One blogger meets the challenge

Amazing! There is a blog post over on The Keyword Academy - "Make Money Online with HubPages Experiment Complete" - that gives a recap of his goal to make 100 hubs in 30 days. He was able to create 40 hubs in the first week, so that gave him a great start, and by the end of the 30 day experiment, his total revenue in AdSense was $475.26! That doesn't even include anything he may have made with Amazon or eBay, if he had included any of those modules on his hubs.

One of his secrets he says was to write long articles - 1,000 words or more - and then to find unique keywords. Of course, everyone always talks about the importance of the all magical keywords, but I guess it does pay off if you are able to write about things that people are searching for!

My goal isn't quite as ambitious - 75 total hubs in 30 days, which will require me to write 25 new hubs. So far I was able to add a new hub on How to Blog using Microsoft Word 2007. I have a list of ideas for future hubs - it's just a matter of making time to write!

HubMob

I've mentioned the site HubPages before, and how occasionally there are different contests and incentives going on to help inspire new Hubs. One that I found recently is called HubMobs. Each week they select a new topic and then make a Request where you can answer with your hub or hubs on the topic. One user creates a list of all of the hubs (this week it is St. Patrick's Day HubMob - Better Than Green Beer!) and it goes from there.

My contribution this week is The 2009 St. Patrick's Day Parade in NYC. Check it out!

Day 4 - Hubpages

After spending some time on Squidoo, I decided to look around for some other sites that are similar, and found HubPages. It is somewhat different from Squidoo in that it is much simpler, and tends to have a bit more focus in the content.

For example, the hub Off-the-Wall Holidays: January 2008. The author has put some time into creating the hub, and it is mostly text, but it does include a few ads. The profit is shared between the hub creator and Hubpages, but unlike Squidoo, your account (Amazon, Adsense, etc.) is credited immediately. I like the fact that the content is more user generated, and it also has the added feature of creating "requests", which are then answered by other hubbers. The only downside I have seen (and maybe I just don't know how to do this) is that the pages aren't as easily 'linked' by subject or topic as they are on Squidoo, but the quality when you find a topic is generally high. Of course, there are always the poorly created pages!

To see some of the hubs I've created, click here.