My 60 Day Challenge - Getting More Traffic - Earning Hubpages Money
7260 Day Challenge
I am so excited to hear about the 60 day challenge. It's just what I need to get my butt in gear. I'm a little bit nervous but excited at the same time. I want to thank sunforged and the team in advance for all of the help and support.
I did a similar challenge over at another site a while back and learned a lot. What I liked most was that fact that there were other people just like me who wanted to get better results. So I felt like I had the support I needed. Plus I got to help others and share some of my knowledge. But I really love it over here at Hubpages so I am very excited to start this challenge.
I have been writing at Hubpages for over 2 years now and am generating a pretty decent amount of traffic and am earning with Amazon. However, I'm not making much money with Google Ad-sense so obviously that will be an area to focus on. I am excited about learning better ways write my hubs so that they generate more targeted traffic. I'm eager to learn more about Adsense and how to do better key word research.
My understanding with the 60 Day Challenge is that for the first 30 Days I will be writing at least 30 hubs under three to 5 different categories of my choosing. The second 30 days I will be focusing on promoting those hubs.
This Hub is my Hub-log. It is where I will be posting my goals and where I will be keeping a journal and tracking my results.
My Why
In July I was laid off from my Job and have not yet been able to fine employment. I want and need to bring in some extra income. I know online success doesn't happen over night. And I know it takes time and commitment. I understand that I will still need to get back to work and am currently looking for employment, however I believe that within 2 years I will bringing in enough from my internet writing that I will be able to work from home permanently.
Working From Home Will give me the ability to really own my life. I can make my own hours and I will get to be the boss.
My Goals For Earning Money Online
Short Term
- Increase my hub traffic by 75%. I am currently at approximately 230 daily views.
- Sell over 200 Amazon items in September and 250 in October. (I sold 90 in July and as of the 14th of August have sold 97 items).
- Improve Adsense earnings 50%. This is my biggest challenge. I know I will do this by learning more about keyword research and SEO.
Long Term
- By February 1st, 2011 I will be earning $500 a month with writing articles online.
- By September 1st, 2011 I will be earning $1000 a month.
- By September 1st, 2012 I will be earning $2500 + a month and will no longer have to work a Job.
My Stats Prior to 60 Day Challenge
My 60 Day Challenge daily Activity Journal - Week 1
- Day 1 (August 17th) Today I feel a little scattered. I just signed up for keyword academy. I am eager to dive into the training there, but it will need to wait until later tonight when I can focus more without children distractions. However I have two hubs started. I will be publishing them once I finish tweaking them. I'm looking forward to connecting with everyone and learning. I am so ready to take this to the next level.
- Day 2 (August 18th) I published 3 hubs for my Christmas niche. And I have 2 book review hubs started that I should finish up tomorrow. (27 more hubs to go...)
- Day 3 (August 19th)I spent a good part of the day submitting rss feeds. Spent another hour or so visiting hubs that were submitted by my team-mates. Got one hub published today. (26 to go) I worked on research for two others.
- Day 4 (August 20) Focused on research today.
- Day 5 (August 21) Completed 2 Hubs today. (24 to go).
- Day 6 (August 22) Got two more hubs completed. Tonight I will be spending time visiting and commenting on some of the most resent hubs of my team mates. I also learned that it is a good idea to post a 100 word summary of each hub. So I'll be adding them to the hubs I've completed.
- Day 7 (August 23) I got 1 more hub completed today. I spent lots of time working on research. Feeling a little bit like I have writers block. But that's okay. I know tomorrow morning some ideas will come to me. They always do.
Tuesday August 24 - My Hub Statistics
My 60 Day Challenge daily Activity Journal - Week 2
Day 8 (August 24) I was able to get one hub published today and I spent most of the day doing keyword research for 3 other hubs withing the childrens dress-up niche. I also was able to post a summary on this hub here for each hub.
Day 9 (August 25) I got my 3 pretend play hubs completed today.
Day 10 (August 26) I got one more hub done so I am now up to 14. I have been spending some time looking at Google Analytics and things are starting to make a little sense.
Day 11 (August 27) Today I took a break from the computer and had fun with my kids.
Day 12 (August 28) I had a great day. I noticed my Amazon sales are really picking up which is awesome and I was able to complete 4 hubs about Snow Boots which was very boring but I think they will get pretty good results.
Day 14 (August 30) I completed 2 more hubs today so that puts me at 20 hubs.
Day 18 (August 31) I was able to complete 3 more hubs today in the work from home niche.
