Hubpages and Affiliate Earnings

In my last post, I mentioned that Hubpages had teamed up with Kontera ads to help make writing a Hubpage even more profitable to us the Hubpages Authors.

I have been running the Kontera ads on my hubs for a few days now and I am surprised at the outcome.

The first three days saw a decrease in my earnings from Google adsense, and the Kontera ads were making a few cents, not enough to cover what I was losing with Google, but on the fourth day my Adsense earnings went back to the same levels as I was making before the Kontera ads were introduced to my pages. The Google ads have been at their normal level since the fourth day.

Kontera ads are now my second best source of income from my hubs, I am making around the same every day just around the $1.00 mark, I am sure that this will continue over time and may even increase as I continue to write more hubs.

Advertising with ebay and amazon is still a bit of an unknown for me although I do make money now and again from them I just can’t seem to get people to buy something from those sources on a regular basis.

Kontera seems to be working for me, I wonder if it is working for you too.

This weeks featured hubber of the week is Chuck

Chuck Joined hubpages at around the same time as myself 2 years ago and we have built up a good friendship, he has written 345 hubs and has 423 people in his fanclub.

Chuck”

A husband and proud father of four who works as a college administrator and part-time economics instructor. I enjoy traveling with my family and seeing new sites and places with them. Thanks to my Irish ancestery, I have come to enjoy telling and writing stories as well as devising clear cut narrations to explain economic concepts for my students.”

Chucks best rating hubs include:

Banks that Reimburse ATM Surcharges

and

How to Become a Fighter Pilot

Chuck has a great style of writing that I would love to be able to emulate, his hubs are very well written and bursting with great information.

Hubpages and Kontera

An announcement this week in the Hubpages forums, caused a bit of a stir, as you are aware you can earn from hubpages through 4 different sources, Google Adsense, Ebay, Amazon and through url trackers.

Now their are 5 ways to earn, Hubpages have teamed up with Kontera a pay per click advertising programme to offer us another potential earning opportunity.

PAUL DEEDS (HUBPAGES) SAID”You can enable or disable it for individual hubs by editing them, and changing the Kontera setting next to Ad Level.  You can also turn it on or off for all of your hubs at once on the affiliate settings page.  The text link ads will only appear to readers that are not signed in to HubPages.  In our tests we saw a 15-20% boost in total income per hub, but your results may vary.”

I have signed up for Kontera but I am still awaiting confirmation, I am sure though that it will provide a boost to the earnings that I make from the site, keep an eye out here for weekly update on how Kontera affects my earnings in the first few months.

I am sure it will be an interesting time for all of the Hubpages authors and staff.

This weeks Featured Hubber of the week is Gamergirl

Charlotte aka Gamergirl has been a Hubpages Author for 8 months now and in that time she has built up a fanbase of 300, she has written 133 hubs and is one of the more active participants in the hubpages forums.

Gamergirl”

Gamergirl is the pen name of a twenty-something writer who enjoys the obvious: games! Be they roleplaying games, board games, computer or Xbox games, Gamergirl is there and ready to write about them.”

Gamergirl is witty, and always up for a good belly laugh, her hubs are an ecclectic mix from computer game reviews and hints to some fantastic poetry.

Her top scoring hubs include:

US Navy Boot Camp

and

Ventriloquism for Dummies

Gamergirl provides great reading material and has something for everyone to enjoy in her hubs.

 

 

 

Hubpages and Me

Jimmythejock is the name and hubpages is my game

I first joined hubpages around 2 years ago and I wrote my first article on the same day that I signed up to the site, to my surprise I recieved my first comment around 2 minutes after clicking on the publish button, and before I knew it I had over 100 hits on my page within 24 hours, from that moment on I was addicted, people were actualy reading things that I had written and they were even adding their own 2 cents to my articles. 

In my previous attempts at writing on the internet I was lucky to get 10 readers a week and the only comments I ever recieved were spammy links to get rich quick sites.

I began writing on hubpages every day sometimes 3 or 4 hubs in a single day, my record is 17 in 1 day but I will not try to beat that one again.

The more readers and comments that I recieved the more hubs I wanted to produce, it wasn’t long before I had reached my first milestone 100 hubs only one other author Drax had reached that milestone.

The hubpages community were an inspiration, they encouraged each other, and were always available to offer helpful advice and tips, and the whole community rallied together to help anyone who was down, I took ill and the support I recieved from everyone throughout that difficult time was unbelievable. The hubpages community became like a second family to me.

I kept on writing Hubs every day reaching new milestones 200 hubs 300 Hubs and in February 2007 I reached the milestone that I had been aiming for and with my 400th hubpage I was proud to be the first Hubpages Author to be entered into the Hubpages hall of fame.

After I published Hub 400, I realised that the quality of my Hubs were not as good as they could be if I took more time to research the topics I was writing about and I started to take a little more time and care when writing, I stopped producing daily pages and I now try to produce more high quality information in my writing.

I have written 610 hubs now and I will keep writing on hubpages for as long as I can.

My Earnings from Hubpages

I am a hobby writer and when I joined hubpages I had no interest in earning any money from the ads on my pages, I still really don’t care if people click on the ads when they read my Hubs, I am happy in the knowledge that people are reading what I write.

It was 3 months before I recieved my first click on a google ad on a hub and from that click I made 11cents, soon after though I started getting regular clicks and it took me another 3 months before I was qualified for my first adsense check.

