The Best Easy Way to Make Money Online is to Open a Hubpages Account
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Useful resources to learn how to make money online
- Blogging tools
How to set up a blog what tools will you need to make it a success? If you are serious about making money blogging, there are a number of tools that are indispensable, a few tools that are nice - How to make money blogging
A step by step guide to making money blogging If I have been asked the question, how on earth do you make money blogging ? once, I have been asked it a thousand times. There is an awful lot of - Link Building Software
Great list of link building tools to promote your website.
Best and Easy Way to Make Money on the Internet?
You think I am kidding when I say that opening a hubpages account is the best and easiest way of making money online? But I am not. In this article I am going to explain why, share how much money I make here, and - more importantly - show you several ways how you can make money online with hubpages. Before you go any further though - it will take work. I have no magic bullet, but I can - and will - show you several different ways of making a living with a hubpages account.
I see an awful lot of people arrive here, open an account, write a couple of articles and immediately hit the forum to start whining about the fact that they are not making any money. They assume that because they are not making money by the fifth day that it is not possible to make money here. Apart from religious people sharing the word of god and political people attacking whichever party they think is stealing their freedoms - this is probably the most- often raised subject on the hubpages' forums.
As to the first two - they are easy questions to answer. There is no god and all political parties steal your freedoms - that is how they make their living - Robin Hood in reverse if you like. How to make reasonable money online is a far tougher question. And to the question every one seems to ask when considering hubpages is - how much money can I make? I cannot tell you that exactly, but what I can do is tell you how much money I make here and point you at several methods you may want to try for yourself.
Hubpages 2010
Every year, I do a hub about my year on hubpages. This is last years if you are interested - 2009 on hubpages. This year I decided to include it in this one and enter the hubpages "Personal Finance," competition - this is the last day to publish and this is my only entry.
First bit of free advice - use the hubpages competitions and "hubmobs" as ideas for subjects to write about. They pick the subjects carefully with an eye to the bottom line and the community aspect tends to bump your page views up instantly. Use their knowledge - hubpages know what they are doing so I recommend taking their advice when they suggest subjects to write about.
Stats for 2010
Statistic
| Totals
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|---|---|
Page Views 2010
| 1,968,008
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Total page views
| 3,436,777
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Hubpages Income 2010
| $27,831
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Most viewed hub total page views
| 522,314
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Least viewed hub total page views
| 26
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Most comments on a single hub
| 676
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So, there you have it - money-wise, just short of 2 million page views - for me - equals almost $28,000 and most of that was in the latter half of the year. I assume hubpages made a proportionate amount of money, and if you check my last year's stats, you will see I have doubled my income over 2009. I plan on more than doing that this year also.
I don't know where you live, but here in Europe, the tax man cometh, and fully 50% of my income goes to pay the Government Inc to pay the Central banks to pay the bankers to buy luxury condos in London, and yachts that sit in Monaco harbor all year long - and that is not including sales taxes. So this figure becomes a lot less impressive when you take taxes into account and the fact that a gallon of fuel now costs around $7.50. I don't know where the breaking point is, but my only option at the moment is to make more money to appease the hungry tax man. We have seen riots or political unrest in Greece, Ireland, the UK, France, Algeria and Germany, so I see this getting worse, not better and I am too old to go throwing bricks at the police. Even if I thought it would do any good - which I don't.
Anyway - enough of that negativity. To the meat of the matter. How to make money from the internet using a hubpages account and why I think this is the easiest way of making money on the internet. There are several different ways to make money online with hubpages and I am going to suggest two basic models. I genuinely think that a hubpages account is the easiest way to make money online. Especially if you are just starting out. Understand this first - Hubpages take 40% of the page impressions that your pages make, which means they take 40% of the income (give or take.).
Trust me - this is absolutely worth it from your perspective. You will waste at least 40% of your time trying to do the technical things hubpages takes care of automatically and the site's authority means you will get your pages ranked far quicker than your own site's pages (there are a few exceptions). I took a good look at hubpages business model before investing a great deal of time here and I trust they are here to stay and are making money - all to the good. They get rid of the crap and the spam and - odd as this may sound - I am impressed that they invested in a sign on the building they inhabit, because it means they are in it for the long haul - and so am I. Sure - there are risks: the tax man may make it impractical to do business online, Google might go broke, hubpages might sell themselves, the internet could collapse under the mountains of garbage being dumped into it, or any number of other disasters, but - for the foreseeable future - I think this is a safe bet.
Resources
- Amazon Removes Colorado Affiliates and Why
Be aware of this if you live in the USA and are considering using Amazon to make money. - Write on HubPages and earn!
Sign up for a hubpages account here - HubMob Weekly Topic
HubMob Weekly Topics are announced here - Official HubPages Announcements Forum on HubPages
- HubPages FAQ
Making Money on Hubpages Model 1
I call this the Nike model - just do it.
Seriously - get your head down, write about a wide variety of subjects and be prolific. There is money in just about every subject under the sun and you are bound to hit some profitable ones, especially if you take my advice and use the hubpages' suggestion tools and enter as many hubpages competitions as you can
But - you need to be prolific. I mean very prolific. Write a bare minimum of 3, 500-800 word articles a day - day in, day out for the next 6 months - 5 a day if you can. Add them all to groups using the groups tool so they are linked together, add at least 1 photo and be mindful of the ones that absolutely do not work - and by not work, I mean generate no traffic and make no money. Lose the ego - some things you try will not work. It is genuinely hard to turn some subjects into 800 words, (simple recipes for example) but this is the target I would set. Don't shoot yourself if you only hit 650 words.
