Quiet Days In Hub Town

Traffic has been down for across all my hubs over the last week. My best performing hub so far is my review of Predators, the new (at time of writing) movie from Nimrod Antal and produced by Robert Rodriguez. The film is a reboot or re invigoration of the franchise and is seen as a direct sequel to the very first film , starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Happy that my $100 hub is up there with views as well. Sloooooooooooooowly getting traffic

Am I concerned at this time? No, have to give the hubs enough time to percolate in Google world and let my backlinks get found.One may get impatient but you have to give it time to grow.

So in the interim, I shall write more hubs and more articles.

If You Think You Can Or You Think You Can't, You Are Absolutely Correct

As of Sunday 25th July 2010, finally cracked my Amazon cherry :)

Happy about that fact for two reasons.

Firstly finally nailed my first Amazon sale after 15 months of displaying Amazon on various sites I have. Customer made a purchase through one of my Hubs on HubPages.

Secondly, happy that although it wasn't through my $100 Hub, it was a closely related Hub.

You can make money online, and it will happen through many pennies per day, if you build it, and back link it they will come. You have to work hard, and work smart to achieve your goals. You have to put your 'brand' out there.

You $$$ will slowly trickle in and over time it will grow and build. My AdSense is picking up as well, it has taken time to get pennies in on a weekly basis, now there trickling in on a every 3 day basis, and soon I expect to gain something just about everyday.

Your income will be small and seems like its coming in like a very small leak through a water hose, yet you have to hang in for the long haul. There are occasions when money may take months and months to come in into any significant amounts. But you will get it. Places like Squidoo, HubPages and similar sites, even your own blogs, are a great way to start. But don't expect to retire any time soon, building a good, solid foundation is key.

If you think you can or you think you can't, you are absolutely correct.

Articles Articles.....And More Articles

Articles, I have submitted 37 articles on 5 sites related to the $100 (potential) hub over the last week. All original articles, all hand typed.

I have come across many 'guru's who claim that using article submission software is a great way to blast your articles to many article sites, even up to 80 sites at one time.

It is usually done by actually using two types of software. The first item 'spins' your original article, and rephrases certain words and corrects the grammar so you end up with 'various' versions of your first article.

For example, take the opening of this post, after spinning it (those changes shown in red text), it may read like;

Articles, I have submitted 37 articles on 5 websites related to the $100 (potential) hub over the last week. All original articles, all typed by me.

Articles, I have produced 37 articles on 5 sites in relation to the $100 (potential) hub over the last week. All original articles, all typed out manually by me.

I have an issue with this, certain words and/or phrases may be changed, but after that fact, those articles are still not unique and the intention is to have 'original' articles on each of these article sites. Another issue I have, is unless you actually start working out the PR rankings of your targeted article sites, you may just end up spinning articles to hundreds of sites either banned by Google, or of low PR.


My articles are ALL original and I submit them to quality, high ranking PR sites I know. My traffic may take months and seem slow in progression, yet I feel that as evergreen content it will certainly be around a much longer time. And time will tell.

Social Networking - In The Real World

Spent a whole weekend of socializing with friends. Well after a flurry of articles written and submitted to various article sites in my daily dose of 'bum marketing' on Friday night.
Had a great day in the city playing board games with a bunch of regulars on Saturday and went to the Melbourne Zoo on Sunday, wanted to see the newly born Tiger Cubs, but alas, they were still asleep with mama contained away from prying eyes. Yet did get to see the new edition Mila, an African elephant born at the zoo a few weeks back.

This is an important step along the process to the $100 dollar Hub, all work and no play can make for a boring time and even more miserable person. Don't forget quality time with family and friends. Yes you work hard with your online presence, but one also needs to work hard with juggling family time too.

One also never knows when one is out and about on social time and you may hit on a new idea with 'hmmmm, could write a hub about that'

Milestones - Many Achieved In A Single Day

On HubPages today , I achieved many new milestones, no not $100 in a day, that is months and months away. I logged into my account and before hitting bed, I checked my details on what is happening across all my hubs. Well, what a day it was.

Here are some of the milestones achieved, after six weeks of joining and being active on HubPages;

• Highest single day views across all hubs - 70 views
• The The $100 In A Day Hub Challenge Hub - 2nd highest overall views
• Achieved 1,000 total views since joining
• 20 total Hubs published

So, very small fry in the Huge Pond of HubPages so far, but that will build slowly and incrementally each day. I would also like to thank each and every visitor so far whom has taken the time to come by and read one or more of my hubs, and have commented.

How I Spent My Time Tonight

Spent most of the time after work (yep still doing the 9-5 at this stage) working out a long term strategy for pure article writing and submissions. Have planned to write, edit, polish and submit 4 articles per day, as an average. An average I suggest for me, as some days I may write only one or two, other days I will write up to ten.

I also looked at a plan for the next 12-24 months for this challenge, with looking even longer term for up to 30 months.

After six months I will have produced over 720 published articles. I expect a click-through-rate on these articles of about 10% (I am an established author of a few Article sites and some generate a 14% CTR and some generate a 6% CTR) and a potential CTR of AdSense on the Hub of about 4% at about $0.75 per click. So I may be looking at hitting the goal at about that mark. That should churn about $100 to $300 per month just on AdSense. Not sure until the six months has passed about additional income from flow on to other Hubs, Amazon sales, affiliate sales etc.

After 12 months I will have 1440 articles, and after 24 months 2880 (or more) articles floating around with an expectation of many doing well in SERPS.

The difficulty will also lie in the fact that the niche is broad, yet there are many, many sub niches I can exploit within the main broad niche.

Finally, I have setup an Excel spreadsheet with the article goals set out on one section and another section for actual articles and results produced. This will help me see if I am achieving target or not.

Finally Have Those Pesky Keywords

Have finally researched and nailed down about 100 keywords including long tails. The niche I am exploring is quite saturated with competition, but since I am looking at article marketing as the main drive for backlinks (not the only way, but one of many). I am happy since most (competitive) sites are rather static, so they may end up with doing the Google Dance. I am looking at these article to be achieving better results as they enter SERPS. Only time will tell if this strategy is sufficient to work or not.

As time goes on, I can tailor more defined keywords, tighter niches, and more keywords as well as new articles. Oh and I have built the hub and published it too. Again, over time, this will be tweaked and polished, and modified as required. Not telling you which one it is though :)