How to Make Money on the Internet

If you work with SEO, you know that the secret to developing traffic is getting backlinks to help your site rank well.

There are lots of possible sources of backlinks, at all levels of cost and quality. And it is best to have several different sources and different kinds of links leading to your websites, so most of us use multiple sources.

It’s a constant struggle to find sources of more and better backlinks at more affordable prices, and of the quality and quantity your need.

New vendors are constantly coming into the marketplace with offers, some good some bad, most so-so… How do you sort them out? How do you find the good ones? And how do you avoid the bad ones that will just waste your money without delivering results?

It can be done, but it’s a complex and multi-faceted process.

Trial and error, chatting with friends on forums, learning to look for certain things and avoid others. For example you learn to lean toward those that are business-like, no nonsense, results oriented. And you avoid those “dream merchants” that sell with hype and exhorbitant claims…

And you try out new ones, marking the last day of their guarantee period on your calendar!

Then keep the good ones and drop those that are bad or under-performing.

Everyone’s needs are different, but good suppliers will serve many varied needs.

For my part, I operate over a hundred websites and close to 40 blogs, mostly doing affiliate marketing. Here are the ones I currently use, what seems to work for me.

1. For new sites, to get 250 or so solid, semi-permanent links as a base, a link-building foundation, I use this foundation source.

2. For lots and lots of good, fairly low-quality links, for volume, I use this source of huge numbers of links.

3. For selected links by category, that you can use to promote specific KWs, this is the best specific link source for semi-permanent links I have found.

4. For “storming the walls” of the first pages of the Search Engines, with good links for $0.10-$0.14 each, you can overwhelm your competition using this high-quality/low cost source.

As always, I am experimenting with and trying out new sources. If any of these pan out, I will come back here and add them to this list.

Here’s hoping the above sources work as good for you as they have for me!

Happy link-building!

Jorge

There’s a great new tool called “Instant Article Factory” just
out that lets you write a new unique article in under 5 minutes!
(Seriously!) It’s available for 48% off the launch price, for
this week only.

I was a Beta Tester during its development, that’s how I know
that it really works. New unique articles in less than 5
minutes! Watch the video at:

http://jorchav.com/suggests/InstantArticleFactory

This is a great product for generating unique articles, fast!

If you are currently writing articles for any reason on the Net,
you owe it to yourself to have a look at this! It’s a real time-saver
and effort multiplier…

If you plan to be writing articles in the future, have a look at
this so you know how it can be done most efficiently…

To Your Internet Success!

Best regards,

Jorge Chavez

I just finished testing the latest version of “Keyword Snatcher”, a terrific brand-new KeyWord-finding tool that is phenomenal!  It is a “must-have” for anyone who needs good Key Words or does KW research.

If that doesn’t include you, then just ignore this message.

If you are doing anything that requires good key words, you owe it to yourself to have a look at this. Google has been deceiving people who use its free Keyword tool into thinking that’s all the KW’s there are.

Actually there are lots more, several times what Google admits. Take a look at the video here:

http://jorchav.com/suggests/KeywordSnatcher

And read a few of the testimonials. I was a beta tester for this product. I know many of the people who left testimonials. This is for real…

And it’s only available this week, through Friday June 25. The vendor does not want to let too many of these get out. The users have a competitive advantage over everyone else, since they can easily find good keywords with low competition… So they are time-limiting the offer.

Just wanted you to know about it. Sorry for the sudden and short notice, but if you work with KeyWords, this would not wait…

To Your Internet Success!

Jorge

A couple of guys at The New Web Traffic & Marketing Blueprint v2.0 have some interesting things to say. I’m checking them out. You might want to have a look too… Just click on the graphic below.

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!

About my My Articles Network test project, here are my stats for today, 25 January, 2010:

Jorge’s Statistics

Site Statistics

Overall, you have 23 sites registered on the system. For those sites you’ve been presented with 557 articles for consideration.

You’ve approved 370 and rejected 187, which means you’ve rejected 34%. You have 0 articles waiting for your decision.

In total, the system has successfully published 341 articles on your sites.

Article Statistics

You have 24 articles registered on the system. Those articles have been presented 419 times for consideration by site owners.

The articles have been approved 355 times and rejected 3 times, which means your articles have a rejection rate of 1%. A total of 61 copies are still waiting for a decision by site owners.