By the end of the 6 months you will have 500-800 articles and some of them will be making money. Take a week off (you will need it) and spend it looking through your articles to determine the ones that are making money for you. To determine which ones are making money you will need a google analytics account, a google adsense account (you will link these 2 accounts together to tell you which pages are making you money) and probably an Amazon affiliates account. You can find how to do this in the hubpages FAQ which I have added a link to here. You can sign up through your hubpages account to all of these if you do not already have them, but by far the most-used income source is adsense. Adsense is also the safest. The reason being that the tax man cometh in the USA as well - and he is looking for sales taxes on Internet orders, which means Amazon is under threat and some states have already enacted laws which mean Amazon has been forced to eject affiliates from their program. The google adsense earning model is not currently threatened by this - and google has a lot of clout.
Then spend the next 6 months writing 3-5 articles a day on the subjects that are working for you. This is a simple approach that requires nothing other than you having some knowledge to share - that is all. If you can type - you can do this and you will earn money. What are you waiting for?
I would guesstimate that you will make somewhere around $18,000 in your second year - assuming you can string a sentence together, are able to determine which subjects work for your style of writing and are prepared to be prolific. I make this guesstimate based on the fact that this was the approach I took when I first started and I know how much money I was making from writing around a third of this many articles on basically random subjects in my first year. You will continue making money from them if you have chosen "evergreen," subjects that will not go out of date. A meatloaf recipe will still be a meatloaf recipe in 10 years time whereas a political analysis of a current event will go past it's sell-by date very quickly.
Making Money on Hubpages Model 2
The "Considered," approach.
This model requires a different approach. Instead of the Nike scatter gun "Just do it," model, this one requires some forethought, relies on properly researching high value or high traffic potential (or both) subjects in order to develop a search engine optimization strategy, producing well thought out articles targeting specific keywords and subsequent promotion of those articles. It takes longer to produce the content and does not come with the immediate satisfaction of producing lots of work, but - should earn you more money in the long run. There are three components to this model.
- Keyword research to determine the subjects you will write about and the specific keywords you will target in your articles.
- Properly researched content which is factually accurate, useful and targets the keywords you have chosen.
- Promotion of those articles using a variety of approaches also targeting your chosen niche and keywords.
Step 1 - Keyword Research and Keyword Analysis
This is the most challenging part of the process as far as I am concerned. Beginners will get lost in a morass of possibilities and lose sight of the goal - which is to find the most profitable niche and keywords which it is possible to rank for in the search engines. I am not going to teach you how to do this in this article - it is far too large a subject, but I am going to suggest a keyword tool that will do the heavy lifting for you, supplied by a company that will teach you how to use it as well. This is my current favorite keyword research tool, and I have used quite a few of them.
Market Samurai Keyword Tool
Market Samurai takes a few minutes to download and install and is free for a trial period which is long enough for you to learn how it works and use it to start finding niches and keywords that you then target with good quality content. Seriously - good content is vital. You must research not only the keywords you are going to target, but the subject itself in order to provide value. I am not going to do a huge Market Samurai review - the proof of the pudding is in the eating which you can do by using the free trial.
Once you have downloaded it and the trial is over - you are almost certainly going to want to buy it. It is not expensive either. The full price is $149 - but there is usually an offer to buy when you download the free one that saves you money - I suggest you take it. Market Samurai is a fantastic keyword analyzer which will provide you with a substantial keyword list which you can then base your search engine optimization strategy on. Probably the most cost effective keyword software I have used so far. You start with one top keyword and it provides up to 800 semantically related words to analyze. This is their sales video. Watch it - then go download the free version and try it out.
Step 2 - Content
I meant what I said about providing useful content. No matter the subject - do some in-depth research and answer questions people are asking. You will find many of the questions during the keyword phase - now you need to answer them.
So - let's say you have decided to write an article entitled "How to Crochet Underwear." When a visitor comes to your web page - show them how to crochet underwear. Use photos, embed some videos, link to other resources, add some Amazon capsules with crochet materials for sale in - go to town - write an authority page on the subject. I go into more detail about exactly what should be on the page here - how I got my hub on google's front page, but I use the hubpages' flagship hub guidelines:
- A minimum of 1500 words, of your own, purely original writing
- A minimum of 3 relevant video capsules (YouTube or Google)
- A minimum of 5 relevant non-copyrighted images
- At least 10 relevant, helpful links to other sources, each with your own 30-50 word description
- A news capsule (or highly-relevant RSS feed), or eBay Capsule if your topic is product-related
- 15 relevant tags, including 2-3 common misspellings or spelling variants (if any)
- Maximum 150 word succinct description of the utility of your Flagship Hub in the Summary Text (uncheck the Calculate Summary Automatically box)
- Excellent thematic and aesthetic organization
Coincidentally - that hub is my most-commented on hub and I am changing my tune a little after learning more about how to research and promote a hubpage. This is an example of a page created to these guidelines:
Example of a Hub Written to These Standards
- Top Ten Best American Recipes and Food
This is my salute to the good ol U.S. of A. food wise. American foods have a reputation as being junk foods. This is simply not true - some companies may have turned them into junk food, but the...
Step 3 - Promotion
How to go about promoting your hubpages is a contentious issue. I used to think it was un-necessary - and in some cases - it is un-necessary. That collection of American recipes for example has had almost no promotion. I added I think one link from my personal blog and linked to it from a few of my hubpages and that is all. It has had over 72,000 views and now gets more than 150 visitors a day.
