Ok, well it’s only been a few days since I decided to take on the 30 Day SEO Challenge so I don’t have much to report. I have 9 hubs written and I need to write 3 more today, which will keep me on pace for 100 ish in 30 days. It’s a bit of a challenge, as I am a perfectionist and I hate to put something up that isn’t worthy of being on the internet. I’ve tried to just slap crap together and post it to the various article directories before, but I just can’t do it. It’s not how I am built.

Link Juice is Good

So far my author hub score is 81 which means I was successful in turning all my links in all of my hubs to DoFollow. As long as I maintain a 75 or higher then the links I post will remain as DoFollow links and will pass some serious link juice to my money pages. At the end of 30 days I will have 200 DoFollow links that are keyword anchor texted. What this will do for my rankings remains to be seen.

What is kind of surprising to me is how few people have joined in on the challenge? I’ve sent nearly 100 referrals to hubpages and have yet to have a single person sign up? I suspect because it’s a lot of work and people tend to be lazy. They think Making Money Online is supposed to be easy, but it isn’t. It’s hard work to build a passive income and that is likely what has kept anyone from signing up. I don’t know…I stopped trying to convince people that this was hard work a long time ago.

I need Rankings

I have high hopes for this SEO Challenge and I think these targeted links are going to impact my rankings significantly. Maybe once I post some results from the Challenge, more people will sign up and try it as well. I can’t stress enough how important that page 1 ranking is, preferably top 5. I recently suffered a Google penalty on my two best sites and went from page 1 rankings for most of my keywords to page 4. The income went from about 5k a month from just these two sites to about 500 a month from these two sites. HUGE impact on earnings and really emphasized how important it is to get and stay on page 1.

In any event, just wanted to post a quick update and share how easy it was to achieve that Hub Rank of 75 or better. It happened for me in just 4 days, so from here forward I will benefit from some decent link juice and I’ve made about 6 dollars in 4 days from Google Adsense that is on the hubpage article. My last 3 articles I started including Ebay auctions as well, so we’ll see after a few days if any of them convert.

Have a great weekend and remember….it’s Hard Work in the beginning but the reward comes once the empire is built. Are you willing to do the work?

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One of the things that truly separate those who are immensely successful at this game from those who are usually disappointed, is their willingness to do the things that most people aren’t willing to do.  One of those things for most people, me included, is link building.  Building websites is sexy, building links is not so sexy.  It’s dull, boring and unimaginative and most people stink at it.

Link Building Stinks

One of the things that I have struggled with over the last two years is consistency.  I will build some sites, build a few links, the earning start rolling in and I am off to the next one.  I let the links build naturally from there.  If I get in a huff then I will build some links, watch the SERPs rise, the traffic increase and then move on to the next site.  It’s like a vicious cycle but it’s a cycle that I am going to start breaking TODAY!  I have had a nice discussion with myself and we have agreed that link building is going to be the priority for us over the next few weeks and then will become a regular part of the routine.

30 Day SEO Challenge Experiment

So, everyone loves experiments right?  Ok well…I love experiments!  I always learn a lot from them, even if I don’t always follow up on what I learn.  I read about Mark from Court’s site doing this very thing and I am going to join in and do the same thing, albeit slightly differently.    I am going to commit to writing NO LESS than 100 articles over the next 30 days and posting them as  Hubpages.    I’ve had some great results from Hubpages lately and if you aren’t familiar with them then you should be.  They are immensely popular, offer powerful links, have a revenue share program where you can get paid for your adsense clicks, EPN sales etc and they can also provide some powerful link juice if your quality score is high enough.  The best part  is that it is 100% FREE!!

The more hubs you create, the more powerful you become in the hubpages world.  Once you achieve a hub score of 74 or higher (easy) then your links become DoFollow.  The best part is, these are powerful links.  You will likely find that your hubpage will rank first page quite easily for your targeted keywords.  This generates both traffic to your hub and traffic to your site.  The traffic to your hub can be monetized via adsense as a bonus!  How much better can that deal get?

