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!

Building a Passive Income Opportunity: The Business Plan

So up until this point, I have never actually sat down and thought about, let alone constructed, a business plan for my online ventures. I'm getting serious at this point. I can see a lot of potential for making money online through adsense using either my own blogs or even following in the footsteps of the recent Hub Challenge. Today I am buckling down and getting more focused about creating my passive income opportunity. In that line, here is the tentative business plan that I have developed:

• Get more organized and focused and stay on task - I have a lot of problems staying on task and avoiding all the shinies online. If you are like most people, then you probably do too! Well, today I am buckling down and putting my nose to the grindstone. Its long past time to get serious, but here it is!

• Develop and diversify freelance writing opportunities for immediate cash flow - I left a job that paid well that I absolutely hated at probably one of the worst possible times. Yep, I goofed, but now I need to focus some on bringing in the immediate cash while building my passive income.

• Create and maintain a blogger blog related to making a passive income online - that would be this site! Obviously due to my financial situation at present, I will be building my passive income online through free to use sites at first and focusing mostly on adsense. I have created a few affiliate sites in the past and I'm just not sure I've found my niche yet as I'm not a good "hard" sell lol!

• Create a minimum of 200 hubpages across 2-3 accounts - if there was one thing that the hub challenge showed, it was that making a livable passive income on hubpages is absolutely within reach, but it does involve throwing as much shit up against the wall as possible to see what sticks! Last month I was slow and pulled in only a little over $10 from my hubs. This month I would like to increase that to the triple digits. I believe this is completely possible IF I maintain focus!

• Short term – fix Squidoo lenses to meet the coming policy changes - ugh, I am not looking forward to this and have been putting it off for a bit. My affiliate sales off of Squidoo have been low, but they are trickling in so I need to go through and make some changes.

• Limit reading of other peoples blogs (see first goal!) - Hello, my name is Temperance and I'm a blog-a-holic! And yet, all this reading of other people's blogs will NEVER help me create my passive income opportunity. Only doing something will!

• Get better at targeting amazon.com sales on hubpages after creating 200 hubs - Not going to face this just yet but I definitely would like to see how I could do better...er better being relative to ZERO. I laughed when I got an email from Amazon today saying something like "hmm, you've been with us for a month now and made no sales, need some help?" Duh - on the other hand I'm not really targeting Amazon sales on hub pages right now but the capsules add nice pictures of products which I do like!

• Increase my ability to quickly conduct better keyword research - until I started looking for paying keywords online, I thought my research abilities were bar none. Apparently I don't shop enough! I need to practice more of putting myself into the shoes of Joe and Sally consumer and thinking like they think when approaching keyword research.

• Reinvest back some profit into unique article wizard or something similar as well as dragon speech naturally to speed up article writing. Backlinks are probably the most important thing you need to develop to keep up a passive income online. UAW comes highly recommended by several folks so I will be giving it a try once the income level increases. The same with Dragon Speech - anything to speed up my article creation would be wonderful at this point.