I had a very busy day today and only got 5 articles written. I now have 17 articles that I need to post to InfoBarrel. I have 1 article that is almost done. After tomorrow, I should be at 50 articles posted. When I post those 18 articles, I will be at 20 articles total so I will be 30 articles short. The plan for tomorrow is to make 30 folders, find pictures for all of the articles, gather Amazon referral links for the articles and save the product pages. I am going to try to write all 30 intros and all 30 conclusions. On Sunday, I can get to work on writing the articles. Hopefully I can get 15 articles written on Sunday and 15 articles written on Monday. Then I will post them Monday evening. I will do the same thing on Tuesday and Wednesday with 30 more articles. I should be caught back up by that point. Then I will try to get ahead with my articles so I can take a day or two off at the beginning of August. I really don't want to burn myself out. I'm already sick of writing articles. I just need to keep up this pace until the end of October or beginning of November. It seems like a long ways away but the time will go by quickly and before I know it, it will be October.
Another thing I need to start thinking about is how to pay my bills next month. I have a car payment due August 5, a student loan payment due August 7 and my favorite band is coming to town on August 21 and I would like to buy tickets to see them. I need to come up with a total of $600 and quickly. I'll be getting around $110 from Adsense and $25 from Amazon at the end of this month. Where am I going to get the other $500? I suppose I should be working Mturk but I hate doing those boring hits. I could also write articles for iWriter or Textbroker but after writing all of these articles for InfoBarrel I'm not going to feel like writing. I could probably come up with something to sell on eBay. I'll have to see what I can scrounge up. In less than 6 months, I shouldn't have this problem anymore. I'll be making at least $800 a month from InfoBarrel - hopefully more. I'll have money to pay all my bills and maybe I'll even have enough money to save. This is my motivation and I have to keep reminding myself this to keep me going.
Friday, July 20, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Keeping Up
I am having a hard time figuring out how many article I should have written and posted by now. I started this new experiment on Tuesday, July 17. This means that I have been doing my experiment for the past 3 days. Here is what I should have done and what I really have done:
Articles I Should Have Posted: 30
Articles I Have Actually Posted: 2
Articles I Have Written But Not Posted: 10
Articles That Are Almost Done: 8
With that being said, I need to have 40 articles done by tomorrow night. I should get the 18 articles written and posted by lunchtime tomorrow. Then I will be behind by 20 articles. I think I will write and post 12 articles a day for the next 5 days instead of struggling to do the 10 extra articles all at once tomorrow. I think 12 articles a day is doable. I've written 10 and a half articles already today and am planning on writing another one and a half articles before I go to bed.
Now, back to work!
Articles I Should Have Posted: 30
Articles I Have Actually Posted: 2
Articles I Have Written But Not Posted: 10
Articles That Are Almost Done: 8
With that being said, I need to have 40 articles done by tomorrow night. I should get the 18 articles written and posted by lunchtime tomorrow. Then I will be behind by 20 articles. I think I will write and post 12 articles a day for the next 5 days instead of struggling to do the 10 extra articles all at once tomorrow. I think 12 articles a day is doable. I've written 10 and a half articles already today and am planning on writing another one and a half articles before I go to bed.
Now, back to work!
Wednesday, July 18, 2012
Pushing Through
Well, this is hard. I got 1 article fully written today but I didn't get it posted. I have 17 articles that have the intros done and some of the articles have pictures. I am going to write my butt off tomorrow. I have to get caught back up. I am going to write 4 more articles before I go to bed. Even if I have to stay up until 5 in the morning. This is like life or death here. If I don't make money, I'm going to be stuck in my parent's basement for the rest of my life. It would be a slow and horrible death. I need to get some money so I can move out and get a life. That's why I need to write these articles. I need to get all 17 articles written and posted by supper time tomorrow and then I will immediately get started on the next 10. I CAN DO THIS!!!
Two.
Two. That's how many articles I got written today. This 1,000 article challenge going to be harder than I thought. For the other 8 articles I was planning on writing today, I got the intros and conclusions written and I found pictures for all the articles. I also have all of the affiliate links gathered. All I need to do is fill in the middle of the articles which shouldn't take too long. Then I have to post the articles which is what takes the most time. InfoBarrel was very buggy today and I kept having to log out and log back in again, just so I could get my article published.
The plan for tomorrow morning is to create folders for 10 more articles, write the intros and conclusions for each of the articles, find pictures and affiliate links and then, in the afternoon, I will write all 18 articles. I won't post them tomorrow but I want to get them all written. I will post them on Thursday morning. I would like to say all the articles I'm writing are good quality but they are not. They are pretty bad articles (a lot of repetition and fluff) but I want to get them written and posted. After I reach my goal of $2,000 a month, I will go back and redo the articles and make them better. For now, I have what I have. It's all about quantity right now and less about quality.
