Morning/evening,

I just wanted to point something out in case you have not quite seen things from this point of view. Of course – many of you will, so please forgive me if I’m going over something you are familiar with.

You know full well that I had a bit of a blast at Hubpages with regards their use for SEO’ing other websites – attaining a do-follow backlink from the Hub.

You also know that I said that Hubs on their own are to be thoroughly admired indeed for what you can do with them over-all as a standalone website.

Sure thing, I think for AdSense, Amazon and eBay, they take a cut of 40% of your profits because you are using their free platform to display your work. I think its 40%, but do correct me on this if otherwise.

Well, that leaves 60% for you to pocket at your leisure.

Now let’s envisage a scenario (very losely). Let’s imagine you find a nice very hot keyword that’s getting some 30k exact global searches a month. Let’s also imagine that for that keyword Goog AdSense are offering up to pay something in the region of $1.50 per click. And I do mean they are going to PAY you that to you.

Okay then, let’s do some figures here shall we…

* Goog pays out $1.50 a click.

* Hub takes 40% of that as their cut, which leaves you with 90 cents.

Now let’s imagine that you can indeed get the top spot with this hub. The search vol is nicely high for sure and its going to be tough going no doubt. But let’s see the benefits here of using a Hub…

1. Its strong already! You got automatic juice as soon as you begin, thus ranking it some place in top 30 is not going to be too much of an ordeal, possibly even with little to no backlinking.

2. You can smack it with all sorts of backlinks and you can smack it with 100 backlinks a day or however many and chances are that it will happily soak up this abuse, very much unlike our delicate new website, which would fade away rather rapidly with that sort of backlinking strategy. Our own private domain has to be treated as we would a baby – softly does it!

3. You can pick out a copy-righted domain name and not be concerned about infringement. This is NOT the case with your own private domain. You could be told to take the site off the net if you infringe copyright. You may even be sued for infringement. I don’t know of a case where that’s happened but it will for sure. Its only a matter of time!

For example, let’s presume I want to go for a hot product and thus a hot domain name…
sonylaptops.com

Of course that’s not available but if it were, do you think that Sony is going to sit back and let me use that name? Ah, I doubt it! But for a Hub, no worries! And, chances are reasonable that this domain name is going to be available too under the Hub name anyhow.

Okay, not so much Sony, but let’s say the name of some other common product names.

The domain name may be “watered down” a bit due to it being something like this…

http://hubpages/domain name of choice… The domain name will show like this one here in hyper-text…

NIGHT LIGHTS FOR THE KIDS, NIGHT LIGHTS FOR THE PARENTS

Ya, that’s one of my hubs. I have a domain for the same product sitting kinda nicely in Google for my chosen keywords right now – there is no AdSense on it (I hope) so I’ll give you the details here so you can check it out and you know I’m not all hot air …

“Twilight Turtle” (totally unrelated to Twilight Saga – this is a children’s constellation night light).

My domain is the twilightturtle .net  (I can’t join that up cos it goes to hyper link text when I post it up).

Is it 5th, 4th? Whatever, it should be ranked some place in top 10 at the least.

It gets just over 18k global exact searches a month according to Google. At Christmas expect that to at least double!

But hey, do you think I’m going to let it sit “nicely” when its coming up to Christmas?? Nope – I’m gonna get the TOP SPOT!!! Don’t believe me? Pop back in November and check the same keywords…

More about the massive potential of Christmas sales and how YOU can reap rewards lower down on this post…

Anyhow, back to what I was saying re picking a Hub domain name…

But you are still getting the keyword in the domain name. And I suspect that Goog is very happy about that!

Further, if you do fairly regular Goog searches, how often do you see a Hub someplace in the top 30 rankings (if you go down that far)? Quite a lot!

