Hubpages Challenge Experiment: The End

I have now spent 30 days writing articles for hubpages in an effort to build a online passive income stream. Of course this is an experiment that won’t show if it works until a year or so into it (whether it generated money straight away or takes a few months). So I will probably report on it occasionally/as demand wants it.

The challenge was to complete 100 ‘hubs’ (a written article of high quality) and publish to the hubpages.com website within a 30 day time limit. I aimed for 700 words per hub, although not essential, it was a reasonable guideline to aim for.

Hubpages.com puts adverts in place and gives 60% of the income from the advertisers to those who wrote the respective article that the advert was placed on and a reader clicked on. So say an advertiser is paying $1 per every click, I would receive 60c from it and hubpages took 40c of that for their own needs.

Anyhow… the results…

Week 4 to Day 30 results:

Hubs completed: 18

Words written:  7556

Adsense income: £0.50

Amazon.com income: $0

So the total experimental results are:

Hubs completed: 77

Words written: 45313

Adsense income: £1.35

Amazon.com income: $1.99

Failed! I did not complete the 100 hubs unfortunately, but I got 3/4 of the way there. Of those 18 hubs I did over half in the last 2 days. I didn’t get much done last week as I feel ill and wasn’t up for it. But that’s just an excuse, it’s very much a do-able challenge if you concentrate. I got distracted and fell behind early on and feel that was more my downfall then the falling ill excuse. Here is my proof from the 2 accounts I have on hubpages:

Crunching the Numbers

If you are wondering what the numbers are – The first to the far  left is the amount of hubs written. The next number is the average hubscore. This is a number hubpages assign out of 100 averaged over all the articles written – it doesn’t really mean anything and often varies. The next is the number of comments. You can see where I mass published hubs on one niche I got none! This is because I have little followers and didn’t get into the community much. The second is higher as I have a lot of followers thanks to participation with the keyword academy members. The next 3 numbers are page views over 1 day, 7 days and 30 days respectively. You can see they are roughly equal when you compare the numbers to the amount of hubs published.

Here is the Google Analytics data of the period too:

I missed the first few days as the Analytic code wasn’t in. But you can see considering I did no external promotion that the visits is a respectable amount. It seemed to increase as I published more proportionally, so it will be interesting over time to see if it stays at it’s current level or will die a death. The income considering the amount of traffic so far is also respectable. The next stage is to see how it reacts to link building and being left without publishing new hubs constantly.

Conclusion

I noticed I tend to be better at large chunks in one go rather than trying to work up a consistent rhythm. I found aiming for 4 a day was alright until you only do 3 or less. Then you have to make up for it and that puts everything behind and the feeling of failure comes, whereas really I should have kept to the weekly aim rather than daily as the off days can be made up more effectively knowing that the weekly target can be on track still.

I was also surprised at the words written, the majority of the articles I didn’t hit my 700 word goal but overall it looks like I got closer than reality proved. There are a few hubs where I struggled to write over 250 words, I picked subjects so boring with little to say about them my imagination failed me. But I made up for it with articles I was interested in and got 850+ words. However these were not the articles that the money was intended to come from later down the line.

Anyhow, I had 6 more articles written which I didn’t publish as they are too similar to ones I already have and hubpages doesn’t like them being published one after the other so I will sneak them in over the next week. I’m pleased with how I done. I wouldn’t use the world ‘exhausted’ but I am a bit fed up and bored of writing drivel for money, picking subjects carefully is important if you can’t settled down and bang out the words like a drone. But it has proved that there is potential to make money here. Hubpages.com gets my vote if you really want to learn how to many money online, there is guides on there whih show how it can be done too, I will be bringing what I’ve learnt to future online ventures, and you can’t put a price on that.

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