Using HubPages to make money from Google AdSense

It had been a very long time I didn’t visit Amy Bass web page My Debt Free Goal. It’s with her I discover HubPages. HubPages had excited for a while now, but I haven’t ever heard about it… Why? LOL

See, HubPages is very fun to use. HubPages is not like Associated Content: your article doesn’t need to wait for approval before getting publishes on the Web. Which mean that as soon as you feel that your article is ready, you can actually publish it within a matter of seconds. HubPages is perfect for me! It’s easy to set-up an account, very user-friendly and, watch out: It’s allow you to register your very own Google AdSense account, Ebay and other if you are register with any pay-per-link program. So far, I am only register with Google Adsense, but I plan to register to other program that HubPages propose to use to make money.

Yesterday, I wrote and publish my first article on HubPages! And check it out, I just did a seach in Google with the following sentence: a taste of recession in my mouth. The sentence belongs to my first article I publish on HuPages. I find my article as 6th result on Google! Awesome! Never any of the articles I publish on my blogs got, I believe so well ranked. I haven’t been too much active on my different blogs so far, other than My First 50 000$. This is an exciting time for me as I am currently very close to reach my first 50 000$ value in investment.

I am currently out of weekend job. It’s giving me the chance to blog and to do whatever I want!

And how about a 200 HubPages challenge?

Learning from the pros

I subscribe not so long time ago to John Chow newsletter. And I am glad I did! I learn by John Chow that Jeremy "ShoeMoney" Schoemaker had started a new program, an Internet Marketing Course for beginners like myself, free to join! Of course, I register to the course right away. Shortly after, I was receiving my first week of course. The first course is an introduction, easy to understand, a PDF document of about 11 pages. ShoeMoney provide usual tips on how to start. He also talks a bit about himself. Beautiful story and you will be amaze by his easy way to look at the whole Internet Marketing deal.

Working at being searchable part II: MSN search engine

Quick update

Time pass so quickly! I have so little time in hand to complete all of my projects (consult previous post)! I currently had submit The 200 Project Blogs to Blog Catalog. I also submit The 200 Project Blogs to some social bookmarking. I am not with it still. But in the meantime, to do a change, I submit my blogs to the MSN search engine.

Submitting The 200 Project Blogs to MSN search engine

Since I already had a hotmail email address, I log into the Live Search – Webmaster Center with my current hotmail ID.

Here are the steps taking in order to register your blog to MSN search engine:

1. Once log in, you will arrived at a page name “Site List”. Click on “Add a site”.
2. Enter your URL under “Web address”. Click “Submit”.
3. A new page show up title “Authenticate your ownership of your website”. Go under “Meta tag authentification”. Copy the meta tag.
4. Save the meta tag just before or after the Yahoo! one in your HTML blog template. Once completed, click on “Return to Site List”.
5. Click on the URL. A message saying that your blog had been authentify will quickly appears. After what, you will arrive to the summary of your URL.

Nice job, your registration is now completed!

I follow those steps for my major blogs. My blogs have now been registered in Google, Yahoo! and MSN.

Next project: complete the registration of all of my blogs to Blog Catalog and complete the social bookmarking step.

Getting started: upcoming projects

I work extremely well last night. I work until 5AM in the morning. As I wake up (at 1:30PM lol), first thing I did is again, start my computer and log online. I have a quick look at my Yahoo! email and… surprise, My First 50 000$ had been approved and is now from Blog Catalog!

Blog Catalog registration

Next step will be to register the blogs I have open recently and who have relevant content. I am thinking of Advertisement for Blogs, International Organization of Prepaid Workers, Happy and Simple Living. At this time, I am currently active on 5 blogs, which is a good start, knowing how much time and effort it can take. Blogging is so much fun!

MSN search engine

Also, I want to register my 5 blogs to MSN search engine.

Social Bookmarking

Another step will also be to register my 4 other blogs to social bookmaking, following the list on socialmarker.com

Those little steps will probably keep me busy for the rest of the week. But the sooner I will be done with it, the better it will be.

