During week 4 my focus was on giving my hubs links from related hubs. The reasoning behind this should be pretty obvious. First, it helps the people that read the hubs. You want to provide as much relevant information as possible. Second, you’re going to get an SEO benefit from having links from other hubs.
It was nice to already have the hubs done (as I said in week 3 of the make money online experiment, they were completed in the first 3 weeks).
Week 4 produced great results and the hubs made $164.11, nearly double what they made in week 3:
Google Analytics is on crack this morning, so the report was created in my Adsense account. I’ll switch it out for a prettier version when they get Analytics working again.
Right now I’m REALLY happy about how this experiment is going. I have a nice upward trend going on and expect these 100 hubs to make some solid income in the near future. The income should continue to produce because I’m taking the time to make sure that the hubs are useful.
Don’t Make Low Quality Hubs!
Lately I’ve seen some comments that have been of a philosophy that’s different than mine. Some people are saying that they are going to make crap hubs because Google can’t read content, more people will click ads, etc. Don’t fall into this trap. Google CAN read content, in fact eventually you will probably have a Google search engineer looking at your content, especially if you start to produce significant income with your Adsense account. Do you really want to have crap content on all of the pages that your Adsense is on? Let me answer that question for you – no, you don’t.
The way that you’re going to make a lot of money in your lifetime on Adsense is by keeping the properties you have and creating new ones. If your current properties are total garbage, your entire portfolio is at risk. Creating a bunch of hubs that are total garbage might make you some short term cash but it’s only a matter of time until Google figures out that all of your content blows.
All of my hubs are at least 500 words and most of them have a lot more. I believe that they provide the information that people are looking for. Sure, this will lower my click through rate on my ads, but it will allow me to have income from the hubs for years. A high CTR doesn’t really seem that great anymore once your sites get deindexed for being MFA (made for Adsense).
A problem that I see is that some people are having success by publishing garbage. The problem is that some of you are believing that this is an ok idea in the long term and it’s compounded by people publishing on their ‘make money online’ sites that this is a good idea because it saves time. It isn’t in fact this is a terrible idea. It might be true that Google’s algorithm isn’t going to know the difference right now. However, what do you think is going to happen when you’re producing $5,000 per month or $10,000+ per month? Do you really think that Google isn’t going to look into the sites you’re making the money with once you start producing well?
I’m definitely not saying that you need to spend all day making one hub, but if you aren’t at least trying to give people the information they’re searching for, I think you’re going to run into trouble eventually.
A Few More Days In The Experiment
Those of you that are participating in the experiment have a few more days to finish up! It’s all over June 10th. 
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I am so amazed by the money you are earning from your hubs in such a short space of time. At the moment I am still practicing how to write articles and am slowly dipping my toe into keyword research. I know that i am not picking big money makers yet and hope to keep going and to keep learning. Do you have any more hints and tips for us newbies?
Thanks for sharing your experiences with us on your hubpages journey and congrats on making 100 hubs in 30 days.
If you’ll just keep working at it you’ll eventually do great. Keyword research is huge with this kind of thing. You need to make sure that you choose topics that pay well and those topics also need to be fairly easy to rank for. If you download The Keyword Crash Course ebook it will help with that. The members’ area will REALLY help with that.
I dont like AdSense for a lot of reasons, one being that it strikes me as being penny-ante.
I’d rather make one $77 sale a month of some valuable, useful product I create or commission to my 1000 loyal fans than have to continuously spew out massive amounts (100 hubs!?) of verbal swill, hoping that 110,000 strangers will click on AdSense links.
They’re both Internet business models; the issue is how you want to spend your time…
I don’t hope anything. I know that a certain percentage will click.
Also, in case you haven’t noticed I have 9,000 readers on this site and 4,000 on my other site. YOU are the one that’s picking one method over the other. I’ve been doing really well with both methods.
Court, don’t you find that there is a huge difference between producing “crap” and writing articles that might not give people all the answers but yet enough information for them to find it valuable but still having to click the links for more info?
That is at least what I believe would work the best.
