Monday, June 29, 2009

Freelance Writing on HubPages Update

2 More Hubs on HubPages

Well June has been a quasi-bust, although there's not a lot I can control as far as health problems, family matters, and personal issues, but I've still gotten some writing in despite all of those things and am really looking forward to what the rest of the summer can bring as things really settle out and I can really concentrate on my writing and my work. I'm also going to have a post soon talking about the results Courtney Tuttle posted about his HubPages Challenge and what this information means for the rest of us who are writing online for HubPages, or even thinking about it.

That, however, is going to be a very long post and for right now I just want to bring a short update. I am still writing on HubPages, and am more convinced than ever of its viability as a passive or residual income source. Despite only publishing about 13 hubs the past two months, those and older hubs have made up for $15-20 a month in AdSense earnings that I lost from a blog being de-indexed by Google. Not only did they make this up, but my earnings are still increasing every month, so even without marketing, my writing for HubPages has really picked up the slack.

Going beyond this, my eBay and Amazon affiliate sales are also continuing to rise each and every month, so there's good reason to believe if I can hit my goal of over 200 hubs by the end of summer that with a little marketing I'll be in a position to make some pretty good passive income, and with the recession right now, I can use the extra income to pick up the slack from a really hard/stagnant freelance writing market right now.

Anyway, the two new hubs I've had since my last update are:

Shag Area Rugs

Garden Plaques

These are based on some keyword research, and later they'll also be used to hopefully provide a boost to some other larger websites I'm hoping to roll out. We'll see how they do once the initial burst of traffic wears off.

Anyway, keep on writing and thanks for reading this update!

Thursday, June 18, 2009

Freelance Writing: A Few More Hubs

3 More Quality HubPages Hubs

I enjoy freelance writing for HubPages, and in the last two days I've managed to make three new hubs. All thee are fairly high quality hubs, and I'm pretty happy with the quality of my freelance writing for these sites. Some of my more recent Hubs have been getting some decent traffic and some good AdSense clicks already, so even without the time that it takes for websites to get credit for their age and the search engine rankings bonus that comes with it. Because of this, I feel even more confident that if I can get a lot of Hubs written this summer and get some marketing done that in the long term these will provide some really great residual income.

Anyway, two of these hubs are based on keyword research that I think could make great micro niches, while also acting as strong links in the future to an AdSense blog that I hope will eventually do very well for me. The other has an excellent Clickbank product I believe in, and can also give a link to an eHow article that's already doing decently for me. As with any type of online writing that involves passive income, I won't know the true results for weeks or even months, but I'm feeling pretty good about writing for HubPages.

The potential for writing for residual income is very high with this website, and if any of you are reading this and haven't started with HubPages, I recommend you start now.

My new hubs:

Cherry writing desks

Oak writing desks

Learn Spanish Fast

That's it for now. Thanks for reading!

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

3 More HubPages Hubs

Freelance Writing Update

Just a brief writing update this time around. There's been a lot going on, so while the pace I've put up isn't near what I'm hoping for, the sheer influx of freelance work that has started coming in, along with some very exciting long term projects, has me still relatively happy about the work I've done and the schedule that lies ahead. Despite the somewhat overwhelming nature of life throughout June, I'm going to remain optimistic.

Three new Hubs for this update. All 3 are valuable as standing on their own, but two also work to give a valuable anchored keyword link to an eHow article, and one gives a link to a writing blog that I can also use to get backlinks to some of my support blogs. By making those support blogs stronger, my flagship blogs and potential moneymakers are going to become that much stronger. Meanwhile by using HubPages I can support blogs, websites, and articles that make me money and are important to me, but they also make money naturally while giving solid links - something that's hard to do otherwise. For now, here are the three new hubs I wrote on HubPages:

Writing for eHow

How to Get Rid of Garden Slugs

Flair Bartending

As always, I never make a hub that I would be embarassed to claim as my writing, so right now I'm feeling pretty dang good about those three, and as long as I keep making quality Hubs, it will be that much easier to gather good backlinks for them and rank higher in the search engines. More traffic means more money, so there's still a lot of upside here.

That's my freelance writing update for now. Thanks for reading!

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Freelance Writing: One New Hub

Another Hub for HubPages

I've definitely fallen behind on making new Hubs at HubPages, and will probably almost certainly miss my goal of 30 by the 15th. Between more pressing writing demands, personal issues, and lack of Internet access, it was a hard knock. I just made #10, so I'd have to make 20 in five days (including today) to make the goal. Very unlikely, especially considering the 15th of every month is the due date for a lot of my monthly freelance writing work. Still, overall I've been getting a lot of writing done, especially considering everything going on.

Anyway, I'll be making a push to get several hubs done in the next few days, so at least at the due date maybe it'll look like I made a good shot at it, or maybe I'll get on a tear and just make it. We'll have to wait and see.

But anyway, I did complete hub #10 for the challenge, and here it is:

Contemporary Area Rugs

Which puts me at #53 total - with a goal of 150 by September 1st. It'll definitely be a challenge, but I think that goal is one I will obtain.

Anyway, that's the update on my freelance writing at HubPages for now. Keep writing, and keep at it. Even with just the new 10 Hubs, I have noticed my monthly AdSense income going up steadily, so I know this is working.

Monday, June 1, 2009

Hub Challenge Hub #8 Finished

Hoping This is a Good Micro Niche

Well my eighth hub for the Hub Challenge is finished, and it's another product based hub, which as I've mentioned in other places, sites like Squidoo and HubPages tend to produce the most income from product based sites. I like heavy duty flashlights, and hope that despite the very small amount of monthly traffic, that maybe this will do decently for me each month.

#8 of 30: http://hubpages.com/hub/Heavy-Duty-Flashlights

I'm a fan of heavy duty flashlights because they're simply better built than regular ones, and I have to admit, the potential self defense aspect definitely appeals to me. So this is my second product based hub in a row, and so I'm hoping that getting a good quality number of product based hubs will help in in all aspects of my make money online quest: AdSense, Amazon sales, & eBay sales.

That's the update for now. Thanks for reading about my new heavy duty flashlights hub!