Hey fellow Hubber…

My name is Courtney Tuttle, and I can show you how to make a solid income as a publisher on Hubpages.com. Until about two months ago I would never have considered Hubpages a high potential income stream, but today I’m earning a nice amount every day, and within a few months my income will be over $100 per day…all because I did some hard work in May and followed it up with about ten minutes per day of maintenance. Here’s the story of how I discovered that Hubpages might be the fastest and simplest way for people to get their internet income off the ground…

Back in May several of my students were talking in our forums about how they thought Hubpages could be a decent income stream thanks to their revenue sharing plan (which I’m sure you’re very familiar with). Truthfully I scoffed at the idea. Why? Because I’ve made all my money online setting up niche websites that target specific keywords (topics), then ranking those sites in Google, collecting search traffic and monetizing it with Adsense and affiliate offers. “Why on earth,” I asked myself, “would I put my content on Hubpages.com and only collect 60% of the revenue? I can put the same content on my own site and take home 100%.” I could see Hubpages was a brilliant business model for them, but didn’t see how it could benefit me (or anybody else).

I was way off, and here’s why. The more I thought about Hubpages, the more I realized they were giving me an opportunity to skip the hardest parts of internet marketing and jump straight to the fun part – making money. See, the hardest parts of ranking web pages in Google are a) you need to publish your content on a site Google trusts and b) two of the biggest factors in whether Google trusts you are 1) the sheer size of your site (number of pages) and 2) the age of your site (pretty hard to fake this one unless you can shell out hundreds or thousands of dollars for old existing websites). So one day I had a realization:

“By taking advantage of Hubpages’ sheer size (their site is HUGE – 2,000,000 pages in Google’s index), age (been around since 2005), and the fact that Google really likes these guys…I can probably get a lot more traffic to my content, a lot faster than if I set up a brand new site. As long as I can get roughly twice as much traffic with the same or less effort – what do I care if they’re going to take 40% of the earnings?”

And with that I published a post on my blog that said I was going to put up 100 hubs in 30 days just to see how much I could earn in such a short time. Normally my earnings after thirty days of work would be approximately zilch, but I gave myself this challenge because I had a feeling my hubs would produce money much more quickly. I was right.

My 100 brand new hubs earned $475.25 in the first 30 days.

The Results

Here’s a quick screenshot of the full month’s earnings (with only figures blacked out that Google won’t let me show you):

So How Did I Do It?

It starts with choosing the right topics (keyword phrases).

Before I wrote my first hub, I had some research to do. I didn’t want to create hubs about topics that didn’t have potential to make money. We teach the members here at The Keyword Academy that you should ALWAYS know how much you can make with a topic before you write about it. For my hubs, I chose topics that could each make at least $1 per day. Simple math tells us that in order to make $100 per day with hubs, we would need 100 hubs that each make $1 per day.

Before our members have the green light to set up a website (or create a hubpage) around a topic – they have to be sure of two things:

1. The topic has to have enough people searching for it and enough advertisers paying for clicks to justify the effort it takes to achieve a good ranking in Google.

2. The topic can’t already be covered by competing websites that are too strong to be passed with reasonable effort.

Once I knew I had  topics that met my criteria for earning potential and lack of competition it was time to write and publish my hubs.

Week 1

During my first week of writing hubs, I published almost 40 hubs. Yes, I know… That’s a ridiculous amount of writing. Some of you will take longer to get your hubs up and there’s nothing wrong with that. Your hubs will continue to produce after you get them up and there’s no reason you can’t work at your own pace. After my first week, I had already made $56.20:

Some people will be able to produce more than 40 hubs in a week; others won’t be able to do nearly as many. There are members of The Keyword Academy who are working more quickly than did others who simply don’t have as much time to work. If you don’t have time to crank out hubs at the pace I did – don’t sweat it! I moved fast because I wanted to make a point and draw some attention (and it worked), but I would be just as excited about my Hubpages project if it had taken me three or four months to achieve the same results. So take your time – slow and steady really does  win the race in the internet marketing game.

Week 2

During my second week, I was only able to publish about 15 hubs. I didn’t have as much time to work on them but was still able to have more than half of my 100 hubs done by the end of that week. The second week went amazingly well and I was able to make $113.79:

This is when I started to get REALLY stoked about HubPages. I was seriously amazed at how well I was able to do in such a short period of time. The combination of writing about the right topics and the strength of HubPages was really starting to pay off!