But - if you pick subjects which are higher paying than recipes - you are going to discover, unless you do fantastic keyword research and find high paying subjects that do not have a lot of publisher competition (The "Holy Grail" of Keyword Research) that you cannot get visitors to the page without doing some promotion - and by promotion I mean building links to your pages, sending emails to your friends that you have written a new page, submitting your links to social bookmarking sites, and article marketing. Article marketing is simply writing articles related to your page and submitting them to article directories with a link to your site. I go into more detail about how to do these things in these articles, so I am not going to go into great detail here, but I will say you need to not cross the line into spam.
No Spam Please
Leaving spurious comments that do nothing to add to a discussion on some one else's page is spam. Using automatic software to leave comments on blogs is spam. In fact - the less work involved - the more likely it is to be spam. If you are not adding value, be it by writing an interesting comment on some one else's article or submitting an interesting article to ezine or answering a question on Yahoo answers - or something similar to these - Don't do it!
But - reasonable promotion is fine. Add a link from your personal blog, send your Mum an email asking her to come read your page, leave a comment telling me how clever I am on one of my pages and add a link, write a few articles at ezine articles linking to your page - whatever - just add value when you do it.
To Promote or Not?
This is an example I want to share. I wrote two hubpages following my own guidelines. This one is 2,800 words long and this is the traffic history for the last 30 months since I wrote it.I did almost no promotional work for this hub - I added a few links soon after writing it and left it to fend for itself. As you can see - after quite a reasonable length of time the traffic is not coming in droves. Why not? When my recipe hub gets thousands of visitors? Easy - This subject has a lot more money in it and a lot more strong competition than the recipe one has.
A few months later, I wrote another article on the same subject - a little longer - this one is actually 4,000 words long. Once again, following my guidelines. Not appreciably any better than the first one, and covering much the same ground. The two articles have exactly the same title, similar tags, and the URLs are one letter different.
But - this one I promoted. I left comments on other people's blogs and added a link to this hub. I wrote articles and submitted them to article directories with a link to this page, I shared this page on my social bookmarking accounts - I did all the promotion I could without being a spammer. I linked to it from lots of my other hub pages and articles I wrote at other sites, but I only linked to it when it was appropriate to do so. This is the traffic for 18 months in.
As you can see - substantially different results and substantially more traffic. Plus this is the start of the traffic growth phase which usually lasts 2 years or so. I expect this hub to continue growing in traffic volumes and probably hit around 500 visitors a day when it peaks out. Generally - hubpages take some time to mature and reach peak traffic - 3 years to peak, in fact, according to Paul Deeds. I concur and expect this one to peak in another 18 months or so. This is why I stick to evergreen subjects mostly, and Market Samurai will help you to find them. I plan to be making money for many years with most of my work here.
Conclusions
By no means are these the only two ways to make money with a hubpages account, but for a beginner or relative novice - both will work well. The first way satisfies the writer's ego, but the second way is likely to produce more income. I personally now do a combination approach because that is what works for me, but I suggest taking one or other of these approaches to start with and then adapting it as you see what is working.
I have tried many other ways of making money on the Internet and I am not suggesting that you should not try any other ways - I have several different sources of income myself - but if you want the easiest way to make money online - these two are good starts.
I have given more than enough information for you to get started, but if you need a holding hand you can contact me through my profile page and I will personally walk you through all the steps required, whichever model you choose. I can guarantee you will be making reasonable money by month 3, decent money by month 6 and a reasonable income in the second year - But I don't work for free.
Have a great 2011 and good luck when your tax man cometh.
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Nice Hub. It's very good for beginners wanting to make a living. Sorry so much of your earnings are eaten up by the tax man. Just another way we pay to keep the oligarchs "garching" I suppose.
The keyword research is very difficult it's hard to find just the right niche ... and some you do find bore me to sleep!
Sometimes I have to break up the keyword search with just an article that's a bit of a political rant, but it's still fun to see if any of them ever take off.
Great info Mark much thanks I have followed your advice before and it has definitely made a difference.
Very informative, Mark. I also like the 2 approaches you have given as both should show results. Like Leah, I should do more backlinking but rarely take the time.
To promote or not to promote...that is the question. I've spent a good deal of time promoting my newer hubs over the last six months, and while initially they did better than unpromoted hubs, they have fallen back to where I'd expect them to be if not promoted at all. Not that I care - they were 'up there' where they needed to be for Halloween and Christmas! Meanwhile my unpromoted hubs have crept up to a very nice position on Google's front page, so silently I didn't notice until they suddenly started getting hits! Useful informative and very encouraging hub you have written here, Mark! Thanks :)
Mark, it is only through the generous and inspiring writing from Hubbers like you that it was possible for me to make money online with HubPages!
I just celebrated my first year at HubPages, and while I haven't seen anything like the numbers that you have, I've used the techniques that you provide here (and in your other hubs) to achieve what small success I have. The increase in both traffic and income has been phenomenal over time, and as you say, the longer you work at it the better it gets!
Thanks so much for continuing to share your knowledge with all of us - I am 100% positive that I can be just as successful at this as you are if I just do the work and stick with it!
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Thank you for this Hub! I am just getting rolling, writing Hubs and enjoy it. To see them get traffic and make money - my guess is that would be great fun as well! Going to follow your advice. Thank you. Ann
As to the first two - they are easy questions to answer. There is no god and all political parties steal your freedoms - that is how they make their living - Robin Hood in reverse if you like.
Okay I love that, I am adding this to my facebook if you don't mind!!!!!
Very nice hub Mark! I enjoyed reading it and just emailed it to a new hubber friend of mine. :)
Thank you very much for sharing your experience. The information including the tips will be valuable for me to write with better quality and income.
