How to write quality articles, fast!
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Just remember, the more hubs you have, the more potential traffic you can get.
I'm writing this hub to answer brakel2's question "How did you do so many hubs in such a short time? How long does it take you to do a hub?"
Hopefully with this quick guide I can explain the main steps I take to writing a fast, quality hub - generally in 30-45 minutes.
Just so you know, I am far from a top hubber - I've only been here three months. This is a guide for writing quality hubs fast - not getting traffic. There are plenty of good hubs on this site about maximizing your keywords and SEO.
It's completely possible to write a fast quality hub without making it a long hub.
The ability to touch type is one of the main keys to getting all your information down and into a good quality hub.
Write what you know
Each day you are learning - whether it be through social interaction, websites, dealing with companies or buying items. That means that potentially, you have endless hub material until you stop learning.
If you aren't sure what to write about, I'd recommend reading my How to hubstorm hub.
Plan Ahead
Decide how you're going to display your page and what it should include. Then click the appropriate capsules. As soon as I begin editing my hub I generally throw in about 6 textboxes, 4 photo boxes, a links box and a poll or video box. This way if you get a bit lost as to what you were up to, you can just go ahead and work on filling each capsule.
Don't sweat the small stuff. Yes, make sure the hub is accurate and neat. But don't spend 10 minutes thinking how to phrase that sentence. Your aim is to get that hub published!
Leave it for a few minutes - don't burnout.
Once you've chosen a topic, create the hub and put in your basic ideas, one subtopic idea per capsule and then fill in what you think of. Once you've put as much information as you can, save it as unpublished. Go do something else on the internet or (like I do) go do some mindless task like hanging the washing or doing the dishes. This will give your mind a chance to work over what you've written so far and either decide you need to change something or think of something to add.
If you do feel yourself start to slow or run out of steam, go do something else or work on another hub.
If you've been reading more about the subject in question, it's a good idea to avoid writing about it straight away. This allows the information to sink into your brain and allow you to write it in your own words and add your own ideas - avoiding duplicate content.
Quality Hub Checklist
√ - 500 -1500 words
√ - 1-3 Photos (with attributions and borders)
√ - At least one different medium such as - poll, table, video, links, RSS feed or quiz.
√ - At least 4 text capsules (generally one paragraph or subtopic per capsule.)
√ - A link box with suitable links - if possible link to your own hubs on the topic.
√ -An amazon capsule or two near the bottom of your hub is a great idea. Why? Two reasons. First, you never know when someone reading through your hub will be in a buying mood for something on that topic. And secondly - google bots crawl everything on the page - including words used in amazon items, meaning you can often get extra views off search engines.
√ - Tags - Check over the suggestions hubpages gives you and also use your google analytics keywords for ideas. Try and keep them on topic and precise. Each tag creates a backlink to your hub.
Remember: Use the share button on any hub you wish to link to - it includes a tracker so that hubpages will note you as the referrer and you'll be rewarded for it.
Think Different
Each hub doesn't have to be a clone of your others. Try and add something new or different to each hub or work around 2-3 different layouts so your regular readers get a surprise sometimes. Difference can also make your hub easier to read. Try the following:
- Use ALT Codes to add something on topic or unique.
- Try to get different types and sizes of pictures - as well as editing their width to full, half or quarter size.
- Don't write an essay or everything with dot points. Break your hub up into points, topics and paragraphs. Highlight important points with bold, italics or underline.
Wait a week
It may be hard to do, but once you've published your hub - apart from minor tweaks such as grammar or errors - leave it alone for a week.
This will allow you to do several things:
- Watch its hubscore.
- Watch its traffic.
- Check its keywords.
- Get comments.
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Really good hub. What really rings true is to work on getting the different capsules in place and then let them simmer for awhile and go back and re-read and fine tune after a while. Voted useful and up.
Another very helpful article!! Thank you!
Excellent hub. Well explained. Voted up
Very nice idea. Excellent work!
Fantastic! I tend to have bursts of creativity when I get lots of ideas. I will make lots of lenses/hubs/wizzes and then go in later to flesh them out and publish them. I LOVE your advice about shifting mental gears. You know, I often see those tasks as distractions, but you are right. That change can give you time to see things you missed. THANKS!
