60 DC Hub Drej Log

I'm new to the Hub Challenge craze, so I'll start by introduction. To this day it is hard to believe I've been on Hubpages for nearly a year. When I first started out, I was here for one reason only...to write. I needed a place to express myself and hubpages provided the perfect avenue. I was more than satisfied with mediocrity, writing a few quirky rants and personal articles. However, as the months wore on and my writing significantly improved, I began to think that I could actually do this for a living. Why not? Unfortunately, I never really had the results to backup my claim, and so, I'm finally here! Let's see what I can accomplish...

Motivations: I want to start taking hubpages seriously. The only real way I can do this is to challenge myself to not only produce more hubs, but write ones with quality and the ability to drive traffic. Honestly, I’m doing it for me. I want to make money and I want find a way to make a name for myself online.

All right, so here are my goals. Obviously, I need to write at least 30 hubs in 30 days. In order to that I need themes or niches. I want to start out with at least 2, possibly 3 themes, which should bring me through week 2. Then as the end of week 2 approaches, my goal is to have another 2 or 3 themes set up for the following 2 weeks. So, with that, I should have somewhere around 4 to 6 themes for the month…meaning I must have 5 to 8 hubs per topic. If for some reason I fall short of 30 hubs with my 4 to 6 themes, I may have to improvise and create a few solos or start a small theme in order to accomplish the overall goal. It’s definitely a challenge…I’m ready!

As for optimizing SEO words and finding the best topics to tap into, I'm still in the learning the process and will try to figure it out along the way. So, although it is a goal of mine to produce such hubs, I'm not quite sure what my angle of attack really is...other than to follow along.

I would call today an overall success. Although I didn't publish any hubs, I completed a sales hub dealing with the NFL and I started on another sales article. I learned a lot about keywords through Market Samurai, although I still have much to learn. I also learned how to organize and cram keywords within my text without having to 'word stuff'.

Also, for the first time, I attempted to use my amazon account, and learned a great deal about how to locate certain items I was trying to sell.

I managed to publish to a few football hubs by week's end. As far as optimizing keyword searches, I'm starting to get the hang of the Market Samurai program. I still looking for the 'right' keywords that not only create traffic, but aide in driving adsense clicks.

When it comes to niches I've restructured just a tad (which isn't surprising). With the help of Shaz, Chaz, Izzy, and Wavegirl, I've figured out that I'm going to wind up with more niches using similar keywords (within each niche) to gain more credibility.

My niches include the following: 2010 NFL teams, the NFL in general, Fantasy Football, Geek stuff, Writing, Graphic Novels, Men's hairloss products, and other sports (basketball and football). Some of these niches are interlinked with other, so that will help down to road during our promoting phase.