Challenge: 1,000 Hubs in 2012

Remember back when I challenged myself to write 1,000 articles in 100 days?

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve taken up a writing challenge like this which is why I’m dedicating this year, 2012, to write 1,000 articles on Hubpages. Basically, that comes down to three articles a day.

Why Hubpages?

For those that have followed my blog, you’ll know that I was writing for Helium which paid out great money at the time until they flipped their direction and basically annihilated that opportunity.

I set out to find a new platform to spill my thoughts to.

After weighing the options of Squidoo vs. Hubpages vs. Bukisa vs. Personal Blog, I decided to say screw it and settled on Hubpages.

After the Panda update slammed down on content mills, Hubpages has made a lot of great strides to keep their traffic and search rankings up there. Notably, they give you a separate sub-domain so your content isn’t lumped in with a lot of the trash.

I had a jump start with Hubpages back at the end of 2011 and the results were, quite to say, pretty awesome …

Hubpages is a great outlet for me. I have thousands of ideas for articles I’ve always wanted to write but couldn’t quite find the platform to place them – I wouldn’t put things like “Top 5 PS2 Video Games” on Murlu, ya know?

Details of the 1,000 Hub Challenge

Like I’ve mentioned, the 1,000 hubs will cross a lot of variety but there is a method to this madness.

You didn’t think I’m just throwing shit against the wall, did ya?

I’ve got some upcoming posts about Hubpages that you’ll really enjoy that’s about earning money and leveraging your work there for future business opportunities but let’s get back on topic …

1,000 Hubs in 365 days is way more do-able than the previous challenge. Likewise, this gives me (and, perhaps you) an opportunity to try different styles for writing.

For example, much of my inspiration for my hubs comes from these sources:

• What I’m cooking that day (becomes a tutorial)
• New products I’ve bought (becomes reviews)
• Places I’m visiting (becomes travel guides)

I’ve been in a funk lately in terms of writing as more than a few of you could tell over these last few months. I think the big problem was that I was spinning wheels because I didn’t have anything in particular I was going for – that’s why I kicked up the challenge.

I’d say you should join me but you’ve probably got too much on your plate at this time. However, if you’re down for this kind of challenge than jump over to the Facebook page I slapped together for it. Follow it and add your say – let’s get a little tribe going here or something.

You can clicky that image or just go to https://www.facebook.com/pages/1000-Hub-Challenge/214586501961328

For the challenge, it basically comes down to this: 3 hubs a day, every day.

And …

I said I would be posting on Murlu here and there – more relaxed – but back with style. I need to do this challenge, me thinks, in order to really get back into my creative flow.

Ever since leaving my job to start up freelancing, I’ve found out two things that no one really had been talking about:

• You gotta really bust your ass to make things happen
• No one is going to support your lazy ass

Everyone likes to push out that image of sitting in the tropics, sippin beer and making money but the reality is that being alone, in your room, working on shit is way more difficult than you think especially when you’re tapped on motivation for that day – you gotta grind through it.

Where was I going? Oh yeah, the challenge …

So that’s why I kicked up the challenge, get back into writing but more importantly: I’m going to be throwing a few awesome concepts and guides about Hubpages that’s going to get a lot of you to make your projects (and freelancing) roll along.

Okay, anyway, that’s all I really have for today. Share this with people that are trying to get started. Join up. Comment and lemme know what you think about the challenge.