I guess I have a lot to do tomorrow. I'll post another update tomorrow night (or Thursday morning :) ).
The plan for tomorrow morning is to create folders for 10 more articles, write the intros and conclusions for each of the articles, find pictures and affiliate links and then, in the afternoon, I will write all 18 articles. I won't post them tomorrow but I want to get them all written. I will post them on Thursday morning. I would like to say all the articles I'm writing are good quality but they are not. They are pretty bad articles (a lot of repetition and fluff) but I want to get them written and posted. After I reach my goal of $2,000 a month, I will go back and redo the articles and make them better. For now, I have what I have. It's all about quantity right now and less about quality.
I guess I have a lot to do tomorrow. I'll post another update tomorrow night (or Thursday morning :) ).
Monday, July 16, 2012
I'm Baaaaaaack!!!
I haven't posted in a long time - over a year - but my InfoBarrel income remains steady. I've tried to make money with niche sites but it's not consistent each month like my InfoBarrel income. This is why I've decided to once again turn my attention to InfoBarrel. If I had completed the experiment like I should have, I would be making $2,000 a month right now without having to do anything at all.
I am starting a new experiment. It will be 1,000 articles at 1,000 words each before the holiday season. I will make it to $2,000 a month but I need to focus on producing articles. I want to write as many articles as I can and hope that the money comes eventually. If I write 10 articles a day, I will have 1,070 articles on October 31.
If I were to focus on $2,000 a month, let's break it down. Last month, I made $38 from Adsense, $25 from Amazon and $1.17 from Chikita for a grand total of $64.17. I have 91 articles but 3 of those are earnings reports and about 10-15 articles were just posted to promote my niche websites. Minus those non-earning articles, I have a total of 71 articles that are well-researched. This means that I earned $0.90 per article. I would need 2,222 articles to make $2,000 a month. If I work hard enough, I can have that many articles posted by the end of the year. That means I would need to write 14 articles per day. While it's possible, I would most likely get burnt out. I'm pretty worried about getting burnt out during the 1,000 articles experiment.
I'm really sick of being poor and that is my main motivation. I'm tired of missing my favorite bands in concert because I don't have money for a ticket or skipping a family vacation because of a lack of funds. I want my own house and I want to be able to go out and have fun without worrying about paying for it. I am going to try my hardest to stick to this plan. I have to because I need the money and I just can't get a job working outside the home. The gap on my resume is too big and I'm not used to someone bossing me around. Okay, enough rambling. I've got to get some sleep so I can get up early in the morning and start cranking out those articles.
I am starting a new experiment. It will be 1,000 articles at 1,000 words each before the holiday season. I will make it to $2,000 a month but I need to focus on producing articles. I want to write as many articles as I can and hope that the money comes eventually. If I write 10 articles a day, I will have 1,070 articles on October 31.
If I were to focus on $2,000 a month, let's break it down. Last month, I made $38 from Adsense, $25 from Amazon and $1.17 from Chikita for a grand total of $64.17. I have 91 articles but 3 of those are earnings reports and about 10-15 articles were just posted to promote my niche websites. Minus those non-earning articles, I have a total of 71 articles that are well-researched. This means that I earned $0.90 per article. I would need 2,222 articles to make $2,000 a month. If I work hard enough, I can have that many articles posted by the end of the year. That means I would need to write 14 articles per day. While it's possible, I would most likely get burnt out. I'm pretty worried about getting burnt out during the 1,000 articles experiment.
I'm really sick of being poor and that is my main motivation. I'm tired of missing my favorite bands in concert because I don't have money for a ticket or skipping a family vacation because of a lack of funds. I want my own house and I want to be able to go out and have fun without worrying about paying for it. I am going to try my hardest to stick to this plan. I have to because I need the money and I just can't get a job working outside the home. The gap on my resume is too big and I'm not used to someone bossing me around. Okay, enough rambling. I've got to get some sleep so I can get up early in the morning and start cranking out those articles.
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Things are Moving Along
I wanted to post a quick update to say that I went over $100 in Google Adsense. This means I'll be getting my very first check from Google next month. The next $100 should come much quicker. After a slow beginning to the month, things have been picking up. I made an amazing amount today in Adsense - $6.39 and the day isn't done yet. I never wrote a January report - sorry about that! I made $18.79 in Adsense, $0.88 in Amazon, and $1.09 in Chitika. It was worse than December but I expected that. The first two weeks of February were a bust as all of my articles were de-indexed with Info Barrel 2.0. The articles are back in the rankings and the last week has been amazing for earnings. I'm hoping it continues and it isn't a fluke.