Thanks for the comments every one - I hope you can put this information to good use. :)
@Izzy - if they were "up there" for Xmas and Halloween - I would not expect them to do anything the rest of the year. I would also guess they will do twice as well this year - thanks to your efforts.
This is true Mark, but they weren't all seasonal hubs. I just read your hub again and agree 100% about Market Samurai. It's the other thing that has made a huge difference to me in not only finding profitable topics to write about, but for optimising existing hubs. Everyone who is serious about making money online should invest in a copy. Thanks again for a great hub!
Wow! Thanks Mark, I have bookmarked this hub and surely come back to read it again. You have done a fantastic job to explain this in such an awesome manner. Thanks once again. :)
Another 'gold' from Mark..
Very informative. Thanks for all the ideas.
Mark,
I totally agree. I have a couple of hubs, not many but I'm not whining because to actually make something you've got to be prolific and you've got to put in effort. Look at the number of hubs you have compared to the most of us. I believe if everyone of us has around the same number of hubs as you, then we will see some returns.
hi Mark, good luck in the competition. You inspire and encourage anyone who reads your hubs- you have laid out exactly why hubpages is such a great site to write on- if only someone would come up with an automatic-'set and forget' back linking service, I would be very happy.
GREAT Hub Mark! Thank you so much for sharing! May your earnings multiply ten-fold by your generosity with information! Blessings always, EarthAngel!
hi Mark! wonderful and inspiring for the new hubbers, strategies that you presented for earning money on hub pages seem to be very informative and practical. hope you write more, thanks
Thanks every one - glad you enjoyed it. :)
Wonderful, practical and inspirational! Thank you so much Mark for all the useful information you have included!
Hi, Mark, great article, loved every bit of it! Always reassuring to read from someone who actually makes money this way, and even better to read such an optimistic evaluation of the chances in this business... Thanks!
Hi Mark,great hub. Just wondering does the majority of your income come from a couple of hubs or is it evenly spread across all??I have one hub outperforming a lot of the others and was wondering if this is the case with most hubbers or just me?
This is one of the more reassuring hub titles I've come across, that's for sure. Great article here filled with the cold hard truth. Money can be made, but work must be done. Glad I perused. Thank you.
Hello Mark, it really is great info. I joined 5 days ago and am somehow not able to accept the fact that my ad sense account will not be approved at least for six months being an Indian...Can you suggest something pls so that I keep my self motivated?
Mark Knowles, thank you for sharing your wisdom and lessons learned along the way. I am bookmarking this, voted up, and tweeted. Thanks again.
Thanks very interesting and some great information. I am trying to go for the second approach more now and write a few very successful hubs that take time and I promote which hopefully will do really well!
I became a hubber 2 months ago, and am new to the making money online world. My biggest complaint about hubs about making money is they assume you know things, and the hub swiftly sounds to me like blah blah blah money blah blah optimization blah blah. Not helpful. You have to assume I don't know anything. Here is a good hub that used small words and defined even the simple terms http://hubpages.com/hub/My-Hubpages-Traffic-Double Mark, if i understood the above, including this relevant link is good for your hub. Am I right, or am I off? I'm a noob and trying to learn, and this hub was helpful b/c it avoided jargon.
I have to say it is very rare for people to show what they earn on hubpages and the like but it really is inspirational for others to know what they can aspire to so I thank you for that. I'm not really a bit one for researching, I write from my gut so I will just have to try and write the 3 articles a day that are required.
Thanks a lot for a great hub!
Great hub Mark. I see that your hub on forex trading now sits on the first page of google. Great! Just wanted to ask you how long did it take you to push "Making Money Online" to the first page. Thanks.
Fascinating content; I had no idea you could make this kind of money at Hubpages. I am impressed and even inspired. Thanks for your thorough examination.
Mark, I received my first Adsense payment after one year of writing on HP and I'm motivated to make the next payment come in half that time. Your hub is a goldmine of proper methods. Thanks again for another great lesson.
This is going to be my reference from now on. I bookmarked it. Thank you Mark for your helpful tips.
Mark,
your work inspires me very much so. Will follow up with your amazingness. I love market samurai best tool hands down. I also would recommend magnetic sponsoring. More on mlm but still a good read. all the best
Thanks for an informative hub, Mark. Much appreciated. The information has been broken down into manageable sections and is also easy to understand.
Have bookmarked it, and tweeted it as well.
You are always the man, Mark, even if you don't do your own washing! Very motivating hub!
A formerly unemployed person could potentially start generating a lot of income for themselves right now with the advice on your page, Mark.
Some people think making a living online is about having an online "job", but usually it does not entail that. Because a lot of 'online jobs' are scams, this leads a lot of people to erroneously believe its not very practical to make money online.
This hub is more helpful than most when it comes to making money online. Easily.
Any comment I leave is a bit superfluous, excellent hub and so on. But, er, what an excellent hub. I didn't know hubs like this existed, and it is slightly scary if all your others are of this standard.
Oh yeah, good luck in the competition, although I suspect luck doesn't come into it.
Wow, I think you have some friends here. Thank youfor a very explicit hub,
Good to read that the scattergun approach still works. I start writing those three hubs today. 13 hubs in 13 months hasn't really worked for me.
I am fairly new here and have considered doing backlinking eventually or not at all. After looking at your graphs and reading this article, I will have to give the idea of linking a more serious consideration.
WOW! Over $27,000 last year? You just put a fire under this girl! Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful hub. I previously came from eHow where there were many change and much uncertainty. I am glad I found and excellent new writing home! Voted up!