A very helpful and informative hub. I can't imagine ever being able to put a hub together in such a short time as I'm pretty slow at this sort of thing. I will try to take your advice on board about not deliberating too much over one sentence. I'm definitely prone to doing this very thing.
it's really helping guide for new writers.
Very informative, now to test the waters. It was good to read about procrastinating re: a sentence. I find myself to be one of those people.
Very informative hub! Thanks! By the way, why should I include a border with the photos I include on my hubs? So that it stands out?
Very good, hub on how to write a successful hub. A must reading for any newbie and older hubbers who are not following these methods! Voted up!
HI Darrke Thoughts.
No, it's not the link suggestion tool - that doesn't insert referral trackers into the codes, so I don't use it at all.
For information about referrals, visit Darkside's profile, he has several hubs related to referral trackers linked there.
Great hub. I didn't understand the part about the share button and getting credit for referring another hub though. That is not the link suggestion tool, is it?
Thanks for your help I am new to hub and looking to get as much info as possible.
Great hub. Well laid out and easy to see you are following your own advise. I tend to get too involved in what I write to be able to do it quickly. I'll have to keep your advise in mind.
A very helpful hub ~ thank you :)
Glad I came across this hub. Thanks for sharing the useful info.
I believe it gives a more professional, finished look to the hub. Also, google adsense doesn't like pictures and adverts being too close together, if there is a chance that the picture will attempt to make people click on the advert. The bordered picture makes it appear that the picture is not related to the advert in any way.
Yes I am curious too
Hi - I'm just curious why you recommend a border for an image?
Thank you to all the newbies trying this out. How did you get interested in writing hubs? I think its fasinating the diversity of the hubs and the topics used. Thanks for your great information
this is great,, Looks like I am applying some of this in my hubs already, so I am on a right track..... I am on a 30 hubs in 30 days challenge and I am getting close to deadline with only 25 hubs... I am still working on it, though I need to do it alternately with my other non hubpages related article... thanks
Great hub! It really helps.
My first day on the hub! Thanks for all the great info. I will be referring back.
I forgot that I asked this question before. Anyway I am reading it again and need to bookmark it. That way I can read it over and try to follow the steps. I have written 11 hubs in 9 months, so this hub is very helpful.Thanks again for sharing.
Am trying the tips you mentioned above and will watch what happens.
Writing what you know is a good comment. It makes sense to churn out hubs on things you like to do or have knowledge in.
great tips I should add more capsules for my hubpages.
Very interesting Hub, take up the great work WryLilt :)
Great hub with great ideas, thanks for sharing this.
Thank you GmaGoldie. If the formatting was those tick marks, they're easy to replicate. Simply click the ALT codes list I've got in the 'think different' section to see a whole range of unique characters you can use.
Great Hub! The formatting - is JeanieR referring to your check marks - love those! Very concise, very helpful! I will try the tag trick that Marisa Wright offered.
The unique capsule - I thought about but wasn't sure - glad to have guidance on this.
Thank you very much! Outstanding.
JeanieR, can you tell me what you mean by formatting?
Thanks for sharing these wonderful ideas! A great read. I love to bookmark this hub for further read!
Well, Wrylilt, from a hilltop in Australia, I am JeanieR from a hilltop in the Sequoia National Forest in California. Thank you for all this helpful info. Thank you, thank you! One blank for me is about formatting. I can see there are formatting choices. Havent been able to figure out accessing those choices.
Very useful hub and learnt some new and valuable ideas which has given me some food for thought. Cheers for sharing.
As someone who is new and feeling overwhelmed, THANK YOU for the quality checklist. Such simple, easy to follow advice I had not seen anywhere else! Thank you!
excellent and informative hub!
I think I will learn a lot from you!
Re: your comment about the borders around images. Google doesn't like pictures directly next to or below adsense ads that might suggest the ad is related to the picture so from that point of view I think it is a matter of personal choice on your hubs.
There was a technique/cheat/marketing tactic a while back to have a little strip of images below or beside a strip of ads so the image looked as though it was a link to find out more about the picture so a picture of a hot girl or a Ferrari would tempt people to click the ad. I'm sure the management here at hubpages have made sure the layouts will always conform with big G's wishes.