/Mikael
Mikael there’s definitely a difference but I personally prefer to choose the third option, which is actually providing the information.
People can do whatever they want but if you choose the ‘crap’ option or the ‘leave stuff out’ option you’re aligning yourself against Google. If you actually provide the information you’re aligning yourself with Google.
For me all that matters is long term. I don’t care if I get less clicks now if it means I’ll get them for 10 times as long.
I’ll say, I battled with myself morally about this. I’ve always wanted to provide my readers with the best content, but noticed sometimes it does affect the click through rate. And I saw some marketers suggesting option 1 and 2. I ended up going with option 3 like you, but try to wait until the end to deliver the good stuff. At the top I kind of include personal experience, etc so that those who are not really going to read and are just browsing are more inclined to check out an ad. Other times, I just go in right from the beginning, loading the page with content! It just depends on my mood and/or the topic and so far I haven’t been able to determine if one method is better than the other.
I’m like you, I like to test things, but I also prefer to follow those before me who are successful and do what they say. So right now I’m focusing more on that than anything else.
I do have to admit, I’m jealous!!
I can’t wait to get to that amount per day (and beyond), but you are also a lot more experienced than I am so I can’t complain too much. That and I wish I would have found this site a lot sooner than I did! I was inching by but ever since I started applying things as I learn from you and Griz, my AdSense income has gone up from a staggering $0.50-$1.00 per day to an average of $5 a day (in less than 2 months). So I’m happy about that. And as I build more content and links I see my traffic and income grow, I just have to keep going. There’s just not enough hours in a day for me right now…
P.S. I think I’ve found at least two of your profiles on HubPages, but don’t worry, I won’t tell
And that is naturally an obvious solution. IF that is the case then you have the winning formula. Who has the winning formula will most likely take several years (if not more) to test (if such a thing is even possible). But I hope for you that your right and for me that I am
/Mikael
The best part about good content is that people could give you backlinks for free, to. There are many q&a sites where the people use to link resources around the web. No one is going to link for crapy content, because it does not satisfy their need of information.
Yet another great reason to create solid stuff.
I’ve also dabbled with the ‘put up crap to get clicks’ thing in the past, but I totally agree with your perspective these days Court. For me it’s not simply about making the maximum possible amount of money – I need to enjoy working on my sites, and feel like I’m producing something of real value too. And it simply feels better to be spending my time producing content that is top quality. For me it comes from getting older – time feels more limited, and I don’t want to spend a minute of it doing something I don’t really believe in, just for some short-term cash! (I agree too that quality content will almost certainly make more over the long run)
Fortunately I’ve found a solution that seems to work for me – I’m naturally pretty long winded when I write, so I find it very easy to churn out Grizz-style epic posts. I feel good about producing these, since they’re well written and packed full of great info. Yet I also know that many people won’t bother to read them, and will quite possibly click away via an ad. This isn’t something I’ve tested extensively, but I don’t feel the need to, since I’m happy with my results so far, and with how my income is growing.
Just my personal persepctive, and I’m not knocking those who choose to do things differently : )
Court, does this mean that you think Griz’s adsense empire is in danger of being a short term success?
Also, how do you define “crap”….is it basically nonsense that is written without any thought of the needs of the visitor’s to your site?
Not sure what you mean Mark. Griz writes the best content out of just about anyone on the planet…
‘Crap’ doesn’t give the searcher the information they’re looking for.
Mark Grizz has never said that he writes crap on his money sites – quite the opposite in fact if you take his make money blog as an example
Hi, Lissie
I dare to disagree with you a little: yes, Griz doesn’t write ‘crap’ on his make money blog, BUT, he mentiones many times on the same blog that he do write crap on his other niche site, take Asia’h Epperson, Blinkweb by Brad Callen, or Reactolite Spectacles (I know these are not the main ones, but they will do as an example).
I know, ‘crap’ is a garbage Internet is full with, but it seems that many people mix different styles of making content: sometimes good content, sometimes bad content, sometimes mixing together. I’m not sure which is the best in terms of long term money making, and I personally doesn’t like to read crap when I look for something online, but it is what we have got now and it seems to work.
