Hal's 40 Best Google-Topping Keywords & Adsense Earnings
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With over 1,025 Hubs you would think that my Adsense earnings report would look like the one above, huh? Well, just to show you how easy it is for any snake oil salesman equipped with Photoshop and a few minutes on their hands into scamming you into buying their "exclusive course on how to make huge money online", I took my real Adsense earnings report below and added a couple of figures to each result.
The earnings report below is my real one!
Let's face it: If you saw the Adsense earnings report at the top, showing well over a hundred bucks of income a day, you'd salivate and be willing to write ol' Uncle Hal a check for whatever I asked in order to "share my top earning secrets"!
Unfortunately it's all just a figment of my imagination brought to life by Adobe Photoshop CS4. Actually, if you want to see a real great Google Adsense check, "check" this out!
It's a sad fact that there are more scammers on the internet than stars in the night sky, and although I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that there are some individuals who are actually making this type of income online, I can most certainly assure you of two things:
- They are very few and far between.
- If they did find the key to such riches, they are going to direct all their efforts to increasing that Adsense income on their own sites to the point where they are raking in untold moolah: They are not going to sell you the secret for twenty bucks! They're not stupid! Are you?
Since my many Hub readers have always known that they can rely on me for the truth, no matter how blunt, uncomfortable, or unpopular, here is the absolute truth about my Adsense earnings.
There may be many reasons why all my 1,025+ Hubs don't earn more than a few bucks a day. Subject matter may be first and foremost. I write what I want to write in the way that I want to write it, and more than a millon page views prove that there are people out there interested in reading it. I will not write SEO copy, as I write for my reader.
Having said that, many of my top Google ranking Hubs are on very strongly "ad-sellable" topics and if the "weasels" were right, I should be rolling in Adsense dough right now.
Well, I'm not.
HubPages is a spectacular platform. I have gone on the record many times in stating that there is no way other than divine intervention or being related to Larry Page or Sergey Brin, that anyone anywhere is going to get an incredibly high Google result literally in a few hours of publication faster or better than on HubPages. It's absolutely ridiculously amazingly fantastic!
In many of my Hubs, I have been exceptionally lucky in securing the very top of Google results in a wide variety of very "juicy keywords." That position assures me a steady constant flow of readership, as I have several Hubs that have been pulling in hundreds of page views every single day, day in and day out, for two years!
So now let's look at 40 keywords that are ranking me at the very top of Google results. In all of these examples, I'm counting the text results (not image results or video results)... and note that since I'm accessing from Canada, my Google is automatically giving Canadian results higher rankings and HubPages suffers as it is a USA site... Googling from the USA will likely give my Hubs even higher rankings:
world's best pizza - Google #1
braciole - Google #4
vista junk - Google #1
ddr1 ddr2 ddr3 - Google #1
ddr2 ddr3 ram - Google #4
ddr2 ddr3 - Google #7
754 am2 - Google #1
am2 am3 - Google #1
am2 am2+ - Google #3
939 am2 - Google #6
single dual quad core - Google #3
amd dualcore - Google #6
amd dual core - Google #8
mac amd - Google #1
mac plus - Google #7
cpu lapping - Google #7
yamaha raider - Google #4
honda fury - Google #5
yamaha vmx 17 - Google #4 & #5
harley trike - Google #6
ugliest motorcycle - Google #1 & #2
scooter mpg - Google #1
scooter fuel economy - Google #2 & #3
mpg scooter - Google #3
motorcycle mpg - Google #5 & #6
motorcycle fuel economy - Google #6 & #7
mpg motorcycles - Google #6 & #7
easy rider panhead - Google #1
captain america motorcycle - Google #1
captain america panhead - Google #1
sportster iron - Google #2
jeep panda phoenix - Google #1 & #2
h1n1 toilet - Google #1
swine flu homeopathy - Google #1
h1n1 homeopathy - Google #6 & #7
h1n1 chinese medicine - Google #8
swine flu toilet - Google #8
aol gold - Google #6 & #7
obama marxist communist - Google #9
sarah palin joke - Google #6
I'm number one on Google on world's best pizza. You would figure (especially if you've been entranced by the "make-millions-online-by-next-Tuesday" weasels) that this ranking would get me thousands of page views per day and would generate countless clicks on the various ads, but although it's a good, steady, reader grabber, my earnings have never shown anything but pennies to come from it. I'm making five, six, seven bucks a day across all of my Hubs, all 1,025+ of them.
Then we go to braciole where I'm number four: This Hub regularly gets spikes of up to a thousand page views in a day. Still... although braciole are made of beef, where's the beef... in earnings?
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What has to be my single biggest constant traffic draw is the vista junk where I'm number one. Given the fact that there are millions of people who not only believe that Microsoft Windows Vista is junk, but they are also trying to find ways to shut off all the junk running in the background of Microsoft Windows Vista, it's understandable that it's so popular. Again, earnings... sigh...
ddr1 ddr2 ddr3 are the three kinds of popular RAM memory for computers that are currently available. Since anyone contemplating a new PC build should be well aware of what RAM best fits their computers (the wrong RAM can slow down or shut down a PC outright), it also follows that this is one of my most popular keywords and the Hub attracts almost as many page views as vista junk.
There are a few variants of RAM keywords such as ddr2 ddr3 ram where my Google ranking is #4, and ddr2 ddr3 where my Google position is #7, which also help to drive traffic to my Hub.
Now you would figure that anyone who is looking to buy RAM for their system, whether it's to configure a brand new system or to upgrade their current one, would be interested in clicking on Adsense ads which lead to RAM memory retailers, right? Wrong! This Hub doesn't draw flies in income just like my others.
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Now we go onto AMD processors, which although number two to market leader Intel, still have many millions of current users. Countless thousands of AMD CPUs are sold each and every day, so let's look first at the searches for the various motherboard socket nomenclatures. The latest AMD popular sockets are 754, 939, am2, and am2+. As you can see I'm between number one and number six on these various combinations.
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One of the most important decisions any new PC buyer has to take is to whether to buy a processor with one, two, or four cores. The determination has a significant effect on the type of performance that the PC will provide, as well as impacts the cost considerably. In single dual quad core, I'm in number three position on google, and going back to AMD, I'm number six in amd dualcore and number eight on amd dual core.
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mac amd is more of a draw than you might think, given that Apple Macs run on Intel CPUs and it is of interest to the Hackintosh community how to make them run on the competitor's microprocessors. My Hub has nothing to do with that, but it still comes up as number one.
The Mac Plus was the most beloved and most popular of all the vintage Macs, and I'm number seven in mac plus.
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CPU lapping is an inordinately popular, albeit imbecilic, process whereby enthusiasts sand down their microprocessors with soapy water and sandpaper (as I stated... imbecilic). My vehement attack on this vandalistic process is number seven in cpu lapping, well ahead of many authoritative guides on how to actually do this idiotic destruction.