Awesome Hub, it really inspired me. Thanks!
excellent hub - and I really appreciate you being the kind of person to share with us so we can also have the kind of success you have - so many times people refuse to share. Very well done hub - one of the best I have seen. Great work
Amazingly well thought out. You've convinced me to dedicate sincere time to writing honest, useful hubs -- I had previously thought of HubPages in Nike-analogy-terms only.
Great article Mark. I'm relatively new to Hubpages, but I am hear to stay.
A very informative hub
I have noticed in my short time here I am drawn to articles about making money on the internet. Its not that other things don't interest me. I have already lost big time to internet companies because I didn't do the research I should have. This should be a must read for anyone wanting to make money on the net. Very well written and more importantly by someone who is making it work. Thank you for sharing.
Amazing work, you're a good inspiration showing hard work pays off.
I've been on hubpages 4 days,only because the weather is bad in Dallas this week. But I guess the joke was on me...lol. I love it and reading your article has given me inspiration to move forward on hubpages. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Thanks all - glad to be of service/motivation. :D
Great work, Mark - it is nice to know that there are different models. I tried the scattergun approach, but found it difficult to make enough time for mass producing Hubs. I have moved more towards the second model, so your advice in that area is greatly appreciated.
50% tax - that sucks.
All I can say is AWESOME and WOW. Thanks for sharing what works best. Congrats! Maita
Thanks guys - my pleasure.
@Sufi - it is vital to stop at some point and determine what is working, but it is hard to persuade yoursefl to stop lol Yes - the tax situation is getting to the point where I might look further afield.
Thank you for the great information, Mark! It's Hubs like these that really help us newcomers with the learning process.
I've been on HubPages for roughly one month now and have written just over 40 Hubs. I've written two articles for InfoBarrel, and about 5 Squidoo lenses. As you can see, after stumbling upon all three, I've remained consistent with HubPages. The community is great, but, in terms of earning passive income online, I've also found that the search engine traffic, even though sporadic for me, has been phenomenally better with HubPages!
As usual good sage advice! L)
Great advice, thanks Mark I'm going to use this hub as part of my 'business plan' this year!
Thank you for the inspiration!
Awesome hub!
Outstanding Hub, Mark. It's a whole new level of hubbing that I hadn't yet seen in my 3 weeks on HP. Thanks for the great info.
Very inspired Hub,,,
Very nice hub mark. I personally liked the 2nd approach as a web marketer. As you wrote, need to strategize, plan and than implement everything.
hai mark.......
its very useful for me.... Techzarinfo we are global web design and development company offer you in cms website development, php, drupal, html and mobile application development
This is amazing. you are doubling your income.
Great information. Thank you for the detailed instructions and honest projections of money to be made.
Why would you disgrace over half of the people that will read this by attacking God? There was no need to mention it.
Wow, that was very interesting. I feel like I need to print it, so I can refer back to it often as I write. As a newbie, I'm most appreciative. Thanks!
This is very well written and covers the basics... now if only people will take this to heart. What I find is that people are too lazy to do the kind of writing they need to really make any money. FYI Hubpages is my #5 Revenue generator. And you hit something spot on - the 40% payback for all the technical work that Hubpages relieves you from. If you know how to do this and are willing to invest in yourself you'll make more money outside of Hubpages... a lot more. But most people unless they are full time marketers and have a real DESIRE and DRIVE to get in and make the tech side happen will just fail and should be using Hubpages instead. It's a very fair trade off. Hubpages has the leverage you need to get pages viewed without any additional SEO Backlinking - if you choose the topic correctly and write a very descriptive keyword rich title tag that is 70 characters or less. Now I say 70 because Google is not the only search engine game in town. I make a lot of money from Bing/Yahoo traffic from sites that otherwise don't do that great in Google, and vice versa.
If one can learn anything from this hub is this:
MAKE A PLAN
FOLLOW THE PLAN
THIS IS WORK
IF IT'S WORTH DOING IT'S WORTH DOING RIGHT!
Up up up goes the vote!
Thank you- some very helpful advice here and appreciated as a relative newcomer to hubpages.
Ok, Mark. Frankly, some of the best information you will ever find out there, anywhere, period. Folks, if you want to earn more money, copy this article and then DO IT. You could pay for your next three vacations, LOL.
Thank you so much that was a huge help to me
Wow sir. That's an amazingly informative article. Thank you.
Very informative! Love it! Thanks:)
Hey Mark,
Good to see you raking in the bucks!! Very nice tutorial on how to make Hubpages work.....Not quite at your level yet but am improving each month. I always enjoy reading your fun yet insightful information on how to make more money here on Hubpages. Once again I learned a few tricks that I will use. Happy money making!!!!!!!
Thanks guys :)
@MIke - spot on - yes it is work. Yahoo is my second biggest traffic source and on some of my own sites - the biggest. Thanks for the comment.
@Smkmdb11 - What? Why are you disgraced and how is that an attack? It was a joke making fun of religion and politics which are the 2 most talked about subjects here.
Wow, thanks for sharing. Your earnings are phenomenal and inspirational! I'm not even close. Still a long way to go. Any tips for writing 3 quality articles a day?
Great article Mark. I've been on Hubpages just over 2 years now and now work full time staying at home writing articles. I guess that I follow the "scatter gun" approach a bit, with a little focus on high value keywords. My hub here: http://hubpages.com/hub/Making-A-Living-Writing-Ar seems a bit basic compared with the detailed strategy you recommend. I'm learning all the time, which I suppose what the site is all about in the first place.
Nice insights Mark! Thank you for the tips. I hope to use your 'considered approach' to start generating income from my hubs.
