Are You Ready for the Competition?

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   thisisoliposted 13 years ago

   So who is ready for the upcoming competition?
   
   Are you writing your hubs in advance or are you just going to wing it?
   
   Are you excited?
   
   Are you worried?
   
   Or do you just not care?
   
   I have kind of marked this off as a personal challenge, writing three hubs for each of the days topics, which should double my total hubs!
   
   This is gonna be fun!

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      Faybe Bayposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Good Luck, Oli!
      I am sort of out for this one, not enough knowledge on the subjects. Disappointedly shaking my head in shame, I only have about three good ones in the health topic dept. in me total. And those are just life lessons, difficult to back 'em up with science and photo's. I'll be looking for yours though!

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         thisisoliposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Hehe dont worry, most of mine are based on the group knowledge of wikipedia and Google!

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   sunforgedposted 13 years ago

   Im going to go for a 3 a day submission rate also, but alas i do not have time to pre-write or draft anything out.
   
   So Ill be winging it!
   
   But health and diet is the focus of two of my main sites, so at least its within my interests
   
   Good luck!

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   thisisoliposted 13 years ago

   Damnnn that means I have some competition!
   
   I tried with a health website once, I never really got anywhere with it though. This might kick it off again though!

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      Faybe Bayposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      Here Thisisoli, this thread was posted by Ohma, a tool to help with your plan, I checked it out, it is too cool if you didn't know about it already.
      
      http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/37142#post844130

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         Cagsilposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         You can simply post other hubber's hubs. You don't need permission to place other people's hubs.

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            Faybe Bayposted 13 years agoin reply to this

            Thanks Cagsil, I wasn't sure on that rule, you know I am still a bit new and learning.

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               Rochelle Frankposted 13 years agoin reply to this

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                  Cagsilposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                  And, what's that suppose to mean? It was a normal
                  
                  The same code works the same all the time. There wasn't anything slight about the smiley face.
                  
                  Besides, I didn't lie. We are allowed to promote other people's hubs. There are benefits to promoting other people's hubs.

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                     Rochelle Frankposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                     Sorry Cagsil-- I wasn't paying attention and I misunderstood what you were referring to. Apologies.

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                        Cagsilposted 13 years agoin reply to this

                        Okay, no problem.
                        
                        How are you doing Rochelle?

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               Cagsilposted 13 years agoin reply to this

               And, I just wanted to make sure you knew. You posted the forum thread, instead of post Ohma's link to her hub. So, I just making sure you know.
               
               No problem

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         thisisoliposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         Wow, thanks!
         
         Never knew about this!

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      sunforgedposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      I bet the competition is going to be really stiff, lots of great writers will come out of the woodwork !
      
      
      My personal "health sites" are all specific to vegetarianism but alternative health /therapies and holistic companies happens to be the market I design and host sites for and i live in an area where reikki, yoga, veganism, mediattion, acupuncture and such are as normal as mcdonalds

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         thisisoliposted 13 years agoin reply to this

         My fiancée is vegan so I might be asking for some advice on at least one day of the challenge!

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   Cagsilposted 13 years ago

   Here is the Hub Faybe Bay was talking about.
   
   http://hubpages.com/hub/Finding-Hub-Ideas

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   sunforgedposted 13 years ago

   the wonder wheel is useful, there was a thread that had tons of sources
   
   Seen some forum threads related to topic ideas.
   
   Possible Inspirations:
   
   Google Trends
   
   http://www.google.com/trends
   
   
   Yahoo Buzz
   
   http://buzz.yahoo.com/
   
   
   Hubs Idea Bank
   
   http://hubpages.com/ideabank/
   
   
   The Requested Content section of any other writing site you may be part of..you dont have to write it for them!
   
   
   ebay Pulse
   
   http://pulse.ebay.com/
   
   Amazon Bestsellers by Topic
   
   amazon.com no specific links just check bestsellers by category
   
   http://www.amazon.com/bestsellers  (Thanks Jeffrey Neal)
   
   
   
   Brand New Commercials! i jumped on the 299 PS3 wagon the first day i saw an ad, for a couple of hundred dollars profit! (The wagon has left)
   
   Twitter Trends ( Twitter is probably the fastest trending sources ever)
   
   http://search.twitter.com/
   
   
   Hot forum topics here!
   
