Steps To Blogging Profitably

I realised today when I posted my latest Hub that I am now 1/3 of the way to reaching the 100 Hubs that has been so arbitrarily arrived at as the ideal goal to reach. I’ve latched onto that number too, only because it was conveniently arrived at by someone else (and people are going to use it when they do a search, heh).

Anyway, I’m muddling through my own personal Hubpages challenge at my own pace. I don’t need anyone else to tell me how quickly I have to get it done. After all, they don’t know how many other sites I am also working that pay me a lot more money from a lot less work right at the moment. It gives me faint amusement when I read about forum regulars pleading for clarification of the “rules” of challenge. I swear I wonder how some people manage to take a dump without crapping their own pants.

I think my keyword selection has been reasonably sound in terms of bringing in reasonable Adsense revenue. Someone else has already mentioned that from their experience you shouldn’t really expect to get a clear idea of how much money you’re going to make from your Hubs until you’ve published at least 70 of them. That gives me some time to wait before I have to concern myself over what’s actually coming in to repay me for my effort.

My Current Backlink Plans

My Hubpages challenge is progressing differently to a lot of other people’s in ways apart from the speed in which posting is taking place. As well as posting Hubs on a regular basis I’m also making sure on getting my links organised early on in the process.
When I write a hub I also try to write an accompanying EzineArticle of 250 to 300 words plus three or four Keyword Academy articles of 125 to 150 words long. I’m also trying to add four or five InfoBarrel articles that will link back to my Hubs. Finally, I am throwing in a few of my own blog posts with two or three linking back to my hubs. All up, I reckon I’m able to get around 10 or so back links for each hub that I’m submitting. That’s 10 links spread over five or six days without a lot of work or effort.

Reporting My Hubpages Progress

My original plan was to report my progress during my hub pages challenge but I’ve heard plenty of horror stories when people start revealing their successes. Suffice it to say I’ve made some money through my hubpages challenge already, possibly more than I was expecting, definitely enough to motivate me to write plenty more.

So 100 Hubs is now merely the minimum number of hubs that I’m aiming for. The Adsense placement on hubpages’s is very good and converts quite well, well enough to be consistently bringing in revenue for me at a click through rate of over 7%. I’ll take that any day.

It should be highlighted that the majority of work going into my hubs is keyword research as well as the part that I dislike the most actually typing it all out. But as of today I may have solved by typing problem because I have taken possession of a copy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. As a matter of fact the last half of this post so far has been written using Dragon, I’m still very much in the training stages but so far so good producing content and I don’t have to type to do it.

I expect that over the next few weeks my proficiency with the product will improve dramatically and so will the rate at which I produced new articles and hubs. And it will largely come down to how quickly I can research a niche and transform it into a coherent piece of work based around the keywords I’ve chosen.