Well, I've been a busy little bee, or beaver, or interneter <<<--- is that a word? Ack, don't care.
Have setup the Hub as a WIP (work-in-progress) in Word, on my hard drive, so it doesn't even exist in Hublandia yet. Still searching and looking at keywords and keeping track of what I am finding in an Excel spreadsheet, I have the niche I am targeting just not the final keywords, etc that I want ot nail down. Still love this app, it is one of the best items of software that Microsoft has created, but I digress...
The benefit I am finding is double, I can play around with certain keywords, long tails, and find whats the best ranking to date, competition, so on and so forth (all that fun keyword research). The other benefit I am finding is that I can tailor change my long tails and certain other words around as I can link specific words in Excel, to those I have in my WIP Hub in Word.
How does this benefit? Well if I change a keyword in Excel, they change and update in my Word document, so all I am required to do then is check the Word doc for grammar and spelling corrections as required. Yep I still need to type for mistakes, spelling, grammar etc, but saves flicking between two applications and a high amount of copy-switch app-paste.
The final aspect I like with Excel is that I can provide graphs on my data, this will give me snapshots on various tables highlighting data in certain ways to see trends, volumes, searches, competition keywords, etc. So at a glance I can also quickly see some results that may need further investigation.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Is It Me? Or Just What I Am Seeing So Far?
Since the inception of my hub about this project, I am getting a feeling it's resonating with some folk. Its gained the highest amount of views per day compared to my other hubs. It may be folks in the forums being aware of this, either blog, or forum post or hub or all of it. Or maybe even Google once it hits the SERPs (this blog has for the title of the Hub, I may be finding I am competing with......myself, lol)
Maybe its the $100 tag in the title, maybe its about the challenge and some people know they want to stretch their wings and try for something big, yet do this over a long term period.
I don't know yet, the Hub is still very green and will know better when it has stewed in the Hub pot some more.
Maybe its the $100 tag in the title, maybe its about the challenge and some people know they want to stretch their wings and try for something big, yet do this over a long term period.
I don't know yet, the Hub is still very green and will know better when it has stewed in the Hub pot some more.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Interesting....What Am I Talking About? Polls...
Today I did the usual of what I do just about everyday, log into Hubpages, check my stats (on the rise overall, cool), checked the individual hubs (some on the decline, bummer), checked for comments/fan mail, you know, the usual stuff.
When I went into the $100 Hub and had a look at the stats on that page, I have found an interesting tidbit so far, in the poll module, five brave souls (so far) have taken the poll with these results.
Ok, so far, four out of five pollsters feel they would currently be happy with earning $10.00 a day or less. Now we cannot read to much into this as statistically, it's not enough data to provide a clear picture for a suitable result. If we look at the majority vote so far, four people would be happy to have $10.00 a day or less.
Thats Ok as well, putting this into perspective, $10 a day is $300 a month. What would an extra $300 a month provide in addition to your existing income?
A nice vacation?
Extra to pay off the mortgage or credit card debt?
Future funding for college?
Pay off that personal loan quicker?
So if we worked up to one Hub earning $100 a day, what sort of provision would that provide to your current lifestyle? Food for thought.
I will revisit this next month, to see if more brave souls have taken the poll.
When I went into the $100 Hub and had a look at the stats on that page, I have found an interesting tidbit so far, in the poll module, five brave souls (so far) have taken the poll with these results.
Ok, so far, four out of five pollsters feel they would currently be happy with earning $10.00 a day or less. Now we cannot read to much into this as statistically, it's not enough data to provide a clear picture for a suitable result. If we look at the majority vote so far, four people would be happy to have $10.00 a day or less.
Thats Ok as well, putting this into perspective, $10 a day is $300 a month. What would an extra $300 a month provide in addition to your existing income?
A nice vacation?
Extra to pay off the mortgage or credit card debt?
Future funding for college?
Pay off that personal loan quicker?
So if we worked up to one Hub earning $100 a day, what sort of provision would that provide to your current lifestyle? Food for thought.
I will revisit this next month, to see if more brave souls have taken the poll.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Wow, What A Week So Far
A week has gone by and after I have created a Hub about the challenge, it now ranks as my best performing Hub after less than 48 hours 'in the wild'. Go figure, it's getting traffic that I didn't expect. Yet some good things also have come out of it.
