Apr

21

Blogging For A Living Is Fun and Dangerous

Well - it has been a while since I updated my personal blog much - mainly because I don't make much money with this and it is mostly a bit of fun. Blogging can actually be fun - one of my favorite posts "Mark Knowles is a douche bag," allows me to poke fun, not just at myself, but anyone else who comes across my radar as being poke worthy. Of course - some people take a joke better than others and I usually manage to overstep the mark.

I was spending a lot of my online time at hubpages until recently, but the recent google panda update has decimated hubpages' authority with google and decimated the earning potential also. Oh well - C'est la Vie, as we say in France. I always say that if you want to make money blogging, you need to diversify, and while I had invested considerable time and effort into hubpages, I also have quite a lot of outside interests - some of which have benefited from the recent changes. There is something to be said for 60% of your content not being complete garbage after all. :-D

By the time hubpages had finished cleaning house, I have a feeling they will have deleted half the site, removed all religious nonsense, "weight loss majik berry," crap, " run you car on water," spam and "how to make a fortune overnight forex trading" - and maybe it will regain some of it's former glory. I certainly hope so, because it has been a great place to publish for peopel outside those writing what Rupert Murdoch wants written.

Personally - I think those days are gone and Big Daddy G was pressured into this change by the big media boys. Oh well - C'est la Vie. This is not the first time a lot of people lost money with a google algorithm change and it won't be the last - that is what happens when you rely on search engine traffic. All good fun and as long as we can adapt and analyze the new paradigm - we should be fine.

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Apr

18

Last batch of hubpages 60 day challenge hubs

Having decided to do the hubpages 60 day challenge, I also decided to explore a few niches I had not explored before. The niches I decided to explore were - buying a guitar; buying used musical instruments online, making money online and manufactured homes. Apart from the MMO niche - which I have never managed to gain any traction with at hubpages - I have not really tried any of the these niches before, but my gut tells me they will do well at hubpages, largely thanks to their internal linking system. These are my manufactured homes hubs - only 5 so far, but of they pick up, I will do more if I can find any more reasonable keywords:

And using my new technique of finding a youtube video appropriate to the content of these otherwise-boring updates - here is an utter maniac driving a car through a manufactured home.

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My basic keyword research tells me these should be fairly easy to rank. But - sometimes the research does not translate into the real world so I will wait and see. I will be updating my 60 day challenge log in due course. And here are some mobile homes for you to buy.

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RadioShack 40-5040 RCA HTP-200 6-Pc Home Theater System/Manufactured October2002


RadioShack 40-5040 RCA HTP-200 6-Pc Home Theater System/Manufactured October2002


$132.00


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Apr

17

Hubpages 60 day challenge part 5

I am sticking with guitars for this batch - this will bring the total of hubs in that group up to 10.  I am not sure exactly what the optimum number is, but I suspect it is 15, because that is the number hubpages like to see for their "capstone hub" program. So - I may end up doing another 5. I also found this superb video of Les Paul ripping it up.

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These are the latest hubs:

And, testing out my latest wordpress plugin collection, a selection of guitars for your purchasing pleasure........

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SLIPKNOT  KILLSWITCH ENGAGE  SHADOWS FALL  LAMB OF GOD  April 2005 Guitar One


SLIPKNOT KILLSWITCH ENGAGE SHADOWS FALL LAMB OF GOD April 2005 Guitar One


$4.80


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Apr

15

Hubpages 60 day challenge part three

This is my third batch of hubpages 60 day challenge hubs and this time I have switched it up and gone for "buying a used xxxxxx online" as my keywords. This first batch centre around musical instruments and I am hoping to monetize them with ebay ads.

I have really been switching my focus towards ebay since amazon dropped their cookie duration. It is all very well using these affiliates, but when they change the rules mid-stream, it can be financially painful. The amazon cookie change was expensive as far as I am concerned.

Either way - these are the next batch:

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