Excellent hub.
This is too kewl. A lot of good advice to be found here. Thanks for the tips :).
Hi Hubpageswriter1.
Simply click the news capsule next time you're creating or editing a hub. It will automatically generate a list of relevant news items based on your hub's name. You can also insert relevant keywords if you want. This news will change based on current events and news articles available on the topic.
It's best to have a text block at the top of your hub, so a google adsense advert can appear top right. Then place a picture next to the second text capsule. You can position the pictures how and where you want using the green arrows.
great hub but what is a news capsule and how do you put one on your hub and do how do you decide where your pictures are pershoned
Thanks for the tips.
good information wrylilt!
I'm bookmarking it.
Full of great advice. I know I am too slow withh getting out a new hub. I do spend too much time searching my brain for the perfect word.Slap myself! Thanks!
Excellent!!
Thanx for the advice, I'm really going to use it in future hubs.
There's some good stuff here.
The key to this place is massive action. Write 2 hubs a day. If you find a good niche, relentlessly write more content in that niche until you've run out of ideas.
Thanks Darkside. Just wondering - I remember reading that it's good to put borders around images because adsense can get upset if an image in anyway makes people think the advert is not an advert - or something to that affect. Is that correct?
Excellent hub.
Though I wouldn't have the borders around the images. Especially when they've got a white background, because it blends in really well with the page and the isolated image can really jump out at the reader.
I am reporting this hub to shadesbreath.Why are you undermining all his good work on how to fail at hubbing?
Excellent hub, WryLilt. I needed something exactly like this. Thank you for some invaluable advice!
i still vant believe it 100 hubs in two months. good. how much money did you make
Very good hub with lot of quality information. Keep going.
Very nice tips WryLilt. Very useful for a newbie like me.
Great hub, WryLilt. You have done a wonderful job in only two months, very inspiring. I have been actively writing for past one month and have gathered only 10 hubs, main reason I tend to write long hubs and take a long time. Your checklist suggests that I can focus on writing shorter quality hubs and not bother about writing long ones, really useful.
This will be an important piece of my Hub Reference arsenal! Thanks!
Great hub, very useful for me as a new hubber! Many thanks.
I like your approach. Procrastinating oover a sentence is a no no inmy view. Anyhow you can always fix it later !
Nice hub for everyone, not just those wishing to get a quick hub out. Mine ususally take 45 mins to an hour, but the score reflects the time and effort.
I'm bookmarking this one. I write content on several Web sites, and this is not only useful for writing Hubs, but for other sites.
I don't really do research for most of my hubs - most (especially pregnancy & baby ones) are based on personal experience.
Good hub! I've been using Better Writing Right now book for as a reference.
How do you do your research?
another great hub - thank you :)
Thank you for your writing tips in hub.. it's valuable.. especially for as new hub and new write in english.
Great tips, LM. You created excellent Hub.
The section on "Qaulity Hub Checklist" was most helpful to me. With my first two articles, I really had no clue what tools were all available to me or how to use them properly. Thank you!
Hi- Thank you so much for this valuable information and your quick response to my question. The answer became a hub. Wow, I am impressed. I wish that I could type as fast as you can as it would sure help with my hubs. Your organizational plan for hubs is super.
LarasMama,
I read one of your article but I did not write any comment. Then, a day later, one of your advice came into my mind and I planned to read that article again but I didn't know where to find it. Then, today I do my hub hopping and find you.Lucky me. Thanks for the great advice.
Great Hub I found it helpful. I appreciate your advice and now feel the need to go work on me wittle hublets... Thanks and Peace :)
Thanks... updated... and proved my point about comments!
Good overview! I like that you've included a minimum number of words, which some people overlook when they're trying to write a "quick" Hub.
One thing you've missed is tags. I always start with only two, and then ask HubPages for "suggested tags" at the end. That searches your Hub in much the same way Google does - so if it doesn't find relevant tags, or finds lots of irrelevant ones, then I know I haven't written to the point enough!
Dee42 Level 5 Commenter 5 weeks ago
Thanks, WryLilt I needed this! Since I'm the new kid on the block, I need all the help I can get!!