Silly me, made some assumptions about the way the 'rules' have been established. There are no rules for this challenge, so in my initial post here, ignore the word 'rules' and change it to 'guidelines', otherwise think of;
The goal is to make one hub to reach 100 bucks in one day, it has been suggested not to give away the name of the hub, so others will not possibly use your keywords for their own. That's it, that's 'the rules' as such. So if my initial post has confused anyone, apologies in advance, it was never my intent to mislead, in my excitement about this challenge, I made some assumptions. Ok, we live we learn....
Ok got a 'brace of keywords' (is there a collective noun for a bunch of keywords?????) that I have tagged and bagged, that I will start to use to explore further for long tail keywords, searches per month, CTR and all that jazz.
My only bugbear, which also may be an advantage is traffic via back linking. I have had much success (although it would be very modest success compared to some very successful hubbers) via articles on directories. I will most likely pursue this the first trial for back linking, considering I have had good traffic previously. Only time will tell.
Silly me, made some assumptions about the way the 'rules' have been established. There are no rules for this challenge, so in my initial post here, ignore the word 'rules' and change it to 'guidelines', otherwise think of;
The goal is to make one hub to reach 100 bucks in one day, it has been suggested not to give away the name of the hub, so others will not possibly use your keywords for their own. That's it, that's 'the rules' as such. So if my initial post has confused anyone, apologies in advance, it was never my intent to mislead, in my excitement about this challenge, I made some assumptions. Ok, we live we learn....
Ok got a 'brace of keywords' (is there a collective noun for a bunch of keywords?????) that I have tagged and bagged, that I will start to use to explore further for long tail keywords, searches per month, CTR and all that jazz.
My only bugbear, which also may be an advantage is traffic via back linking. I have had much success (although it would be very modest success compared to some very successful hubbers) via articles on directories. I will most likely pursue this the first trial for back linking, considering I have had good traffic previously. Only time will tell.
Saturday, June 26, 2010
Starting to Gain Traction
More people are joining the challenge.
Every time I go into the forum now, the excitement is almost palpable. More people are noticing this particular forum post and 'want in'. Why not, its really an informal challenge and does not require anyone to be locked in.
The only caveat is an establishment of a few ground rules, and these are rather straight forward anyway. Also Hubbers are starting to post up how they are tracking, which is great as it gives an indication of how serious some people are taking this challenge.
Over the next six to twelve months, it will remain to be seen how many stay in for the long haul, some will stick it out some will fall by the wayside. This is life and it happens.
Me? I don't have much of a choice, I know where I want to head with my online marketing 'career' (I really need a better word for that) and I REALLY don't want to close down this blog, so I'm committed.
So keywords are being researched, SERPS are being heavily investigated, backlinks are forming and the challenge is bubbling along nicely for all those involved so far.
Every time I go into the forum now, the excitement is almost palpable. More people are noticing this particular forum post and 'want in'. Why not, its really an informal challenge and does not require anyone to be locked in.
The only caveat is an establishment of a few ground rules, and these are rather straight forward anyway. Also Hubbers are starting to post up how they are tracking, which is great as it gives an indication of how serious some people are taking this challenge.
Over the next six to twelve months, it will remain to be seen how many stay in for the long haul, some will stick it out some will fall by the wayside. This is life and it happens.
Me? I don't have much of a choice, I know where I want to head with my online marketing 'career' (I really need a better word for that) and I REALLY don't want to close down this blog, so I'm committed.
So keywords are being researched, SERPS are being heavily investigated, backlinks are forming and the challenge is bubbling along nicely for all those involved so far.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Added An Honour Roll To This Blog
With the posts within the forum on HubPages starting to collect lots of people wanting to join the challenge. I decided to produce an honour roll, on the top right of this blog. Each and every person listed has also kindly given me permission to show their name here.
Why? Because, I for one, would like to see how many people are wanting to participate in this challenge, and with a simple list, it's VERY easy to see how many have decided to take it up (and the fact that it saves time combing the forums posts looking at who is interested in participating :) )
There are very other simple benefits too, anyone who see's their name here will know others on HuPages as well. Its that type of community (hmmm should write up a post about Hubpages here, what do you think fellow Hubbers?)
It is also a very simple 'pay it forward' approach, people just appreciate having their names appear. Do I get any benefit out of this? No, its just my way of showing my appreciation, we all help one another, I scratch their back and they mine. One can give without expecting anything back in return.
And that readers, is what the HubCommunity is about.
