The Hub Challenge: 100 Hubs in 30 Days -- are you in?
Yep, I'm going to be writing 100 Hubs in 30 days starting next Monday, May 11th. This might sound a little crazy (because it is), but I promise that I have a somewhat logical reason for doing it.
So here's the story --
Yesterday I was surfing around the web, looking at some blogs that have been mentioning HubPages and after I looked at a few that really didn't keep my attention, I landed on one that had me hooked instantly. The blog was called The Keyword Academy and the post was called New Make Money Experiment - 100 Hubs In 30 Days. I won't bore you with too many details, but basically the guy who wrote it initially tried to write some marketing Hubs that ended up earning him some money, which made him give HubPages a second look.
Well, this second look convinced him that he could make money on HubPages and he has decided to try a new experiment where he will create 100 Hubs in 30 days to see what the earning potential on HubPages really is. Here's a quote from his post:
After I read his experiment that he was planning on doing I posted a comment to his that said I'd like to do knock out 100 Hubs in 30 days, too and challenged him to see who could earn the most after the 100 Hubs were published. He accepted, we emailed back and forth a few times and now it's official -- we're going head to head for 30 days starting on Monday! I know, 100 Hubs in 30 days is crazy, but it will give us a great way to really see the potential of HubPages and hopefully it will be fun for all of you to keep up with, too. Well, that is, unless you want to do join the Hub Challenge, too.
If you would like to join (which many of his blog readers are), you can either get really crazy with us and post 100 Hubs in 30 Days, or you can take it a little easier and post 30 Hubs in the 30 days, which is still quite an accomplishment. I know that Everyday Miracles is joining in (she aid so on Twitter), so I've got at least one Hubber who is stepping it up!
If you do want to join in, here are 3 simple things that I want to please ask you to do during the 30 days:
1. If you Tweet info about your progress with the Hub Challenge could you please use the #HubChallenge hashtag after each of your tweets so that we can keep an eye on what everyone's up to and how their challenge is going. Also, you can follow HubPages on Twitter here for overall challenge updates: http://twitter.com/HubPagesDOTcom
2. Once you start writing your Hubs, please add a 'HubChallenge' tag to any Hub that you're writing for your 30 Day Hub Challenge so that we can do some cool reporting and analysis on the Hubs that we're all writing during our 30 days.
3. Write a blog and let all of your friends know that you're crazy enough to accept the challenge and be sure to use one of these images below whenever you post something.
Here are a few awesome Hubbers who have already written about how crazy they are:
If you want to join in on the Hub Challenge, let me know and get to thinking about what you're going to start writing about on Monday! (I may need your help with topics, too.)Hey, you've got to start somewhere...this is WAY out of my range, too (as with most of us), but I think that we sometimes need to really push ourselves a bit to really see what we're made of.
At least that's what I'm saying now -- talk to me in 15 days. haha
Awesome!! You should add a profile pic while you're at it, too!
Yeeee haw!
Holy Cow - you ARE nuts! I will try for 30, but it may end up being a bit less.
I'm going to try for 100.
Poverty
Depression
"Is he or isn't he" interested?
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This could be interesting. Thanks for the challenge!That's what I'm talking about!
You need to post this somewhere you crazy, deranged fool! haha
I'll go for 100 in 30, I graduate next week so I've got a little time on my hands
Ryan,
I am game count me in!! How exciting and will start on Monday.
FYI I will write 30.WOOOOOO WHOOOO!!!!
This will be awesome -- you understand the stuff about tagging your Hubs with 'HubChallenge', right? Also, are you on Twitter?
Oh, one other thing -- to be fair for my challenge I'm going to be creating a new, anonymous account so that we both can start from scratch. I'll be updating all of your with both of our stats all along the way, but we just want to create a situation that wold be similar to any new Hubber that starts writing on HubPages.
Should be a great case study after we're done.
Oh, GeneriqueMedia is in, too!
IN!
As you know Ryan, I've been threatening to go "all Hub crazy". Now's the time to do it!
Thank you for putting this together.
--Reg
PS: It's a perfect way to lead up to my birthday -- June 11. HA!AEvans, he's been keeping us up to date on twitter all day
I think I can do 100, Ryan. I'm hoping so. It will be very interesting to see what comes of this in terms of earnings. I'm trying now to target my hubs to areas where I think I can get more SE traffic.
One thing I want to note though: For some of us this will mean shorter, more concise hubs. That might factor into the ultimate results of the experiment, and Court needs to know it too.
I'm focusing on keywords and hubs/articles that have proven themselves (My Husband's Second Wife is a good earner, as is Venomous Snakes of North America).
I can't wait to see what happens!You can count me in too
100 hubs in 30 days? Easy peasy. Not......... ideas on a postcard please.....
No, definitely not -- you should use the benefit of your current account as a way to boost your earnings even more.
I'm doing it this way because it's the way that Court wants to do it on his end and I'd like to have a case study that I could use for showing HubPages true potential for new Hubbers.
