Make Money Writing Hubs

If you are writing hubs to earn money, then make sure you have signed up for Google Adsense and Amazon, as well as the other affiliates they offer at hubpages.  The next step is determining your topic.  There are a few different ways to pick a topic.  If you can write on anything, head over to Spyfu , look down the page for keywords with highest cost per click and click on view all.  Mine shows "rugs usa" as a $1,777.69 CPC which is just outrageous.  I don't understand how that works, and I'm tempted to write a hub entitled Rugs USA and see what Adsense ads I get.  Either way, you can take your results from Spyfu and then check out Adwords Keyword Tool.  You can put in "rugs" here and see what kind of searches you can expect.  When creating the topic of your hub, you can use both of these tools and try to maximize your expected traffic and at the same time try and maximize your Adsense CPC.

Once you've determined the best keywords (go for multiple words that include as many of the Adword phrases you can logically string together, not just one word), they need to be in your title, or part of the title.  If the title you want has been used already, you can remove the dashes in the page link and see how that works.

For the format, go ahead and add a picture.  Google search images and find a sample picture and upload it into your hub.  Just follow directions to add it, and as a caption for your picture, put in your keywords.

Now it's time to start writing.  Use as many forms of your keywords as possible in the titles.  Your first sentence should include your keywords, and the last sentence should include them again.  For every 100 words you write, use your keywords somewhere in the text about 2 to 3 times.  If you use it too many times G will see it as spam and drop your page.

When you are done, go ahead and add some Amazon items to your hub, maybe a poll if you like.  Then publish.  I always like to use the "suggest links" tool at the top to help my own hubscore, and many times if you link to someone's hub, they may link back to yours!  This is important, and it's called backlinks.

The more backlinks your hub has, the higher G will rank it.  So, it wouldn't hurt for you to create some similar hubs, or hop to another content farm site, and write similar articles, but always link back to your money maker hub at least twice.

After that, it's just a waiting game.  G will have to find your site, and then as it ages, it will move up in rank.  Once it goes in the top few pages of your keyword search on G, you will begin getting more search engine traffic.  Go to Traffic Sources on your hub account page and when you see traffic from the different search engines, you know you are getting there.  It took me a few weeks before I began getting a decent number of search engine hits.  

My Hubpages Experiment

Writing has always been in my blood, so recently I started my quest to determine how to make money writing online.  My online writing experiment first started with my wife writing about skincare for the examiner.com.  Here is one of her articles on brush cleaning.   She's been a makeup artist and special effects artist for 20 years, and probably more comfortable with brush than a pen in her hand.  I can tell I am a writer because I hate writing, yet I love writing.  I think only a writer can understand that statement, but maybe you get the point.  I love expressing my self and creating.  So, okay, enough about me, I wanted to understand what writing online meant.  I dived right into the search engines and soaked up everything I could on the subject of writing online.  Maybe that's exactly where you are right now.  Content sites, search engine optimization and SERPs are all foreign language to you.  Don't worry, they were to me too about two weeks ago.  You will quickly learn!

After reading dozens of pages and articles on content sites, I decided to pick one and go for it.  I did not quite understand how the different sites paid their writers, but I took their word for it.  There have been many documented experiments on writing for different content sites, and after reviewing them, I decided to go with hubpages.com.  I went with them mostly because I could quickly sign up and begin writing right away.  Other content sites wanted resumes and writing samples.  I understand why they wanted them, trying to control the quality of their sites.  But I read good things about hubpages.  Here is an article (they call them hubs) about my first week on hubpages.

In my opinion, hubpages is a great place to start writing.  You will learn about Google Adsense, affiliates and get your feet wet.  Plus, you can do all that and it costs you nothing!  If you want to try your hand at hubpages, head to their website and sign up.  It's a painless easily navigated process.  Go to join in the top right corner, fill out the form and you are ready to create your first hub!

For your first hub, write about anything simple and something you are knowledgeable about.  My first hub was Building Muscle.  I thought it had to be this broad topic that would relate to lots of people.  Well, it helps, but really, you can write a hub on anything!  You can write a hub on the awesome breakfast you had this morning!  I was spending hours, writing these well thought out and researched articles, which were getting a few hits here and there.  Then I wrote a hub on a recipe that didn't take me five minutes to put up, No Bake Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Balls and the traffic hit my hub.  I was getting comments for the first time, and I was amazed.  The moral of the story is write whatever you want to write about, and let the traffic sort them out.

Just a last note.  Once you finish your first hub and publish it, head to Adsense.  Go to my account --> Earnings --> Affiliate Settings and you will see the affiliates you can use.  The two I'd suggest is Adsense and Amazon (because they sell everything).  Follow the sign up for them and apply them to hubpages.com and you will be ready to go!  After that, write, write and then write some more!

Good luck, and God Bless!  My next article will talk about how to write effective hubs. 

Make Money Online

Welcome to Make Money Writing Online. This site provides tips and techniques for writers in order to make money online. If you have questions not covered in Make Money Writing Online please feel free to leave your questions in the comment section.  I'll be adding more content as I go, but my first dive into online writing for money is hubpages.  So I'll continue to add my thoughts and ideas on writing for hubpages and eventually I'd like to branch out into other content sites when I feel I'm well grounded at hubpages!