Steps To Blogging Profitably

It has been a month since I began my personal Hubpage challenge. The inspiration from others around me who have resolved to create as many Hubs as they could effectively rubbed off on me and prompted me to get busy with my own Hubmaking.

After 1 month of intermittant Hub building I have increased my total Hubs to 29 which I feel pretty good about. During that time I also created 3 new niche sites and so the work has been shared around across a number of tasks. Link building for each of the Hubs…well, let’s just say I’ve done some link building for some of my Hubs.

In terms of earnings, things are looking very promising. In my previous most lucrative month before June I earned $1.02 through Hubpage Adsense revenue. In June, with very little link building, my earnings amounted to $10.44. I’d call that a success. As each Hub ages I would expect it to rank a little better and as I get around to building up the links to them, they should draw in even more traffic.

It took me a few Hubs to work things out but keyword analysis plays quite an important part in seeing early results with your Hubs. Finding a niche that can be dominated easily and using the age and authority of a site like Hubpages is a perfect union. By picking out a good keyword and tying it in with a few of its keyword cousins I can quickly put together a strong, meaningful and useful Hub that is strong in a variety of keywords.

The bottom line with this little challenge I’ve set myself is that it is going to form an integral part of my online portfolio. Because it is always safer to diversify I’m not going to forsake all of my other revenue building methods. It will merely form a part of the whole, one that will continue to grow as and when I find the time to trial new niches.

That reminds me, these Hubs that I’m building are proving to be very bloody handy when it comes to testing the waters for a new niche. I find a keyword that looks to be a likely winner, so I write a 600 - 800 word Hub about it. It gets indexed with the help of 3 or 4 links and then I can sit back and check the search engine traffic it gets plus the conversion rate it picks up. All very convenient, and at no cost to me apart from time.