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Now we get into motorcycling. I laugh at the individuals who claim that I write too many motorcycle Hubs to make money off Adsense. First of all I write motorcycle Hubs because I want to, and that is the main reason I'm on HubPages. However, motorcyclists are renowned for spending untold cash not only on their metal steeds but on aftermarket accessories, clothing, etc. So... do they click on my ads on my very popular Hubs? They certainly don't seem to do so.
Check out yamaha raider. I'm number four, just two below the official Yamaha Motor site. Similarly with Honda Fury, where I'm number five. Keep in mind that both the Raider and Fury are among the Yamaha and Honda models which have received the most attention from riders around the world, so these links are extremely popular.
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On yamaha vmx-17 I am also way up there, at number four and five. Similarly, I'm number six on the extremely popular harley trike keywords.
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Now we get to some motorcycling popular keywords that are absolutely PWND by yours truly: ugliest motorcycle and scooter mpg are both number one. The latter especially is an incredibly popular keyword as fuel prices begin to spike again towards the $4 per gallon and up level. Scooter fuel economy is also great for me at number two and three, and mpg scooter is a strong number three.
When it comes to the fuel consumption of motorcycles, not scooters, I'm also outrageously high ranking, with motorcycle mpg at number five and six, and both motorcycle fuel economy, and mpg motorcycles at number six and seven.
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Easy Rider is a motorcycling icon that lives to the current day. There is always strong interest in the iconic Peter Fonda (Captain America), Dennis Hopper, and Jack Nicholson chopper movie (the motorcycles were known as panheads as that was the configuration of their cylinder heads), as is shown by my number one position for easy rider panhead, captain america panhead, and captain america motorcycle.
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The Sportster Iron is a brand new Harley Davidson model that has attracted a great deal of attention due to its blacked out hard edged urban rider look. I'm number two in Sportster Iron, interestingly ahead of the actual Harley Davidson official website of this model!
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Now we come to Jeep Panda Phoenix, a car I invented in my Photoshop and which now has well over half a million Google references as it was picked up all over the internet as an actual new 2001 Jeep!
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H1N1, or swine flu, has drawn an overwhelming amount of media interest in the last couple of months, and I have exceptional number one positions on h1n1 toilet, which is of interest to individuals who want to learn the aspects of hygiene in staying safe from the pandemic, and swine flu homeopathy, of interest to alternative medicine users.
I'm also very strong in h1n1 homeopathy at number seven, h1n1 chinese medicine at number eight, and swine flu toilet, also at number eight.
Again, you'd have to figure that people who are trying to stay safe from this killer pandemic would click on ads for various therapies and remedies. Well, that's not the case, unfortunately!
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aol gold is an interesting keyword as it pertains to an AOL feature although my article is about AOL searches that were publicly released and the keywords that can be derived from them.
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At Google position number nine of obama marxist communist is yours truly and that is also a strong traffic grabber due to the right wing's position that the new President is a closet commie.
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sarah palin jokes' traffic died down considerably after the election but spiked right back up after David Letterman's ill advised joke about Palin's 14 year old daughter getting "knocked up" by a baseball player. My strong position in number six in the Google results is very heartening, considering the competition!
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So there you have it. Forty top ranking keywords all going to my Hubs and providing what I want the most, eyeballs on my words! In that respect I am not just elated, but ecstatic. I have no words to thank HubPages and its readers for the massive exposure my writing has derived on this platform.
However, when we look at solid Adsense earnings, they just are not there. It seems to me that there is an essential pattern break when we consider my real, established, actual Adsense earnings that I am sharing with my Hub readers and the extravagant claims of some who state categorically that they are turning 50% of their page views into ad clicks! If I had received half that many, just 25% CTR over my two years here at HubPages, I'd have enough Adsense money in my bank account to buy a house!
So what can we conclude?
Definitely "writing for the sale" can be much more effective than writing what an author just feels like writing about. It would seem to follow that a Hub which clearly demonstrates the various applications for the precise type of RAM memory to thousands of computer owners is going to draw many more CTR clicks on ads than one joking about Sarah Palin, or claiming Obama is a Commie. After all there is a direct product tie in on the former Hub...
... right?
Er... unfortunately not in my experience. My RAM memory top Google ranking Hub, like my Microsoft Vista junk, and other direct product related Hubs don't draw more than pennies a day, just about in line with everything else I write.
What possible conclulsion can be drawn? Are all the claimants of huge Adsense income insane or scoundrels? I don't believe so as some are well known on this platform and have an excellent reputation. I also cannot believe that because I have a half column sized photo on this Hub rather than a full sized photo on that Hub, I'm losing out on hundreds of thousands of dollars of Adsense income! That may be a factor, but it has to be a very tiny, statistically insignificant one.
In my What I've Learned From Writing 1,000 Hubs, I posted THE 1,000+ HUB AD INCOME CHALLENGE:
If any Hubber can provide a solid, effective set of guidelines whereby I can increase my ad income to match some of these impressive claims, I will split 50/50 any increase in perpetuity over my current baseline ad earnings.
That challenge is still open to one and all. Turn my disappointingly low earning Hubs into ones that earn as much as their Google ranking befits, and I'll split the $$$ with you.
Keep in mind that I'm not going to start writing about The Jonas Brothers or pimple cream or erectile dysfunction pills.
I respect my readership far too much and I will continue to provide them the same type and quality of content that they have been reading to such an overwhelming degree so far.
And if they don't click on the ads, then too bad. I'll leave the massive mountains of (I'm pretty sure imaginary) Adsense money on the table, as my responsibility to my readers comes first and foremost!
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Hal, thanks for taking the time to write this Hub. I'm going to re-read it and re-read many of your others. I've written 465 Hubs to date with a commitment to write regularly. My Adsense earnings come from about 20% of my Hubs. That could change. I've also seen some Hubs I wrote last year -- up to 10 months ago, start bringing in more traffic from Google. That increases the chance of Adsense earnings.
I do think there's a good "formula" based on the url title, and they be the same in the first sentence to three . . .
anyway, thanks for writing this and posting the information. I look forward to continuing to visit your Hubs.
fortunerep: Thanks for the compliments. Well, those are my secrets. Over a thousand Hubs that make me about half a penny a day each. Ouch!
Don Simkovich: Thank you! I appreciate your insight.
I'm glad to see that you're still extending that challenge, because I believe, just as you, that many MANY people are inflating their numbers in hopes of drawing attention to their articles. I'm happy that you at least get tons of readers. I received a huge spike in traffic today (Huge in terms of me being so new and my numbers being relatively miniscule as is.) but I've received roughly triple my daily average today and I'm wondering if a search engine may have scooped me up. I'll let you know if I find out what has happened!
