Oh! It's On! Hubbers and Keyword Sojourners Duel In The Hub Challenge

Buzz in the Web 2.Oh writing world of late revolves around a challenge "thrown down" between HubPages' own Ryan "Psycho" Hupfer and Courtney "Court" Tuttle, founder of Keyword Academy.

The challenge, a.k.a. The Hub Challenge, has each of them starting anonymous accounts on HubPages.com and publishing 100 hubs in 30 days, commencing May 11, 2009. The goal? Accumulate the most Adsense dollars.

Writing 100 hubs in 30 days is no small feat, but properly managed and researched, can produce some nice Adsense revenue -- definitely of the four-figure variety, for what amounts to less than four work hours per day. But who will win? We'll just have to wait and see.

All this came into life because Court recently had an epiphany about HubPages. He started making a few dollars per day on a mere five hubs he published for backlinks to other webpages, and thought perhaps HubPages could be a residual Adsense windfall in the right writer's hands.

Court and Ryan began emailing about the subject, and soon enough, The Hub Challenge was on!

The coolest thing about The Hub Challenge, is you too can join and enjoy its lively experience and trappings. I have committed to publish 100 hubs in the next 30 days. It is not all that hard -- four or five hubs per day and I'll have 100 before I know it!

If you join us and complete 100 (keyword researched) hubs, you'll have 100 pages you didn't have before, generating Adsense revenue (assuming you input your Adsense code), and bringing you a little Web 2.Oh fame.

Come join us! The Hub Challenge is crazy fun!

Welcome to My Blog

Web 2.0 is dated. This blog is about writing for Web 2.Oh! Writers who write in the Web 2.Oh world know that now is when we can truly self-publish and make a living -- at sites like HubPages.

How do writers make a living without drudgery and query letters? Web 2.Oh writers know. I submit the best place is HubPages, and you may well find this blog carries a pro-HubPages.com slant. The reason is simple.

In addition to HubPages' ultra-cool staff, like one Ryan Hupfer, whose duties include cheerleading and helping "hubbers" enjoy the self-publishing experience at HubPages, the site is easy to use, and shares revenue on a straightforward 60/40-split basis.

All you need is your own Adsense code (which the site will help you acquire if you lack it), and 60% of the time the Google ads on your hubs are yours. The other 40% goes into HubPages' coffers -- they have to make money, after all.

Others may tell you that Squidoo or Helium are great places to write. I submit that HubPages is better -- because they are straightforward with what percentage you will make from your revenue streams.

Most other self-publishing sites use complicated, proprietary formulas. HubPages keeps it simple with a 60/40-split on Adsense (and they have other revenue streams to boot!) -- nothing too complicated about that!

At Web 2.Oh Writer, I will be exploring the best ways to write and make money online. We're not going to talk about things that are fly-by-night here, but I am keen to help you break free of your day job and full-on write for a living.

Web 2.Oh Writer -- smartly writing for money online.