How to Select Subjects on HubPages

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How to Select Subjects to Write About on HubPages

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This hub was initially written on October 31, 2011 updated on May 24,2012 and again on August 24, 2012.

After one full year I have only written 257 Hubs toward my initial goal of writing 300. This was intentional because several months previously, I shifted my emphasis from writing 25 Hubs per month to writing only 5-10 per month. Simultaneously, I began an extensive program of updating and improving my existing Hubs.

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How to Select Subjects to Write About on HubPages

It should be obvious that which strategy you should use will depend on how many Hubs you plan to write.

I planed to write 300 Hubs a year, which averages out to about 6 Hubs each week. Therefore, I needed to have two different strategies; one for the next seven days and another covering the next year. I will address each strategy separately.

A. Short Term Strategy (next seven days)

1. Decide which Hub to write today.

Usually, I have already decided that the day before. At any one time, I normally have 1-2 hubs already started each with a title, some keywords and a brief summary. Based on the mood I am in and the time that I have available, I generally select the subject that looks like it will be the easiest to complete.

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2. Select two additional subjects as possibilities for tomorrow.

If I already have enough Hubs started, I pick two of them. If not, I review my existing Hubs by Group and determine where I can add additional related Hubs.

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3. I often have a short list of potential Hub topics, which I wrote down the previous day while visiting other Hubs or while reviewing the most recent questions that have been asked.

Current Questions are a good source of topics for future Hubs because they tell you what other people want to read about. Hopping other Hubs and reviewing other sites will also often show you where there are gaps which you could easily fill with your own Hubs.

From the above three sources, I can easily find at least six topics to write about each week.

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A. Long Term Strategy (next 365 days)

1. Review the Hubs that you have already written by Group to see where there is potential to write additional Hubs.

If you haven’t divided your Hubs into Groups by topics, that should be your first step. I have 16 groups for 69 Hubs and I expect to add new groups as they arise. The largest group has 13 Hubs and the smallest group has only one Hub. I like to keep 20 or less Hubs in a single group so I need at least 15 groups of 20 Hubs to equal a total of 300 Hubs. .

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2. List the individual Groups that you already have and the number of Hubs that you think that you can write for each group and total them.

More than likely you will be short by quite a few hubs. In that case go to step 3.

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3. Go through the list of topics one by one and make a list of those topics that interest you and that you think that you could write one or more Hubs about.

Total the number of Hubs you plan to write for each of these topics and add them to your first list.

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4. If you are still short of Hubs, keep a pad by your computer and each day when you hop Hubs and review Question that are asked, try to add one or two ideas for Hubs to the list each day..

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5. From the above lists, select 25 Hub topics that you plan to write about in the next 30 days and try to write a good title for each one.

This will be your working list for the next month, but feel free to modify this list at any time or to substitute different topics.

Finally, I have provided an updated progress report on the long-term list of my potential Hubs by Group for my first year.

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