I've been trying to keep up on my school work which doesn't give me much time to work on my Info Barrel experiment. However, I made a major investment in the experiment a couple days ago. I purchased Market Samurai to help me keep track of where my articles are ranking for their keywords. For each article, I choose 3 keywords I'd like to target and I input the information into Market Samurai. That's as far as I've gotten so far. I am also thinking about purchasing Article Marketing Robot to help with backlinks. It takes me forever to write an article to post on article directories. AMR makes it easy to spin that 1 article into 100 different articles and submit them to thousands of article directories at one time. This would save me a lot of time which I could then use to write more articles. I used the AMR free trial to submit backlinks to one of my articles and it has seen a record amount of traffic. I really wish I wasn't broke or I would purchase AMR immediately. Maybe I'll use my first Google check to purchase it.
I probably won't have time to work on Info Barrel for at least the next couple of months. I am dedicating my summer to building my Info Barrel article library and adding backlinks. I will have nothing going on this summer to distract me. I still need to make enough upfront money to pay my bills but that shouldn't take very long each day. Speaking of summer, I think I have cabin fever and to make it worse, we are under a Blizzard Warning. Stay safe everyone and hopefully my next post will come before the snow melts.
I've been trying to keep up on my school work which doesn't give me much time to work on my Info Barrel experiment. However, I made a major investment in the experiment a couple days ago. I purchased Market Samurai to help me keep track of where my articles are ranking for their keywords. For each article, I choose 3 keywords I'd like to target and I input the information into Market Samurai. That's as far as I've gotten so far. I am also thinking about purchasing Article Marketing Robot to help with backlinks. It takes me forever to write an article to post on article directories. AMR makes it easy to spin that 1 article into 100 different articles and submit them to thousands of article directories at one time. This would save me a lot of time which I could then use to write more articles. I used the AMR free trial to submit backlinks to one of my articles and it has seen a record amount of traffic. I really wish I wasn't broke or I would purchase AMR immediately. Maybe I'll use my first Google check to purchase it.
I probably won't have time to work on Info Barrel for at least the next couple of months. I am dedicating my summer to building my Info Barrel article library and adding backlinks. I will have nothing going on this summer to distract me. I still need to make enough upfront money to pay my bills but that shouldn't take very long each day. Speaking of summer, I think I have cabin fever and to make it worse, we are under a Blizzard Warning. Stay safe everyone and hopefully my next post will come before the snow melts.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
December Review and 2011 Goals
I didn't mean to wait this long to post but it was a busy month. I only wrote a few articles in December. I had wanted to continue my November pace and write 1-2 articles a day. You can read all about December here: http://www.infobarrel.com/Allys_December_2010_Infobarrel_Earnings_Report
2011 Goals
In 2011, I want to reach my goal of $2,000 per month. I have other monetary goals as well, such as saving for a cruise, paying down debt and going on a road trip this summer. It is only the 5th day of the month and I have already changed my goals a bit. My original goal was to write 5 articles a day, 5 days a week. I have now realized that it isn't going to happen. I have too much going on and I have to write upfront pay articles so I can pay my bills. My new goal is to make $100 in upfront pay at Demand Media during the day, Mon-Fri. Nights will be spent doing homework. On weekends I will do my best to write as many articles as possible. Hopefully, it will be enough to reach $2,000/month by the end of the year. I should have more time for writing InfoBarrel articles once I get my credit card and car loans paid off in full. I also want to do a lot of backlinking in the summer. I would love to reach my goal by November when I go on a cruise. Then I can sit back and relax on the deck while still making money. I'll try to update this blog regularly.
I hope all of you have a happy new year and good luck on whatever your goals may be,
Ally
2011 Goals
In 2011, I want to reach my goal of $2,000 per month. I have other monetary goals as well, such as saving for a cruise, paying down debt and going on a road trip this summer. It is only the 5th day of the month and I have already changed my goals a bit. My original goal was to write 5 articles a day, 5 days a week. I have now realized that it isn't going to happen. I have too much going on and I have to write upfront pay articles so I can pay my bills. My new goal is to make $100 in upfront pay at Demand Media during the day, Mon-Fri. Nights will be spent doing homework. On weekends I will do my best to write as many articles as possible. Hopefully, it will be enough to reach $2,000/month by the end of the year. I should have more time for writing InfoBarrel articles once I get my credit card and car loans paid off in full. I also want to do a lot of backlinking in the summer. I would love to reach my goal by November when I go on a cruise. Then I can sit back and relax on the deck while still making money. I'll try to update this blog regularly.
I hope all of you have a happy new year and good luck on whatever your goals may be,
Ally
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