-Debris
debris: That's great news about your recent spike. If anything, HubPages traffic ebbs and flows, and I have my Braciole Hub which will go between getting 2 page views per day and around 1,000 a day. It's very strange! Please keep me posted when you find out what's going on with your Hub, as you never know. Check your Stats and see where today's traffic is coming from as that helps a lot to determine from which sites your readers are arriving. I just can't see how some of these statistics that are being bandied around for CTRs can possibly be for real. Not that I'm doubting EVERYONE since as I stated there are some truly solid, reputable Hubbers claiming high incomes, but all I can truly know for absolute certainty is my own numbers, and as can be seen through this Hub, they are anything but highly profitable.
Hal,
I have no doubt about some of them. Embitca is a good example of someone who I'm sure does fine with Adsense, I think my comments or more directed to the get rich quickers or the people with 5 Hubs "Making $500.00 a month!" lol. I wish everyone the best, but when I see claims like that I can't help but think that the author is just trying to draw in readers and clickers.
-Debris
Embitca, along with Mark Knowles and many other high earning Hubbers have sterling reputations and I would never doubt their claims. My skepticism is directed towards the Hubbers that boast outrageous and well nigh impossible excesses such as 50% CTRs: I was recently reading one in the Forums. To those people (although I'm not from Missouri) I say: SHOW ME! :)
The conclusion is that we had better keep writing for the fun of it cos it aint a get rich quick (or ever!) situation. Any way I enjoy readig your hubs
Thanks so much Gypsy Willow! I love writing Hubs, and I sure wouldn't mind getting filthy rich by next Tuesday... so if any of the individuals claiming immense and outrageous riches that cascade out of Adsense and into their bank accounts want my endorsement, they had better provide some hard proof! :)
And here, I'm just happy have trafic. Now to make some $ every day!
Hal this Hub was really helpful in that I didn't even know individual Hubs could be separately tracked. So I'll get on that and find out whether my "monster" AdSense income is coming from the logical culptrits or not.
As to that income size: Currently at 94 Hubs and counting, I was happily surprised with my first $100 check from Google early in 2009 after more than a year of expecting nothing. Buildup since then has slow-jacked to between $82 and $83 (haven't checked yet today). Highest day's income I've NOTICED was $4.11 a couple of weeks ago, which made me drool all over my keyboard, but the last few days have shown a few pennies each.
Total all time views is about to hit 36,000, with the top 2 look-getters accounting for nearly half of that total. #1 (probably topping 10,000 views tonight; obviously haven't checked yet) is the Hub on How To Dig A Hand Dug Well, and yes, it's sitting #1 with Google. #2 (approaching 7,000 views) is How To Build A Survival Cabin On A Shoestring Budget...and if you search only the two words "Survival Cabin", it STILL comes up #1 AND How To Furnish A Survival Cabin shows up indented at #2.
I'm guessing those are not pulling more views and/or income due to the limited nature of the market--almost none of the screaming fans at a rock concert are going to care about homesteading.
Hal, How right you are once again! The problem with many people online is that they will not stop to think as to why someone should reveal secrets to a fortune for just 20 bucks. From my observations, it is only when a money making system becomes totally obsolete, that these guys put out an e-book explaining "exactly how they made $674,284 in 48 hours."
You will be amused to hear this ... once I noticed a screen shot of a clickbank statement in which the lengths of the bars representing the earnings did not tally with the corresponding figures !!! Lol!
Christa Dovel: I agree as the greatest satisfaction is reaching readers all over the world through this sensational platform!
Ghost32: Looks like you're on the way! Keep up the great Hub work and your readership and income will both increase for sure. HubPages works very well over time, as the work you've put into it acts as an annuity. Your #1 position in "Survival Cabin" may certainly bear much fruit if the economic crisis continues to take a downturn and more and more people start seriously contemplating survivalism... as I have for years now!
quicksand: Thanks! I agree fully that there are many get rich quick secrets and they will stay just that: SECRETS! Anyone who has stumbled upon them is not going to sell you the goose that lays the golden eggs for a few bucks. Anyone who thinks otherwise is deluded. But judging from the big business it is selling worthless info to deluded people, there must be a lot of them out there! :)
good information and I have seen the scams too. hwo about the secret to dtich adsense altogether and sell your own stuff so you don't get a fracion ofthe earnings. $100/day then is not a faraway goal for a passive online business.
Thanks ocbill: Selling products directly can be quite lucrative. As for me, I'm just an old journalist and the only thing I know how to sell are my words so it's not for me. But I encourage anyone else to do so! :)
Hi Hal
How informative, thanks. I'm really pleased I stumbled upon your hub. It confirms what I've believed for years but for the first time, have seen a real earnings statement. Now, I've just realised, Hal, all you have to do, to make your imaginary statement real, is to write another 35,000 to 40,000 hubs. Simple, isnt it? I think I'll just write for fun. May also remove adsense from spoiling the look of my 2 hubs. After all, do I really need 60c a month? Haha. I think it's all a joke, that we have been vacuumed into believing Google's never ending greedy speel: "make money with adsense".
Thanks again, Hal
Cordially
John Richards
very helpful and I book marked it. Thanks for the info
Hal, this is one of the best, no I'll say the best hub I've ever read! Very informative and well written. It's true there are a lot of scams out there. I always think, is this all a scam, or if it's true, how is it possible to generate such income! I've been thinking, How are they doing it! You don't know who to trust anymore. You have to check to see if these people are just making such huge claims because they're promoting the product (affiliates). I seen it especially in a lot of blogs.
Well, thanks for the honesty. I give this hub 2 thumbs up!
Wow you are such an icon, all your hubs are on google first page that is an achievement in itself. Are you in for writing or making money that is the main dilemma of many hubbers here. For me just enjoy writing i have learned a lot from the hubpage experience that is really the best part. An excellent writing by you with very practical and well stated facts.
John Richards: Thanks for your comments. I'll get right on writing the extra 39,000 Hubs. Can I have the rest of the weekend to finish them? :) Heck, if you're pulling in 30 cents per Hub per month, you're a big money maker as compared to my average of 1/2 a cent per Hub per month, so I should learn from you, master. I will try to snatch the Adsense pebble from your hand! (I know... bad joke considering the actor just died...) :)
Ladybird33: Thank you very much for your kudos!
olga88: Wow, i am absolutely floored and totally flattered that you have chosen this Hub to be the best you've ever read, so I very humbly have no words to thank you! Yes, I have my problems with "SOME" Hubbers (who shall go unnamed heheheh) who show screenshots of their Adsense reports showing astronomical earnings but they do so on their own websites where they are hawking some bullcrap course or ebook or other PAY FOR PLAY snake oil. I've just shown at the top of this Hub how easy it is to Photoshop any Adsense report. You want to see one showing that I'm making $1,000 a day? $10,000 a day? More? No problem. I'll fire up my Adobe CS4 and have the report images to you in 10 minutes. Basically, my bottom line is that I can certainly believe the income reports from established, reputable Hubbers like embitca and Mark Knowles since THEY AREN'T SELLING ANYTHING TO ANYONE IMPLYING THAT IT IS A SECRET TO THEIR ADSENSE EARNINGS. Anyone who is selling it has a 99.999% chance of being a scammer. As I have stated previously... yes, there are some people who do make that kind of money, but dang, they are very very very very very very veeeeeeeeery few! :)
charanjeet kaur: You are far too kind and I truly appreciate your compliments. HubPages is the Number 1 best place on the web for writers, hands down, bar none. I'm very happy you have your priorities straight and can appreciate this site for its main and most significant value. Thank you!
