HubPages

As most of you know I have been extremely busy on Professional Squids and in my own brick and mortar store lately, but I did want to update you on how my Hubpages earnings are going mostly to inspire you to get involved.  Hubpages has taught me a lot, and I have earned more just about every month this year.

As I mentioned last month, I am no longer going to post my Amazon earnings here, because they are not just from Hubpages anymore, but I will tell you that I have hit the 7% level, which means that I will now work to get to the next level, 7.50%.

For November 2010 my earnings for Ebay, and Adsense have increased quite a bit, and there is a bonus for Ebay this month as well.

Adsense:  $426.35

Ebay:  $865.89 (before the bonus)

Total is $1292.24

Not too shabby.

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Hubpages has recently introduced Hubcamp which is part of their new Learning Center.  This is a supremely well organized effort on the part of the Hubpages team to help people learn how to be more successful hubbers faster, and walks you through the steps.

Hubpages has also organized their new Learning Center very well, making it easy to find the information that you are looking for.  This is a good time to start something new and learn how to earn on Hubpages.  I highly recommend it.  If nothing else, you will learn ways to make your Squidoo lenses even better than before.

The Hubcamp features online videos that walk you through the basics of how to create hubs, and when you are ready, you can check out other hubs for more information.  Very nicely done and professional.

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I have not really put as much time into Hubpages this month, and yet it is still going to be the best month ever.  This is the last month I will be reporting the Amazon payout because I am starting to get clicks from other sources as well, Squidoo primarily, and this will scew the earnings information, but I will continue to report the Ebay and Adsense which come solely from Hubpages.

As you know, my primary goal has been to reach a level of earnings that will cover my rent and gallery expenses each month which I estimate as $2000.  This would leave any income that I earn in the gallery for reinvestment, and purchasing.

This month I will officially hit the $1000.00 mark from Adsense, Amazon, and Ebay totalled.  This is a huge accomplishment, but any one of you could do the same thing.  Getting from $1000.00 to $2000.00 will be much easier than the first $1000.00 because as I have mentioned before, affiliate marketing is exponential, not linear.

So here is the report for October 2010:

Amazon:  $130.20 (not my highest month, but it is my highest items sold at 86.  27 more gets me to the 7% mark.

Ebay: $561.71

Adsense: $334.33

With a total of $1026.35

With the holidays right around the corner, I am really excited for this year’s holiday earnings.  This will be the first year that I see a real swing upwards from the holidays that is significant, and that is good, because there are always places to spend.

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Although I have not been systematically promoting my hubpages, as they seem to do pretty well without a lot of exterior promotion, due to being part of the 60 day challenge team, I am working on promoting the 30 hubs I wrote for the challenge through blogs and article rewrites.

I do not believe in just copying and pasting for promotion especially with blogs, so I am actually rewriting my summaries of each hub for the promotion.  In addition, our 60 day challenge team is helping promote each other’s hubs on our blogs.

I have been very happy with my growth on Hubpages, as I have told you before, but I will be really interested to see how much different this promotion plan will help my results.  It is easy to promote these hubs, because I have primarily been writing them in subject groups, so creating a blog on a subject is not too hard.

In order to keep the blogs from being promotional only, I will be adding tidbits from other sources as well.  You will see my results both on Crabbysbeach and on 10-finity, so you can follow along as I do this.

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I am sorry that I haven’t had time to post more often this month.  I have been extremely busy with both Squidoo and Hubpages, being part of the Professionals Squids and 10-finity teams, while trying to keep up with the 60 Day Challenge on Hubpages.  I ended up squeezing in my 30 hubs in 31 days, but got them done for the challenge, and I am now working on the promotional phase with the rest of the team.

However, in the process, I did not really earn much from my new hubs yet, but still continued to grow my three main Hubpages earning centers, which I will report below:

Amazon $178.67

Ebay  $491.17

Adsense $266.98

Total for September 2010: $936.82

My strategy has been to continue writing hubs that focus on either Amazon or Ebay, with the Adsense earnings coming from those same hubs, however, during the month of October, I will be focusing on adding more hubs that are aimed to earn from Adsense alone, getting into the writing style that will boost that income stream.  I am thrilled with the growth of both Amazon and Ebay this month, and with the holidays, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas approaching, believe that these will continue to grow through December, when they will probably cut back again in January.

My latest group of hubs have been focused on Christmas decorations which most people buy in November and early December.  I am essentially done with my Christmas hubs, and will move to more generic and New Year’s concepts in the next couple of months.

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August has ended and these are the earnings that I have earned through Hubpages in August.

Adsense  $302.29

Amazon  $121.07

Ebay         $286.98

For a total of  $710.34

I was a little disappointed that my Ebay went down this month, however, last month I had a very large Ebay sale.  On the other hand my Adsense and Amazon both went up significantly, which continued to grow my total numbers.

In the month of August, I only wrote 8 new hubs.  Now that my kids are back in school, I am going to work on writing at least one hub a day to revv up the growth of the revenue from these three vendors.  However, as you can see evidenced by the clear growth of my income, the strategies that I have put into place are working, and I can clearly see the income growth from continuing on Hubpages.