Why? Because, I for one, would like to see how many people are wanting to participate in this challenge, and with a simple list, it's VERY easy to see how many have decided to take it up (and the fact that it saves time combing the forums posts looking at who is interested in participating :) )
There are very other simple benefits too, anyone who see's their name here will know others on HuPages as well. Its that type of community (hmmm should write up a post about Hubpages here, what do you think fellow Hubbers?)
It is also a very simple 'pay it forward' approach, people just appreciate having their names appear. Do I get any benefit out of this? No, its just my way of showing my appreciation, we all help one another, I scratch their back and they mine. One can give without expecting anything back in return.
And that readers, is what the HubCommunity is about.
Monday, June 21, 2010
Bum Marketing - Effective And Accurate? Or Just More Affiliate Hype?
Bum Marketing, I know about this and although I haven't joined or subscribed or what have you. I understand the theory behind it.
If you haven't heard of bum marketing, it is essentially, writing articles about a niche and submitting each one to as many article directories as possible.
Now there are some caveats as well. Each article has to be unique, as article directories will punish those who try and to submit identical articles (and so will the Search Engines).
Effectively, the other advantage is that the search engines will pick up on the key words in your headers of your articles as well as the keywords within. So your articles will become available to appear in the search engines and the theory is, also gain traffic and backlinks. Why additional backlinks? Almost all article sites allow you to have 'dofollow' attributes in your bio section on your Authors section in each article directory.
So, again, like Keywords, something else I will need to spend time on to discover if this also helps the hub gain traffic. Since I write articles often and in many places, this should not be too much of a hassle, anyway.
If you haven't heard of bum marketing, it is essentially, writing articles about a niche and submitting each one to as many article directories as possible.
Now there are some caveats as well. Each article has to be unique, as article directories will punish those who try and to submit identical articles (and so will the Search Engines).
Effectively, the other advantage is that the search engines will pick up on the key words in your headers of your articles as well as the keywords within. So your articles will become available to appear in the search engines and the theory is, also gain traffic and backlinks. Why additional backlinks? Almost all article sites allow you to have 'dofollow' attributes in your bio section on your Authors section in each article directory.
So, again, like Keywords, something else I will need to spend time on to discover if this also helps the hub gain traffic. Since I write articles often and in many places, this should not be too much of a hassle, anyway.
Keywords - Researching The Research
Keywords, important yes, easy to score? no.
This stuff is not one of my current strengths. Most likely will be one of those areas that as a current novice in understanding the most effective ways of choosing the right keywords, its getting the balance to have the right number of views, searches and long tail keyword support as well.
Well, thats Ok, I am happy to spend some time on this. Do some research and then when I have a grasp of the basics and discover what other people do best and determine their strategies, then I can research the research. So in effect I will become better educated and have that time discovering what best works for me.
Only time will tell.
This stuff is not one of my current strengths. Most likely will be one of those areas that as a current novice in understanding the most effective ways of choosing the right keywords, its getting the balance to have the right number of views, searches and long tail keyword support as well.
Well, thats Ok, I am happy to spend some time on this. Do some research and then when I have a grasp of the basics and discover what other people do best and determine their strategies, then I can research the research. So in effect I will become better educated and have that time discovering what best works for me.
Only time will tell.
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Taking The Challenge
If anyone has membership at sites like Hubpages, Squidoo or eHow and similar sites, then many of you know that these 'crowds-sourcing' sites work on the basis of you submitting information like an article, within a module, containing text, music, video, affiliate links (like Adsense and Amazon) of which then visitors come and read your information.
I have been using sites like this myself for some time with some very low income generation. Thats fine, it takes time and patience.
The main focus of this blog is to update my progress of a challenge initiated in one of the Hubpages Forums. That challenge is to have one single Hub and have it generate US$100 in one day.
The rules? not many and fairly easy going
I shall return here often to reflect on that journey myself and advise of the progress
I have been using sites like this myself for some time with some very low income generation. Thats fine, it takes time and patience.
The main focus of this blog is to update my progress of a challenge initiated in one of the Hubpages Forums. That challenge is to have one single Hub and have it generate US$100 in one day.
The rules? not many and fairly easy going
- Must be one hub
- Must generate US$100 in one day
- You may use your existing Hubpages account or start a new one
- You may use an existing Hub or start a new one
- You must not tell people WHICH hub it is
- You can use any and all ways to generate income for that one hub, Adsense, Amazon, affiliate links, articles, etc
- There is no time limit to completion
I shall return here often to reflect on that journey myself and advise of the progress
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