Your grasp of economics is roughly what I would expect from someone who thinks America is turning Marxist.
If you want to make money, read a little, think a lot and don't just write the first nonsense that comes into your head.
In short, you can only make money with a functioning brain.
You know what? I rarely tell people this, but go take a flying fornication at a rolling donut, jerk. Thank you. :)
Hi Hal - I'm surprised with so many hubs you aren't rolling in Adsense dough. I've got 21 hubs - most of them quite new and over the last 7 days they averaged $1 dollar a day - don't ask me why 'cos I don't know, but as you can see from my list of hubs there is nothing special about them. Have you considered writing something with high paying keywords just as an experiment ?
Heck yeah. :)
http://hubpages.com/hub/Mesothelioma-The-Health-An
I wrote that ten months ago, and there's a link at the end to show that it's a Google Test. I even stated that I would donate all funds to cancer research. Do you know what it's drawn so far? 65 page views! Not even enough to buy the envelope for a donation, let alone a postage stamp!
I do have the answer. Adsense hates me. But Goggle bots love me as they give me tons of top ranks and thousands of page views per day, so it's a fair tradeoff! I'd rather have readers than money! :)
Mwa! When I saw that first photo, I was thinking to myself, "WHAT IS HE COMPLAINING ABOUT, HE MAKES TONS OF MONEY ON ADSENSE!!" LOL You got me :)
... and it isn't even April 1st yet! You gotta admit, I certainly "got" a whole bunch of readers fair and square last April Fools with my Hub Contest To Be On CBS' Survivor! :)
http://hubpages.com/hub/Winner-Of-HubPages-Contest
Wait 'til next year. I have an even better one planned! :)
Don't feel bad, Hal. Not only do I not make any money with my number one Google hubs (and I have several), my grammar hubs aren't improving English usage on the internet either. Like you said, at least we have eyes on the pages we write, for me, especially on the story hubs, that's worth something.
Yeah, there really doesn't seem to be any real correlation between top Google rank and earnings that I've been able to ascertain. Best to keep on doing what you're doing and keep racking up those Google Number Ones! Keep up the great work!
Thank you for your honest and straightforward hub. There seems to be such a descrepency in how much can be earned from Adsence. You laid it out very clearly and if someone takes you up on your challenge, I hope you share the info with the rest of us!
Thanks, lafenty. I will definitely keep my readers posted on anything that happens with the income challenge. Should be fun, at least! :)
Hal - I signed out of hubpages and on coming back saw your article on the front page. I applaud your honesty. I didn't realise (when I joined) that you could earn money via hubpages. Obviously now I do.
Having said that I've earned a few bucks. Enough to buy a couple of gallons of fuel. Wonderful ... But - I have no idea how either. I don't understand analytics one bit. I believe you can earn well enough if you know what you're doing. Perhaps if I could figure out what I've done, I could work on it.
Though as you say ... I do wonder with some claims. I'm going to purposely write some articles aimed at adsense just to see if there's a difference. Though I prefer to just write what ever pops into my mind.
If I do get an adsense spike I'll come back and let you know. But don't hold your breath :)
Thanks for the compliments, frogdropping. Much appreciated! :)
I've spent many an hour poring over Analytics and I have yet to find anything that I can implement to make any difference to my profilgate earnings of one half a cent per Hub per month. I tried writing the Mesothelioma Hub as a test (link a few comments up) and it laid a huge goose egg. Like you, I think I'll stick to writing about topics that are of interest to me and my loyal readership, and not lose too much sleep over the Adsense earnings... or lack of them. It's only money! Writing on HubPages is FUN! That's BETTER than money! :)
I admire you for the 1028 hubs that you wrote, I don't think I will be able to do that. For adsense, a CTR of 10% would be an achivement, most are around 1-3% at most.
I am not an expert, but, I do know that getting rank on number 1 of Google are useless if it is a low search keyword. I do a search on Google Keyword, those keywords that you have getting high ranking have very low search per month, and that lead me to think that the majority of your traffic might not be coming from Google, which explain that low CTR.
Also, some of your keywords are more toward technology stuff and I think people who view them might be very tech-savvy and as far as I know, tech-savvy people won't click Ads.
Just my 2 cents, I may be wrong.
thanks for the info and that cheque from google was really cool
Hal,
I believe that you are a very good writer,on the scale of a 9 out of 10. Your hubs as well as your comments are very well thought out and very interesting to read.
I believe myself to be an average writer, maybe a 7 out of 10, but I did something several years ago that made a fairly large difference in the results I was getting.
Hal,I know that you write about these shot in the dark scammers who try to rip you off with their false claims, but I visited a teaching site that was free several years ago,watched the videos over and over and duplicated the steps that were given involving search engine optimization. The teachers were all from Australia, and one of the perks that drew me to the lessons was their claim that they would teach you how to earn your first few dollars online without any expense. The second year they offered the course, the claim was the same, but they added several enhancements (with a very miniscule cost) that you could use (if you liked), but they always gave a no cost alternative.
Using their methods, currently I have 36 hubs and 15-20 other blogs in my arsenal. I have always written about personal interests, but use special keyword optimization and backlink methods to enhance the final product. The past several months my Adsense earnings have been rising fairly significantly using the SEO methods that I've learned over the past 2 years
These are my Adsense earnings for May and June of 2009: (I promise you it is the truth)
May
Page impressions Clicks Page CTR Page eCPM Earnings 19,100 314 1.64% $2.70 $51.56
June (Up to June 20th)
Page impressions Clicks Page CTR Page eCPM Earnings 15,506 233 1.50% $3.04 $47.17
If my earnings continue to rise I will share a summary of the information that I've learned in a Hub.
I was looking forward to read how you made that huge earnings in the first picture. I should say I am disappointed not not find any secrets. I have several number ones in google too but none of them bring a considerable income.
Hal - you have the wrong keywords pure and simple. I am no expert but I am heading towards $300 this month on Adsense.
I have never done recipes - but Mark has conclusively proved they don't make money in his recent hub http://hubpages.com/hub/Making-Money-Online-Three- He's also doing OK with motorcycles parts as sold on ebay - not Adsense on those hubs
Technical people don't click ads - anyone worrying about chip speed is techncial - the rest of the population just wants to know whether the laptop is pink or green.
If you are looking for adsense rather than other affliate income you need to target high paying keywords - h1n1 is worth 0.05c - that means there are no advertisers - nothing to sell I assume. Sure there are a lot of searchers, just like for the political stuff - but the searchers are looking for information - which you supplied - not the opportunity to buy something from an ad.