Well, maybe we can omit Blinkweb by Brad Callen
And you can always argue what “crap” is.
If you know very little about the topic and are a bad writer (maybe even a bad speller) you can easily do your very best and still produce poor content.
On the other hand if you know what you’re doing I would argue that you could easily go as far as to scrape content and mix it with some rss feeds and still provide something of a lot more value to the reader.
So what is crap and what is not? In the end it is for Google to decide based on user behavior (I assume).
The best way to make the most of what you do is to test it out. You can guess all you want and be as “ethical” as you want but in the end only testing will give you the most profitable answer
/Mikael
I have to agree. I’ve learned a lot from Griz. A lot. (and TKA too) Too much! LOL Seriously though, you do have to dig sometimes on Griz’s make money online blogger blog, but he has a wealth of info on there and I personally appreciate free! I wish there was a way to repay him – oh wait, there is … links!
I believe Grizz does provide answers, but he is aware that many online have short attention spans and do not like to read his long dribbly posts. He also provides answers in the form of shaping people towards something like a product etc. Just that he likes to talk to himself a lot in the posts since he lives high up in the mountains.
I’ve been following your efforts and I can only say bravo! I haven’t tried yet, and I think what is holding me back from giving it a go is the time required for writing.
Might it be cost effective to have a ghost writer do the work? Obviously it would be variable, but are there still good niches to provide content for that might be a good risk?
I’ll have to start squirreling away some posts…
Nice work! Inspiring!
You can definitely hire someone to write for this.
I broke down and wrote one myself. Not sure how well I did, it’s my first one. Was wondering if you might give some feedback on it: http://hubpages.com/hub/Shopping-Made-Easy-For-Lazy-People
I understand if you don’t have time or would not want to start getting into the “review my hub” routine. Thought I would run it by you since you’re the inspiration, hahaha.
Cheers!
Wayne
Court/lissie , I wasn’t talking about Griz’s “make money online” sites, they’re great. I have gotten the impression, though, that on the many adsense-monetized sites that he doesn’t show us he has content that is designed to be less than helpful. He talks about writing in a style that is designed to bore the hell out of the reader, making them want to get out fast…clicking on a link. I believe Vic has talked about content in a similar fashion.
What about providing 90% of the information they are looking for…but leaving a little out. What if you are writing about a product…you can provide lots of information but you aren’t selling the product itself.
That’s amazing that you’re already making that much with hubpages! I may have overlooked something, but let me ask anyways – is that only from your adsense advertisements in your hubpages, or do your hubpages link back to your site and that is the revenue from hubpages and from your site?
Either way, very impressive!
This is only from the HubPages – I’m not linking out to anything!
Do you recommend not linking out to a site other than another hub page?
I also am very impressed with your results. I am working on a few myself but have gotten nowhere near 100. Writing good content is a problem for me and also the keyword research. I seem to choose keywords that have little or no payout because I have knowledge of the topic. I have downloaded your Keyword Crash Course but haven’t joined your members area as yet.
There’s nothing wrong with linking out to another site Carole!
That is great that you can target good keywords that are making you money. I have 4 hubs now and a score of 83 which I think is good. I am beginning to focus on product review hubs and can see the traffic working it’s way up.
BTW, I apologize for using the comments section to request an upgrade. I have email support and have not heard. I assume you guys get a lot of emails. But please tell me how to upgrade to the Premium Keyword Academy. Thanks
Just emailed you Ray!
OK, gosh, a whole bunch of questions come out of this… You’re making $$ but without knowing your impressions and CTR, we can’t tell really how successful you are? For example, I’m getting plenty of impressions at my hubs, but no ad clicks. So what would I do then? Whereas, on my non-Hub blogs and sites, I don’t have that problem. So why use Hubpages? I’ve read on Hubpages that hubbers don’t click on ads. So, when you mention Google Analytics, can you tell us what it’s saying about where your traffic is coming from? search engines?
If your traffic is coming from search engines, not Hubpages, what would be the point of doing Hubpages, when you could just do blogs?
