Hubpages Update

Going back over the hub challenge, I currently have over 30 hubs going. Not all of them are properly supported with backlinks at this point - there seems to be some type of bottleneck for a few folks, myself included, with getting any type of ezine articles published lately. My last article has been in the cue since July 8th. I've never had problems with them being this slow, and when they are my motivation to keep writing new articles to be published there drops way down.

Looking at my Adsense revenues for the last month, they are definitely picking up some as the backlinks get into place. Its really vital to support your main content with links back to it from article directories like ezine, goarticles, infobarrel and others. Infobarrel is nice as they allow for revenue sharing of Adsense as well. Without those backlinks, your hubs may shoot up initially but most likely won't stay up in the SERPs forever. Google is, after all, the largest popularity contest in town.

One thing that struck me when I was analyzing Adsense trends for the last month was that the little blog that could with only a few posts and very few links back in currently is performing almost as well as all my hubs combined. Now I created this blog before I learned proper methods of keyword research and before I knew anything about BANS "scams" or whatever it was that made .info sites fall out of favor with the Big G, but there it is. It doesn't rank for any of its keywords yet but it is indexed and is pulling in a modest Adsense income that continues to build despite my lack of love for it.

I've spent the early part of this week fiddling with my new flagship site and getting it set up initially. I spent entirely too much time messing around with wordpress as my css and php skills leave something to be desired! But I have gotten the posting I wanted to do complete anyway. The backlinks again not so much! (there is a theme here!)

As I'm working with a corporate headhunter at the present, preparations for the hiring fair this weekend have ramped up significantly and put me a little behind from my personal passive income goals - its always the backlinks for me that get pushed off until later. The way I see it, having the content up on your site to start aging is the first important step. Backlinking is vital, but without the content you have nothing! And as its more important to be slower in the beginning with backlinks, that becomes the easiest thing to push out to the future when other priorities step in.

My goals for the second half of the week are to continue on with the hiring fair prep (don't want to get fired by your recruiter!), to go back and create the backlink support I will need for the posting I've already done on the new site, and the biggy given my Adsense analysis - to build up more content on my site that is currently creating some passive income opportunity and pass it some link love. This site is one of the two I had set aside for the 100 blog post in 30 days challenge, so I'm keeping up with that.

This should keep me plenty busy for the rest of the week and weekend!

Oh! A little on the headhunter - I would LOVE to get some corporate experience in sales and marketing to continue building my own individual entrepreneurial skills. I love to read, I love doing all these web experiments, but nothing beats working in a real environment with external pressures for boosting my ability to learn and digest vast amounts of information quickly. For some reason, I just can't seem to put myself under that much pressure alone! In the short term this will take some time away from builign a web empire, but I believe it will make me that much stronger in the long run. Either way I will never know until I try!

Here's to your success building your passive income online!

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100 Blog Posts in 30 Days Challenge

As part of my business plan for building my passive income opportunity, I am a member of The Keyword Academy. TKA is a wonderful community of folks who are learning to make money online and is headed up by Court and Mark. This month Court has issued a new challenge - 100 blog posts in 30 days.

Now I haven't quite finished up the 100 hubpage challenge yet, but I am considering participating in the new blog post challenge. The reason is because I do own a few domains that are not hyper-niche targeted and would probably do very well if the blogs were a bit more filled out. This challenge would give me the stimulus to go back and produce more content rather than just letting these blogs age.

Last night I went ahead and changed the hosting over on both domains I plan to use for the 100 blog post challenge - the current account I had them with was set to expire on July 15th and I wasn't very happy with that hosting anyway. I have gone ahead and switched to hostgator - mush easier for us non-code folks to host wordpress blogs on. My previous hosting company provided very little support and a very old install of Wordpress (2.0 I believe!). I continually had permissions problems and if you are like me and the letters FTP scare you, this was not a good solution!

Now I am at the stage where I am waiting not-so-patiently for the little buggers to finally propogate out so I can get the old content back up and running as well as set up the themes and all that. Like I said, I avoid FTP like the plague!

Once these changes are all on place, I am going to follow this plan for the week:

• 3-4 Blog Posts per day
• 1-2 Hubs added per day (may or may not be supporting the blog posts)
  
• 1-2 Infobarrels added per day (may or may not be supporting the blog posts)
• 1 Day building backlinks without adding new content
  

Some of this will require further keyword research to come up with greens and cousin keywords for the blogs I am filling out.

Currently only one of the 2 blogs are monetized with Adsense - although its not yet ranking for its keywords it does provide a trickle of income each month that covers the hosting fees. The other domain I purchased branded rather than keyworded and hadn't decided what to do with it yet. Its been sitting for a little over a month with a hello world! post which ironically is indexed in Google. So basically, both of the blogs that I will be trying to create a larger passive income opportunity with could be classed as flagship sites.

Can't wait to see how the contest goes! I am probably starting a tad behind as I have no pagerank as of yet and both of the domains are fairly new, but its an experiment in making money online. You will never know what happens until you try it yourself!