For Adsense the ads must be front and centre above the fold - I am getting around 5% clr on hubs with this format http://hubpages.com/hub/Adsense-Placement Anyone claiming 50% clr is either a) lying or b) about to lose their Adsense account because of their made for adsense site. 5-10% clr is a safe click thru rate - which is why you need to focus on the value of the adsense ads before you write.
Thank you for being candid. I'll keep writing for the love of writing and when I get a check now and then for $100.00, I'll enjoy it immensely knowing that I earned it doing something that made me happy and hopefully others as well.
Thanks for sharing..
I will try to practice!
MSmithHub: Thank you very much. It's against Google TOS to publicly discuss CTRs (do no evil, huh... more like welcome to totalitarianism...) so I can't give you EXACT figures, I have had some days where my CTR has edged over 2% overall and my best day was well over 3%. I still only made six bucks total that day! Actually many of my page views come from Google, over 260,000 to date. It's my #1 traffic source.
techie: Ok, just don't try to cash that check, as my illegal alien skinhead lesbian flying squirrel has already tried to forge my signature on it.
hglick: Thanks for the very high rating. I appreciate it! :) Your earnings look very good especially when calculated per page or per page view. I'd love to see you write a Hub about it. Just be aware that you should block out the actual CTR and eCPM figures as Google can dump you if you list them.
Anamika S: I can certainly photoshop an even bigger earnings report if you like! :)
Lissie: Since you have written one of the definitive Hubs on Adsense placement, I'm all ears! :) I am a huge fan of Mark Knowles and he has my undying support and endorsement but his income experience with motorcycle Hubs simply does not match mine. I can go through, model by model, where I'm above the fold on Google and I still can't draw flies, parts or not. As for the laptop being pink or green... bwaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaa... Lissie, I just can't bring my fingers to type that stuff. As soon as I try to force myself, I find my fingers typing the URL for the weather forecast. I just can't force myself to write basic, entry level, mercenary advertorial. I never have and I never likely will be able to. If there is some intrinsic value that I can add to the information on the net, I'm glad to do so. But just to lead readers by the hand to a click is just not in me. NOT THAT THERE IS ANYTHING WRONG WITH IT AND I FULLY SUPPORT AND ADMIRE THE HUBBERS WHO CAN DO THAT. I just can't... boo hoo. :(
trimar7: Hey, you're earning well and by all means, keep up the good work!
hsofyan: Keep on Hubbin'! It's great! :)
I like hubpages, but it seems pretty hard to make money here. Seems like the effort to make money is high for me on hubpages. It could be that I do not know much about keywords and google, but I have a hard time with making money on google.
Seems strange to me that since you have that many hubs, you would be making lots more money. Maybe I had better hang it up, lol. Great hub!
Very nice exposure on real revenue from google. I do like this discussion topic as it highlights all the things you need to know before wasting your time writing aritcles and hoping to rake in millions in adsense revenue.
My humble opinion - content is king - rich content that keeps the reader wanting more is always the reward for generating adsense income. But truth be told online folks nowadays are smart and the current generation from teens to stay-at-home-moms and senior citizens (who form the majority browsing just for leisure) have become ad-blind and never click on any sort of ads at all (even text links that match the website template colors are easily skipped). Until someone figures out how to combat this ad-blindness there is no use in invetsing your valuable time and money on adsense based systems.
annvans: If you think it's hard to make money on HubPages, wait until you experience any of the other writing platforms where you literally slave away for pennies. By all means I don't want my example to discourage Hubbers, but only to encourage a dialogue whereby the Hubbers that are earning well can teach the rest of us how they do it! :)
Shibi Kannan: Thanks for your comment. Again, there are some methods that can provide some success in Adsense but you're absolutely right about the adblindness. I can't remember the last time that I clicked on anything that even resembled an ad. Especially in this global economic crisis, companies are finding that their ad budgets can often be reassigned to more pressing issues: like making payroll! :(
@Hal Licino are you serious , how can someone try to cash this old cheque.
techie, no problem! I'll just photoshop one for you with today's date. I can make it for over a million bucks if you want. After all it's not my money... But you'll still have to get my illegal alien skinhead lesbian flying squirrel's endorsement signature on it if you want to try to cash it. (OK.... you know I'm just kiddin'!) :)
Hi Hal - Great hub about the truth of adsense earnings. i think the guys who are pulling in the real big bucks like you showed on your check are running the huge social bookmarkting sites and other websites that get millions of visitors per day. what i'm trying to say is that millions of visitors translates to thousands of clicks. if the impressions are just in thousands and clicks are in the low hundreds there's little money to be had from adsense. argh...when i find the key to golden riches i'll let u know. cheers, dawei888
dawei988: My current, up to the minute stats:
Total Number of Hubs: 1,030
Total HubPages Page Views: 1,031,427
Total Clicks: 8,295
Total Earnings: $1,769.51
Now don't get me wrong. I'm really grateful for that money as that seventeen hundred bucks I wouldn't have were it not for Adsense, but it doesn't even average out to $1.71 per Hub!
Please don't hesitate to share the key to golden riches when you find it, my friend! I'll be forever grateful! :)
Hi Hal , amazing info , I kinda read it like , ohhhh yep I get that , ohhh..um..getting close lol maybe next month the penny will drop...lol and oh cool I need some Ram...what might shut ekiwi down!! must bookmark this page ,oh oh oh , then $$ caught my gweedy eye....anyway appreciate you sharing ,I dont know whether I will ever get a decent payout but I notice at least my daily rate has improved ( hey anything up from zero ,is improved in my book) lol.....just a quick question , how do I copywright my hubs, not all , just a few of 'em....thankyou again-to your best life
You'll find that HubPages has already taken sufficient steps to provide significant copyright protection to the content on the site automatically by providing the "time stamp." Each Hub notes the date that it was posted, thus can serve as a reasonable establishment of chronographic copyright. If you were the first one to post said content, then the onus of authorship falls to you. What's great about this system is that although you would think that it should be easy to fool the timestamp by later editing into an existing Hub content that was not there before, the good ol' Internet Wayback Machine will prove exactly what content was where and when! I am just a bit concerned that the current HubPages listings in IWM seem to end in Feb. '08, but hopefully they will keep archiving the later versions.
Another good resource is:
which allows you to use a series of free tools to establish online copyright.
Of course if you are really absolutely adamant about having rock solid Federal copyright protection you can go to
http://www.copyright.gov/eco/index.html
but note that you can only copyright up to 50 pages (typed double spaced) per application and it sets you back $45 per time. Certainly not feasible for Hubs!
okie dokie awesome , HB regulations sound fine. Forever the optimist in me looks for email from Amazon or Barnes n Noble (lmao).......and I want my own website ,and I want ...lol lol...have a great day!