Tuesday August 31 - My Hub Statistics
My 60 Day Challenge Daily Activity Journal - Week 3
- Day 15 (August 31) - I was just looking at my stats for the month so far and it looks like I have more then doubled my Google Adsense earnings. I'm excited to see what happens in September.
- Day 20 (August 5) Got 2 more hubs completed today. I am now up to 25.
- Day 21 (August 6) Got 1 more hub completed today.
My 60 Day Challenge Daily Activity Journal - Week 4
Day 22 (August 7th) I got another hub completed and spent some time updating some of my older hubs.
Day 23 (August 8th) I have to more hubs ready to publish today. I just need to do some tweaking. I also updated my Hubpages blog with my August Amazon Results. I increased my sales in August by 55% over July! Yippee! As of this moment I am at 26 hubs.
Day 26 (August 12) It looks like I have completed all 30 hubs!!!! Now the goal is to spend time over the next 4 days tweaking them and going back and rewriting all of the summaries. I'm eager to start the next phase.
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Thanks Michael. Yes I'm excited although I'm not 100% sure of what I'm doing. :)
Thats good news. Good luck for you.
Thank You Worldgrandeur.
I thank you will well exceed your goals, Wendy, with the holiday and winter seasons approaching. Allt hat adds impetus for more! Much success to you this round.
Thank you so much Patty.
As the latest member of the challenge, welcome. Your hublog is about to be linked to from my hublog.
Thank you so much humagaia
Wendy, welcome to the challenge. I look forward to learning from a veteran. Ok. My first dumb question is: where do I find the graph that relates to my hub traffic? I have looked everywhere, but don't know where to get it, so I can do a comprehensive analysis of my traffic. Thanks for your help.
Good luck with the challenge.
Namaste.
Wait. Never mind. I just figured it out.
Peace.
Welcome, Wendy! Your Hub Log is great, and it looks like you'll be a real asset to the team! Looking forward to working with you and getting to know you better.
Wishing you and all of us the best of success!
And Deborah, the graph is on your profile page under stats.
I also pursued an online income in order to own my own life. Its a noble goal in my biased opinion.
welcome!
Welcome Wendy! Glad to have you on board! It should be a lot of fun learning all of this together. I wish you the best with all of your goals!
Wendy Yes I do like that phrase 'to own my own life.' That is my long term goal too as I like yourself was made redundant last year.
I am very impressed by your sales on Amazon Products, well done. I have only done one product hub as another profile name but no sales yet. I plan doing 2 lots of sales hubs on the challenge.
I am looking forward to meeting you along the way and all the other hubbers who have decided to take this 60d journey this time.
Deborah, Thanks for the comment. Best of luck with the challenge. Issy answered your question. But just in case, it is on your profile page, click stats.
Pandoras Box, I'm so excited to be working with you too. :)
Issy, Thanks for the sweet comment. I wish you the best.
Wishing you the very best Wendy in your 60 day challenge. God Bless!
"owning a life", exactly the words that can make magic, Maita
Thanks for the sweet comments everyone!
Congratulations Wendy! I am delighted to be working with you! Lets help you improve your income - the 60 dc team effort has people power! *united we stand, divided we fall*
Welcome - nice to have you joining in!
My long-term goal is exactly as you put it here - to own my own life. Let's see if we can all bring each other and ourselves a major step closer to this goal through working as a combined force!
Welcome to the new 60dc! Its a great team effort!
Wendy, it will be nice to be working with you again here on Hubpages. :)
Wendy, Welcome aboard the new 60DC! You will be a nice asset to the team. If you get a chance I have added your hub-log to my hub-log, stop by and give a shout.
I like your "star attitude" best wishes to you and it will be nice working with you! :)
Thanks everyone. I really appreciate the feedback. I am looking forward to working with you all.
Wendy I look forward to discovering all the tricks of the internet writing trade with you over the challenge.
Thanks Billy. I look forward to learning from you as well.
Wendy, I am rooting for you! Good luck!
You have set some impressive goals, but based on your track record I am sure you can achieve them. i will follow your progress and see what I can learn!
Thanks Deni I appreciate it.
Dobson, Thank you! But I could say that same about you. You are so Gonna Do it!
I just joined the challenge and I'm nervous too. I'm sure you'll do well. Good luck reaching your goals! :-) I look forward to following you on this journey.
