The 60dc2 - More online traffic:: better web analysis skills::higher google page ranks::meeting new friends - my hublog

So who is Sunforged and what the heck is a 60 day challenge? No, its not another quick lose diet plan, although i expect he could easily recruit enough of us writers that do not get enough exercise while tapping away at our computers. It is an organized effort to improve the quantity and quality of writing on Hub pages while introducing some new writers and expanding the following of all involved.

So the gist is this, write 30 hubs in 30 days about thought provoking original topics that help to enhance the qulity of work on display on hub pages. Following this we work together to promote each other's work to the masses, including the gold standard, Google. Along the way we will pick up each other, dust off the debris of the journey and pat each other on the back as we all drive toward the goal.

I am so excited to join the thirty hubbers who will take part in this 60 day extreme challenge. I absolutely love hub pages as it gives me a place to express myself and hone my writing skills. Not only that but I have made some good friends here. It seems there is an unending collection of people willing to give you advice on how to better your results.

Now I am only starting my fifth moth here so I definitely still have much to learn. My traffic is not what I would like and neither are my AdSense and Amazon revenues. To put it bluntly if my hub experience was put in business terms I might be in trouble. You see it is not that I don't get the concept, i was just slow catching on to how powerful great keywords and low competition on subjects and keywords was. I am revising many of my older hubs and with time I can right the ship as they say.

• I want to learn how to increase my web traffic
• Understand all the intricacies of Google AdWords to maximize my potential earnings with each advertisement that is placed and clicked in my hubs
• I want to augment my search engine optimization skills
• Increase my level of understanding concerning the affiliate networks available to me as a hub pages writer
• Make more money blogging, writing or hubbing, whichever term is most accurate
• Build strong friendships with other hubbers
• Gain in my writing skills through concentrated writing and feedback from ore experienced peers
• Place more of my hubs in the top search engine results
• Better understand what is necessary to guarantee a good Google search engine ranking
• Learn about the web analysis tools such as Google Analytics so i can know where my weak areas are and enhance those weaknesses
• Read and comment on every other challenge hub so i can build up friendships with the other challengers as I offer words of encouragement and friendship 

You know I think my ultimate motivation is to have more people read my writing. As writers don;t we all want that? I so enjoy reading the comments of people that visit my hubs. I know that being wildly successful means we pull in large numbers of folks through the search engines. I will be pleased when that is true, but I also like to have fellow hub pages writers visit my hubs and tell me what they think.

Writing is a hobby that sometimes borders on an obsession with me. I find myself when I am not writing a hub mentally laying out how i would create one on another subject. As I said before it is the process of researching the competition and the best keywords that I have moved to now and is delivering almost immediate divideneds. I look forward to sharing some high paying, low competition keywords as this challenge continues.

To help myself as well as others I will do the following promotional things:

• Take advantage of the twitter feed
• Use the feedburner approach
• Promote on Social Networking sites such as Facebook, Shetoldme, Redgage,Xomba and Social Marker
• Include RSS Feed capsules in every hub I publish with one of the three options to keep challenge hubs visible for as long as possible

So in all I have read their is a direction to choose 3-10 topics for the hubs we intend to write. I am sure I could fill 10 topics, but that would take a lot more research. I feel I have identified some really good keywords and plan to limit mine to 5 or less. That way I can focus and deliver quality work,

Before anyone gets excited and tells me that one of my topics is a non-paying one, let me say I understand this. I guage success not only by monetary measures but by comments from readers who enjoy my work. I have a 40 part serial I am finishing and another I intend to start soon, so one of my topics will be the Creative Writing one. The others are these:

• Finance
• Internet
• Christmas
• Religion
• Creative Writing

I have an established base of readers for my serials and cannot leave them hanging for thirty days while I do this. I hope you find these to be a good source of entertainment and become fans of my writing!

 I want to take a minute to thank the new father, sunforged, for sharing some of his limited time with us as he shepherds this challenge. I am a father of fifteen years and I can still remember the incredible commitment of time a new baby demands. I hope we can all pitch in to lessen the strain on Sunforged as he has important duties to his baby and his wife.