In total, the system has successfully published 327 copies of your articles.

327 copies published means 3 x 327 = 981 backlinks!

A new spinner, called The Best Spinner is now well-advanced in its beta testing and is due to become available soon. I’m one of the beta testers and have been using TBS for over a month now, with great results.

It spins text on up to four levels of nesting, can give you spun output to all of the spinning formats I have ever seen (and several I haven’t seen before!). It’s fast and flexible.

What makes it the best I have ever seen is their huge thesaurus of hundreds of thousands of current, modern  synonyms, for both words and phrases. Sure, there are lots of spinners that use thesauruses (thesauri?), but all others use words that were popular in the first half of last century;  practically unusable.

TBS uses its own thesaurus, one they developed with the help of a lot of beta-testing users.  So its files are live and constantly being updated and expanded by the users!

That means you get real terms you can use, including all the modern, Internet and IM terms.  Makes it great for spinning articles and blog posts for use on the Net…

Check it out now while you can still sign up for free, at The Best Spinner

Sign up now and  use it for free!

Jorge Chavez

One month ago today I signed up to participate in the My Article Network (MAN) traffic building and website promotional plan. Here is my report as to what I have found, what my experience has been, to date.

First off here are my stats as of this morning:

Jorge’s Statistics

Overall, you have 20 sites registered on the system. For those sites you’ve been presented with 461 articles for consideration.

You’ve approved 298 and rejected 163, which means you’ve rejected 35%. You have 0 articles waiting for your decision.

In total, the system has successfully published 288 articles on your sites.

[Note that this is 288 unique articles, on topic, related to topic or having some interest to viewers interested in my site's topic. Excellent unique content to raise sites status and rankings!]

Article Statistics

You have 20 articles registered on the system. Those articles have been presented 315 times for consideration by site owners.

The articles have been approved 273 times and rejected 2 times, which means your articles have a rejection rate of 1%. A total of 40 copies are still waiting for a decision by site owners.

In total, the system has successfully published 272 copies of your articles.

[This means 272 articles published times 3 links per publication equals 816 anchor text backlinks to my sites! Plus another 40 x 3 =120, waiting to be approved. At 816 backlinks my $47 monthly membership cost comes down to $0.0576 per backlink! When the current 40 in queue are approved that cost will go to $47/(816+120) =$0.0502 per backlink!
That's 916 anchor text backlinks, with my KW's as the anchor text, for about a nickle a link!!]

The Bottom Line?

My Article Network Rocks, Big Time!

5 cents per anchor link keyword text backlinks? From on-theme related sites? Where else can you find a deal like that? In the past year, through other promotional plans, I have SOLD $400-500 in such links at $0.40-$0.50 each! I could sell them because THAT was CHEAP!

And this is just in the 1st month. Some of my 20 articles were written last week. They have not really had a chance to get started in distribution yet. If I stopped writing articles for MAN right now, I would still have more articles published in the coming month than have been published so far!

There’s a “snowball effect” here. A new article can stay active in the system for a year or more! And every month you get the links for the articles you just wrote PLUS the links for all the articles you wrote in previous months!

This is WELL worth the membership fee! So far My Articles Network is living up to its advertised claim of being the, “Single most effective traffic generation tool online!”

Other observations:

1. The system seems to work on a basis of keeping your number of articles published to be roughly equal to the number of other members’ articles published on your sites.

2. Since I set my max articles to be accepted to 1-2 per day, I am holding this back. Could be higher if I added more sites into the system or speeded up the posting rate.

3. Minimum article size is 300 words. This helps, but I don’t know how long I can keep up a 20 article/month rate. To do so I would have to A. Cut back on my articles to EZA, Go and Article Dashboard and/or B. Find more niches, products/services to sell!

4. Almost all articles at MAN are spun, so you get different unique versions of the same basic article to publish each time. That is why all the articles posted are unique content. The spinning process takes some time and is a bit tedious.

Using The Best Spinner really speeds up my article submission for MAN. TBS is now in late beta, and still free! It’s pretty good and getting better. Been through half-a-dozen new versions in the last few days, and just keeps on improving. If you haven’t tried it yet, I highly recommend it…

Questions? Observations? Post a comment and I’ll respond…

Regards to all,

Jorge Chavez

One more week has passed and here are my MAN: stats (It’s handy that they keep these for you in real time!):

Jorge’s Statistics

Site Statistics

Overall, you have 18 sites registered on the system. For those sites you’ve been presented with 352 articles for consideration.