Week 3

During the third week, I had more time to work on my hubs and was able to complete the rest of my hubs (I think I did 43 hubs that week). Frankly, it was a lot of work but there’s no reason that anyone needs to do them as quickly as I did. During the third week my earnings pulled back a little bit but I was still able to make $88.80:

Week 4

Since I published all 100 hubs before week 4 began, I was able to spend my fourth week promoting them. I did that by linking related hubs to each other and promoting them on other websites. It was a great week for income and I was able to make $164.11:

Why you should be REALLY excited about my results…

Making almost five hundred bucks in the first month of this project was pretty exciting, but it got a lot more exciting in month two. Why? Because after a month of long hours getting all 100 hubs online, in month two I had to follow up with…not much work at all. I put in some time improving the promotion of my existing hubs, but I didn’t work more than about ten minutes per day. The good news is my lack of effort was rewarded with an increase in earnings. I earned about $120 more in month two than I earned in month one:

Days 31-60

That brought the grand total I was able to make during my first two months on HubPages to $1071.26. Based on my experience with my own websites I can tell you that any project that earns over $1,000 in the first two months is going to get very exciting around month six or so.

Where do I go from here?

I’m now working on promoting my hubs so that they can reach their potential of $3,000 per month. We’re about two-thirds of the way through July now, so I’m guessing my new $3,000 income stream will be a reality by the end of the year. I’ll be happy to come back and update this page with those screenshots!

Not a bad reward for one month of hard work followed by ten or fifteen minutes per day of maintenance, wouldn’t you say?

The fact is, you can do what I’ve done with Hubpages.

The reason Hup (Ryan Hupfer of Hubpages) sent you over here is he knows I can teach you to replicate my results. My 100 hub challenge really caught his attention, and we’ve talked quite a bit since I started this project. The folks at Hubpages have asked me to create some special training material just for Hubbers, and I’ve been happy to oblige.

My business partner and I (his name is Mark Butler, by the way) hosted a two hour webinar at the end of June dedicated to our whole Hubpages method. During the session I break down exactly what I did to get my Hubs off the ground and earning so quickly.

Here’s what I cover during the webinar:

• How to brainstorm potential keywords (topics) you can write hubs about.
• How to estimate the profit potential of those topics.
• How to determine whether a topic is too competitive to go after.
• How to create content for hubs.
• The best hub layouts for maximum profit.
• How to promote your hubs so that they can reach their potential.

We had a little over one hundred of our members on the webinar with us, so you’ll be able to hear their questions and my answers that came up as we covered the Hubpages method.

So, what exactly am I offering you here? I’d like to give you the chance to watch the Hubpages webinar for just $1. You’ll be able to see exactly how you can start hubs that will pay you a nice low maintenance income. We hold nothing back during the session. By the time you’re finished watching it you’ll have a clear blueprint in front of you.

So, what’s the catch?

Of course there’s a catch.  Although I guess I wouldn’t really call it a catch. It’s more of a bonus.

Along with the webinar, the bonus video, and the downloads, Mark and I want to give you a chance to check out our members’ only community of internet marketers. We have over 600 active members right now, all studying and applying our methods for making low maintenance income online.

Let me give you a quick overview of the benefits our members enjoy:

• Over six hours of video instruction (accompanied by complete transcripts) that walk a person through our whole method for creating successful niche websites.
• Another six hours of recorded webinars about how to make the most of our method (available as Windows movie and mp3 downloads as well).
• One new content webinar per month, with live interaction and Q&A.
• A members’ only forum where you’ll be able to interact with me, Mark, and successful students who will gladly answer your questions about any aspect of our methods.

You’ll be able to enjoy all these benefits for a full month for just $1. If you see the value in our content and our community, you can maintain access to everything mentioned for just $33 per month.

See, that’s the whole reason we’ll give it all away for a buck. Although we know many (maybe even most) people will pay their $1, download the videos, and move on – we know a certain percentage will be blown away by what we’ve put together in the members area and they’ll keep their membership active for months to come. If that’s you, then great! If not, then take us for every bit of information you can and that’s fine too. No worries and no hard feelings.

