I’ll have to take a look at it and see. more backlinks are always good things. The main thing is that it has to have some good authority in google’s eyes.

You listed out your handful of article directories and I think one that may be overlooked is Gather.com They are currently a PR6, and you can earn giftcards as well as Paypal payments there based on comments/page views. So in essence, another way to earn some extra coin…It’s hard to say if Gather is better than InfoBarrel though…Just my 2 cents…keep us updated on your progress!

They keep the money with Kontra. I am actually going to turn on contra for all my hubs to see what happens. I’ve heard the CTR for adsense does not go down in many cases. I would have thought so, but from what I’ve read, not so. It’s usually (i hear) only 10% of what you get with adsense though.

Are all the kontera links something that they just add to our posts? That’s the only “feature” of info barrel that I don’t like so much. Other than that it is great. I’ve already got barrels in top SERPs positions with no backlink work…admittedly probably for terms that get searched for about once a year!

I’ll have 50 by the end of the month so am interested to see what sort of revenue I can generate.

Thanks for answering my questions. I’m curious to see how backlinking with infobarrel/ezinearticles works when it’s more than 20 links or so to hubpages or another authority site. I will read your update now! One of my sites has around 4 ezinearticles to each interior page and it is starting to move up on the engines but each page has pretty low competition too. I probably have around 30 ezinearticles going to the site. I will try to vary it from other backlinking methods and compare. Thanks for the answers and inspiration.

No, I don’t hire any writers. I am tempted to, since all hours of the day are spent writing. The way you article writer is find a topic, look it up on ezine article + go article + top websties and read 5 or so articles to get an idea. Then just start to write. If it works, you can also just rewrite other articles. After a few rewrites, you absorb the information enough to write your own from scratch.

It helps to be creative as well — have degrees in linguists, english, and professional writing — so I do have plenty of experience “writing”. But anyone can write, especially articles. You just have to start doing it and you get faster and better.