It Works! - How to Promote Your Website: Sunforged's 60 Day Challenge - My Log

I've mentioned participation in various HubPages features as a means to promoting your Hubs and gaining readership and other traffic in How to Drive Traffic to Your Hub with Participation. One of those features is the 30 Hubs in 30 Days Challenge that is ongoing for an ever-increasing community within the larger HubPages group. A new twist to this is Hubber sunforged's new challenge within a challenge: the 60 Day Challenge in which 30 days are spent researching and writing fresh, high demand content, with the following 30 days spent in group-aided promotion activities to help of the 60-dayers, which will bring more traffic to HubPages as well and new members. With more new members, we'll be having more content to choose for the HubNugget Wannabe Hubs each week as well. It will be a lot of fun!

As a member (Sci-Pi and her Mirror Gallaxy alter "Pi-Sci") of the seafaring and space-going HubNuggets Weekly Contest and promotion that includes new Hubbers of 3 months' tenure or less, I cannot get "Ship's Log" out of my Klingon-learning mind. But that seems to work, because now I can think about the 60 Day Challenge Log and try to keep up! It sounds like fun and I hope I can keep up with all the rest of you.

Truly, I had a bit of a time posting my 30 Hubs in 30 Days links in the correspnding HubPages Forum. I actually forgot to finish that part of the task a couple of months running, so this log feature should help me with that aspect.

At any rate, this will be an interesting experience that I urge all Hubbers to attempt. If you cannot join us for this challenge, then please have a good time reading our material and laughing at me as I may fall behind. All in good fun!

Often, just inserting oneself into a matrix that will organize one's activities in a certain effort creates wonders in increased resluts. it will happen with the 60 Day Challenge. Much good success to us all! And thanks very much to sunforged.

April 1, 2010

GOALS: I've been thinking about my HubPages contributions and I would like to improve in the following aspects:

SELF

1. Gain increased traffic from current and additional sources. Five or 6 sources cover most of my incoming traffic and I'd like to at least double that number.
2. Increase Google AdSense income by 30%,
3. Double Amazon and Ebay earnings. This revenue is low and needs to go up or out.
4. Increase the quality, usefulness, and broadcasting of my Hubs to the world,
5. Increase my understanding and effective use of social networking and bookmarking sites. Look at RedGage and join.

COMMUNITY

1. Provide additional and more effective promotion ideas for HubNuggets Wannabes and others that contact me for suggestions in this regard.
2. Recruit additional Hubbers to the HubPages community.
3. Support other 60 Day Challenge Hubbers in their efforts and link with their Hubs and social networking sites whenever possible.

April 2 & 3

Examined RedGage and joined. Gathered initial link-ups with several friends. Posted two articles.

April 3

Topics: I like to write about Employment and Training (jobs related), answer Hub Requests, and participate in Princessa and Company's Weekly HubMob. I'll stay with job related Hubs and in Requests and HubMob I'll look for Health & Medicine, Food, History, Social Issues, and Education.

April 5

The HubMob topic seriously motivated me this week and I had a good time creating the Hubs. I experienced some awesome insights along the way about people I have respected and liked, but now admire for their courage as well. Several connections within my own history emerged from bits and pieces of the past that had been fluttering at one another.

I have found RedGage easy to navigate and use, attractive to the eye as well. Many Hubbers are already on RedGage, so it's rather easy to build a community and obtain followers. Other articles and posts on the site are entertaining and interesting as well. If you'd like to join us, you can click the link above.

April 6-8

RedGage works MUCH better and faster in FireFox than in IE. 

April 8 - 10

Thus far, my 60 Day Challenge Hubs are attracting traffic from 6 or 7 sources, except the last two Hubs, published most recently. "Celebrating Easter Monday" has 12 top sources. Incoming traffic is increasing from Twitter this week.

April 11 - 12

With some suggestions from sunforged and other 60dc Hubbers, I figured out Twitterfeed for Facebook and Twitter, and picked up additional two-way contacts on both those sites and HubPages. Also picked up and began following a few additional people on RedGage.

April 13

A couple of my Week 1 ChallengeHubs are up to 8 traffic sources. Princessa's HumBob this week is all about Cinco de Mayo and I can add Hubs about Mexican and Mexican Native American history and cuisine. A good and fun topic this week!

April 14-15

The Scottish HubMob was too interesting - I can't stop writing about Scotland! I'll also publish my turn at the Weekly HubNuggets Hub the morning of April 16 and I hope readers like it. Everyone can vote for their favorite newer Hubbers' articles and make more friends there. We've been writing a continuing Space Opera saga week by week and it's taking on a life of its own.

April 16

Weekly HubNuggets Hub - Hubnugget Corps of Engineers. It would be great of all the 60dc'ers would visit and vote. Thanks!

April 19

I figured out last week how to apply Shark Feed to a blog, and the result is that the 60 Day Challenge Hot Hubs are appearing as content on my blog. I have to go in and add tags and headings, sometimes additional text, but it's good content. It is increasing my overall Internet traffic significantly.

A also joined William Shatner's MyOuterSpace.com for writer's networking on Planet CREATIA under the governorship of -- Alan Dean Foster!

April 20

Here's another useful social networking site that also uses AdSense, Amazon, and a linked button to add to your Facebook profile as an app: YouSayToo.com

I joined SheToldMe, because several other Hubbers are on this site and find it useful as well.

April 21 - 22

Hub traffic picked up significantly begining April 20-21, a little higher yet on April 22.

Interestingly, a person on another site saw about the jelly Hub (below), did not read it or the Hub, and took off in a political tangent about corn syrup. it should bring some new readers over here.

April 23

In the Hub up for Friday, I learned more about a controversial vaccine for lyme diease that can cause the disease and arthritis as side effects.

I'm excited to see today's HubNuggets Hub when it's listed in The Hubber's Hangout forum today and see how many of our 60 Day Challengers may be on the list. I hope some of our newer Hubbers joined us.

My views per day have increased +1,500 daily daily average since April 18 and are inching up daily.

April 30

My overall viewership has increased 2,000 views per day on average when compared to earller April. This seems some poof that the group promotion and group linking are working well and can increase in effectiveness over time.

 

Among my Hubs, 6 made a score of 100 all at the same time, with several also at 99. The larges numbers of "100s" I had at once previously was 3 and one time, 4, during a HubMob.

Views per day remain at the higher level accomplished with the help of participating in 60dc. Increased traffic seems stable.

GOING FORWARD

May 8 - June 14

• All goals have been met, except for Amazon and eBay. 
• The successful results continue to increase and rise above my projections. 

This has been a fantastic week at HubPages!

For a brief time on June 21, seven (7) of my Hubs reached a score of 100 at once and the daily earnings was markedly high compared to usual, which is increasing right along.

I hope that all of your work online is paying off for you!

The 60DC Challenge initial work and follow-up promotion continues to help boost page views, clicks, etc, for participants. The further participation in HubTrail boosted this even more. My HP work experinced a dip in views before July 3, then a marked increase beginning the evening of July 3 that has continued.  on 7th of July,  10 of my Hubs reached the 100 score simultaneously - This is incredible to me!

I hope participation in HubPages challenges is producing similar results for all of our participants.

Best of success to you!

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