   Heres a good one, with the rise of the 30DC Challenge and Keyword Academy targeting Hubpages, you will see a lot of marketers hitting hubpages for backlinks, if you watch the new hubs thread....there keywords which are PROBABLY well researched will be plain as day in the URL and title...if you can do it better! jump on it.
   
   http://hubpages.com/hubs/latest/
   
   
   News you see repeated in your facebook feeds?
   
   These are just starting off points, but its pretty easy to find topics that are well searched and hopefully evergreen through some quick research and these sources.
   
   Got any to add?
   
   
   Thanks GirlyGirl
   
   Dogpile search spy
   
   http://www.dogpile.com/dogpile/ws/searc … ceUrl=true
   
   
   Google WonderWheel
   
   Tut on how to use it
   http://www.problogger.net/archives/2009 … ite-about/
   
   
   Thanks JtFreemon!

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   WriteAngledposted 13 years ago

   I have a biomedical background, but unfortunately will not have time to participate in the competition.

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   thisisoliposted 13 years ago

   In that case, does anyone want to promote some of my hubs for me
   
   I am very excited about the start of this competition, I do want to double check what the starting time is (GMT) for each day though!

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   lyricsingrayposted 13 years ago

   not interested but wish everybody lots of luck
   hey oli - i'll vote for yours
   $$$$
   
   

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      thisisoliposted 13 years agoin reply to this

      One step closer to a $100 bonus, will do me

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   IzzyMposted 13 years ago

   I'm not eligible but wish everyone luck

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    rebekahELLEposted 13 years ago

    should be fun. I have a couple ideas I already know I want to write about. I have other obligations, so can't write as much I would like, but love the topic!  We'll be a healthy bunch if we follow our advice.

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    gracenotesposted 13 years ago

    I believe I'm up to the challenge, but due to time constraints, I'll probably only write on the last week's topics.  I can't get too excited about weight loss and exercise, but I'm interested in nutrition.
    
    I wish the first week's topics contained the keywords osteopathy or chiropractic.  I could do especially well on those.  Oh well.

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    Oona Seckarposted 13 years ago

    Re: the comp.  Say you enter but don't win anything: do you still get 60% of the adsense etc. on those hubs you've written, or is there anything in the small print to say that Hubpages gets it all?  I would be less happy to enter if I didn't get normal Hub revenues from any non-successful entries. 
    
    (I know I could just read the entire small print, but I guess someone will already know!)

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       Susana Sposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       You'll get the normal 60% of ad impressions. HP wouldn't stiff people like that!

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    Oona Seckarposted 13 years ago

    Thanks Susana.

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    Oona Seckarposted 13 years ago

    (I have become sadly cynical from publishing on other sites which will remain nameless...)

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    thisisoliposted 13 years ago

    Name them, shame them!
    
    A Susana said, you still get all your normal earnings as well, the cometition is just a (pretty darn good) bonus!
    
    Dont believe I haven't won anything yet though *grumbles* :p

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    Susana Sposted 13 years ago

    Absolutely name them and shame them Oona! it will stop others making the same mistakes. HP is not perfect but I think they're pretty ethical and are clear about what contributers can receive.
    
    To Oli - I keep thinking I've got to win one day surely! I hope you do too. I think voting starts tomorrow for the hubbers favourite entries, so maybe we'll be lucky there

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       thisisoliposted 13 years agoin reply to this

       Haha yeah, I can hope that I win one of the weekly competitions, we are up against stiff competition there though!
       
       I might go for the sympathy vote, I am moving to america soon to get married to my sweetheart, but I hardly have any money, please vote for meeeeee!

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