Because I didn’t want to clog up this website with make money online posts (which are just a load of statistics that excite the mathematically minded more than anyone else), I’ve put week 2 and week 3 of my hubpages challenge into one post. I will do week 4+ the final days in a post together too. Here are stats on what I’ve achieved on week 2:
21 Days down, 9 to go.
Hubs completed: 12
Words written: 7603
Google Adsense income: £0.80
Amazon.com income: $0
The Week 3 Stats:
Hubs completed: 33
Words Written: 22135
Google Adsense income: £0
Amazon income: $0
Adding these together with week 1 and so far the total experiment achievements are:
Hubs completed: 59
Words written: 37757
Google Adsense income: £0.85
Amazon.com income: $1.99
Due to the distraction of getting a new computer on week 2 (I know, I know…) I lost a couple of days playing and setting that up and wasn’t so focused. My income from week 2 was not building from week 1, it was from content I generated in week 2. Week 3 got me no income yet I put in the most work! The psychology behind that is why a lot of people give up. It is also showing my previous hubs aren’t paying continuously either. But this is no surprise and not the target of the experiment (more a nice surprise) at this moment in time.
Despite this you can see it is generating money – not a lot of course, but it’s relatively little effort. I still have not done any promotion on these so this income is mostly from internal hubpages traffic and a couple of Google searches. To get this sort of traffic and income will take you a good 6 months if you start on your own website and put some effort into it. Which is a great reason to write on hubpages. Of course if you want even quicker revenue you can sell your writing directly, and if you want it slower (but potentially more) you’d do it on your own website. Hubpages seems to fill the gap between those who don’t need to see income instantly, and don’t have the patience to wait 6 months+ to earn a dollar.
I think building upon this will escalate the earnings although I will leave that until the 100 posts are completed, I have advice this is not the best way to do it, this is the way I’m going to do it as it helps me get the task in hand done.
Out of the 100 hubs I was going to write, I analysed a few in the middle of week 3 and found 28 were identical in subject (I got the ideas using the tools on TKA and am building the hubs around keywords I have identified that are worth money) . I also concluded 7 were just going to be too difficult for me to write about (I’ll give you one of them – xp notebooks) so although those 28 can be used to good effect in the ongoing building of the promotion of these hubs, they are a bit useless to me now, so I will have to do further research if I am to complete 100 hubs on different subjects and manage to keep in interesting and legit for readers of them.
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Thanks for sharing this report. I thought about doing HubPages but it seemed like the money wouldn’t add up enough to make it worth the time. Interesting to see how this works out in the long run as a residual income source.
I started posting articles on Associated Content in 2008, not necessarily to make money but just to have some ‘outlet’ other than my blog for writing. I’ve got 238 articles on there now (mostly from the early days) and make a steady stream of residual income. So far this year I’ve made $193 just in page view money, and the articles I’ve posted there are not things written just for page views (ie “Lady’s Gaga’s latest hairdo” is not something I’d write about) but things that are relevant to me and I’d likely post on my blog. I’m a Featured Travel Contributor there, which means I now get $10 per 400 word post instead of $3 to $5, and so now I only submit articles for the $10 rate, and only when I don’t have higher paying work to do. It’s worked out quite well.
I post my monthly freelance writing/make money online earnings reports on my profile if you want to know more!
http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/243909/heather_carreiro.html
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A few people made decent money on Hubpages 1-2 years ago, but I think the game has changed slightly, so it’s not easy anymore and people need to put in more effort to make money out of them. It’s important to pay attention to dates when people are talking about the internet as it rapidly changes. If you are reading this in 2012 then it might not apply so much as it does today in September 2010. Which is an interesting point as someone might be looking at this after seeing me earn from it a few years down the line.
There are other sites that offer similar deals to hubpages, like Squidoo and infobarrel, but they haven’t worked like hubpages has, this could of course change though.
Associated content sounds alright, and an even quicker way to make cash and bridge a gap, with a fixed income (per article or whatever) like that though, it means someone else is making more out of it than you are to be able to pay you that wage. I will look into it at a later date and run another experiment, thanks for the comment Heather :)
You’re so right about things changing. Some many people put a ton of time into eHow, and when Demand Studios stopped allowing non-studio writers to contribute, all of those people had to totally rethink their online money-making strategy. DS also went through and deleted a ton of articles that weren’t up to their new standards, so if people had been making page view money off those articles, now they don’t have that option.
Even recently Yahoo bought Associated Content, and from the the writer side of things I can say the change has been positive, but things are always in flux and will probably be much different in a few years.
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Yep, even if hubpages pays off well for me, it doesn’t mean it’s going to last forever, there will no doubt be another website which will take over, one needs more than writing skills in this industry!
But later on you can just move all content (with some rewriting) you wrote from hubpages to your own website. This probably would be more profitable in long run.
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Yes, that option is always there, but it’s better off just writing on your own website to start with (or move it with a rewrite straight away). The benefit of hubpages is quicker payment compared to your own (new) site.