You’ve approved 215 and rejected 135, which means you’ve rejected 39%. You have 2 articles waiting for your decision.

In total, the system has successfully published 215 articles on your sites.

Article Statistics

You have 14 articles registered on the system. Those articles have been presented 215 times for consideration by site owners.

The articles have been approved 186 times and rejected 2 times, which means your articles have a rejection rate of 1%. A total of 27 copies are still waiting for a decision by site owners.

In total, the system has successfully published 187 copies of your articles. “

187 articles published, times 3 links per article, means I have received 561 new, targeted, anchor link in-text backlinks since I started!

Not bad! Not bad at all. In fact, that’s pretty good!

Once you get an article in the system, they just keep publishing additional versions of it every week! And the links keep accumulating!

I plan to do a summary at the end of the first month. They say that the tool always shapes the hand of the user. Getting into how this works, some interesting strategies have come up, some still developing. I’ll tell you all about these in the first month’s report…

Thanks for visiting my blog!

Jorge

Things are moving right along.  A week after my last posting, here are my stats with MAN:

“Jorge’s Statistics

Site Statistics

Overall, you have 14 sites registered on the system. For those sites you’ve been presented with 227 articles for consideration.

You’ve approved 145 and rejected 82, which means you’ve rejected 36%. You have 0 articles waiting for your decision.

In total, the system has successfully published 145 articles on your sites.

Article Statistics

You have 11 articles registered on the system. Those articles have been presented 136 times for consideration by site owners.

The articles have been approved 117 times and rejected 2 times, which means your articles have a rejection rate of 2%. A total of 17 copies are still waiting for a decision by site owners.

In total, the system has successfully published 118 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.”

117 articles accepted means 117 x 3 = 351 new, live backlinks
out there! Considering that alone it’s cost me $47/351 =$0.134 per backlink, and I’m only 17 days into the 1st month so far!

Plus I have added 145 unique articles to my (mostly brand-new) blogsites. Sure, I could have gotten them from an article directory, but then I would have to copy and paste them, and they would not be unique. The 145 I got were posted on my sites automatically and yes, they are ALL unique, due to the internal spinning setup at My Articles Network.

This is going very well. I have found out:

1. I can save time with article submission by using the (still) free spinner at:

http://thebestspinner.com/

2. The article submission software at MAN is very user-friendly. Surprising after working with lots of software still in beta or programmer done, barely usable by non-programmers like me!

3. The article quality is really quite good. I reject a lot because they are way “off theme” for the site they are being offered to.

4. The stats have a “snowball” growth rate. I am setting the max article posting rate at 2 per day. The sites I have already set up continue to get more content posted daily. The articles I have already written continue to be published every day…

More later. Look for a big summary at the end of the first month (about Jan. 18)

Have a great 2010!

Regards to all,

Jorge

Now I’m getting into the use of this tool/service and am moving right along. As of this morning (December 28) here are my stats, copied off of my membership area statistics page:

“Site Statistics

Overall, you have 8 sites registered on the system. For those sites you’ve been presented with 75 articles for consideration.

You’ve approved 53 and rejected 22, which means you’ve rejected 29%. You have 0 articles waiting for your decision.

In total, the system has successfully published 53 articles on your sites.

Article Statistics

You have 6 articles registered on the system. Those articles have been presented 53 times for consideration by site owners.

The articles have been approved 41 times and rejected 1 time, which means your articles have a rejection rate of 2%. A total of 11 copies are still waiting for a decision by site owners.”

Pretty neat, huh?  

Each of those articles has three in-text key-word anchor links. Each has been “spun” between 50 and 105%, so that the versions published will all be different.  The 41 accepted and now published articles means 123 backlinks pointing back at my websites from other members’ well-cared for blogs!

The articles I rejected for posting on my sites were about 25-30% for sub-par spinning and the rest for being too far off subject.

On 4 of my existing websites I have added a WP blog in a “blogsite” folder which is cross-linked to the main XSitePro-created website. Of these 4, 2 are existing, seasoned websites, 2 are brand new, just built on new domain name sites.

The other 4  of my sites submitted to MAN are pure WP blogs, set-up on the root directory. 1 of these was existing (2-3 months old, in promotion) and the other 3 are brand new.