I also noticed that some of your Hubs have completely ireelevant ads, doesn’t that lower the overall quality of Adsense income? I have noticed I’m getting lower payment per click since I added hubpages to my list of allowed sites. It’s coming off today! I think I am LOSING money by having Hubpages on my adsense account! So, that’s a question that would be helpful if answered.
Sorry this is so long!
It’s against the Adsense terms and conditions to show that stuff.
Impressions on hubs don’t mean anything unless the traffic comes from search engines. All of my clickers are coming from search engines.
The point is that it’s easier to get search traffic on HubPages.
Sounds to me like you have hubs that don’t target keywords. I have a few of those but most of mine target keywords.
Yeah I know about the Google terms, I was just making the point that we often see pages of $$ earned, but without any relationship to anything it isn’t all that helpful re: what to really expect in tems of traffic and conversions.
Actually I do use highly targeted keywords, all my sites, hub and nonhub, are SE optimized. Depsite my optimized hubs, and I’m using a linking strategy to get traffic to those too, yet my blog pages optimized the same way are hands down beating my hubs in SERPS and traffic and $$. Maybe the hubs are too new? compared to the blogs.
I have been weighing the value of working as hard on my blogs as i would have to to create 100 hubs, and I don’t see the hub payoff being as good as the blogs. I *know* I’m not getting $1.50 and up per click on Hubpages!! So maybe that’s just for me.
Sue the only way to make a fair comparison is to compare a new hub to a new blog. The new hub will beat the new blog in my experience.
Keep in mind that I’m not saying that this is the only way to make money. I have two really big blogs that do really well and I also have niche sites and blogs that do well.
I’m not putting all my eggs in this basket, but it’s a great auxiliary income stream.
I am averaging over $1 per click on HubPages right now. This all comes down to which keywords you’re targeting with your hubs.
I’m using Hub pages for the links they give me primarily and not the additional income. That doesn’t mean I am not writing good hubs though.
I agree with Sue that if you are going to put so much time and effort into something then it might better be spent on your own blogs. There you get credit for 100% of the views and not 60% like on your Hubs. This will, over time more than offset the traffic difference you talk about for new hubs and new blogs.
Hubs might be a good way for someone to get started in IM before they have the knowledge or resources to buy their own blogs.
Court, I’ve enjoyed reading about your experiences with the Hubpages experiment. Very impressive work. I’ve made about 20 hubs now, but with nowhere near the success you seem to be enjoying, just a few cents here or there.. I’ve done keyword research with Google tool but it seems that the big paying keywords like “Mesothelioma” or “home mortgage loans” etc are not going to be easy to rank for…
My question, If you’re averaging $1 per click, what sorts of CPC $ figures do you target when selecting non-competitive keywords? What may be competitive to you may be extremely competitive or impossible for others…
You have to see more than $5 per click to get paid $1 per click!
Hi, this is my first time commenting on your site, though I’ve been reading it for a while.
I’ve noticed that the amount I’m making per click is decreasing in the past couple weeks. How do you know if you’ve been smart priced? And would you recommend taking ads off poorly performing hubs?
Thank you!
Tim I think you can test by taking hubpages off your Allowed Sites and see if your income per click doesn’t rise. I noticed a big drop after adding hubpages. If the ads google is serving to your hub have nothing to do with your site, that’s a clue as well.
Hey Tim! First of all that’s always going to go up and down. Bidders are constantly going to be changing their bid prices.
If you’re smart priced, you won’t be getting any clicks over about 10 cents.
Hi Court,
Wouldn’t using paid backlinking networks like UAW pose as much or even more of a threat than poorly written content? I mean that’s specifically frowned upon, but “crap” content isnt so clearly defined.
I would think it would be just as easy for a human reviewer to check your backlinks. A few clicks and they would quickly see that a lot come from low quality blogs that exist mostly to post articles that are not 100% unique and give targeted, dofollow backlinks.
I might have it wrong so if you’d care to comment I’d appreciate it.