Also, I think that it will be interesting to see how it affects a HubPages veteran, too. This is going to be so awesome as long as we all make it through the 30 days.
Dare I attempt it? It means I'll have to put all my other writing on hold...
What the heck, I'll definitely attempt itIt will be totally worth it...and we're all in this together!
We're like these 3 Musketeers, except we're not dogs and there's way more than 3 of us.
YEAH!
Ahhhhh, yeah!
Watch out, Internet.
Ahhh, come on C.C. -- you can do 30 in 30, can't you?
It's all about the multitasking, right?
Unfortunately I can't go through that kinda stress. But I had my time traveling alien friend lxxy sign up to take the challenge for me.
I'm sure they'll suffice.HP now has an official coach.
Wow, you were already a crazy Hubber, eh?
haha
Well, can you do us a favor and tage your Hubs starting on Monday with 'HubChallenge'? I mean, that is if you want to play along, too.We'll miss you.
Hi Ryan,
Will you be posting tips for keyword optimization/SEO?
I was thinking maybe of joining Court's Keyword Crash Course on his site. (A nice little side benefit for him of putting on this challenge -- more members to his site.)
Thoughts?
--RegWho are you on twitter, Nelle? I don't think I have you, and if I did, I lost you when my account went boom
That's exactly why, because that would just be WAY too easy.
Plus, it's Court's idea -- I'm just bumping it up a bit.Yeah, don't worry -- we can handle the new influx of Hubs. I mean, Maddie might have to put in some overtime, but I'm sure that she doesn't mind. I'm really happy that all of you are concerned, though!
Marisa, I also think that 101 is a nice and round number...haha.
Sounds like you need yourself one of these:
If you blog anywhere, be sure to post something about how you're going to be stepping up to take the Hub Challenge! Also, don't forget about the 3 simple instructions:
Oh yeah -- you have the weekend to come up with ideas...so you've got plenty of time.
Believe it or not, I've been thinking about how adding at least another 100 Hubs would most likely substantially boost earnings on the "not-quite-as-hot" Hubs (as compared to the "major earners" I have). This has been kind of my "secret" aim recently; and I've written 100 articles in about that time on other sites. So - it's tempting.
Still, I'm a little "commitment-phobic" when it comes to this kind of thing. Also, I'm somewhat intimidated by some of the "extras" (Twitter and whatever the other thing was) involved. Some "Internet doings" are things I'm not very familiar with. I'm pretty much a "write-and-read" kind of person and haven't done a very good job of learning "all the social, Internet-type, stuff". I'm not "belly-aching" - just thought I'd offer some feedback on what some issues for some people may be.
Essentially, not being at all sure this would be the month when I'd have the time/energy to aim for the 100 in 30 - I'm pretty much sensing failure if I try. My head would like to participate, but I don't think this is the month when the rest of me would cooperate. I bet you could do 30 though, Lisa! It's 100 or 30
Badcompany,
"Lisa stop making excuses get yer ass on board, if I can do 30 so can you. Let yer head rule : )"
My realistic head is ruling when it tells me to plan to participate "in spirit" and root for the success of all who commit to the challenge. Over the weekend, I may see if I can do something about the idea drought I've been in - in which case, I may decide to take the official challenge. I may give this a go. I'm an eejit - I can think up all kinds of wierd crap. I may even give common sense ago. Don't know about 100 though - I'm time constrained ATM
Somebody should do 100 sexy picture hubs as a control case. I would truly like to see the the differences in AdSense earnings
Also, bah with the 100 hubs, everybody knows that the right answer is always 42
I'm sorry fat or PHAT?
Well, you can do 42 then...that's OK with me.
I somehow think "how to make a woman cum" would be considered adult.
I really didn't want to lock anyone down and I didn't want to guide anyone because different people like to write about different things.
I'm going to do some keyword research, but I'm going to do it around topics that I already know something about. Hopefully I won't run out of them along the way.
Thanks for the suggestions though, accofranco!Well that's great Jimmy, but I'm defying all odds by having both -- quantity [i]AND[/i} quality.
Can it really be done? I guess that we'll find out soon.
HubPages should provide all participating hubbers with a few bags of NoDoz.
Or is that against the rules?
Oh goodness -- check out these graphics that each of you can use in your blogs on Monday to announce that you're crazy enough to be in the Hub Challenge.
James, our radically awesome designer, made one for both the 30 and 100 Hubs in 30 Days challenge, so pick your poison and be sure to blog about this upcoming crazy adventure before we all kick it off on Monday.
Also, if you want to invite a friend to go Hub crazy, here is a link that you can send them. It will take them directly to this forum post, which we'll continue to update over the next 30 days.
http://HubPages.com/HubChallengeOhhhhhhhHHH yeeeAAAAAHHHH is right!
Wayne is officially IN!
100??? Are you sure??
Are you really that crazy?
....OK, I guess that you are.
...and to think that they called that look 'Macho'.
Like "wrestling dog" Nacho Viento I borrowed once...
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