Lots Of Work, Building Now To Gain For The Future

Writing Hubs, writing articles, writing more hubs, writing more articles.... sometimes it just may seem unending. Why do I do it? Simple, as I know the work I do now will have very little if any immediate effect and start to traction great gains in the future.

From what I have been gathering learning wise from SEO so far, is three things to keep in mind, and tweak these for better results.


Unique and original, quality work.- Articles, Hubs, Xomba's, Squid Lenses need quality, originality and uniqueness. No matter where you write, my reckoning is this is absolutely critical.

Fresh work - Adding content when required or necessary to existing works. May help improve SERPS in the short or longer term, I will only know this after I see a results with the next big Google Dance update.

Links, links, links - Adding links to get results and backlinking to your main sites seems like this will happen no matter what Google dance does. Why? I feel if I have my critical keywords about right, each time there is an update, some keywords hold value higher than others and will always remain so. I will be looking out for those 'articles' that have been ripped from me and respun and see if they or my own ORIGINAL work gets the better result SERPS wise.

Another thing I have up my sleeve, is I still write original articles, so my own work will eventually rise to the top rather than the spun crap (Google don't let me down) and I write consistently, in many, many places and NOT all under the same name and NOT all in the same niche.

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.