Terrific article Mark. Logical, practical and true! I have noticed that it is really important which subjects you write about, and some of the ones that are popular are on really surprising topics.
Thanks very much for sharing such valuable information. I have been struggling with the promotion issue ever since the Christmas rush ended. This helped me make some important decisions.
I am also inspired about what is possible on HubPages. I actually started just a few months ago but to begin with was only using it for backlinks. After about 4 months of signing up, my eyes were opened and I decided it was a great community and deserved a second look. I am thankful every day for Hubbers like you that keep me focused.Voted up, useful, awesome and beautiful and I bookmarked for inspiration...
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Thanks for this great article. I have been using HubPages properly for about a month now and I am starting to see the results from the Hubs that I have promoted. It's quite easy to slip into the mindset that there is not point in writing more and just hoping that your existing Hubs will make you money in the long term. This has been my current mindstep, but thanks to this hub, I think I'm gonna write a reciepe just as you had mentioned about the one thing I enjoy the most, scrambled eggs. I know this sounds like a joke but due to my erratic cooking knowledge, I seem to only perfect a good steak, lasagne and scrambled eggs. Thanks again for the motivation!
@Mark...you are a great Heroe here...i had loved to take a walk with you on this writing business...i have a target of €10 per day this year...currently i am around €1 to €1.8 per day, but i really want to meet my new target...so i am going to try out your version and see what happens...thanks.
I like your article and will bookmark it for later. I like to write but I'm learning a lot about backlinks and adsense and personal weblogs and it helps to have an article well-written such as yours to refer.
Diana
Very inspiring for a newcomer like me :)
Thanks for the hub!
Thank you very much for so much info and advice. I'd take you up on your one-on-one info help, but can't afford it! My problem is lack of tech lingo in this field, and a little lack of self-motivation. I'm absolutely blown away by your output! I'm thrilled I found this hub, and now I'll definitely find your others! Voted up and useful. Truly grateful for all you shared. Hope you don't count this spam!
Good article, don't know if I can write 3-5 a day, but a couple a week is doable. I also joined Hubpages as a way to get published, and fill a need to write on a variety of subjects. I never looked at this as a way to get rich, but putting a few extra dollars in my pocket couldn't hurt.
wow what a welcome.
I have been following your How-To hubs for some time, and this is one of the best so far. thanks for sharing your expertise in such an easily-understandable way.
What an amazing amount of great info. This is gonna boost my online business to the max. I might even hit 6 figures in no time. Thank you very much for this post.
Vincenzo Milanese
GDI Marketing
Very useful. Thank you!
Hi Mark, I just began my journey at HubPages and posted my 7th Hub yesterday. I am still in the proverbial learning curve. When I began I really did not know what a backlink was and with a lot of reading, I just started to learn the benefits of backlinking. I have made some small strides though I know there is tons more to absorb. I love it so far. I thank you for the wealth of experience you have bestowed upon us all. A sign of a true professional is sharing what you know to those around you who want to benefit from your travels. I hope you will travel among my writings and possibly give me a few pointers. I hope to have your level of success. Time will tell. Thanks so much for shortening my learning curve.
Please contribute more information about your earnings. You state $27,831 for almost 2 Million Page Impressions.
This would be a revenue of above $ 13 per 1000 PI´s.
The fact that clickrates are between 0,05-0,1% on ads, the fact that more than half of the ads are blocked by ad blockers in browsers and that you only receive 70% from Hubpages would mean, that you receive a cpm that is multiple times higher than $13.
Such prices do not exist anymore an the advertisement market.
As consequence I have to assume that large parts of you earning are generated by referrals. Also this Hub contains a few affiliate links.
So if it is so, then a better headline would be how to earn with referrals and affiliate marketing.
@ fundguru - you are joking - right? ;) I am not going to break down any further.
Of course there is more than one way to make money on hubpages - some of which are affiliates and referrals - but the bulk of my hubpages income came from the 3 big affiliates - adsense, amazon and ebay. My click rates are far higher than you state here.
Hi Mark. I like that one. :)
Hey Misha - long time no speak. Glad you like it. :)
Yep, we should speak more often. :)
awesome!! i will refer to this hub regularly..:)
This is very inspiring, I often have people asking me how they can commence to make a living on the web.. I will refer them to this page in future :-)
Thank you Mark for taking the time to openly share your experiences. I know this will help and hopefully inspire those who are looking to get started or improve.
The most important thing I take away from this is you have to learn if you want to earn. Blindly flailing around with no real plan or course of action is an almost certain road to frustration, and eventual failure.
I know, I have been there.
An excellent hub, and again, thank you for sharing!
An inspirational hub! thanks for posting it!
Unbelievable, I learned not that long ago that to really succeed on Hubpages you need to offer value and you certainly provide that in spades. I leave your hub feeling guilty that I haven't left $20 in your tip jar, though I am sure you are doing just fine.
I have just found 'the' new Hubber to emulate. I will be reading more of your hubs to further my learning and will definitely promote your hubs in return for the fantastic and valuable information you so kindly share.
Greatly appreciated!
There are a few things to keep in mind. You will NOT get rich over nigh on less you win the Lottery.
Online income is just like a brick and mortar business,it take some time before people know that you are out there.
Like your Hub page, it took some time before people started to follow you. Most people don't buy the first thing they see they shop for the next new thing.
The Gurus tell you,you can make money while you sleep yes after you got your business up and running.
Once you have the clients and you have a list then you can make money while you sleep.
Cool Ideas.