-K. Alto
Hey Wendy, sorry to hear about you losing your job and I do hope you find another, however, I hope you do even better with the challenge and reach your goals. Thank you for the warm welcome and good luck on having success going forward. :)
Welcome aboard Wendy. Glad to see you participate. We share some same long term goals and I am sure we would be successful. My aim is to be an online entrepreneur and be my own boss. I am really looking forward to work with you on this challenge!!Wish you all the success!!!
interesting hub and very useful information so keep it
K. Alto - I really think this is going to be fun! Especially with all this wonderful support. Thanks.
Cagsil - Thank you so much. I am a believer that all things happen for a reason and I'm looking forward to watching us all find amazing success.
englightenedsoul- Great! We can do this together. I with you all the best! I would love it if you never had to go to work again!
Thank you kingkhan78. I will. Thanks for stopping bye.
Good Luck! I'm currently aiming for 100 hubs in 30 days, just to try and get my feet wet with making money online. It's a bit overzealous for my first time around, but I just want to see what good comes out of it.
Thank you and I wish you the best with writing your lenses.
Hi Wendy! I could definitely use the trick for Amazon sales! I think I have sold three items total! EVER!
Great 60 day challenge hub log. You have some well defined online writing goals, and I'm sure that with your experience and the 60 day challenge team, you will see and surpass all of those goals! Great luck to you!
Thanks Faybe Bay! I really appreciate it.
Hi Wendy, just trying to catch up on my 60dc hublog reading, as you know I arrived a bit late to the challenge and am scambling to stay above water. I am thrilled to be on the team and look forward to learning loads of writing information!
K9
Hi K9 and thanks for stopping by. I am totally trilled to be working with you as well. This is going to be a fun challenge.
Wendy - KW Academy is awesome! I actually started out there, which I feel was lucky. It is distracting though to be following the TKA method, and mixing in a HP 60dc2. LOTS of writing to be done. Welcome to the challenge!
Hello Wendy 3 hubs published already congrats. I look forward to reading them later. I am just catching up with everyone on the challenge first.
Design Source,Yes, KW Academy is great. Good Luck with the challenge.
Hi Viking, I'm getting caught up too. It's been fun though. Thanks for stopping by.
Hey Wendy congrats on posting three Hubs already!
Thanks Morgan
Wendy, welcome aboard. They upswing that your stats have shown this summer are great. You must allready be doing alot of right things. I believe that you will meet all of your goals. Good luck
Thank you so much johnyater!
Thank you, Wendy, for informative hub. I would love to join but haven't got an idea how to go about it and alos if I don't overstretch myself. I could do with a lot improvement on traffic etc. because I could with the money - desperately.
You're Welcome Hello, hello, You could do it! And you would have so much support. I think it may be full this time but next time, you should totally sign up.
Good luck Wendy, I missed out on your hub log at the start. Looks like we are in the same boat, my job was over a couple of days ago, so the start of my day is all the online job sites before I come here for my new work..
Not as established as you are, only been "playing" for 4 months..
Thanks LeanMan:)
Wendy!
I admire people like yourself who get organised and start writing quickly. I'm still sorting out feeds and all.
Hey Wendy, Congrats, I just saw this hub on the front page of HP. Way to go! Keep up the great work! . :).
Thank you glendoncaba and Money Glitch. I really appreciate the support.
Really helpful for the beginners...
Neat challenge! How's it coming today?
you are doing great! Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks for the support and encouragement everyone! I'm pressing on and having fun.
I am rather weak in getting sales from Amazon. I think I need to learn the tricks.
Hang in there scheng1. It takes a little time for the sales to start rolling in. Just keep writing good quality hubs.
Wendy, you've sure been busy. I missed this challenge altogether (which may or may not be a good thing, LOL.)
Congratulations on a job well done!
P.S. You've had the wrong 'but' in gear...I'm pretty sure you meant 'butt.'
Brenda! It is so great to see you here! Thanks so much.
Wendy - Congrats on your success so far! I've seen your hubs on the featured pages. Hope that translated into more page views.
this is great information and one that you can "take with you" and leanr from I didn't take teh 60 day challenege but I wish I had, this hub is now "pushing me" to set some goals and do better.
Thank you Rebecca and Pro Design Source.:)
WOW - What a great journal!! After Christmas I may have to give the 60 challenge a whirl... my hands are so darned busy right now.. making gifts..
I know what you mean Susie! This is a hectic time of year for everyone! Have a Happy Holiday.
Thanks Wendy,you have really a Great challenge ,can you inform us ,How is it going?
Great Hub Wendy , , ,it gives encouragement to us newbies , , ,I can't wait until I have the traffic that you do , , ,remember to have fun, fun, fun
Cool hub!
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Wow! This is a very informative hub about the 60 day challenge, here in Hubpages, to get more traffic-earnings. Thank you so much for sharing this.