30 Day HubChallenge Complete! Next: Promotion!

The HubChallenge was a great way to get started here at HubPages! I'd had an account for over a year, and was a bit intimidated by the prospect of hub-making so I didn't make my first hub until October 19, 2010. Now, on November 14, 2010, less than a month later, I have thirty hubs! It took 26 days. I'm not the speediest hub-maker ever, but still, it wasn't all that bad. Because I had the pressure of trying to complete the 30-day HubChallenge (thirty hubs in thirty days) I managed to keep at it.

For the most part I made one hub daily but this morning I got up and made five hubs between 1am and 7:30am! I was in a hurry to finish because I have jury duty in a few days... something I've looked forward to for a long time. I've never been on a jury before!

These last five hubs were all sales hubs - for toys and watercolor gifting, and a product review on my rice cooker which I absolutely love and recommend. These hubs were fast and easy to make... not a lot of mental cogitation went into them but it was fun to find the products and add them to the hub.

I'm still waiting for huge sums of money to show up in my AdSense and Amazon accounts... but in the meantime, I'm having fun here.

I was super-worried for a while that my AdSense wasn't set up right. Finally I just let go of all the worry and decided to put it out of my mind. Surprise! The next morning I got a click that was actually worth something more than a penny and less than a dollar - so I was very happy to know it was set up right and I don't need to worry about it anymore. Now I just need to be patient and realize that it takes time to get the kind of traffic I'll need to make HubPages profitable.

Amazon has been surprisingly low this month... I usually get more from my other sites. Guess I'll have to keep hoping that these HubPages product recommendations will eventually bear fruit and bring in some steady income.

I haven't set up an eBay account yet. I'm considering it. Since I have my own websites I'm sure I could get approved for that affiliate program. One step at a time. If I get an account I'll probably add eBay to all my hubs.

I noticed other people mentioned that the HubChallenge helped increase their traffic. Well, I'm not one of those. My hub traffic is still not all that impressive. Maybe six months from now I'll like the numbers better. These things take time!

For the next thirty days I'm going to make a concerted effort to promote the hubs I've already made. I've already got a detailed promotional system. So far I haven't felt ready to share it with the public, but it puts me through an intense workout for each hub. I'll take them one at a time and try to do my best to make every one of these hubs a winner!