Finally, Financial Freedom!

Xomba has once again reinvented itself, this time following the lead of HubPages and moving everything over to subdomains. Good news, you can once again backlink to your own work. In addition, Xomba has new formats, including lists, which may be useful for a lot of internet writers. While I haven't had a chance to check out all of Xomba's features (to be honest, I'm still reposting old eHow articles!), I expect that the new freedom in subdomains will allow writers to be able to earn even more...

I have just started republishing my deleted eHow articles, only to find that some of my best earners were copied all over the internet, by places that should have known better. It took me several rounds of emails to get the duplicated content deleted from Yahoo!, but iVillage and others responded quite quickly. What I want to do is compliment HubPages on their site, as to how I learned from this experience. I copied my article from its cache on the Internet Wayback Machine and published the...

We've all heard it: "You have only twenty-four hours in a day." And that's true--up to a point. However, that's not the last of it. The decisions you make about how you use your time affect how much free time you have. For example, I usually spend about a half-hour a day cleaning my apartment, and that doesn't really keep up with it. I made two decisions about my cleaning that I am completely happy with. First, I invested in a Roomba. It takes me four minutes a day to clean my Roomba, and my...

I've written before about eHow. While I have fond memories of the Writers Compensation Program (hereinafter abbreviated WCP), when eHow quit accepting new posts, I decided to leave my articles where they were, and they continued to earn well. However, with only a few hours' notice, eHow discontinued the WCP, a move I had been expecting, but not ready for. Having learnt something about which articles will do well on which site, I am now in the process of moving my 98 remaining articles to...

90% of everything is crud by classicalgeek View other Sturgeon's law T-Shirts After the Google Panda update, many revenue-sharing sites are changing the way they do business. Xomba no longer allows you to link to your own work, and now TheInfoMine and MyGeoInfo are closing their doors to new writers, and asking writers with less substantial bodies of work to move their articles to another site. Since these two sites had a responsible and responsive admin, and an 85-90% revenue share in favour...

Last week's post got torpedoed because of federal income taxes, but never fear--I'm back! I actually look forward to doing my taxes, because it shows me what activities are productive, and what activities are non-productive. To that end, in the aftermath of doing my taxes, I've made some decisions. Income Taxes Norman Rockwell First off, the internet writing definitely stays--from a tax perspective, internet writing is definitely worth the effort! I've even upgraded my internet connection and...

I was speaking with my financial advisor last week, and adding my $60 per month in predictable online income to my retirement calculations, to come up with a plan for the next few years. When she heard $60 per month, she was shocked, and she pulled out one of her own financial statements: she was making about $60 per month on the best investment she could find, with an investment of $20,000. If I took an hour to write each of my 600 articles, she explained, I was making the equivalent of...

A couple of weeks ago, I went to HubCamp. Was it worth it? Absolutely!Although I feel the class was intended for beginners, rather than experienced article writers, I was surprised to see that some of the people there who had written many (sometimes hundreds) of hubs were asking what I considered basic questions. The thing I found most useful was the networking with other writers, and and ways in which we could combine strategies to promote others' work, as well as getting to know two of the HubPages staff members.The other thing I found useful was their suggestions about titles. I have been experimenting

Fuelspace is like Snipsly and Jevitt, although they share only 50% of the Adsense revenue. Still, it's worth the effort for the backlink. Service Station in Space for Refuelling and Repairing Interplanetary Craft I've been advised that Fuelspace may have malware on their main page, so I've given you the link directly to the login page. There are basically no rules that I can see for Fuelspace, so this is good for backlinks, affiliate links, articles with too many links for other sites, and so...

Jevitt is just like Snipsly, and so is perfect either for backlinking or for those articles that are too short or have too many links, and so otherwise don't fit in elsewhere. Just like Snipsly, Jevitt gives you an 80% share of Adsense impressions, and is basically a free-for-all. Jevitt is flying under the radar for the moment, and will probably get slapped by Google, but since it's a leverage tool for already-written content, or for articles that will not fit elsewhere, it's definitely...

I started using Redgage a while back, and I have to admit, I like it. First, while it doesn't pay that well, it's easy to use. Secondly, the importing of certain content is almost automatic, and what's not to like about that? A few photos of mine have received feature bonuses of a few dollars, and I've won the raffle twice, so $60.00 for a little over a year is not bad at all, in my opinion. With more automatic importing of content I should start to see some substantial income over the next few years.Redgage pays 86 cents per 1000 views, so some links to controversial content ought to be enough

Xomba has reinvented itself, now that Google has started to slap down spam. As a result, you can no longer bookmark your own articles (most of the content Xomba has). Now you can bookmark other people's articles, and stuff you find on the web, or you can write articles for Xomba. Don't try to bookmark your own stuff on Xomba or you will find your account is suspended. (If you don't use the same username, I don't quite know how they can tell, but it's not worth risking your account.)Xomba has also discontinued referrals for the moment, so as a sweetener, they have increased their Adsense share to

While Redgage is not a high-paying site (86 cents per 1000 views), the fact that you can import stuff from blogs and Facebook automatically makes it well worth your while. Yes, I have gotten payout there and have earned $60.00 in just over a year. I encourage you to try out redgage for yourself, and post backlinks, photos, rants, whatever you like. It's a good site and over time your earnings will add up. Close-Up of Links in Heavy Chain Outdoors

Step Six -- Backlinking with XombaThe more I read through forums on InfoBarrel and eHow, the more I heard about backlinking. By May, I was ready to give it a try. I spent some time over at Xomba, backlinking all my 98 eHow articles. I started adding to those my InfoBarrel bookmarks, but quit later when new challenges came along (more about those later). Since then, I have picked up my backlinking and am currently running an experiment where I hope to create at least 15 backlinks on revenue-sharing sites to funnel traffic to my articles (and incidentally earn a few pennies from the backlinks themselves

Step Four: October, 2009 I had seen the writing on the wall at eHow, and started looking for another outlet for my articles. In addition, I was running out of "how-to" ideas at a hundred articles, and people in the eHow forums were complaining. So I took a look at other revenue sharing sites that were being discussed, and decided that my next platform would be InfoBarrel. Now InfoBarrel had its own drama, carried over from eHow, but as soon as the Writers Compensation Program at eHow closed,...