My Personal Challenge - 100 hubs in 100 days

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   WorkAtHomeMumsposted 12 years ago

   Hi everyone - just wanted to pop my head in (so to speak) and introduce myself. I'm new here, yep just 2 whole weeks.  I have never written before, never even thought about writing an article however after being introduced to HubPages by a new facebook friend I thought I would give it a try.  Then I thought, well I may as well give it a really good try, so I set myself a challenge to write 100 hubs in 100 days. 
   
   I'd love to meet new people, learn and share experiences.
   
   I have since seen that such challenges exist here already, 30 hubs 30 days, even a 100 hubs in 30 days. WOW thats tough.  I will continue with my personal challenge and hope to shout about my successes soon.
   I am from Melb Australia. As a WAHM and an eBay trading assistant I have started writing a lot about my eBay experiences and sharing my lessons learnt along the way.  I have also started to share some personal stories too and bits and pieces based on my daily inspiration.  I have a 3.5 yr old daughter and a 5 mth old boy so getting time to write is a challenge but that is what is making this personal challenge even more exciting and will make it even more rewarding. 
   
   So HELLO everyone (big waves) and I hope to spend more time around here sharing my wisdom where I can and participating as much as I can. I can feel I will like it here very much.
   
   If you want to follow my journey I'd love your company.

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      lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Wow that's awesome and Good luck. Whatever you do make sure to write on topics that people are actually searching for - People search for everything but you'd need to find out the exact phrase and that's the first step to a successful hub.
      
      Looking forward to your hubs and I wish you success. Concentrate on quality rather than quantity; but, if you can do them both - there's nothing better!

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         WorkAtHomeMumsposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks - yes google keyword tool is my best friend at the moment

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      Marisa Wrightposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Welcome from a fellow Aussie.  I admire your enthusiasm - however if you've never written before, I'm not sure it's a good idea to leap straight in and write so many Hubs in your first three or four months.   
      
      There is a learning curve to HubPages, like everything else.  If you write 100 Hubs before you've learned all the tricks of the trade, you've just created a whole lot of work for yourself when you have to go back and revise them later!
      
      Having said that, you seem to have made a fairly good start.  As lobobrandon says, concentrate on quality and make sure your Hubs are a good length - 400 words is an absolute minimum, but expert Hubbers report the best results with longer Hubs, from 800 to 1,500 words long.

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         WorkAtHomeMumsposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Hiya...completely agree with you re quality. Ive already spent time fixing old hubs..and when I say old they are only 2 weeks old.  How fast we learn. Having said that I have build and coded websites in the past, and am from a tech background so I am not a complete newbie...just in respect to article writing and there is an art to that..

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   lobobrandonposted 12 years ago

   Oh yeah! I forgot to mention the word length, Marisa put it there though
   
   I make sure that all my hubs are a minimum of 1k words and I also add a table of contents to all my hubs (all my new ones have them and the older ones are being updated slowly - when I get the time).

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      WorkAtHomeMumsposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      I have just recently stumbled upon the table of contents and read a hub where it explained it all.  I have not used any yet. But where suitable I will definitely use them.

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         lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         It surely helps visitors just in case what they're looking for isn't right on the top

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            WorkAtHomeMumsposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            And then hopefully helps reduce the bounce rate. I guess I should get onto it before I have one hundred to re-do

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               lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

               Oh you know about bounce rate and stuff Cool, I didn't want to mention it as you said you're new to writing. But, since you're into say web designing of some sort I should have figured you'd know

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                  WorkAtHomeMumsposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  I have built many websites, coded for years and have self taught myself bits and pieces along the way but I still consider myself a novice. So much to learn.

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                     lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                     I just began writing 6 months ago, In June of 2011 to be precise (I used to write articles and poems for school magazines from a young age though). I've learnt lots and I'm sure I have a lot to learn as well After all life is a constant learning curve and that's the only fact that proves we're still alive!

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                        WorkAtHomeMumsposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                        Too true. Good luck. I'll be following

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