About a week ago something caught my eye in the 30 Day HubChallengers Forum. It was a post from a guy named Ryan Kett who seemed to be pretty confident (aka ‘a little bit cocky’) about his ability to knock out several Hubs in a fairly short amount of time. To be more specific, he was asking people what the fuss was all about with the 30 Hubs in 30 Days HubChallenge after he had knocked out 36 Hubs in only 28 Days.

Well, after chatting with him a little bit more over email I quickly found out that even though he sounded a little full of himself in that forum post, he actually had the stats to back up all of the claims that he was making. In fact, he was seeing over 1,000 daily impressions and was only gaining more and more traffic every day.

I decided to ask him a few questions about how he got to the level that he is at today and he gave me some pretty interesting information that I thought each of you might enjoy reading about. So sit back, relax and read about what this crazy Hubber has to say.

1. Tell me a little bit about what you’ve learned since joining HubPages and why you’ve decided to stick around and write.
   

   In the two and a half months since I published my first hub I have found hubpages and its community to be a great place to learn and develop my SEO skills, and I continue to learn every day. I genuinely believe that new hubbers can achieve fantastic results through reading about the experiences of other hubbers and feeding off of their knowledge.

2. You have seen some pretty impressive results very quickly here on HubPages. What is your thought process when you’re publishing Hubs?
   I am now finding that the best way to build traffic fast is to publish as much high quality content as possible, whilst also considering the benefits of internal backlinking. In my latest hub challenge success I have tried to write several articles on the same topic, for example my series of hubs on Facebook, and then offering hyperlinks on each article to each all of my related hubs. This has reflected well on my ‘bounce rate’ which suggests that people are staying within my pages. Not only is each hub bringing in search engine traffic, but they now compliment each other by driving some of that organic traffic across some of my other hubs. Seeing an improvement in my traffic stats was all the motivation I needed to push out at least one hub a day, if I missed a day then I would force myself to churn out two the next day; I expect that I will be rewarded for these endeavors in the short, medium, and long term.
3. So it sounds like you have quite a system and strategy in place, so I guess what I want to know now is how is all of this work paying off for you now?
   About 2 months ago I was looking at less than 100 page views per day, this has increased to a current daily figure of between 800-1000, and rising! Whilst and increasing quantity of completed hubs has played a huge part in this, I cannot emphasize enough the need to focus on quality and taking the time to improve existing hubs. It was not until one week ago that I fully understood the hubpages tagging system, at the time I had 78 hubs and I decided to spend two days of hubbing time going through every single one of my hubs to implement my new found tagging skills. I estimate that this exercise alone has added around 100 views a day to my traffic stats, much of which will be organic traffic driven through the ‘related hubs’ box. In addition, I have seen my earnings suddenly double in the past couple of weeks – I cannot remember the last time I had a zero click day, it must be about 4 weeks now.
4. This has been all great information, Ryan! Any last bits of helpful information that you would like to pass on to other Hubbers who might be reading this blog?
   Although writing is a passion, I have to admit that my primary focus on hubpages is the potential for earnings, therefore I now use the google keyword tool as my main inspiration for finding titles. This allows me to identify decent paying keywords on which to base my article title and URL, almost allowing me control over my potential earnings. I recommend that any new or old hubber utilizes this tool, my highest earning article gets just 3 or 4 page views per day, it has earned me about ten times the amount that my ‘hottest’ article achieves; many of my earliest hubs earned a pittance, something which I now know how to avoid.

Looks like the HubChallenge might of paid off for Ryan, eh?

Thanks to Ryan for all of the great info and if you would like to find out more information on the HubPages 30 Hubs in 30 Days hubChallenge, be sure to check out this forum post to see how you get started!