Thanks,
JL
Jerry, you can’t control who is linking to you. There are tons of scraper blogs (that you have no control over) that will rip your content and use it for whatever they like. Those blogs can be considered “poor quality” as well.
Most of the time nobody will know whether the sites that are linking to yours are made by you or by someone else.
And when that is said then no NORMAL human would EVER think of checking who links to you. It is only us IM’ers that looks at those things. No normal person even knows what it is.
/Mikael
The human reviewers at Google would not be classified as NORMAL. But it is true, if UAW is bad then it would also be a good way to try to take out your competition by doing all sorts of UAW links pointing to their sites.
They don’t need a human reviewer to check your backlinks. Their system does that.
No matter how it is done I’m sure that you wouldn’t be punished from having links coming to your site from scraper blogs. That would totally kill every major news site and wiki out there.
Secondly I know that everyone wants to “be afraid” of Google but being selected for human review is NOT something that happens to the majority. It is actually not that much different from the IRS (which most fear as well).
/Mikael
I had 20 sites de-indexed not too long ago… I know they reviewed, found, something. Some sites I hadn’t even touched, they just had my adsense in content and those were de-indexed…
What happened to the Bubs comment? Although a bit harsh, it was true… you were all about the other side before.
Joshua I’ve never been all about the other side. What I said in the past is that links were more important. To tell you the honest truth, if you’re going to look at what influences rankings the most, that’s still true.
I have already come out and said that I’ve changed my mind on this Joshua. I’m not going to take the time to say that I used to believe otherwise every single time I talk about this. Why would I do that?
What actually changed if you want to know the truth is that Google started reviewing content manually. That means there is no long term safety in creating content that isn’t good.
Bubs is welcome to comment as long as he’s willing to man up and show people where his site is.
Joshua things on the internet change. When they do you have to change your mind. If you don’t you won’t do well. I’m not going to act like there’s something wrong with that when there isn’t. I made a change and am now better off and more successful than I was before. Do I need to apologize for that?
Obviously things change. The internet hasn’t even been around long and look how much it has already evolved.
You basically called someone out in your blog post without being specific about the person… Bubs seemed to take offense to it… I kind of said the same thing… ‘wow’.
He could go and post his site, you could go ha ha ha and laugh at the content… and I could post some of yours too and say the same thing. It’s a stupid game. But you don’t have to threaten people.
Joshua there is plenty of content that I have that people would laugh at. I’m making an effort to improve.
My biggest problem with Bubs is that he isn’t willing to take responsibility for what he says. He doesn’t let anyone else see his site, in fact he didn’t even leave a real email address.
You might disagree with me, but you are talking with respect. He is blatantly disrespecting – anonymously. If he wants to open his sites up to scrutiny the way I have, I’ll let him say whatever he wants. Or, if he can act with a little respect I’ll let him say whatever he wants.
You’re right, I did call some people out. Maybe he was one of them but I don’t think so. I definitely didn’t mean to attack anyone personally, I simply believe that it’s a bad plan to blatantly create crap. Sometimes even when we try to create something decent it still isn’t that great and if you are trying to create bad stuff it’s going to be terrible. I really don’t think it’s safe to have that mentality anymore so I’m going to influence people in the other direction. Hopefully that makes sense!
I have to agree with Court here, Bubs was pretty disrespectful and he had no right to say the things he said. It’s was downright rude and bad form.
I personally disagree with Court’s philopsophy about good content (I’m going to assume your post was refering to my blog posts, Court).
But, it’s not good form to start calling people names like that. And, it’s ridiculous to thing people will don’t change their opinions.
Court got slapped around hard by google already, and I’m sure he’s speaking from experience. I personally think if you keep out of the lime light, you won’t get slapped around for crap content. It’s a bit different to get slapped around for teaching people how to make money with crap content then it is for the average joe who is not under google’s gun.
This whole content is king or crap debate has been raging on for a few years now, and I don’t think it’s going to dissapear anytime soon. In the mean time people will do what they do. Maybe they will get banned, maybe not.
Best,
Ben K
I believe that you understand the risks and we both know that you can make money with content that isn’t that great. I think we both understand each side of it and I can definitely accept that you are on the other side.
