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The Hub Challenge: 100 Hubs in 30 Days -- are you in?

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Ryan Hupfer
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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:
I had never really seen HubPages as a viable method for making money online but suddenly I find myself very curious and surprisingly confident that I can make a ton with HubPages and Adsense.
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:

http://thekeywordacademy.com/new-make-m … n-30-days/

http://seozombie.com/make-money-online/ … -hubpages/

http://dineane.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post.html

http://www.ysdata.com/blogger/100-hubs- … bpages/241

http://em-hub-challenge.blogspot.com/

http://blog.hubpages.com/2009/05/the-hu … are-you-in

http://cindy-vine.blogspot.com/2009/05/ … pages.html

http://100hubs.blogspot.com/

http://ripplemakers.blogspot.com/

http://100hubchallenge.blogspot.com/200 … onday.html

http://100hubsin30days.blogspot.com/

http://www.lensroll.com/blog/139/100-hu … -strategy/

http://melissa.newhorizonspaces.net/200 … n-30-days/

http://pdxpride.blogspot.com/2009/05/mo … crazy.html

http://www.searchforblogging.com/making … lenge.html

http://hubpages.com/hub/30-Hubs-in-30-Days

http://hubpages.com/hub/HubPages-hub-HubChallenge
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.)
Posted 6 months ago
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AEvans
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Ryan,
I am game count me in!! How exciting and will start on Monday.
FYI I will write 30.
Posted 6 months ago
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Ryan Hupfer
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AEvans wrote:
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!
Posted 6 months ago
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Reg Brittain
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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!
Posted 6 months ago
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Everyday Miracles
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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!
Posted 6 months ago
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Mark Knowles
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You can count me in too

100 hubs in 30 days? Easy peasy. Not......... ideas on a postcard please.....
Posted 6 months ago
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Everyday Miracles
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Ryan, should we ALL create anonymous accounts or not?

Mark, whether they earn well or not your recipes are awesome though! Would that work?
Posted 6 months ago
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jamestedmondson
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I don't think anonymous accounts for everybody is a great idea.
Wouldn't you want your current HubScore to benefit from your hard work?
Just my two cents.
Posted 6 months ago
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Uninvited Writer
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Dare I attempt it? It means I'll have to put all my other writing on hold...

What the heck, I'll definitely attempt it
Posted 6 months ago
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Reg Brittain
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PPS: I've checked out Court's blog a couple times. I'm glad he now believes there's a ton to be made in Adsense via HubPages. This Challenge should surely show us all the way.
Posted 6 months ago
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Mark Knowles
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Everyday Miracles wrote:
Ryan, should we ALL create anonymous accounts or not?

Mark, whether they earn well or not your recipes are awesome though! Would that work?
Thank you - they will probably feature a little. But I will probably be going with a few higher earning subjects.....
Posted 6 months ago
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Reg Brittain
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Uninvited Writer wrote:
Dare I attempt it? It means I'll have to put all my other writing on hold...
Same here. It's worth it for the lesson in recurring Adsense, and Adsense growth.
Posted 6 months ago
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Ryan Hupfer
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Everyday Miracles wrote:
Ryan, should we ALL create anonymous accounts or not?

Mark, whether they earn well or not your recipes are awesome though! Would that work?
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.
Posted 6 months ago
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Ryan Hupfer
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Uninvited Writer wrote:
Dare I attempt it? It means I'll have to put all my other writing on hold...

What the heck, I'll definitely attempt it
Ahhhhh, yeah!

Watch out, Internet.
Posted 6 months ago
C. C. Riter
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Boy can I smell the smoke rising from this one. good luck all you fine peoples, count me out. LOL
Posted 6 months ago
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K.D. Clement
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C. C. Riter wrote:
Boy can I smell the smoke rising from this one. good luck all you fine peoples, count me out. LOL
I would love to give it a try but I am afraid it would end up the same for me as Nanowrimo---not enough hours in the day to get it done.
Posted 6 months ago
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GeneriqueMedia
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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.
Posted 6 months ago
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Everyday Miracles
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jamestedmondson wrote:
I don't think anonymous accounts for everybody is a great idea.
Wouldn't you want your current HubScore to benefit from your hard work?
Just my two cents.
Good point. Because I wouldn't have time to write anything under this account lol
Posted 6 months ago
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AEvans
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Mark Knowles wrote:
You can count me in too

100 hubs in 30 days? Easy peasy. Not......... ideas on a postcard please.....
Mark I second that , I am only committing to 30
Posted 6 months ago
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Rockwell Fitness
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I am always up for a challenge...I am down for 100 HUBS...

Team Hubbers vs. The Cyber World...

Hubbers, what we do here, will echo for all Hubpages Eternity.....
Posted 6 months ago