LOL. Love this hub - and don't feel so bad about my (lack of) adsense earnings now - mainly because I now know all I need to improve them is photoshop!! :)
Eaglekiwi: Remember that great song by Gloria Estefan: "You and I are dangerous... we want too much and life aint that way..." :)
Karen Banes: Thanks! I once lived about a mile north of the Tropic of Capricorn in Queensland. Is that where that sign is in your profile pic? Yes, by all means the key to having the ultimate Adsense earnings report to impress your friends and fool deluded naive innocents is as close as your Adobe CS4. Having said that, there are some people that are making decent money at it and I'm angry since they won't share their deep dark secrets with me! :) Actually, it's all in the keyword research. However, since I'm a writer first and a marketer not second... maybe seventeenhundred and thirty sixth, I think I'll spend most of my time writing what I want to write about rather than sifting through endless lists of:
huge erections fast
fast great erections
erections quick and easy
get erections now
:)
Hal, just referencing back to what Lissie was saying. Yes, you and Mark both write about Motorcycles. But I think that is where the similarities begin and end.
Mark is specifically targeting people who are on the verge of buying a motorcycle and who already have an idea of which one they might want. Most of his hubs cover a single motorcycle model so he is getting extremely targeted adsense ads on his hubs. And he has an Ebay block at the very top of his Motorcycle pages to encourage a click. So you have Adsense, then Ebay, then Text.
And Mark's text weaves in a lot of "Buy" words like "if you are in the market for" and the word Review etc. So he probably gets a lot of hits for things like "buying a [insert model here].
So how do you hubs about a single motorcycle compare to the ones like the motorcycle MPG hubs where you are just listing stats for a bunch of different bikes (under the same brand)?
Your average person does not make a decision to buy an expensive machine like a car or a motorcycle based on MPG stats. Sure, some people only care about utility or economy, but I really think most people decide on a specific vehicle for lots of intangible reasons (like how sexy they feel, how powerful it makes them feel, how much they enjoy riding it on the test drive, etc). So the first thing you have to look at as to why someone does't click an ad on your motorcycle hubs is, who are you addressing? Are you addressing a tech geek who likes to compare the bike he's already bought with a bunch of other bikes, so he can confirm his is better? Or are you addressing someone who is on the verge of buying his first or next motorcycle because he loves the freedom it gives him. It's the second guy you want -- he's the ad clicker.
Thanks for your reply, embitca. I appreciate your ongoing interest and participation. Last month I started a series of:
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst?
Which are single model (or closely associated model) motorcycle Hubs. I got this far before I gave up in disappointment:
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - Aprilia Pegaso & Caponord
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - Aprilia RSV & Tuono
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - Benelli TnT 899 & Cafe Racer
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - Benelli TnT Sport Evo, Titanium & Tornado
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - Benelli Tre-K & Amazonas
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - Bimota DB5 & DB6
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - Bimota DB7 & Tesi 3D
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - BMW F & G 650
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - BMW F800
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - BMW HP2 MegaMoto & Sport
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - BMW K 1200 LT & GT
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - BMW K 1200 R & S
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - BMW R 1200 R, GS & Adventure
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - BMW R 1200 RT, S & ST
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - Buell Blast & 1125 R
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - Buell XB Series
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - Ducati 848 & 1098, S & R
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - Ducati Desmosedici RR, GT, Sport & S
Top 200 Current Motorcycles: Best Or Worst? - Ducati Hypermotard & Multistrada
Although these Hubs rate fairly high on Google, there is very little traffic and of course, next to no clicks. Granted, I may not use BUY BUY BUY but anyone Googling one of those models is likely to see my Hub and is just as likely to click on it as any other. From a content standpoint those Hubs are not too different from Mark Knowles'. Except Mark gets clicks and I get squat.
I've had many other single model motorcycle Hubs. The Biggest & Meanest: 2007 Kawasaki 2000 Vulcan was published more than two years ago and pulls regularly. Sportster Iron 883: The Bike That Won't Save Harley has been very popular in page views and Honda Fury vs. Yamaha Raider: Perfection Meets Grotesquerie is right at the top of Google listings and gets over 100 page views a day on average.
Therefore, the conclusion has to be obvious:
Mark Knowles is Sergey Brin's secret lover.
(Don't tell him I told you that...)
:)
Hah! Well, I don't know what to tell you, Hal. Maybe Mark casts some magic spell over his readers that makes them want to click, click, click.
I knew it. I thought that he looked a bit like an aged Harry Potter. :)
Hi Hal - In answer to your question about my profile pic - right country, wrong side. It was taken in Western Australia. If you ever get any of those high adsense earners to share their deep dark secrets I will buy them off you - with my current adsense earnings, so they better be going cheap!
Nah. I'll share with all my Hub readers. Secrets are just for gray haired Harry Potter lookalikes! :)
(Actually, Mark Knowles, if you're reading this, you know that I think you're great and I'm just kiddin'!) :)
this is amazing!
mwaky: Yes, that's what all the girls say about me... (in my dreams)... :)
Dude, I hope you didn't take the time to photoshop that. Anyway, the scammers use a faster method. Its a piece of java script that makes everything on the page editable. Its actually fun too, you can play some great tricks on your friends. Here is a blog post about it http://beginners.today.com/2009/03/06/never-trust-
Lissie's post above is correct. If you want to make money with adsense you need to target your keywords better. For instance "worlds best pizza" gets just a few hundred searches monthly and a click pays pennies if that.
"Pizza Delivery" would pay over 400 month in spot #1 but would be difficult to rank for. So you try to find keywords that pay something and are not too competitive to rank for. Its not as hard as you might think, but its hard work.
bk, that Photoshop took all of three or four minutes, and I'm certainly not going to refer to Java for that, but the link is interesting. There is one point that you may be missing. I ENJOY writing about the world's best pizza, but not necessarily about pizza delivery. I'm not a mercenary, and I write to serve my thousands of readers, Adsense be damned. Sure it would be nice to make more bucks, but not at the expense of ONE WORD that I don't feel is in the best interest of my readers. I have had well over a million page views which means that there is interest in reading my Hubs, if not in zombie-like clicking on the ads. If there are ways that do NOT affect my writing in any way shape or form whereby the income can be maximized I'm all for that. But the day I have to start cranking out copy against my better instincts based on some bullcrap Google keyword pay per click is the day I hang up my HubPages participation. I'm a journalist, not a huckster. :)
Awesome hub, Hal. Enjoyed the thought provoking read. Thanks.
This just goes to prove that it is all in good keyword selection.
Hal - always good to read your stuff - you are a really intelligent and entertaining writer who always 'tells it like it is'. Your honesty about AdSense is really refreshing. My payment per hub is higher than yours but only because I compromise more and stuff in those key words and worry about where the ads will be placed. But every now and then I treat myself and write something without worrying about AdSense or the click values!
I personally don't believe in this "high paying keyword" theory stuff.
Hal - your hubs are always fun, full of information, and a great read.