What I like about this project, The 200 Project Blogs, is that it’s allowing me to share all the steps I am talking among the way. And I just hope I will be able to reach my goal one day and received a Google check. Wouldn’t be fun?

Working at being searchable: Yahoo! search engine

Now that I am done with the social bookmaking step, my next project for My First 50 000$ is to submit the Web site to the major search engine. I already submit My First 50 000$ to Google, but to Google only. My next project will be to submit my Web site to Yahoo! and other search engines. I was able to submit my blog to Google search engine through their Google Webmaster tool. But for Yahoo!, I have no clue on how to proceed. I did a search on Blog Catalog and I went through a wonderful site, call Tips and Tricks. I find all the tips I need on how to get my Web site add to the Yahoo! search engine.

Here’s a summary of my own steps taking in order to register to Yahoo! search engine:

1. Log in into the Yahoo! Site Explorer with my Yahoo! ID (the same ones you use for your Yahoo! email)
2. Click on “My sites” located on the left column. Inside the space bar, insert your blog address and click “Add My Site”.
3. Click on “Explore” – which is just next to your blog link. You will probably get the result “Invalid Request”. But no problem, continue with step 4.
4. Click on “Submit it for free” and after “Submit a Website or Webpage”. Enter again the URL of your blog and click “Submit URL”. After what, you should be reading the following: “Thank you! Your URL has been added to our list of URLs to crawl. Please expect a delay of several weeks before your URL is crawled”.
5. Return back to the main menu by clicking on “My Sites”.
6. Manually click on the new URL. Right next to “Authentification Status”, click on “New”.
7. Click on “By adding a META tag to my home page”. Copy the meta tag that appears in bold.
8. Open your Blogger account. Access to your blog.
9. In your Blogger account, select “Layout” and than “Edit HTML”.
10. Right on the top of the template, directly below:

head (with symbols <> after the d)
b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/ (with symbols <> after the /).

Save your Yahoo! meta tag. But just before the > symbol, add /. If you don’t do so, you won’t be able to save your template.
11. Click on “Save template”.
12. Go back at your Yahoo! Site Explorer page. Click on “Ready to Authenticate”. After what, you should read: “Your site has been authenticated”.

I plan to repeat this operation for all of my blogs…

The social bookmarking for my main blog is now completed

This step was quitted long. It took me sometimes as I had to create a new account for all different social markers found in the Web site socialmarker.com. But now that my accounts are all created, I will be able to, later on, submit all of my blogs and also submit by favorite links. So far, for all of those social markers, I submit my main blog, My First 50 000$. I am happy to be done with this first step.

About Blog Catalog

I find another great site where to advertise my blogs. This Web site is not from socialmarker.com. It’s call blogcatalog.com. Blog Catalog is very great. You can submit your blog for free. You need to confirm the ownership of your blog by adding one of their widgets or by adding a meta tag in the HTML template of your blog. For my part, I add a widget. The registration for My First 50 000$ is currently Pending. It should take about 48 hours to be completed. Blog Catalog is very nice to consult.

Slowly building my empire one blog at a time: my activities so far

This post title is very funny. But it’s actually what I am trying to do.

I start the week badly yesterday as I wasn’t up to do that much. I was feeling tired when I wake up and for today, I wake very late, at noon. I arrived from work around 1 AM. After what I usually stay online until 2:30AM – the latest. Usually, I am good to wake up around 10AM and sometime earlier, which I really like.

I begin to slowly begin to feel the result of my hard work on the traffic on my blogs. I am not reaching the 200 visitors per day yet, but the number is slowly increasing and seems to be relatively stable. For all of my blogs included, I have an average of 35 visitors per day. This is not too bad at all, since I start with an average of 10 visitors per day.

Here are some actions I took in order to increase the number of my visitors (all free BTW):

-Social Bookmarking
I subscribe to some social bookmarking that I find on socialmarker.com.

I complete the registration to the first column list so far.

-Active on forum: My Lot and Twitter

-Visit some other people blogs and leave some comments

-Write several posts for my blogs

The results could had been better if I would had work harder in each of those tips, but I am happy with the result I had so far and like I said, I am slowly building my empire… I am still waiting for my first Google AdSense check.