

Site Statistics

Overall, you have 25 sites registered on the system. For those sites you’ve been presented with 1,047 articles for consideration.

You’ve approved 741 and rejected 306, which means you’ve rejected 29%. You have 0 articles waiting for your decision.

In total, the system has successfully published 738 articles on your sites.

Article Statistics

You have 28 articles registered on the system. Those articles have been presented 622 times for consideration by site owners.

The articles have been approved 514 times and rejected 4 times, which means your articles have a rejection rate of 1%. A total of 104 copies are still waiting for a decision by site owners.

In total, the system has successfully published 539 copies of your articles. This number may differ from the number of approvals received for your article. When owners remove sites from the network, the article approval count is affected, but this published count is not affected.”

That is 514 articles published on the web. Means 3 x 514 = 1542 backlinks. At $47 a month, I have spent $96 so far, for a cost per backlink of $96/1542 = $0.062 per backlink. That’s the good news.

The bad news is that:
1. My backlog of articles awaiting user approval continues to grow week by week, and has now grown to
104. Apparently there is no time limit on approval, no way to correct this. I should have 104 more articles published than have been, but these articles are in a kind of administrative limbo.

Admin acknowledges the problem but has no solution as yet.

2. The way this system works is essentially a closed system, “You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours” setup. Every time an article is published on my sites, some other member/author gets his article published and his links out there become backlinks to him. The same is true for me. For every article of mine published, I get my three backlinks.

So the total number of articles published on sites logically must equal the number of articles published by authors. right?

But that is not what is happening. I have accepted 741 and 738 are still counted as published. But I have publishes 539 articles and 514 are still counted as published. In other words, I am giving publishing space to 738 articles but only 514 of my articles are being given publishing space. I am 224 short on the trade. Somewhere a person or persons unknown is/are 224 long. Who is getting the free ride???

That means that I am getting the “short end of the stick”! For every article of mine that has been published, I have accepted and published 738/514 = 1.44 for other members.

Now, I was not exactly promised parity, a 1 for 1 exchange, but I sort of expected the system to be fair and more or less provide that parity. I wasn’t told that someone else would get a free ride at my expense…

Still, I am getting backlinks. And the numbers of pages on my blogs is going up… Is the deal still worth it?

I don’t know right now. Stay tuned… Let me think about that for a while…

To your Internet success!

Jorge Chavez

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Jorge’s Statistics

Site Statistics

Overall, you have 25 sites registered on the system. For those sites you’ve been presented with 805 articles for consideration.

You’ve approved 555 and rejected 250, which means you’ve rejected 31%. You have 0 articles waiting for your decision.

In total, the system has successfully published 552 articles on your sites.

Article Statistics

You have 25 articles registered on the system. Those articles have been presented 514 times for consideration by site owners.

The articles have been approved 424 times and rejected 4 times, which means your articles have a rejection rate of 1%. A total of 86 copies are still waiting for a decision by site owners.

In total, the system has successfully published 435 copies of your articles. This number may differ from the number of approvals received for your article. When owners remove sites from the network, the article approval count is affected, but this published count is not affected.”

Wow! 435 x 3 = 1,272 backlinks already!