Not Short But To The Point :)
Thanks for this very valuable article, Mark. I'm determined to develop an ongoing income stream online, but as a person with views, opinions and interests over a wide range of topics, I've been struggling for some time with the oft-repeated mantra that "to succeed you must have a passion for one thing, and focus single-mindedly on that alone". Since joining Hubpages (three days ago..) I'd begun to think I could in fact aim for success by writing a variety of articles and topics, as long as each was well-written, engaging and relevant to a significant number of readers. Your article has confirmed that, but much more importantly has reinforced the critical need for me to develop a better understanding of the underpinning techniques and technologies that are the key to accelerating and amplifying readership. I feel like your article has given me an inside track, so again, I thank you for publishing it.
Wow. I've wondering if you could actually make money doing this. Looks like you can. Unfortunately, I have a hard time thinking the things that interest me would be so widely appreciated that I could cash in like that. And, it is hard to make something really interesting, if you aren't interested.
One of the best hubs I experienced in Hub pages...Very inspiring.........thanks man............
Yes a great hub for the beginner. You are correct; that too many people who join HubPages expect to make money way too soon.
Your two suggestions on the approach to writing on HubPages are very apt. I have done both too. When I first started here I wrote hubs on all subjects and just went with the flow. Some of them did not and still do not make much money but I continue to write on these subjects for the pleasure.
I am also now aware what is making me the most money daily and write on these subjects which are less enjoyable but so much more profitable.
I have settled in to an easy balance of these subjects so earn a reasonable amount of money here at HubPages.
This hub will help a lot of beginners to understand the process of earning money online.
This is the result of continuous research and untiring perseverence.I thaaaaaank you for this. This is very useful.But i don't believe in purchasing Market Samurai. Tehre are other websites which can be of use for us in selecting the keyqwords.But, more important thing to do is,linking our hubs to search engines. I think you have not clearly mentioned it.That linking should be renewed every 60 days.
very well written hub...so informative. Hubpages! It will educate you. If you read. i am bookmarking so I can learn from you! I just have to say that as a newcomer, I think it is really great of you to help us along with you!but i have question...do you know about any online earning social network... its same like facebook. the website address is www.moneybook2u.com
I very much enjoyed this article. Thank you so much.
Great hub, this is why i'm following you thanks.
It is always good to read articles from experienced hubbers, i've wrote a lot of hubs and the money seems to don't want to come, by reading this i understand the patience involved in hubbing.
Thanks again.
Thanks Mark, as a new hubber, I am inspired.
Wow very interesting!
Thank you Mark!
Wow, a great introduction and incentive to really get involved with the program.
I've tried a lot of these and I'm sure a lot of your readers know the results, since some of them have probably tried them too.
I didn't set out to really use Hubpages as a way to make money cause I just happened upon them reading, but once I got here; seeing the opportunities, I couldn't believe it!
I'm gonna try to sink my teeth into this, cause as simple as it seems, there shouldn't be a reason not to make money!
Thanks again for the instructive videos and a very well laid out way to get started.
Appreciate it Mark!
Come listen to me sometime at Springfield City Beat City (http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/12573230)Internet Radio. Come over and tell the Hub Page story!
Stop by and read me sometime too! (http://hubpages.com/hub/Why-dont-you-have-a-busine Love to see you there!
Thanks again Mark!
Bobby
like scall, I'm inspired as well! ;-D
Mark,couldn't correct the url's in the message so here's where you can hear and read me too;
SPRINGFIELD CITY BEAT CITY TALK
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/12573230
... and one of my own hubs!
http://hubpages.com/hub/Why-dont-you-have-a-busine
Thnx-
Thank you for sharing this very valuable information for myself and other newcomers as well. Most of us would be going around here like a chicken without a head if it weren't for caring people as yourselves. Very useful, voted up and I definitely will share this. Cheers!
Excellent hub! I've learned a lot from it.
Thanks for sharing all of the specifics. It's hard to find genuine, honest information, but you give this to us time and time again!
It's really great to see some success stories on here. I'm approaching my 1,000,000 visit mark and am beginning to see a nice residual income from Hubpages. I'm still learning though and nowhere near the level you are at - so I do have something to aim for and I know it is possible! Well done and I hope to be matching you by 2012!
Wow! I still have a lot of work to do! I am coming up on one year at hubpabes, and haven't made my first $100 yet - but I'm getting close. I already work a full time and a part time job, so I don't get to put a whole lot of time into hubpages. I have been averaging a hub a week, but I have slowed down recently. I wish I could do your "Just Do It" model. I research most of my hubs pretty extensively before I publish. My goal is not so much to have residual income today - although that would be awesome - as to begin building a residual income to supplement my social security income someday..... and in case there's no SS left! I've thought of taking vacation time to crank out a bunch of hubs, but on this vacation coming up in the spring, there will be no laptops or electronics! Thanks for the ideas and inspiration, Mark. And congrats to you on 2 million!
Nice work Mark. I always enjoy seeing a truthful article on making money online. So rare!
Having been here over two years now, I am very pleased with my income and the fun I have had writing on hubpages. I also use several other writers sites, but I believe hubpages is the best of them so far. Generous and decent of you to share.
Mark :0)
thank you so much for writing such a knowledge packed nugget...I have been using your advice for the last week and already have seen progress..for some reason i never signed up for adsense before..well now I,m glad I did...I,m averaging 3 to 4 hubs a day now..
Thanks again mate!!!
