So while trying to find time in between hub writing, I decided to begin outsourcing. Currently, I’m paying writers at Cyberhub and TextBroker to start writing these for me ($4-7/article). Additionally, I’m hiring a virtual assistant from Elance to manage these writers for me. At this rate, of $7/article + $80/month for the VA, I should be able to have 100 articles written for $780 bucks a month. Currently, I’m starting slow—I’ve hired out 9 articles, 2 have come back, and they are even better quality than what I would write.

I have two side projects to finish, so I’m working on those today. That puts me behind my goal of 40 hubs by tomorrow (I’ve done 26 so far, 2 more from outsourcers I need to post). I’m not too worried about this, once I have my outsourcers and assistants churning away, I won’t have a problem w/ articles. I imagine I’ll have them do at least 50% of the 72 articles I have left.

Plus, I’ve begun link building also…some ezines, UAW, other stuff. We’ll see what happens.

Money-wise, I’m doing okay…not great. I haven’t had too many clicks recently, since the beginning of this project, I’ve made $2.74. That’s much better than one of my inspirational hubbers, Ben from http://www.makemoneyonlinewithseo.com/ did in his first 7 days… he only had 3 clicks and $1. I think I understand keyword research better than he does, at least from his posts, so hopefully I can catch up w/ him. He is going another route—pushing out tons of low quality articles (400 at the last count). I’m going for low-medium quality, fewer hubs, but better keyword research. My theory is that the niche is more important than anything.

My items have slowlllly been crawling up the google search results, but I have 9 keywords in the top 20 on google—-albeit, non-competitive, non-high-grossing keywords. These are mostly hubs I created before understanding keyword research, and also other, non-main keywords (like, hubs that are ranked for a high-profit keyword are ranking for low-profit related words).

If all goes well, I should have 40 articles done by the end of Wednesday once my outsourcers get back, and I think I’m on track for a profit soon-ish. Link building needs to take place first.

Ok, outro. I’m gonna finish up 1 of these 2 projects today, and maybe even part of the other one.

I wrote something like 8 articles today, a lot of work got done. It was pretty solid. I only have 14 more to go in the next 3 days, I’ll probably go into the 4th day.

I’m starting to see bumps up in the rankings, so perhaps in the next few days I’ll see my first dollar day? I’m discovering some seriously solid niches, and I’m writing a bunch of ezinearticles and such about a few of them. We’ll see in a week or two’s time if I can make money.

I just hope this isn’t a scam, or something that only a few people can do! Because only 3-4 people I’ve seen online have actually reported that they’ve made tons of money on the hub page challenge—most report nothing! I think it’s just hard work that goes into it!

I wrote a little bit about how to find barn door hardware and a little on Finding nail courses and nail technician courses. I hope that these niches and some other ones that I am adding will be enough to get big!

Anyways, I didn’t have many clicks on ads, but I had tons more impressions! These impressions came from my Digital Kitchen Scale – Reviews Of The Top 4 For Your Kitchen hub, but almost all from other hubbers, so we will see if that translates to any more revenue.

Yesterday, I produced three new hubs. While writing one, I realized that my keyword research method had a fatal flaw–I was searching for ‘broad’ phrases and not ‘exact’ phrases. This means that I thought the keyword ‘australian for sale’ was extremely profitable (and I wrote a hub about it!) but I later realized that the profitable keywords are things like ‘australian shepherd puppies for sale’, not ‘australian for sale.’ So I cut my losses and redid my research (which is suddenly about 10x more difficult).

That’s okay though, I’m still finding plenty of topics to write about, so don’t feel too bad. My first 12 hubs seemed like it was too easy to make money, and now I realize it will be a tiny bit of a challenge.

Anyway, I have just 28 hubs to go in the next seven days (by the end of 6/July). That’s 4 per day! Today I’ll go ahead and write 4. I have two other major projects (outside of this challenge) that I need to complete as well, so l’d better get started…

As of today, I’m beginning my official first 30 day challenge. I am beginning a 30 day Hubpage experiment—similar to what what done on The Keyword Academy.

Here is what happens: I make 100 hubpages based on keyword research—I only target keywords that people are searching for on google but cannot find good results. Using link building techniques, I try to create pages that can hit #1 on google, raking in adsense revenue at the same time.

Here is the results of their first experiment. In one week, they created 40 hubs and earned $56.20. I got a head start and already created nine hubs to get an idea for how this challenge will work. When I started, I had no idea how to produce good, quality content—now I understand a lot more. I also thought it was easy money when I started, but after research—well, it won’t be as easy as I thought.

Here are the goals for my challenge.

Hubpage 30 Day Challenge (July/2009)

Goal (Priority 1) – Create 100 Hubs in 30 days

This is the major goal—the MIT (most important task) that MUST be completed within 30 days. Obviously, this is the smallest part of my experiment, but it is the most important part—the certainly achievable, absolutely measurable goal.

This is my priority 1 goal for a few reasons:

1. It matches the S.M.A.R.T. criteria for goals – This goal is certainly Specific (exactly 100 hubs), Measurable (I can keep track of how many written), Attainable (just 3/day, plus I’ll be outsourcing), Realistic (3/day!), and Timely (in 30 days!).
2. It is my first goal, and it is based on work I do, not factors outside of my control (like my earnings goals).

Goal (Priority 2) – Make $350 from Adsense

According to The Keyword Academy final results, they earned $475.26. I don’t know if I can hit that number, because Court from TKA had 5 years of previous experience—so I’m setting a reach goal.

My Plan:

Here is my plan for the experiment

1. 40 hubs by 6/July ($25 dollars)
2. 70 hubs by 13/July ($75 dollars)
3. 100 hubs by 20/July ($150)
4. 31/July ($350)

I already have nine hubs. Thus, I need 31 hubs in 7 days to meet my 1st goal. That is about 5 per day. I have a couple other projects to finish, so I will do just three today, getting me to 12.

Okay, enough talking. Let’s get it on!

My first few hubs are about tortoise sales, exotic animals, iguana cages, pets snakes. Hopefully I’ll be able to drive lots of traffic and become a profitable adsense publisher!

I’m learning tons about the adsense marketing world—there is a lot of money to be made and I can see how to do it. I’ve learned about SEOT, SEOC, SEOV, CTR, CPC, and PPC recently. I just learned, for example, that when a click is made, the adsense person gets about 25% of the CPC—I had thought it was 100%. Thus, PPC ~= CPC*.25

So far I haven’t gotten a lot of traffic, and I’ve made 0 dollars on adsense. We’ll see how it continues!