As for how to turn your talent into AdSense riches - the answer is simple - hypnosis. Get yourself a good hypnosis expert and he will reorient your brain to think that pimple cream and pink laptops are what you live for.
Problem solved. Waiting for my 50% of your AdSense earnings.
Hey Hal, great hub! But for a woman who is not from the US, I am still wondering when I can earn real money with adsense. I only earn money writing for Helium. Anyway, I stillenjoyed reading. Thanks.
Frieda Babbley: Thank you very much!
Erick Smart: Yes, but my point always is that when good keyword selection impinges on good writing, then it's not acceptable. At least to me.
Rik Ravado: Thanks! I really appreciate your kudos. Let yourself go with the freedom of writing for the yourself and the reader more often. You may be a couple of bucks poorer, but you will be richer in far more rewarding ways! :)
Johnyboy: The concept of high paying keywords has been violated more than Paris Hilton, but there are some people (very damn few) who are making big money out there, so there has to be some basis to it.
shibashake: Thanks so much! I'm looking in the yellow pages right now for a hypnotist. I hope he doesn't make me walk around like a chicken! Regardless, I'm sending a check to you right now for all my increased earnings... and my old math prof used to tell me that you can't divide zero! :)
masmasika: Thanks! I have concluded in other Hubs that Helium is a waste of time. IMHO, you're far better off concentration on HubPages.
WestVes: Thank you!
Hal, I also was looking for additional secrets on how to do well on Google Adsense. Your hubpage on how you started writing about motorcyles was inspiring and caused me to look into writing product reviews.
Of course, now the federal government is getting involved and questioning writers who write product reviews for certain companies. I am sure that hubpages is immune to paying writers as a conflict of interest because the site is for writing a variety of topics and is not geared to one product. In fact, Hubpages guards against being overpromotional.
Back to your hubpage article, I was pleasantly surprised about the transparency which which your hubpage was delivered. You included actual page views from the Google Search Engine and a photo of your daily Google Adsense earnings. Excellent job on writing an article with so much transparency. You call writing explicitly and clearly, being blunt and I choose to call that type of writing as being transparent.
It is great that the hubpage community is a place that writers can be honest with each other especially when it comes to making money. As you said in your hubpage article, the internet is full of over inflated claims of making a lot of money quickly. Hubpage in my opinion has not been too receptive when I write about computers or technological advances in the content of my artices.
You are doing great to earn about seven dollars a day when you write on topics as computers. I thought you had found your niche when you started writing about motorcycles and your delivery of the hubpage article was written when one of the products was introduced.
I always see a spike in my earnings whenever I update a hubpage article or when I write and submit more hubpage articles with relevance and original content. If I did not optimize my articles or add contents, the earnings would be cents per day. I have not reached seven dollars a day but I did make a daily earnings upwards from six dollars. I am pleased when I see earnings around six or seven dollars daily. If I can earn $7.00 a day and the earnings is dependent on my abilities, then what is stopping me from making $700.00 a day. I have only been with Hubpages for 4 months. The Hubpage staff said that they may be opening Google Adsense for Search to writers which would allow more income.
Although these are "third world" earnings now, I think that is what passive income is all about. A few dollars a day is appreciative and adds up over time. Google caps the earnings at $100 and I was fortunate enough to make my payoff within the first four months and see that the earning are climbing faster after that payoff.
My niche seems to be gender and relationships and politics and social issues. I publish my computer and business articles on Associated Content and my How to articles on eHow. Associated Content pays $1.50 per one thousand words so Hubpages is better at earnings. EHow does not pay earnings as well as Hubpages but the payoff is only $10.00 so you are guaranteed a monthly check from eHow.
Hubpages, however seems to have a better relationship with Google with direct connections to Google Adsense. My plans, as I have only been with Hubpages for five months to to write daily, write consistently, and write with relevance daily. I also plan to update each one of my 400 + hubpage articles with at least 5 keywords and an internal link for optimization.
The earnings may not be like the check printed in your hubpages article but I appreciate the immediate reward of knowing that Google appreciates the writing updates and the written content each time I contribute to Hubpages. Hubpage can be a beginning for many writers whether they writing just for the fun of it or writing for monetization. If you write for monetization, you must understand the meaning of passive income and add other writing sites and write more to increase earnings.
Thanks Hal, your info really helpful
You always bring an insightful look at these types of issues we examine here on HubPages, Hal! I love seeing your view on things.
Hello there, your hub is really great. I really learned a lot.
lindagoffigan: Thanks for your comment and the kind words. Much appreciated. Actually, HubPages is in no way immune from the new FTC regulations, and I've recently written a Hub on it:
The Disclosure You Need On Your Hubs Today To Avoid FTC Prosecution
http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Disclosure-You-Need-On
Each and every individual who places any form of product or service mention on a web page where they derive even a penny's ad income has to place a formal disclosure. You're also absolutely right about the ongoing monetization. I'm attacking the individuals who claim thousands and thousands of dollars which just cascade in as there is just simply too much competition on the "big money keywords" to consistently score at the top of those searches.
There is no doubt that Google and HubPages are buddies. The way many of my Hubs rocket to the top of Google is nothing short of astounding. That's why HubPages is the best! :)
tommywong: You're very welcome.
carpesomediem: Thank you very much, and I appreciate your props!
JPSO138. Thanks!
Hi Hal... thanks a lot for this interesting hub !I understand well : as you say, you are first a journalist and not a marketer... And you are right !! The interest of your readers must stay your priority. (I am one of your reader ...)
You are like many artists who don't want to adapt their art just for fitting more to a special market and for selling their art better ;-) I understand this but I also think there is a way to adapt a little your talent without selling your soul...
For years I was working like a mad developping my websites : one about mind mapping tools (an online shop) and one about health to give informations.When I put them online, I was disappojnted and discovered how it is hard to have visitors and above all, "true" and "interesting" visitors... I am still reading a lot to learn about internet marketing, SEO, keywords,... I am improving day by day.
For you and me, it is the same... We have interesting contents for our readers... So the secret should be how to apply few marketing rules, still respecting our style and natural way of writing.
as you said : "If there are ways that do NOT affect my writing in any way shape or form whereby the income can be maximized I'm all for that"
I am curious and I would like to make a try !!... If you are Ok, we could make a test on one of your hub (on motorcycle for example), just to see if we can improve things with some little adaptations respecting your journalist passion...
Wish you the best,
Thanks againPS : sorry for my "frenchy" english... :-)
well Hal Maggs224 told me from the start to read your stuff and I have...but although I am like you, I will continue to write what I want to write when and where I want to write it...I was also hoping that it would add a bit to my social security in a few years when I'm really going to need it...see my self portrati? my looks will NOT be earning my living haha but thank you for the honest words...I will not pay a buck the first month and 33 every one thereafter to learn how to make a million :( guess I would be as well off getting a lottery ticket, eh?