Now let’s imagine that the guy or girl who produced that hub had a good idea about how to attain a few really good quality backlinks to that hub. Do you think that this hub would still be sitting in 30th? I seriously doubt it! Its a sinch to get that hub running up the rankings faster than you can say the proverbial “Jack Daniels”, it really is!

But the poor old hubmaster (or hubmistress) simply has no idea how to go about the business.

You do!

Let’s get back to the stats – the income potential for this hub…

You/we get 90 cents per click – in our pocket, after expenses.

The search volume per month (let’s just take the global for this example) is indeed 30k EXACT.

Let’s imagine we can get the top spot in Goog here.

Let’s take a figure that is commonly bandied about as being the approx amount of people who are doing a search to visit the top ranked site for that search… the site that is ranked at number 1…

42%

Let us take a click through rate of… 5%, which seems fairly average (its obviously possible to ramp this up on a private domain – and ramp it up a whole lot too!).

Figure crunching…

$567 a month!

Yup, $567 a month from one single HUB!

You’ve spent no money – no domain name, no software tools, no nothing!

Sure thing, it would be faster to use a couple of software tools in pursuit of top place in Google, but its not entirely necessary. Use a few of the techniques I discussed already and you’ll be onto a good thing. Just leave out the software tools is all. Takes longer, more graft, but its very much achievable!

You can do this with Squidoo lens too. Not long ago – 2 years – Google LOVED Squidoo lens and they were really easy to rank high with not much work at all. Then suddenly, Squidoo’s went through what is termed as a “Google Slap“, and it was a hard slap too. All sorts of things went awry with Squidoo lens. Lens masters and mistresses were losing all their lens over night (even the PotPieGirl lost her Squidoo account! Albeit briefly), or Google was simply re-ranking those lens way further down than they had been previously.

Check now though. Check on the net. Do a few Google searches. What do you see? I know what I’m seeing! And its Squids leaping up all over. Thus, don’t you think that Google is back in love? I sense that Google and Squidoo are partying together again, after so many months of squabble and disagreement. They’ve patched up their differences and they are partying once more together. Its nice to see, it really is.

Squids – free! Same setup as Hubs I think – you have to share some of the income generated on the Squid with Squid. However, don’t forget that you can also use Squidoo lens to get high quality backlinks to another site that you have. If you wanna do that in future, then the Squid is nicely placed for you to do so.

Getting my point here?

Making seriously good income on the net need not mean you have to spend a lot (or anything) of your hard-earned.

Ya, ya, I know this all sounds easy peeeezy lemon squeezy. I guess you may be saying…

“ah, its ok for Joseph, he knows how to do all this, he’s been doing it for a while, he knows”. I do know, that’s why I’m telling you now how to do it, so you can do it just like I could be doing it, if I targeted Squids and Hubs. Right now my hands are too full. I simply don’t have the time. However, I do like the idea very much, so I may do exactly as I preach in future and set up some more Hubs and Squids precisely for this purpose.

Something else – when is Christmas?

….. just over 7 months away.

When do Christmas sales begin?

….. in the main, from the start of November… 6 months from now.

Seems far off, right? Its not actually. That time passes so fast you don’t know where you are sometimes!

Do you know that Amazon.com sales more than quadruple at Christmas time? (It may be more, I don’t know the exact stats).

For me, I set up a few sites, and ranked a few of ‘em for last Christmas 2009 – I think I had maybe 3 in top place in Goog, a few others nicely placed in top 10.

I made the same income within November and December that I’d make the whole of the other 10 months put together!!

And do you know, hubs and squids are the perfect set up for Christmas time purchases!! AdSense! Or eBay! Or Amazon! With AdSense you don’t have to do anything, just enter your AdSense account details in your Squid or Hub account. With Amazon and eBay, do the same as for AdSense and then add one of the specialist modules for books, products, whatever… Its a sinch, it really is!

Enough chat from me for now – I got work to do. Remember, I’m a lazy work-a-holic!

Till next time!

Best wishes to you!

Joseph