HubPages Writing Update for September

September Update for HubPages Writing

I've actually done pretty well with my HubPages writing since the last update. There are several I'm not going to link to because they're part of a group of keywords with huge potential and I just want to minimize my competition for them. That said, this doesn't mean that I'm unhappy with these other pages. In fact, now I virtually never write a Hub without doing keyword research first. Say what you want, but as far as earnings go, doing the keyword research is huge and on average the new hubs earn a lot more than the old ones - and my old ones get more traffic and have the strength of age in the search engine rankings that the new ones don't.

That's one thing about being a freelance writing. Whether you like it or not, you have to learn SEO. Especially if you're writing online. This is the new market, and it's not going anywhere.

So onto the update for HubPages: my goal for this month is 30 hubs, which is really reasonable on its own and possibly ridiculously ambitious when I look at my monthly goals. Still, at some point I really need to break out of this rut and go above and beyond, so it's time to hit it.

As for my newest hubs:

Kombucha Tea

Ergonomic Mesh Office Chairs

Basic Outdoors Guide

That's a pretty good trio, and while one was created for linking more than anything, and another is in what turns out to be a really competitive field, all in all I think these hubs will do well enough once they've gotten some backlinks and some time to age.

So the writing continues. One a day is a good pace, especially if you do keyword research and article marketing to promote your hubs. Keep up the good work, and keep moving towards your dreams!

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!

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!

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!

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!

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.