The 30 Day SEO Challenge

So here is the outline of what I am doing:

• Targeting 2 of my sites.  I have picked a total of 10 keywords each site that I am going to target and recorded my starting positions in the Google SERPS.
• I am committing to writing 3 articles per day and publishing as a HUB!
• I will record my starting positions for my targeted keywords and then publish the results after 30 days.  I will also share my average daily traffic counts pre and post test.  I am expecting a pretty decent increase across the board in addition to my targeted keywords.
• Hubs will be distributed across the 20 targeted keywords that I am focusing on.  2 sites…10 keywords each.

That’s it.  Not much to it and definitely not sexy.  It’s a lot of content writing but it’s content that once published, will be there on the net forever.  Consider it an investment in the future and a big step in the right direction towards consistent traffic and earnings.

If you want to try it yourself then feel free….Hubpages is completely free and the more you use it, the more you will earn so you really can’t lose.  Here’s to us building some powerful links and seeing what 30 days of hard work can do for a couple of niche sites.  I know it’s going to be work, but if I can write 100, then surely you could do 30 right?

Do you want to be immensely successful, or continue to be disappointed?  The choice is yours.

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Have you ever sat back and watched the MMO world?  I have for the last few months and I have to say it’s either funny or pathetic and probably both.  There is definitely a class structure out there….you have the upper crust, then you have some medium sized, reasonably well respected blogs and then you have the herd.

Herd Mentality

The herd is notorious for following the leader and charging off in whatever direction those at the front take.  They don’t think for themselves and they simply follow the ass in front of them.  The latest example of this is site flipping.  WTF is it with site flipping?  It seems like a 5 or 6 months ago one of the numbnuts, I have no idea who, must have posted about making a billion dollars flipping sites and what do you think happened?

It seems like 85% of the MMO splogs followed that lead and started posting about how they too make a fortune flipping sites and for $9.99 you can download their e-book and learn how to do it too.  It makes my stomach churn reading this crap.

I am a regular lurker on a few blogs and several forums and you can’t spit in any direction without hitting the latest site flipping guru or site flipping e-book or site flipping monkey chasing his banana.   As soon as the first monkey posts about selling a site for a few bucks, then the next monkey sees it and wants the same banana.  Before you know it, yet another industry is born.  Garbage sites are built overnight and put up for sale before they are even indexed, sold for 119 dollars on Sitepoint and on to the next one.

Blah.

Passive Income

If that is your thing then more power to you.  In my opinion most of the site flippers are guys who tried to build niche sites and couldn’t make any money.  So instead of investing the time in learning it, they install wordpress, hack a few articles and put the site up on the block.  Again no harm…but it’s my rant post.

If you were able to make more than a few hundred dollars this way a month then I’d be shocked but the biggest problem that I have with that for me….is that it still requires me to work.  I don’t want another job, I want to replace my existing job with a passive, online income that can be managed a few hours a week at most and can be done from anywhere in the world.

The magic of niche site building is that once it is built and getting good traffic you can pretty much slow the work on the site to a trickle.  A few content articles a month, a link here or there and you are good to go in most niches.  I’ve gone weeks at a time before without even touching my sites and the income still generates itself.  In fact, I was going to write an article for one of my sites today but I decided to clean the cobwebs off this site and actually post.  I miss blogging but it takes too much time, I actually have to work at it.

So, in my opinion, if I need to constantly keep my site mill running and grinding out sausage sites then that’s too much work for my taste.  I am all about passive income and quite frankly I think anyone who has enough skill to build and flip websites, probably has enough skill to build niche sites that could last.   Different strokes for different folks I guess but if you’re a site flipper…then FLIP the damn sites and quit trying to sell e-books on how to do it.

Whatever you do really is none of my business and I don’t really care but I think that if I read another blog post about site flipping from some little numbnut that thinks a couple of hundred bucks is worth the time then I think Iwill probably throw up just a little bit.

/Rant.

Oh before I forget…cause I love the Grizz…..Site Build It Blows.

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