As most of you probably already know I have been on Hubpages for a very long time – it will be three years in October actually. I knew Hubpages very well, I liked the site, the community and my ability to publish there – I thought it was an adjunct to my “real” money sites. I was wrong. Over that time I saw it more as a hobby than serious online money making. In fact hubpages has earned me thousands of dollars -indirectly – by getting me several freelance writing gigs – but I’m not talking about that. I also used hubpages to jump start this blog as my earliest readers were fans who followed me over from hubpages – thanks guys. Its a good place to build “a brand” – but I don’t mean that either. I knew hubpages was great for backinks – I have PR4 and PR3 pages there and they were easy to get. I knew I could make some income on HubPages – April was a good month it was the first month I hit over $100 in Adsense – from hubpages alone. But I didn’t realise you could make serious money on hubpages - [...] Read more »
Hubpage Challenge 100 Hubs in 30 Days
OK so not a day after I write about diversifying to other Web 2.0 article sites and review InfoBarrel the great Hubpage challenge blows up all over the Internet. If you have been asleep under a rock and not paying attention it went like the: Court decided to have a new money making experiment: 100 hubs in 30 days. Well Hubpage’s marketing guy Ryan Hupfer noticed this (btw if you are wondering how this sort of thing happens – I have 2 words for you “google alerts” a great way to know what people are saying about you!). Long story short we now have The Great Hub Challenge: Read more »
Passive Income: My Dream! I Do Believe!
I have a dream: to do what I want when I want - and I am very, very lucky to be living it! Passive income isn't a terribly easy goal - but I am getting there - and I think I just turned a big corner, let me explain. Not income wise, but in the psychological, mumbo-jumbo department! Read more »