In fact, I’m willing to yield that you can make more money than me because of the time factor. You are creating more content than I am. I honestly have no idea whether that will ever come back to bite you and there’s a chance that it won’t.
I simply am choosing to take the safer road because that way I won’t have to even think about it and I can still be profitable that way. I want to make my hubs and other properties better to protect them in the long term.
I really think that everyone just needs to adjust according to their experiences. Bubs might change his tune if he gets himself into some trouble. I’ve already been there and made a decision to start producing better stuff. I think it’s funny that anyone would think that’s weird.
Yea, I don’t know what he was smoking when he made that comment. Maybe he makes Splogs for a living or something.
I can totally understand your emphasis on quality content — you’ll make less money, but there is less risk. I think, for your students, it’s a good idea to set them on the straight and narrow right off the bat.
People should just *know* the choice they make and why they make it regarding content — and from what I’ve seen, you have been pretty clear on your reasonings which is great.
Cheers
Ben
I agree that he might have been able to express it in a little more “friendly” way but as I read it (trying to take it as feedback) he was just mentioning that the Lasik site that has previously been mentioned was just and example of profitable site with “crap” content.
I still find all of this a strange discussion as “crap” vs “non crap” is just as subjective as a discussion of whether some sort of food tastes good or not. Some like bananas and some would rather die than eat one. Does this make a banana “crap food”? Yes for some and for others not.
I haven’t seen the Lasik site mentioned but from an argumentative standpoint one could argue that it couldn’t have been anything but crap since it was written by a trained professional. But if that is determining what is “crap” then you’ll also argue that fat people can’t sell diet programs since they obviously don’t know how to diet…
Sorry… better stop my rant now
/Mikael
Mikael everyone has to make their own determination of what is good and bad content. My point is that you shouldn’t choose to create junk on purpose. These people are telling everyone to just create garbage. I’m not going to judge what’s good and what isn’t, I’m simply going to tell people to do their best. Some people will be better than others – the bottom line is that you should at least try.
Thanks for explaining Court. I think that many of us might have misunderstood what you were trying to teach us then. I definitely agree with you that the “garbage production” strategy is doomed and unless I am mistaken I don’t remember you ever promoting that (?).
So to word what I hear you saying it is that:
“you should produce the best quality that you’re able to produce with what you’ve got and within the time frame that you have set”
Is that about right?
Court,
The more I learn about all aspects of IM, the more I’m realizing the fast majority of your attention should be placed on keyword research. I’m looking at the blogs and HubPages I have and don’t get anywhere near you numbers. That tells me I’m not finding the right keywords. Even with good numbers, and CTR, the payout is much lower.
Would you mind revisiting your keyword research methods if they’ve changed at all? I have been using your posted methods, but I’m thinking I’m missing something in the equation.
Thanks for all you do! Thanks to your blog, I’m making 100x’s as much money as I used to make. thanks!
Patch
Patch take a look at The Keyword Crash Course ebook. That will be helpful but to tell you the truth, the members area is where you’re going to get the most training on keyword research. It costs $1 for your first month.
Don’t get me wrong, but is it possible Court that Hubpages is giving you 100% adsense revenue? I have published many hubs and they rank in Google too and they are over 400 words and provide good info, but not a single click so far. I have configured Adsense exactly as I am supposed to and have done everything accordingly. Are they giving you better ROI because you are reporting here which will motivate many people to create more and more hubs, benefiting hubpages big in the long run.
Just wondering…
Not happening Al! HubPages works by splitting Adsense impressions. That means that my ads are shown 60% of the time and theirs are shown 40% of the time. I’ve been checking for their ads and they are definitely there.
Also, I’m not the only one who is making this work. One of the members of our paid program also created 100 hubs this month and made $20 yesterday alone.
The question you have to ask yourself is which keywords you’re ranking for. If your hubs aren’t producing and they’re ranked, they would have to be built around keywords that don’t bring traffic.
Install Google Analytics on your hubs and check whether you’re getting any search traffic or not. You’re probably only getting traffic from the hubbers and they aren’t going to click.
