How to Make Money on the Internet

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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