Week 3 of the make money experiment was interesting. The income this week wasn’t as good as it was in week 2. Here’s the income chart from Google Analytics:
As you can see, the hubs during week 3 made $88.88, down from $112.56. That brings the total so far to $257.64. We still have another 10 days in the experiment and it will definitely be interesting to see how the hubs do overall.
Why The Hubs Produced Less In Week 3
During week 3 I focused a ton on getting all of the hubs up and did very little to them. I didn’t give any of the hubs links from other hubs. Overall that makes the hubs less useful and makes them weaker. I’m going to be catching up on that this week – I simply didn’t have the time to get it done. Fortunately I have all 100 hubs published and that means that I can focus on other aspects which will help the hubs.
The hubs that were created in the first two weeks dropped a little (as is expected) because they lost the fresh content bonus. That means there’s less income there and the new hubs didn’t make up for it because I haven’t completed what needs to be done on them.
The next few weeks will be really interesting and I’m really excited to see how well the hubs do in the second month of the experiment – that’s when we’ll be able to tell how well it’s going to work. I’m pretty happy with how it’s gone so far.
I have never (and I do mean never) seen a site or project go up and up and up without losing ground. You will always see natural dips no matter how hard you’re working on something. It’s part of the game we play. You have to learn how to keep working even when things don’t improve. Week 3 was one of my most productive weeks on the HubPages experiment and will create a ton of long term value.
Tags: hubpages, hubpages experiment, hubs, make money online
It’s interesting to see what’s going on with my own hubs. When I first started 3 weeks, I chose out 5 or so hubs and literally BLASTED them with every link network I could get my hands on. Unique Article Wizard, Article Marketing Automation, and Conect Content.
I think I probably sent submitted about 5 AMA articles and 4 UAW articles. Those hubs, initally pulled in about 6-10 people a day (probably from the fresh content bonus) then dropped down to a couple people a day. But it seems all those backlinks have finally come into play, because these hubs are regularly getting 25-40 people a day.
So if anyone has UAW or AMA, start blasting off those links to the hubs — in about 2-3 weeks, you’ll get some good benifits a few weeks down the road when the links get picked up by the search engines.
I’ve been having a good week with my hubs — better than last week. I topped 16 bucks yesterday, which was my highest in a day before, and I’ve been having a lot of 14/12/10 dollar days. I seem to see a big drop on sundays though.
I’m too am keen to see how it all plays out in month two, when I send backlinks to each hub.
Hi, Ben,
I’m waiting for your detailed update on your blod or here. I like how you go up with hubpages. I almost made my 1st dollar (0.92 cents) with 16 hubs (actually, not all of them earned) for about 20 days. I’m still very interested how do you do with your ’shorties’ (400-500 words), as actually I noticed that the longer the article the more traffic it can pull. I’m not 100 per cent sure, but most of my hubs which are the most productive are around 800-1000 words. Yes, I have one with pagerank 2 already, wich is only 500 words or something; but with 16 hubs I cannot make a decent estimation.
So, if you don’t mind I would like to hear your working strategy in detail.
Regards,
Denis
Hey Denis. Congrats on your first dollar! It will only get better!
About the short hubs, most of my hubs seem to fall in the 650 range. I have a few 1000 word beasts, and respectable amount of 700/800 worders.
I’ve had click on the short hubs and clicks on the long hubs. I’ll actually have to go through all the hubs to see if there is a pattern. One thing I DON’T bother doing now is putting up videos, pictures, and links to external sites. I think it’s a waste of time on my part. I actually don’t want people to read my hubs or get any information out of them. I want them to click on an ad. Now, I do actually write accurate and useful stuff, but I really don’t want to actually give anyone an answer or solve the problem. I try to lead people to click on my ads with my writing. As long as I can “get” a person to my hubs have a good chance of attracting a click.
For the hubs that get clicks, I get 20/30/50 percent click rates.
Now you might ask Joshua about what he’s doing. He’s got a different strategy than I and I think he’s probably making a couple more bucks a day than I am. I might get like 1 or 2 people a day to some of my hubs, but I get 1-3 dollar clicks. He’s getting a heck of a lot of people to come to his hub, but the CPC is much lower.
I’m going to post an update tomorrow on my blog about my progress. I’ll also add a few more “tips” I’ve figured out during the course of this experiment.
Since a lot of people are asking, I’m going to make a big honking 2000-5000 word tutorial, throwing in everything but the kitchen sink. I’ve decided I’ll create another hub account and populate it with 10 or so niche hubs for the general public to “see.” Should be enough to get most people started in the right direction.
However, at the end of the day, you are still going to have to put an amazing amount of work in, super tutorial or not. It took me 70+ hubs before I started to make anything.
I still insist though that if you want to see the 5-10 dollars a day, at least immediately, you are going to probably need about 75-80 hubs created. Now, I know Court was doing that with 30 or 40, but he’s Court. Most other people are going to have to flounder around with a few dozen hubs before the find niches that work. I’d probably say a good 60-70 of my niches are no producers in terms of clicks.