Thanks Court. I did, the majority are from Google and some are hubbers. There is a mix. I wonder what is wrong.
Thanks for the useful info. It’s so interesting
So what is the final tally for the 30 days Court? I am averaging around $23 a day now.
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Court as for linking strategy, would you recommend more time be spent on:
1)creating articles to submit to directories with your hub keyword
2)creating relevant hubpages to link to your other hubs
Thanks for your input!
Patch,
I assure you it is worth the $1. It is well worth more than what we pay for a month to be a premium member and Court and Mark continue adding benefit to the program.
Using Court’s methods, I am now reaching the stage where my adsense breaks even with what the monthly membership costs. Before joining, and doing what Griz says also, have to include that, I was making squat.
Lots of friendly people inside to help you as well.
Hi Court,
I am not sure where I read it on one of your comments but, how do you plan?
Thanks,
Paolo.
Court, I’m getting clicks but no payout. I think you told us something about our hub scores having to be at a certain number; is this why I am getting nothing for my clicks? My average score is 73 between six hubs with one being unpublished. I got five clicks yesterday with nothing
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I appreciate you sharing with us your wisdom and guidance!
Usually that means you’re clicking your own ads…
The author score doesn’t affect your payouts at all, although it does affect other things.
If you are clicking your ads, stop immediately or you risk losing your Adsense account. If you’re not, it’s probably a person who has Adsense and clicks on their own ads all the time, or someone that you know. Once you’ve had a few clicks from an IP Google will stop counting them.
I forgot to mention my author score is 91 if that makes a difference.
Thanks again!
Quick question for Court or any other who’s having Adsense success with their hubs…did you change the ad level settings at all for your hubs, i.e. from “High” to a lower setting? It almost seems like my hubs were smart priced in the past few days.
I’m not clicking my own ads and no one who knows me is aware I am doing anything on hubpages so I don’t think it is anything like that. I’m assuming because they are so new. I got two clicks this morning with no payout.
Writing good quality hubs has the added benefits of attracting spontaneous backlinks from strangers who simply like what you have written.
My problem is that I find it hard to motivate myself to churn out content. I only produced 17 hubs – and I was on the 30 hub challenge
Perhaps you need to write a piece about work methods and motivation. I spend too much time surfing and thinking instead of writing.
P.S. Someone in the comments above mentioned hubs showing irrelevant ads. This came up in the hub forum a while back – when you don’t get any hits to your hub for a while, the ads revert to hubpages default, showing the ads that are most popular on the site as a whole (which seem to be gaming and bollywood for some reason). Therefore it is important to get some traffic to each hub every day, even if it is just other hubbers who don’t click on ads – otherwise when a genuine reader comes along the ads are all wrong.
Court,
Sorry – perhaps a little off topic but I’d like to get your take on the long term effect of the strategy you talk about here.
I totally get that it’s important to go after search engine traffic. I understand good content and doing a good job. But, don’t you really want to be building a list for long-term success.
That is the one thing I see missing here and I’d appreciate your take on it.
Best,
Curtis
Curtis there are plenty of ways to make money and this is only one of them. If you follow my work you know that I also build lists and monetize them but that isn’t the only way to make money.
There are people that make seven figures annually with no list.
^ Just curious what “list” you guys are referring to? Haven’t seen a list referred to in the KWA so far. Easily confused noob here! lol
Marshall,
A “list” means a email list or mailing list of folks who’ve signed up to receive information or who have bought from you in the past.
Curtis
^ Got it. Thanks Curtis!
Great information
I am new at this, I just joined KWA about a week ago after reading about the hubpages experiment. I has 2 hubs already, just for the linkbacks, I did not know there was money to be made. I have two questions
1. Do add amazon and/or ebay capsules to your hubs, or does that distract from your adsense?
2. How can I tell which one of my hubs are performing and which don’t? As far as I can tell, I set my adense id under my account setting, which in turn affect all my hubs. How can I tell how much money is coming in from each hub?
Sorry for all the typos in my message, I should proofread.