Here are answers to a few questions you might have:

1. Do I need to create 100 hubs in 30 days to make this work? What if I don’t have the time to create so much content in so little time?

Like I said earlier, most people won’t have time to publish so many hubs in just one month. The best plan is to budget a certain amount of time each day and each week, and stick to that plan. Create as many hubs as you can in the time available to you. Your income will grow steadily, even if it seems to grow slowly.

2. So how many hours per week do I need to invest to see results?

Mark and I have been teaching people to make money online for a long time, and we always tell new students the same thing:

If you want to create progress and momentum you need to be able to dedicate 10 to 15 hours per week to your online venture. It doesn’t matter if it’s ten hours in one day or about an hour and a half each day. You just have to put the time in. The beauty of Hubpages is it allows you to start earning relatively quickly, but if you want to see a noticeable difference in your spending power you’re going to need to persist over the course of a few months.

This is a good time to address the “I don’t have time to do this” concern. Listen, we’re all busy. Every day I get emails from students who are canceling their membership because  “I just don’t have time to fully dedicate themselves to this right now. I love your material; I’ll be back in a few months!”

Let’s be real. They’ll never be back. Life happens and you’ll always be busy. The problem is the weeks, months, and years fly by and you’re still not making any money online. It’s tragic.

If all you can put in is 15 or 20 minutes per day, you will still make progress. The students who are sporadic in their effort, hit and miss in their focus, and generally flaky….STILL do better then the students who say “I don’t have time but I’ll get back to this in a few months.” Trust me, I’m saying this after five years of coaching people. Start today, and do the best you can. It will pay off!

3. What’s the deal with this ‘$1 now and then $33 per month’? I don’t want to be locked into some lame subscription I can’t control.

Yeah, we know this whole teaser price deal is one of the most abused tactics in the internet marketing world. But here’s why we do it:

1. There’s no way for you to see the full value of our program until you get inside and tinker with it. We’re not going to ask you to pay full price to take a test drive.

2. Our content and community are awesome. I know that sounds like bragging, but we know if you’ll just get in there and give it a serious look you will be pleasantly surprised. We give it all away for a dollar because we know plenty of people will be so impressed that they’ll keep their membership active for a long time to come.

3. YOU control the subscription. We run everything through Paypal, which means you can log into your Paypal account and cancel anytime you want. And if you don’t know how to do that you can just contact Paypal and tell them to cancel this subscription. Not that you’ll need to -  we have a full time student support guy (name is Eli) who will take care of canceling your subscription the very first time you email him about it.

The point is we have no interest in trying to keep people subscribed to a program they aren’t excited about. If we can’t impress you enough during your $1 trial membership, you’re always free to leave and there will be no hard feelings.

4. How much money will I have to spend (outside the membership fee) to make this work? What hidden costs are you not telling me about?

Actually, none. We’ll provide you with the knowledge and the tools you need to make your hubs successful. Now, this isn’t one of those ’sounds to good to be true’ things – you’re still going to have to work hard and put in the time. It just won’t require additional cash.

On the other hand, if you do have extra money you could invest in the project we’ll show you how you can outsource a lot of your content creation. It’s not necessary, but it saves time if you can do it.

5. Did you have to use ‘black hat’ techniques to make your Hubs so successful? I’m not interested in doing anything shady.

I’m not interested in anything shady either, and when you watch the recording of our Hubpages webinar you’ll see that I’m happy to be completely transparent about my methods. They’re all clean and above board. The only reason Hubpages endorses our program is that our philosophies on quality content and pure ‘white hat’ methods are in line with each other.

6. Why aren’t you showing any testimonials from your successful students on this page?

Partly because we think most testimonials are so cheesy and contrived. But mostly because you don’t have to read them on this page…if you take the program for a test drive you can go right to the forums and say “What’s the deal here? Is this program legit or is it just another stupid internet marketing membership site?” The members themselves will tell you what they think, and you can judge for yourself. There’s actually a thread in the forum right now where many of the members are talking about why they joined the program, and why they decided to stay subscribed. It’s worth a look.

Thanks for getting to know me a little better; I hope to get to know you inside the program!

Courtney Tuttle
TheKeywordAcademy.com

Premium Membership ($1 for 30 days, then $33/mo)