Thanks for all you have already done Sunforged as well as for all you will do. You are certainly an embodiment of the Hub Pages attitude I find so refreshing. I am sorry to say every online community is not as blessed to have so many quality members who seek to build a great reputation for their platform.

My current stats are mediocre in my estimation. I am averaging a bit over 100 views per day, but this number bounces around more than the super bouncy ball we all had as kids. I would like to see the number stabilize a bit more and make a steady increase.

The same goes for my AdSense clicks. I am fortunate to get one click per day although my impressions are numerous. My Amazon impressions have recently spiked and I am seeing more clicks, so I hope I have begun to tame that tiger.

 So many things to do! I am so glad I went ahead and put together my hub log last week so i could focus on all the other prliminary stuff. I am working on a hub about Exchange traded Funds to be my first hub in the finance category. The research as been a long process as i am not exactly an expert. I like the potential for AsSense from topics in finance, so i will be anxious to see how things go.

Wow what a day. I published my first two hubs to a great amount of comments!

Also, I had a fabulous AdSense click on a hub with a Page Ecm of over $600! Unfortunately my share was a small fraction, but it is a fraction. I really want to up this amount!

Another great thing happened on Amazon, I sold a $100 item ang got the $4 bounty. One more sale and I get up to the 6% referral bonus for the first time. Things are moving in the right direction!

The hubs seemed to flow very well today as I added three to my total. I worte about the time to decorate your Christmas tree, American Girl Doll ornaments and the American Girl Dolls themselves.

Amazon continues to be a bright spot as I shipped the fith item this month and had another order. When all this finishes I will move up to the 6% bounty. My Amazon total is the highest fro one moth that I ever have had!

The CTR for Adsense registers a 3.33% yesterday, which is low for some I am sure but was good for me. This seems to be increasing each day, which will allow me to revise one of my goals. I would like to keep the avearge at 4% or more each day.

No new hubs today. Weekends are hectic, so i satisfied myself in reading other hubs from the challengers and commenting on as many as were presented in the daily feed.

 This is probably the most frustrating day I ever had on hub pages. I am trying to get the twitterfeed working as well as some othe rbehind the scenes stuff. I have started at least eigth hubs, but get a paragraph or two in and do not feel the flow. I never force my writing when this happens. It is better to leave the subject and give it time to simmer.

Three more sales on Amazon and contined steady moveement on AdSense put a positive spin on an otherwise stinky day.

 I was really feeling the hub karma (no not that kind the other kind) today. I managed to roll out four more hubs to reach the half way point of the challenge. I know that thirty hubs in thirty days is not something new and is completely doable, but something about staring at the mountain made me nervous. Now I am halfway and feel like I have the liberty to be selective about my remaining topics and throw in a few of my non-commercial selections.

As a matter of fact, the first I published today is in that category. The hub about Our Family Mission Statement is one of the hubs I am most excited about. The other three I published today are about Buying Restaurant Gift Cards Online, the RealArcade Online game site and paying your credit card bill online.

Now for the daily affilliate report. Adsense continues to be steady with clicks coming on a regular basis. Amazon on the other hand is mushrooming and I have 14 sales so far this month which is much above a usual monthly total. I see that is due to some of my seasonal hubs maturing at the right time and being indexed by Google.

Another good hub writing day. Three more new hubs including Order gift cards online Buy iTunes gift card online; Order gift cards online: Buy Xbox Live gift cards online and the 32nd chapter of my continuing serial stroy Jenny's Life.

Big AdSense news, I received a single click worth $3.20!! Unfortunately that hub is not on one of my vchannels, so i have no idea which hub it was although I believe it was between two of the new hubs created for the challenge that I had not added to channels, so I added them.

More reaing of hubs by the other challengers. There are some interesting ideas falling out of these hubs that will be great tips to tuck away fro use on subsequent hubs within and after the challenge.

More commenting and more reading about good ways to increase the SEO of my hubs. I also tweaked some of my titles to see if I could change the amount of visitirs and realting AdSense clicks to the hubs.

My hub total is now 20 with the addition of two hubs, one about buying LEGOs online and the other about a forex currency converter. I was excited to see 10 AdSense clicks yesterday that totaled 1/3 as much money as the previous 30 days had. This is by far my best AdSense month.