The money That I make on Hubpages is a bonus, and I put my earnings on adsense on hold for a while promising that I would treat the children with it when I decided to cash in, 3 months ago I took my adsense hold off and my earnings from hubpages were enough to pay for this years family vacation to Bulgaria and I still have a couple of hundred left over to give the kids as spending money when we get there.

Not too bad for a hobby.

This Weeks Featured hubber of the week is: Lela Davidson

Lela has been writing on Hubpages for 15 months and in that time she has published  233 hubs and she has 321 people in her fanclub.

Lela ” am a Mother.  I cook, clean, wipe noses, push Benadryl, check for nits, help with homework, and iron tiny polo shirts.  I used to have a real job with a degree framed on my office wall, but I gave it up for this glamour.  I also write, hang out with my husband, and drink wine with my friends on the driveway.  I believe parenting is the hardest job in the world as well as the most natural thing we do.”

Lela produces some great family oriented hubs offering advice and tips and when I read her first ever hub I knew that someone special had joined hubpages.

Lela’s hubs include

Stretch Marks: Guide on How to Prevent and Get Rid of Them

and

Top Five Midwest Family Vacation Destinations

Lela’s writing style is second to none

Hubpages to Earn or not to Earn

Some Hubpages rake in 100s of dollars every month  whilst others are lucky to make a single cent.

Some Hubpages Authors join the site for the sole purpose of making money whilst others join for the joy of having their work read by other people.

Then there are authors like myself who write as a hobby and make a few bucks into the bargain.

For me I started writing on hubpages as a hobby and I have been writing on the site now for 2 years and writing there remains my hobby and money I earn from the affiliate links on my hubpages is a bonus.

Some of my fellow hubbers are earning $1500.00 - $2000.00 every month and they deserve every penny that they earn, because they work hard and put in hours of their time promoting their pages.

Making money on hubpages depends on many factors including hard work and perseverance, niche topics, marketing, and most of all publising original and high quality material.

As I work in a full time job outside of my hubpages hobby, I find that my time is very limited and I have to make a choice between writing a new hub or marketing some of my older ones.

My hobby is writing therefore through choice, I write new hubpages rather than market my existing ones, If I had more time I would do both and I would probably be one of the higher earning authors on hubpages.

I still consider myself to be very lucky though because I recieve a check every month from Google for approx $200.00, I earn approx $10 a month from ebay and around $5.00 from Amazon.

Not bad for a hobby.

Check out some of my hubs here

This Weeks Hubber of the week is: embitca

embitca has been writing on hubpages for around 14 months and has published 112 hubpages to date, she has 186 members in her fan club and is well respected by the whole of the hubpages community.

 

embitca ” I’m a tv-lovin’ gadget girl with lots of things to say. I’ll be putting together some one-stop shopping style resources for some of my favorite topics - particularly travel, television, music, technology and the internet.”

embitca writes on a diverse range of interesting topics  and her writing is top quality.

her top hubs include

Surviving a Timeshare Presentation

and

Moonlight CBS

embitca is an author who should be read and is often overlooked and under rated by the hubpages community.

Hubpages Quality versus Quantity

I could write 20 hubpages today on topics off the top of my head and although I would get a few visits from people to them for the first couple of days the traffic  would soon dwindle until eventually they would only get one or 2 visitors a month.

I could do some research and produce 1high quality hub today and I would get a few visitors in the first few days from fellow hubbers and then when the search engines have found my hub the traffic would keep coming.

Having published over 600 hubs on Hubpages, I have been guilty of throwing together 10 hubs in a single day I think my record for a single day is 17, around half of all of my hubs were just thrown together written quickly without any research what-so-ever, In the early days of the hubpages site I got hooked and like a kid with a new toy I went crazy every waking moment as the hubstaff will verify I was never away from the site and i wasn’t happy unless I was writing a hub or commenting on another hubbers work.

Those early hubs have ran their course and recieve about 1 visitor every 3 months, they were never money makers and between the first 300 of my hubs I think I earned around $50 all time.

These days I don’t write as often I publish 1 or 2 hubs in a week, I take more time to do some research on and offline on the subject I have chosen, and I consider my hubs of a higher quality with more information and a more professional look to them. I try to write on Evergreen content (content that is not restricted to time of year) and content that I would find useful if I was searching for information on that particular subject.

I get a lot more visitors to my hubs since I changed the way I write and I earn alot more money from my pages.

Quantity is sufficient if you want to make a quick cent, But Quality is king if you want to put some real money in your bank account and keep the money coming in on a long term basis.

This weeks Featured Hubber: of the week is Misha

Misha is a perfect example of Quality over Quantity

He joined Hubpages 8 months ago and has only published 7 hubs.

Misha is a very active member of the hubpages forums and he is often seen leaving a friendly or helpful comment or 2 on other peoples hubs.

Misha

“To get the record straight, I’m 48 years old straight man, Russian citizen, happily married second time. I have three children - 25, 4, and 1.5 year old, and live in US, Washington DC area.”

Misha is a popular figure on the hub and has 484 fans on the Hubpages site.

His hubs include

Google Search

and

Defensive Driving 101 — Courtesy Is The Antidote To Dangerous Driving

Misha’s Hubs ooze quality, new hubbers could learn alot from his pages.