Melinda's Wahm Blog

A few days ago, I decided to tackle the Ezine Articles Challenge where you have to write 100 articles in 100 days (HAHD) to be eligible for their prize package. It’s been just a little over 1 week since I started and I’ve submitted 7 articles so far and all have been approved. After my 1st submission, I was granted Expert Author status over at Ezine so my articles have been approved very quickly. I was thinking I had to submit 10+ more articles before I achieved that, but apparently not. Read more…

Just about a month ago now, I started a Xomba backlinking spree and I’m here to post an update about what’s been going on over there so far. All in all, I’m pleasantly surprised at my earnings because putting up a Xomblurb is completely easy and takes about 1 or 2 minutes to write at least 50 words of unique content. Sometimes I just copied intros from the articles I was bookmarking, but I would say about 85% of the time I created new content just for the Xomblurb. Read more…

I received an email from EzineArticles last night about their 3rd HAHD Marathon Challenge. HAHD is an acronym that means Hundred Articles Hundred Days. Basically you have 100 days to submit 100 articles and then you are eligible to receive their prize pack which includes the following: Read more…

Ehow is starting to prove to be exhausting for me. In recent months I have learned that I have no idea what they’re looking for. Sure, I’ve had crappy articles deleted, most are from when I first started, I’ve had article requests deleted (which are checked before they’re published) and I’ve had really good articles deleted too! Of the 10 new Ehow articles I submitted last week, all of them are still live on the site. I’m hoping their new pre-approval system means that if the articles go live, they won’t be deleted, but who knows Read more…

It’s been a little over a week since I started my very own personal Ehow challenge. I love Ehow because of the fact that you can make money online from home (or anywhere) for writing “how to” articles and as long as your articles remain on the site, you will continue to earn money in the form of passive income. I want to increase my monthly earnings over there so in the beginning of November, I set a goal to complete at least 30 new Ehow articles in 30 days. I’m currently 1/3 of the way there as I have published 10 new articles this week. None of them are currently showing any earnings, but combined they have produced a total of 57 views. Three of those articles were published yesterday and have no views at all.

I have been using Micro Niche Finder to find some great Read more…

A new month means a new experiment! For this month I’ve set a goal to complete 30 Ehows in 30 days. I love the format at Ehow. It’s so easy to write and I can get most articles done in less than 30 minutes. I generally stick to topics I already know a lot about to make the writing process faster.

Way Back at the Beginning of the Year…

I set a personal goal to add an additional 222 Ehow articles by the end of 2009. So far I have Read more…

Just over a month ago, I set a goal for myself to begin using Hubpages as another revenue stream. The goal I set was to complete 30 hubs in 30 days and I did fall a bit short of my goal. I finished off the 30 days having completed a total of 24 hubs. I wouldn’t call this experiment a complete failure though, the good part is that I did finish 24 hubs with at least 450+ words of high quality content that link back to Read more…

Okay, this last week I wasn’t able to add any new hubs. In fact, I haven’t done much work at all for myself during the past 7 days. I have no excuses, I think I just needed a break. This means I still have 11 more days to get 9 hubs done. I can do it. My mind feels refreshed and ready to go. It’s also nice to see the activity in my Hubpages account after not doing anything in it for 7 days so I’ll get into all that during this week 3 overview. If you missed it, here are my week 1 and week 2 overviews.

So far, 22 of my 23 published hubs have been Read more…

Now it has been 2 full weeks since I started the 30 hubs in 30 days Hubpages experiment. In case you missed it, here is my week 1 overview of this same experiment. I now have a total of 23 hubs published. Remember I had 2 I had written about 1 or 2 weeks prior to me starting this challenge, so to be fair, I actually have 21 that have been completed since I began the 30 day experiment. This means I only need to publish 9 more in the next 2 to 3 weeks!

This week I have 13 hubs out of 23 that have been Read more…

It has been 1 full week since I began publishing hubs to Hubpages. I am hopeful yet discouraged. I have published a total of 15 hubs and out of those 15 hubs, I’m only seeing 1 of them in the SERPs right now. I should note that 2 of the 15 hubs were actually published prior to me starting the challenge and it’s one of those 2 that is indexed. I haven’t fully decided if those will be a part of my 30 in 30, but I figure they might as well be. The other 14 have yet to be indexed by Google.

This means that during this next week I will plan on building at least 1 backlink to each hub in hopes that Google will crawl and hopefully index my site. I thought Hubpages articles were indexed fairly quickly but I’ve been reading that some aren’t being indexed for a week or more, so I will be patient. My primary focus is to publish hubs, but since I’m further ahead than I thought I would be, I should have some time to spend on building backlinks this week.

Earnings Read more…

It’s been way too long since I’ve posted anything here. I’ve been really busy writing for DS to get some up front money, as well as building up my article bases on Suite and Ehow, plus I’ve been building niche sites. I’ve learned quite a bit in the past few months and I’ve decided to try some other things to increase my income streams.

I’ve decided to take the plunge and create at least 30 hubs in 30 days. I have been himmin and hawwin about trying Hubpages and I’ve finally decided to give it a go. I have seen mixed results from reading other people who have done similar experiences but I’m willing to give it a try to see what I can accomplish. Read more…