Writing Hubs in Groups

SEO & HubPages Writing

Well we're here for another post and the HubPages continue to march forward slowly. I haven't done as much work on my hubs as I wanted, but a major part of the reason for that is I've finally spent the last month taking the advice that every major Internet Marketer I respect online has said over and over: August is the first month where I put aside some ambitious writing goals and decided to spend most of my time collecting links.

The end result? It's only been a few weeks, and the answer is very good. My eHow earnings are going to be their highest level, and I hit my first $100 month with AdSense, the far majority of which comes from HubPages. And the majority of income increases came the past two weeks. I'm sure I haven't even seen any effect from the last few days of gathering links and writing articles.

Obviously if you're writing for HubPages and you want to find some success, you need to know about SEO, keyword research, and gathering backlinks. What encourages me most is the sheer amount of HubPages hubs, as well as eHow articles, that are on the bottom of page one of Google or the top of page two. Another month or two of gathering links and most of these could be on the top of page one of Google - which easily could double my monthly income.

SEO is huge when writing for HubPages, and the other thing I've noticed is writing hubs in groups. In other words, don't write one hub on "Rainbow Trout Fishing." Write one on "Rainbow Trout Fishing," "Rainbow Trout Fishing Gear," "Rainbow Trout Fishing Tips," "Fly Fishing for Trout," etc. Then you link all of these hubs together.

This is an EXTREMELY powerful strategy! I couldn't believe how much of a difference this made in the strength of hubs ranking high in the Google search rankings. I'll go into more detail on this in the next blog post because there is plenty that I can talk about under this topic, and it is worthy of it's own blog post. Ironically, I have to thank my obsessive compulsive disorder and another hubber who drove me nuts because her hubs were beating the pants off of mine with 0-1 backlinks versus my 8-10 very good key word anchored text links.

So this gets another post. But for now, I strongly encourage everyone to build links to their hubs. Write one hub a day, and build some links. If you're new to the link building, try it this way: 5 Ezinearticles, with two links each in the author's box, all pointing back to your hubs. You'll be amazed at the results.

So that's it for now. Thanks for reading, and keep it up with those hubs!

Carp Fishing Hub for Summer

Carp Fishing Hub for Summer Time!

Well summer is drawing to a close, but that doesn't mean that it's too late for me to write a good summer hub about carp fishing. I thought that this would be a really cool kind of off the cuff topic that deserved a good hub. A little bit of research seemed to tell me that I was really on to something there.

While it definitely isn't for everyone, writing about fishing was very relaxing to me after having a lot of time spent on hubs or other writing projects that were on profitable topics, but really weren't subjects I was passionate about. Fishing, on the other hand, just ain't bad no matter how you cut it. I also had a good laugh about the irony. Here I spent a little bit of time to publish a HubPages hub on carp fishing gear, and then I go up to my Grandma's for the weekend and there's a giant slab of deliciously smoked carp sitting out to munch on. Sometimes it all comes together.

This is also a topic on freelance writing that I did want to hit on real quickly before having a longer and more serious blog post on writing for HubPages in the future. Sometimes, even when you're pushing hard on the freelancing and the money making topics, sometimes you just need to go fishing. This could mean going fishing, it could mean writing about a relaxing topic (like carp fishing or carp fishing gear) that you simply enjoy.

"Going fishing" to me means taking a break to recharge a little. Learning how to do this while building a freelance writing career is critical to succeeding in the writing world. So now that I've enjoyed my version of carp fishing online, time to go back to work.

Cheers!

HubPages Blog Update

Well some time has passed since the last blog post, and for that I do apologize. A family emergency came up in early July, and there was no question that had to take precedence over everything else going on in my life, so a lot of things fell to the wayside recently. In fact, pretty much everything I did online fell to the wayside for a while. I'm just now trying to get back into the groove of things, since this is a long term family emergency/tragedy, which makes normalcy seem wrong even as it is one of the most important things in life to hold onto right now.

So that's the reason for the long delay. The other was some thought on what I wanted to do with this HubPages blog. Do I only want to use it to promote my own work, or do I want it to act like a tutorial for new users? Somewhere in between? I'm trying to imagine what that balance is, and what I want the end results to be because to be honest, I didn't think about it much early and I'm not completely satisfied with how it has looked so far.

But in the midst of all of this, some good things have happened. Courtney Tuttle helped to create the great HubChallenge in May through June, and while my efforts fell well short of my even modest goal of 30 hubs in one month, I did make about 30 in two months, and the jump in AdSense income has been obvious. In fact, I'm just short of making the steady $100 a month required for monthly payments. This is very exciting, and my tracking shows that virtually all of the upsurge in income is because of HubPages. In fact, many of my non-HubPages related AdSense income has declined, making the overall increase in AdSense income even more impressive.

So what's this mean? The natural authority of HubPages is a fantastic boost, especially for people just getting started at writing online, or new to the Internet Marketing game, and can get you some pretty decent passive income relatively quickly as you learn the ropes. Also, because of the natural authority site strength that HubPages has in the eyes of Google, many times if you're not getting the results or traffic you want, it takes less than 10 articles and backlinks from Ezinearticles to really get a boost. I've had some keywords only require one or two to go from 40th or 50th in Google up to first page. This is a definite pick you up early on when you need it most.

Some of the hubs that have been doing well for me have been very pleasant surprises, while others whose keywords I really researched and aimed for are just beginning to reach the places I want to see. This month my goal is for a very modest 30, most of which are involved with an experiment I'm running involving HubPages and another site I've been writing for online. You see, I didn't do really any work at all in July, but I noticed my online passive income shoot up about 68%. So I looked over June to see if there was anything noticeable that I had done different, and yes, there was. I'm not going to share it until I confirm the strategy's effectiveness through testing, but even early signs are looking good.

Anyway, a few new hubs that I have written since the last update that are having at least some basic success include:

Snake Proof Boots Guide - A topic that hits home for me based on my natural fear (if not outright phobia) of snakes.

Bathroom Signs - I'm a little disappointed in this one so far. While I enjoyed writing it, and especially enjoyed looking for pictures of funny bathroom signs online, every bit of keyword research I did suggested this would be an incredibly easy term to rank high first page for. So far, nada. I'm probably going to write 5 Ezinearticles and if that doesn't do it, then so be it, it's just time to move on.

Cambridge Diet Review - This one might take a little bit of time, but I'm curious to see how it does. Hoping this one could be a "slow but steady" type.

The Egg Diet Review - Can you tell I'm trying to drop some weight myself? :)

That's it. That's pretty much all the work I managed in 30+ days, so you can imagine how much of a struggle and mess the family and personal life has been. But we all have to keep going, and so August is a month where I'm setting up modest but firm expectations to get myself doing what I need to be doing and moving back to a daily routine for my own good.

Anyway, that's the update for now. My next post I'm going to try to make about some very specific tips I've found over a year of hubbing to try and get you up and going more quickly and on your way to making a decent passive income online. If you haven't joined HubPages yet, I strongly reccomend you JOIN HERE and I will talk to you all later.

Peace, prosperity, and good times to you all.