Ben K
Very true, Ben and I have different strategies and very different niches.
My best hub is seeing 400+ visitors a day. I am closing in on 2,000 visitors total daily.
But my CPC is AWFUL. Which I knew going in, but I knew the traffic was there as well.
Hey Court,
I was wondering if you had any tips on ensuring that a hub has a quality score high enough to get followed links. I posted quite a bit of content and several pictures on my hub, but it still has a score about 10 too low.
Thanks,
Matt
Hi, Court,
Just a quick question: do you create only hubs by now, or doing link building along the way; or getting links is left for the final touch?
Regards,
Denis
Good stuff Court!
I am chugging along… I am averaging $12 a day now.
@Joshua: I’m just curios, how many hubs do you have know? I’ve seen that Ben is getting also an average of $12 dollars per day and it seems pretty impressive. How long did it take to average $12, 3 weeks?
My average is probably more like $13-14, $12 has been my minimum for the past few days.
3 weeks or so. I started on the same day as I assume most others did. (although I wonder if there is only a select few who are actually committed to the 100 hubs in 30 days) Ben seems to be doing much better than he was at the beginning, which is great, because you can learn so much by actually just working. I likely won’t stop until I am ranking well for every single one. But then again, I eat, sleep, breathe, and drink this stuff. I love it! hah.
lol, the irony is that I’m making 90 percent of my hub income from long tail traffic. Most of my hubs are in serp nowhere land. When I get them all ranked good, I should be making some serious coin at that point!
Good to see your hubs are going well though. I’ve definitely seen an increase this week.
@Joshua: thanks for info. You are great guys, the people can learn a lot from you. The first think is ambition, ambition to work hard and do not give up, altough there are many times when there is no money. I guess that with proper work and keyword selection you could easily hit much more than $12 dollar (with a lot of work, I say) and that’s motivating.
Do you think that Hubpages are a better choice than Squidoo?
I think Hubpages is better than Squidoo!
You can make more money using Hubpages.
One good thing about Squidoo is you can actually sale from it… can be more like a landing or a sales page… and can send people directly to products such as Clickbank.
Hi Court,
You mention never having had a project that didn’t lose ground, which makes the upward revisions of your income projections in your week 2 post puzzling to me. It seems you took your revenue from the high point and extrapolated that.
Are you still confident in that $500+ projection and $1500 for month 2? I suppose I’m struggling to see the value of the projections in the first place, whether you knew a backslide was coming or not. Just curious.
Thanks,
JL
Jerry to me it doesn’t really matter if the projections are accurate or not! Just trying to give people a general idea. Month 1 might be $400 but it doesn’t really matter to me. We’ll see about month 2.
Court,
Thanks for the reminder that we have to learn to keep working when things are going poorly. It’s hard to do, but definitely necessary.
Hey Court,
Thanks for the clarification! Guess I went for the head fake.
JL
Hey, Court, I’m sorry for interfering in your discussion, but have you seen what’s going on the The Keyword Crash Course page? Some people misunderstand what you offer because they cannot get access to their accounts. I’m sure you have to know what is going on, but anyway, just remind you. Take care of them.
We have already take care of those people Denis.
I just added Adsense to my Hubs but it does it automatically for you and you can’t set up a channel.
What am I missing? How do you ever find out how your Hubs are doing without a channel for them or for all of them? Where is the data?
Thomas you can set up a URL channel or you can add Google Analytics. You don’t set up URL channels during the ad setup process, they can be setup anytime!
I am sorry Court but I don’t understand. On Hubpages under “affiliate settings” there is a place that auto fills after you give them permission to use Adsense. It auto fills with your Adsense pub id.
But in my Adsense account, everything shows up under the different channels I have set up for my different niche blogs. I see nothing there that shows Hubpages or any clicks or impressions for anything other than the many chanells I have set up.
Since it just auto fills with the pub Id with no other options that I can see on Hubpages, how can I ever set up a channel? Thanks
Thomas as I stated before, you don’t set up URL channels while you’re creating the ad. Log in to your Adsense account and set one up. Go to ‘Adsense Setup’ and then ‘Channels’.
I think I figured it out. I missed the difference between the “custom channels” and “URL” channels. I didn’t know there were two different things. Thanks
Hi, Thomas,
I’m afraid, URL channels are limited in their quantity (200 only, as I remember); why don’t you like Google Analytics? In the Content>Adsense section there you can see a quite detailed info on clicks from every page of Hubpages along with other stats like the date, the total number of clicks, etc.
Hi Court,
is it alright to have the same adsense pub ID for different accounts in hubpages? Hope to hear from you soon, cheers!
Yes!
CAN THIS ALSO BE DONE WITH BLOGGER OR WORDPRESS???