Steps To Blogging Profitably

Before I get down to the details of my progress after the first week of my Personal Hub Challenge I want to direct your attention to Ben’s Make Money Online With SEO site where he is in the process of completing his 200 Hubs In 30 Days challenge. Apart from being inspired by his enthusiasm and commitment, he is also reporting some very valuable insights into what he has learned through the process. Hints on how to put together a Hub that will pick up Adsense clicks is extremely valuable and his first hand experience is proving to be very interesting and informative reading.

Now for the update on my progress after 1 week:

Hubs Added : 15

Hubpage Views : 125 page views

No of Adsense Clicks : 5

Earnings For the Week : $1.00

The bulk of my “Hub Time” has been devoted to picking out viable keywords and setting up the new Hubs, so I have only been promoting 1 of my Hubs with a solid link building campaign. Not surprisingly the traffic to that Hub has been steady while the other new Hubs have not yet made their marks. Plenty of time for that though.

I suspect most of the clicks that I’ve received over the last week have come from the first Hubs I built months ago. As the new Hubs begin to rank I expect they will kick in with more lucrative CPCs.

As far as earning is concerned, I wasn’t really expecting anything for this first week while I was still getting things in place. The laser targeting that will come with higher rankings for specific keywords should result in higher paying clicks.

My rate of adding new Hubs is going to be a variable factor in this challenge. I have many other money sites that need my attention so this challenge will have to fit in. As a means of testing potential new niches, there is no better vehicle than Hubpages. Quick indexing and the authority of the site means that it doesn’t take very long to get a feel for the profitability prospects the niche has.

My goal for this coming week is to add another 15 Hubs to what I’ve done so far. I also want to be well under way with link building for another 3 or 4 Hubs with links from my personal portfolio, use of Connect Content plus a spun article distributed to article directories.