Comments on: How To Improve Your HubPages Earnings

By: hayata dair

hayata dair — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 16:56:50 +0000

Thanks very much! Great tutorial. All set up and worked perfectly.

By: Tek Link indir

Tek Link indir — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:15:07 +0000

I would also say link building.

By: Indika

Indika — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:24:46 +0000

This is great. I am very new to hub pages. And the lacking part of my hubs as well is link building. I think that one advice itself is great to promote my hubs better.

By: John Demas

John Demas — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:45:43 +0000

This is just a great post. Don’t know what else to say.

By: Nelle Hoxie

Nelle Hoxie — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 06:22:56 +0000

Hi Court,

I’ve been a Hubber for just a year now and agree with everything you’ve said. I work full-time in affiliate marketing and know that you have to treat it like a business to succeed.

Each day, I write 3 to 5 targeted hubs and provide many backlinks. As a result my HubPages earnings are routinely over $2,000 a month – and I’m seeing a nice increase each month.

I enjoy your aggressive work ethic and willingness for experimentation.

By: Faisal

Faisal — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:10:16 +0000

Thank you
This post is really helpful for me and push me to examine my mistakes.
Although I am in business for long time developing cool websites for other, but started on my own website few months back with no success so far, but I never give up.
your article is like a slap on my face to wake me up on things that I am not doing right.

Thanks again.

By: Carla

Carla — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:26:51 +0000

You’re right, Court. Treating Hubpages like a business helps.

I’ve been trying to build a little hubpages franchise, but I failed in something important – link building…and treating it like the business it is. Taking your advise, I started really working on promoting my hubs, and ALREADY I can see click rate improving! I’ve only fixed up about two hubs and started linking a small group of hubs together, so this is very promising!

I guess it’s hard to see myself as a business woman, but your article kind of slapped my in the face and woke me up. I think I will finally start to see true earnings just accepting that one fact! Thanks, Court!

By: Court

Court — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:54:14 +0000

The key word in your post is ‘restricted’. It makes no sense to me that people will find out about a strategy that I use (or a strategy that anyone else uses) and will ‘restrict’ themselves based on that. SEO 101 – more links is better.

By: Carla

Carla — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:44:56 +0000

Hi Court,

You’re so right about having to do all the steps to be successful on HubPages. I built a bunch of hubs way back when I didn’t know about SEO and most of them tanked. But a few accidentally made money, so after I learned about SEO I was inspired to go back and optimize them. Now I earn between $1,000 and 2,000 a month from 157 hubs.

It’s important to note that there’s more than one form of monetization on HubPages. I use everything but eBay and make money with all of them every month. I also promote several affiliate programs. I’ve found that hubs are quite effective at driving traffic to my affiliate links. You’d think that the various monetization forms would fight each other, but for some reason they don’t on HubPages. So it’s good to load them up with Amazon (and eBay, if you use it) links. Those links are also perceived as content by the HubPages rating system, so it pushes up the hub’s score. Most people think that the score doesn’t mean much, but if a hub has a higher score it pushes it up to be featured in the HubPages category navigation. I’ve seen my traffic double for a hub that’s featured, so it’s worthwhile to make the content solid and diverse.

In case anyone is interested, I’ve written a r-e-a-l-l-y long hub that details how to monetize and optimize hubs. It’s linked from my name above. (If the inclusion of that link offends you, though, Court, obviously you can feel free to remove it.)

Thanks so much for publicly legitimizing the use of HubPages. I used to feel bush league using it, but now I’m laughing all the way to the bank.

By: gilbertthegreat

gilbertthegreat — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:59:58 +0000

Court…I think you have bamboozled some of us.

I think the impression exists that link-building for HubPages are restricted to a few EZA, TKA’s etc. If a competitor has high quality/quantity links: 5 PR-4’s and 19 PR-3’s, can I really expect to topple my competition with low quality/quantity: 4 PR-2’s and 5 PR-0?

I think your statement in the post makes it pretty clear to me:

“The funny thing about my work with HubPages is that it’s the exact same thing that I do on my own sites.”