I read many different "make money online" blogs almost every day.  It's an adventure, and rarely I come across a blog offering free, helpful tips to help you start earning an income online.  The other day, I came across this site:  Earn Residual Income Online with Czezfat. The site is owned by Brian, and has written a series offering great advice on how to start making money online.

Brian's/Chezfat's series is called:  How to Start Making A Living Online.  After reading through the initial posts, I was impressed with the advice Chezfat offers.  It is all very logically laid out and easy to follow. This process does involve a lot of work, but then that's why it's called work.  Chezfat's ideas are easily applied to any type of online writing, including writing for HubPages.

I'm still plugging along with my own HubPages project, and stats are still holding after Google's Farmer algo.  This is a good sign, and encourages me to keep writing at HubPages and other places.  Quantity and quality will win the day.

If you're feeling frustrated and disappointed with your online earnings, just keep working at it...plugging along as I'm doing.  Keep to a schedule and work at this like you would at any job.  This is work...all those who say it's easy to make money online are not telling the truth.  There is a lot of work involved, but it is possible to make decent money online.  Keep going along with me on this journey...even plugging along is progress!

Good luck and happy hubbing!

Sher :0)

I'm slowly plugging along with my hub writing.  It's a bit frustrating that I don't have time to write more.  Right now, I have a couple of other projects that are demanding more time.  Even so, I'm writing hubs when I can.  Today I wrote my 19th hub.  That's not a lot of hubs, but better than zero!

Sometimes plugging along is all you can do--and that's OK.  The important thing is to keep making forward progress as you can.  Moving forward is progress--and that's a good thing.

That's all for today--just a short update post.  If you take anything away from this post, let it be that any forward movement is progress.  Work on your hubs as you can, writing the best possible articles to help your readers, entertain them, etc.  Be consistent with quality--one hub at-a-time--and you'll do just fine.

One more note--HubPages has a new contest starting March 31st!  It's called the "So You Think You Can Write" contest, and they are looking for new articles written on subjects not covered extensively on the web. You can read the details on their site.

Happy hubbing!

Some hubbers have seen a drastic drop in search engine traffic to their hubs, along with lower revenue.  Other hubbers have reported negligent changes to their stats.  Right now, I have 17 hubs published, and the traffic did take a small dip a few days after the algorithm change.  Now, however, the numbers seem to have leveled out and stats seem to be back to normal. 

HubPages has taken Google’s newest algorithm to heart, and have made some changes in the rules we have to follow to write hubs.  Here is a short list of the changes they’ve made:

• All hubs must contain original content—no duplicate content will be allowed.  Some hubbers like to take an article they write for one site and include it as a hub.  Duplicate content is major red flag to Google that the content is probably of a more spammy than helpful nature.  Google will then lower the page rank of both sites, which also causes a loss in search engine traffic, etc.  HubPages is cracking down on duplicate content—and that’s a good thing.

• Amazon and eBay capsules must contain at least 50 words in the text for every product featured. 

• RSS, news, amazon and ebay capsules will no longer allowed to be the first capsule at the top of a hub. 

• HubPages is looking at deleting all affiliate links from hubs. 

• Also examining an updated ad layout for the site and hubs.

• HubPages Ad Program:  the program will be another way to earn from your writing with an optimized mix of ads that will be alongside Google Adsense, and Amazon, etc.  The program is new, and Hubbers are being added in waves.  HubPages hopes to have the program available to all Hubbers by June.

These updates are a positive response to the “Farmer” algorithm, and I plan to continue writing at HubPages.  Writing is a wonderful way to help make extra money and passive income, but it’s important to write for more than one site.  Be sure to look at ways to develop other income streams, in addition to HubPages, and write quality content that actually helps your readers, and you’ll weather the algorithm storms just fine. 

Happy hubbing!

Sher