Mike :0)
My pleasure guys :)
Wow, I am both overwhelmed and inspired, thank you. As many of those above I am a "newbie." I will definately be rereading this hub many times. My pitfall is that I am at times "technically challenged" so a lot of the jargon is lost on me. I'm excited to check out the Market Samauri and see how it can work for me. I think that I've just become a Mark Knowles groupie! :)
Thanks for this well written easy to understand hub. I will definitely be putting some of these ideas into practice. I will spend some time reading through your hubs as they are quite extensive. Thanks
Thanks for your detailed article. It's good to see specific information and tactics. I'm just getting back to Hubpages after a long time away at other writing work. Glad I found this today.
A good informative,truthful hub thanks,everything in life takes hard work or we'd all be millionaires,and anyone who does think you are going to get a Million Pound system for a couple of pounds is probably nuts to be honest.Again good work keep it up.
Really informative hub with lots of wisdom for the serious writer. Sometimes the keywords work for me and then the most unsuspected keywords bring me big traffic. It's too bad about your country; I'm seeing the same thing coming to America with gas prices and so many of our former freedoms. Thanks for the great article!
i'll be reading this over and over again. great help!!
Definitely need to come back to this and reread. The essence is the same as anything though. Hard work and time. I am not scared of the hard work bit. But time i (as no doubt everybody else) i am short on. This is going to have to be a long term thing for me.
Thanks for putting together an incredibly useful hub - it was well written and full of useful advice.
Thanks for sharing your info and knowledge. I did not know that it takes three years for an article to peak! You definitely have to be patient here!
I'm not a big fan of your religious humor but, what an excellent hub! (I sometimes comment on my belief in an non-religious hub as well - guess I shouldn't complain).
I too prefer the second model, I can't write short and fast, if I did that it would only be spam. I'll be checking in again to find out exactly what backlinking is - I wrote a humorous hub and talked about that, but I'm still not sure what it is.
Would I be right in assuming that your other online presences are instrumental in the success you have here?
And have recent changes in Google affected your projected earnings?
And why aren't you listed in the http://hubpages.com/success/ page?
Great info, thank you!
Hi Alexander Mark.
I don't care if you are a fan of my religious humor or not. LOL
Glad you enjoyed the hub.
Backlinking is vital.
No - the reverse is true.
The recent changes have knocked around 80% of my income off, some of which I think I can recover.
No idea why I am not listed. Probably because I am honest and aggressively anti religious and they don't want to promote some one like me.
Thanks for the short and sweet answers - very much appreciate the candid responses. 80% is tough to deal with.
I will check out your backlinking link soon.
Sorry you're being discriminated against, great writing and great information doesn't change because of the writer's opinions - my sympathies, but glad you're here despite that.
Great Hub. Hub Pages is a great way to make some extra income. You really have to be committed to it though, posting high quality articles and participating in the community daily. I love Hub Pages!
Mark, :P
Thanks good info for a newcomer like me... Bookmarked for future use :)
You leave no stones unturned; awesome hub. By the way, I write for other sites, and I was trying to figure out where to focus my efforts, and after looking at your article and my traffic stats, you've confirmed that Hubpages is a good place to start. I better get moving on writing more articles if I am to follow model #1--just do it.
Great hub - voted up. I like your practical writing style. Will be applying some of your advice. Thanks
At least I know that if I put forth the effort, I can figure out where to get additional income towards my retirement, which by the way ain't to pretty right now!!
This is like going back to school: research, study and write, then repeat. Thanks for the information.
Of course I agree that its a great article that has made me significantly rethink my attitude towards Hubpages.
The most pressing question right now, though, would be what has happened to your earnings since the May Google updates??
I have yet to get the straight story on it (as if Google would give a straight story on that anyway) but it seems that they are now devaluing a lot of sites that are considered 'content farms' (i.e large databases of content). There is also some evidence that it is not just the low grade 'article directories' that are getting hit but sites like Hubpages themselves.
Some feedback on this issue would be extremely useful. thanks for a great article.
One word - "disaster,"
Thinking of un-publishing this if things do not turn around soon.
Adapt or die if you want to survive online. :)
This is a great well written article. I had read hubs about making $2 or $10 a day, and was disappointed because I was hoping for so much more, especially considering the time I am taking in writing the articles, and researching the site. I'm glad there is more income to be made - I'd like to make at least minimum wage for my time! I hope that things are getting better for you since the update.
Hello Mark,
Thank you for writing this excellent hub. I have joined hubpages after reading this hub. Today, I have published my first hub. Thank you again. Please keep it up.
Good job Mark, I like your ambitious reccomendations.
Wow - I'm so glad I found this article. I really appreciate the great tips and information in it. I look forward to reading more of your hubs!
Mark the information provided here was phenomenal. This is my first week with HubPages and although I loved the writing platform offered I was not sure how to get started. I appreciate the suggestions of the two models. Now it's all about making the choice of what works best for me. Thanks.
Good stuff. I learn a lot from this article.
Excellent information. Thanks so much for sharing. I will use your advice. Very nicely written as well.
Wow, this is a really succinct and informative Hub. I had some initial luck with PV's and HubPages earnings due to a single article I wrote 3 years ago on Herbalife; however, my other Hubs have done far less well, even though they have better and longer content. I only have some 34 Hubs published right now, though.
This is wonderful information. Thanks for the great hub. Bookmarking it.
Very good ideas
Thanks for sharing these tips Mark. Nice article! I think I would be reading more of your works!
Leah Whitehorse 16 months ago
Hi Mark,
Wow - Fantastic hub. Very inspiring! The second approach to me makes the most sense but the writer in me itches to do the first.
I really need to work on backlinks. It's not that I don't know how to do it, it's finding the time to do it amidst marketing my own blogs. I need a 48 hour day :-)