I have experimented with putting blogs on existing websites before, with unrelated content. Observed that the blog traffic and page counts positively affected the KW rankings of the websites. Now this is my 1st time for trying to see if related text, in a cross-linked blog in a folder on the domain, will pass even more “link juice” to the associated website.

This is now possible because I have a source of targeted articles/posts that I don’t have to write!

Questions? Comments anyone? I would be happy to answer…

More later, as this develops…

Jorge

Hello, everyone! Here’s my first update.

After a couple of days to work with the My Article Network system, I now know a lot more about it.

On the “Articles for Content” side, I now have three sites connected up and receiving content articles.  With MAN, you can add as many sites as you wish. But each site must must have a remote publishing API, for it to be added to and become part of the My Article Network.  Sites that qualify include:

* Self-hosted WordPress blogs (WordPress 2.0.x and later) — (Probably most of those in the MAN system are this type.)

* Any Drupal site (must have the Drupal XML-RPC API enabled)

* Any Joomla! site (must have the Joomla! XML-RPC API enabled)

* Any other site that has either an XML-RPC API or an Atom API.

Since I have WordPress blogs, I started with connecting three of these into the network. At this moment (December 22, 2009) the system has already posted 5 articles on one site, 3 on another and 1 on the last site connected;  a total of 9 content articles already posted on my sites!

In accepting articles for content on your sites, you have a choice of auto posting or posting after approval.  Being new here, I elected to approve (at least until I get some experience with this!). I have rejected 4 articles, approved 9.

When you reject or accept an article, you have a chance to send a short feedback message to the author. Using that, I told the rejected authors that their “spinning” was out of kilter, leading to parts that made no sense.  So, let’s see… Rejected 4 out of 13, that’s 31%. Not too bad. Those articles were not TOO bad.  It’s just that I am picky about readability! Don’t want any semi-literate articles on my sites.

On the “Submit Articles for Backlinks” side, I have submitted two articles which have now been published 4 and 3 times, total 7 publications of my articles, complete with 3 textual backlinks each, means 21 new links, now live on the Web.

Unlike in article marketing, where you generally must put all of your anchor text links in your bio box at the end, here you can put up to three anchor links in the text of the article. That’s better, stronger linking because it is clearly related to the text, what is being said in the article. Gets more link-juice that way!

You get feedback on your articles page about acceptance-rejection ratios. So far, I am at 100%. All articles offered for publication have been accepted.  I guess that most members here use auto accept for articles, then just delete any weak ones later…  

You don’t have to spin articles at all, if you don’t want to.  As I see it, there are advantages for spinning. (1.) You don’t have duplicate articles out there so that the SE’s  only credit you with the first one. (2.) Website owners prefer spun articles so that they know they will get credit for an article with unique text.

[There's an option for receiving articles for posting on your sites that lets you reject any with less than 30% spinning. I checked that box for all my sites, to get mostly unique articles to post.]

MAN offers two alternative methods of spinning: By alternate sentences or by coding the text. Their coding system is similar to but a bit different from what I am used to. It’s a variation of the widely used curly brackets “{ }” and bars “|” system.

So it’s pretty easy to use. In fact it is much more flexible and easier to use than other article submission setups I have tried.

There are lots of categories and sub-categories for articles. Lets you zero-in on what’s relevant for your sites. That’s good!

O.K. I have gotten started now and more or less understand how things work here. Now the task will be to get a number of sites set-up to receive content. And to turn out a number of articles to get backlinks out there.

So far, so good. This is turning out to be easier than I thought! Now I just need to get into it and use it. There is no limit to the number of sites I can add or the number of articles I can submit for publication.  So the best way to get my money’s worth is to use it to the max!

I plan to enter and promote some new sites so I can measure the effects. Also plan to promote some existing sites to round out the sources of backlinks to them…

More updates about my experiences with My Article Network will be coming here soon…

Merry Christmas to all!

Jorge Chavez

In the IMer’s never-ending quest for more and better backlinks the methods, techniques and services available are constantly changing. Recently I have heard and read some pretty good things about My Article Network,  a service that helps its members build lots of good backlinks.

So I decided to sign up for the service and check it out for myself. This will be the first in a series of posts I plan to make to keep my readers informed on my findings…

Jorge Chavez