I am going to set my goals high this month, and shoot for the moon.  My goal for September is to earn $1000.00 revenue from all three vendors combined.

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Being a retailer, and sales person, it was easier for me to learn how to target keywords to attract buyers of products, especially tangible items.  However, many people make a very nice passive income from Google Adsense on Hubpages, and on their own blogs.

This has made me determined to learn how to write articles to attract people who will click on Google Adsense ads.  Part of this process is really understanding how to find the best keywords for your articles. Another part is learning what kind of articles do the best with Google Adsense income.

I am trying an experiment on Hubpages right now, on a secondary account I have with some hubs designed just for Google Adsense.  I wrote the first one today, so we will see how it does.  I am trying to write hubs that will be found on Google without too much effort on my part other than researching the keywords, and writing the article, but will provide more Adsense income than I have received so far.

Don’t get me wrong.  I have been steadily increasing my Adsense income over time on Hubpages.  Right now if I continue to earn at the same rate as I have been for this month, I am slated to make just under $300 from Adsense this month.  However, I know that some hubbers make as much as $100 per day from Adsense alone, so I am striving to increase that income stream.  Because Adsense is a pay per click system, it pays out faster than many pay per sale programs, paying out the commission from the previous month near the end of each month.

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I have decided to join the 60 Day Challenge team run by one of my favorite hubbers, Sunforged.  This will help me focus my hubbing efforts toward raising my income from Hubpages.

If you want to follow along with my efforts, you are welcome to take a look at the Hublog for this project, Doubling the Profit From My Niche | 60 Day Challenge Hublog.  In the Hublog, I will be chronicling the journey for the next 60 days as I write a minimum of 30 hubs, and then follow the teams promotion methods.  As you probably already know, I am working on building an income to pay for the bottom line expenses for my gallery with the assumption that my online earnings can pay them if I had not even one sale in a month in the brick and mortar store.  These expenses include rent, heat, insurance, telephone, etc.

The truth is that I do have sales in my gallery regularly, but if I can just pay my expenses each month, then I could use the regular sales money to pay artists more quickly, and continue to increase my inventory of items for sale in the gallery and online.

My hubpages journey so far has provided a steady income stream that has been growing at a good rate, but I am hoping that with the 60 Day Challenge, I will rev it up quite a bit, and actually double my July earnings by the end of the 60 days.  The earnings that I am tracking for this challenge are just from Amazon, Adsense, and Ebay, which are primarily funded from Hubpages, although a very small percentage comes from other sources.

I do get other income from Hubpages, but that is not going to be part of the challenge for me.

You can also follow this challenge on Twitter with the hashtag #60dc for new hubs being written by me, and other people.

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I am glad to report that the strategy that I adopted last month to up my Amazon Associates sales is clearly paying off already.  I chose what I thought would a popular topic and created several hubs surrounding that topic.  Today is the 6th day of August, and I already have 12 shipped items on my Amazon Associates account.

So I will continue working this strategy to push myself to the next level on Amazon.

I am already way behind my strategy for August in that I haven’t even written one hub yet this month.  I am going to start catching up today and over the weekend.  I have several topics ready to go, I just haven’t written them.  Just goes to show that you do not have to be perfect to get things done.

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I am jumping for joy with the continued growth from Hubpages in traffic, and earnings from Amazon, Adsense, and Ebay.  Although I did not get to spend nearly as much time as I would have liked on Hubpages this month due to the focus on Professional Squids, my account grew quite a bit.

Here are the numbers for July:

New hubs written–14
Amazon earnings–$77.69
Adsense earnings–$207.32
Ebay earnings–$314.49

My overall interim goal has been to get to $600 for the month.  The total of what I earned here this month was $599.60.  I am going to consider that reaching my $600 goal, and set a new goal. I have to keep in mind that the reason I am doing all this is to pay for my bottom line monthly expenses for my gallery business.  That means that I need about $2000 per month for telephone, utilities, and rent.  I am about 1/4 of the way there, and should be able to grow my earnings faster because they are growing exponentially based on the previous month’s earnings.

Therefore, my new goal is to get to $1000 a month from Ebay, Amazon, and Adsense.  Since Adsense does not seem to be growing as well for me, I am going to focus on Amazon and Ebay and write targeted hubs that point to those two sites.  In order to really jumpstart this goal, I am going to write 2 hubs per day 5 days a week.  On the weekends I will focus on writing articles to build backlinks to my hubs.

One tactic that I have learned which would work well on both Hubpages and Squidoo is to write my hubs in groups, or at least plan them in groups.  This is what I did recently with the Swarovski group of hubs.  I have other similar groups on other topics planned for this month.  I often plan the group at the same time, then secure the urls, and write a couple a day or whatever I can get done.  Then I link them together with a link module.

This strategy seems to be working for me, although I do find that 1 of the hubs in each group tends to outpace the rest, which is fine.  Hopefully, it is sending traffic to other hubs in the group.

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