She Told Me Now Charges

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   Barbara Kayposted 13 years ago

   Has anyone else noticed that "She Told Me" now charges you to post links? I hope all of these sites don't start this. I'm not sure how much I make a month from the site to make up for the $5.00 charge. I probably just won't use it anymore.

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      Wesman Todd Shawposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I've seen this talked about a whole lot both on HP and Info Barrel.
      
      I had been talking to James Colin on the same day that he started charging for the use of shetoldme. . . .but he never mentioned that to me!
      
      I'm not going to use that site anymore, but what I would recommend or consider doing is buying one month a year, and then just making STM links for everything I've wrote that year, making certain that I do it all in that one month.

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         Hollie Thomasposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         I tried to register with shetoldme.com but he had closed registration. I received and email stating registration was now open, but there is a charge. Dilemma, does that equate to paying for backlinks? Breech of G's TOS?

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            brandonhart100posted 13 years agoin reply to this

            There are a lot of sites like this - I believe in general that this is considered a membership and way to get rid of spammers and control the type and quality of writers.

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            Wesman Todd Shawposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            Hey, thanks for saying that!!!  I hadn't thought of that angle, and that is enough to make it a bad thing to be a part of.
            
            I'm going to use Article Blast more - because it's easy to use, and it's a better looking site.  No, Article Blast doesn't give you any adsense earnings, but it's easy, free, and just a better site, I think.

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               Hollie Thomasposted 13 years agoin reply to this

               No problem. Since starting at HP I've become a bit paranoid about what G does or does not allow, since having a hub unpublished due to using a link exchange (I didn't even know what a link exchange was)

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                  Wesman Todd Shawposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                  Here's one that I used a couple times until I figured out that there was something fishy about it "plug a link" - that's a traffic exchange to stay away from.
                  
                  I wish Hubpages would just create a blog titled "TRAFFIC SITES AGAINST OUR TOS" so we'd all know not to mess with those things - as I wasn't sure that that was what "plug a link" was until I asked someone.

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                     Hollie Thomasposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                     Yes it's really confusing. When you start writing at hubpages you imagine that if someones wrote a hub about a great place to backlink then it must be within the rules. I've actually considered writing a hub entitled ' where not to backlink for new writers'

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                        Wesman Todd Shawposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                        I totally think that you SHOULD write that hub!

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                        Dolores Monetposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                        Oh boy that would be so helpful. Great idea for a hub!

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         Barbara Kayposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Buying just a month a year is a great idea. Thanks.

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            Barbara Kayposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            I didn't know that paid sites are again Google TOS. I guess I just won't use it anymore.

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      2besureposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I just wrote them to find out if we are still going to earn from articles already posted.

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   Ddraigcochposted 13 years ago

   Whilst there are free bookmarks Shetoldme can whistle.

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   Gaizyposted 13 years ago

   I'm with you on this one. I am just going to stop using it. There seems to be plenty of other sites offering the same facility.

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   Sally's Troveposted 13 years ago

   http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/80625

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   Richieb799posted 13 years ago

   SheToldMe was one of my favorite places to bookmark, it helped websites index faster and had a nice layout to it. However, I went there Wednesday and was horrified when it said 'Access Denied', no way am I going to pay $5 a month.
   
   This is a bad move by the site owner, it is not going to prevent spam because you will always get bad posters no matter who signs up. My only thought is will Best-Reviewer follow suit?(owned by the same person)

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      Wesman Todd Shawposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I hope not.  I get steady traffic from Best Reviewer.
      
      James told me personally in an e mail that he was starting two more sites 1. for health topics, and 2. for money topics.
      
      I'm just not paying to write for anyone.

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   thejeffriestubeposted 13 years ago

   Well screw that one. I was going to check it out, glad I didn't. I still think there are good ways to promote your website organically. It just takes a bit longer to get noticed.

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   IzzyMposted 13 years ago

   I used to use shetoldme. Not anymore, obviously. His timing for charges couldn't have been worse. Just when a few of us are seeing traffic and income fall over the edge of a cliff is not a good time to ask for money!

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      Ms Deeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      The shetoldme site says the $5/month is for "premium" membership. I can still get into my account there without paying anything. My take on it was that levels of membership have now been introduced and the lowest one is free, still.

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         K9keystrokesposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         But do they allow you to post your hubs for free with that lowest membeship? I was shocked about the charge as well, as I like the way the site looks too. I have to agree with Izzy on this one, really bad timing for She told Me to ask for money.

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         Barbara Kayposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         It keeps giving me Access Denied when I try clicking on Publish or Add a Link. Maybe this is temporary.

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            K9keystrokesposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            That's what was happening to me a as well Barbara. I think we have to pay for an upgraded membership before posting any more items. A real bummer.

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               Ms Deeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

               Ohhh, I see. Right, I'd not tried publishing anything since seeing that $5 fee. I agree, a bummer!

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      Richieb799posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I went to backlink my employers website and thats when I saw it. I need as many backlinks as I can in a short time because I'm trying to get our new landing page to update in Google search. The description still displays something linked to the hosting account at the moment
      
      Any new sites you've found useful Iz? I don't want to use Social Monkee because I need it whitehat

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   David 470posted 13 years ago

   I used to use that site in 2010. No way I am ever using it again now. I don't think it really helped me that much anyway.
   
   Why is he charging now?

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      Ms Deeposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      It never helped me much either.

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   PaulGoodman67posted 13 years ago

   In some ways it's annoying, in others I don't care too much.  I certainly won't be paying.  I was lucky if I earned 10 cents a month from it and I always thought that the 100% Adsense promotion of it was a deliberate deception, as in reality you only got 100% of one Google ad and the rest of the ad money went to Shetoldme - why not just be honest about it?
   
   Probably got some minor benefits in backlinks, who knows, there are other places to get backlinks anyway.  :-)

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      PaulGoodman67posted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I think I prefer the RedGage model, where they pay you, rather than the other way around!  :-)

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         Stacie Lposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         I'm going to check this out...thanks

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            Barbara Kayposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            Stacie, You don't make a lot of money at Redgage, but I get a lot of traffic to my hubs from there.

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    2besureposted 13 years ago

    I guess everyone lost money with the Panda hit.  I made about 20 to 30 a month on SheToldMe.  I wrote the guy and they said those who already had links on the site will still continue to receive any earnings.

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       Barbara Kayposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       2besure, I wondered if that was possible. Now I can't try harder there. I used to make good money at Xomba too. One month $100.00, but Panda has hurt them too and now you can no longer add Hubpage links there.
       
       Panda sure hurt a lot of people.

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    Victoria Lynnposted 13 years ago

    What is/was Panda? I've heard a lot of people talk about it.

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