Mood Institute: Pas besoin de vous excuser, mon ami. I've just run six Hubs as tests on one of the top paying keywords. The first one is:
http://hubpages.com/hub/Top-20-Things-To-Know-Befo
and linked them all via a captcha to an image only Hub for maximum Google security. Let's see what happens with those. Actually I do wish that they will make some money as I'm donating all the proceeds from those 6 Hubs to the National Cancer Institute. If we want to test a motorcycle Hub for ad $$$, by all means just let me know in the comments here and we'll do it!
RNMSN: Thanks and welcome! BTW, I'm even uglier than you! :) I've long since abandoned any hope of winning the lottery so I haven't purchased a ticket for a loooooooooooooong time!
Good hub . Bookmarked it.
Joined your fan club to-day.
Great article Hal, a really enjoyable read.
ramkumar45 and ryankett: Thanks! I appreciate it!
This is a lot of information to take it but it definately helps a lot!
Garrett McLee: Thanks! I'm trying to get to the bottom of this sticky wicket called Adsense earnings so that all Hubbers can benefit. But I'll have to admit, it's not easy! :)
Do you use any kind of keyword research tool, many of your number one placements get no searches which can explain lack of earnings, much of your traffic could be internal hub visitors who are not clicking ads.
Hal, after just ready your first hub that is number one of google, the reason why your earnings are low is because you do not do keyword research for the keywords you target. I know you said you don't write for SEO but the reason you do not make any money off of your hubs is because you do not write for SEO.
After looking up your keyword in googles keyword tool, it shows that your keyword only gets 220 searches per month and the ads average CPC is $0.08.
This would have taken 2 minutes to find before you wrote the article. This is mainly just for people who are attempting to make money with hubpages. It's all doable but you need to know how to do keyword research and make a potiential keyword rank number one of google.
if you want to know how to make money online and all legit with no bullshit. do a google search for "the keyword academy" it will show you what you need to know.
very different adsense earning perspective
Yes... a very LOW earning perspective! :)
Thanks for sharing great information
Great
Are these tables and everything correct or you are just trying to impress people with some fake work
Hi Hal, have you looked into the affiliate program at Newegg? Whenever I buy computer parts I either buy from there or go to Pricewatch.com.
I don't know much about the affiliate program, but if the cookie is fairly persistant a lot of the people reading the computer articles may end up eventually making a purchase from Newegg since it is one of the most popular places to buy computer parts from.
Compzone08: You're very welcome.
xujordan: Thanks!
swathin2: What tables? I've been very clear in the Hub as to the ones that are real and the ones that were Photoshopped. I don't need to impress anyone. I'm already extraordinarily and outrageously impressive all by my little old self. :)
MontyApollo: The Newegg program is interesting but in the categories that I usually deal with their % is quite low: 1% of Sale Amount - Computer Case, CPU, Motherboard, Optical Drive, Video Card, Hard Drive, & Displays. Still it sure wouldn't hurt. Thanks!
Really interesting Hub mate, if I crack those kind of earnings like those shown in the first image I will let you know! :) I am now driven to find out how! LOL But first I have to match your earnings, you earn in one day what I might make in a whole month (sometimes)! :-)
Keep on trying my friend. I know I'm going to keep on pluggin' until I get my numbers up and so can any Hubber. Just takes patience and perseverance! :)
Good article. I think I learned more from observing the actuality of your article rather than what you said.
Very informative ! thanks for this !
Thanks for the honest look at adsense earnings. When I clicked on your Hub I was expecting more hype about how to make a fortune. I was pleasantly surprised. You tell it like it is.
Man from Modesto: Thanks! What can I say? I'm an actuality kinda guy! :)
barryrutherford: You're very welcome!
milynch43: You're welcome! I can assure you that I will never write a Hub about how "anyone can make a million dollars every hour 24/7 even while you sleep"! I actually read something not too dissimilar from that a while ago... I honestly don't know how anyone could be sucked in by pure scam nonsense like that... :)
I just published this hub that might point you in the right direction concerning adsense value clicks:
http://hubpages.com/_proceed/hub/how-to-reach-goog
Hope it works for you! If it does remember your promisse ;)
It's a very good Hub, but I have Google top positions coming out my ears, and that's not making any difference. I'm more than happy to live up to the terms of my challenge to anyone who can take on the financial skyrocketing of my 1,086 Hubs, but so far I haven't seen anything significantly different than what I'm doing... maybe except spending days researching to find a single "high paying" keyword! :)
ok, I'll give you another little tip ro improve earnings. It will be a little time consuming but...
... Just use BOLD and UNDERLINE the keywords that you want your hubs to be reference of along the text of the hubs, particulary in the first paragraph of the hub.
Good one, Hal! You are really honest! Sometimes, I wonder...why cant we just write whatever we want without being suckered into SEO, author ranking, etc.?
Hey Hal:
While Mesothelioma is a potentially outstanding paying keyword, you are not in the first 100 results of google for that (in the U.S.) much less on the 1st page (top 10).
That term has a lot of searches, according to AdWords, but also a lot of competition from other sites/blogs for that term. BTW, don't confuse the number of page results Google shows at the top of a search page along with "found in .23 seconds" or whatever, with how many people are looking for that term. For that you have to go to AdSense (and check "exact" match).
Mesothelioma in combination with a variety of other words would give you a bunch of entirely different keywords. Whether or not the combinations you have on your pages generate any traffic, I didn't check. But each combination is searched for by different searchers, and Google ranks you compared to other sites for that exact combination. So you may get on the top page for some esoteric combination of Mesothelioma plus yadayada, but there may be no traffic for that combination. Or, if you do get page views, the subject may be one that a searcher is just looking for information, not to click and BUY something.
BTW, writing HubPages and webpages and blog pages takes time. You have to make up your mind if you are writing for ego-boo or for money. You probably don't have time to do both. If you write for ego-boo, don't complain about lack of clicks.
BTW2, don't look to my HubPages as a good example. All except one, so far, are ego-boo. No particular commercial value. Minimal views and clicks. Most of my future ones will be commercially oriented.
You Wrote very nice hub about make money online
profiler: I appreciate your information, but using bold and underline for keywords rather than exceptional emphasis would be such a dire violation of journalistic standards, AP style and everything else I've ever learned that I just couldn't bring myself to it. It is also extremely distracting and disorienting to the reader, and that is where my primary responsibility lies.
kjebud: Thanks! Well, HubPages certainly doesn't place limitations on anything any of us want to write, so you're definitely in the right place! :)
dabeaner: The mesothelioma Hub went nowhere but my recent string of six Hubs on Tramadol was set up in phrase format and it's still too early to see what happens there. However, I currently have countless Google topping key phrases and they're not drawing flies either in the way of income, although some regularly spike up to receive 1,000 page views a day. My basic point is not that I'm unhappy about writing all these Hubs and seeing no monetization income to speak of, but to warn readers that when they see some total scam artist advertising that they will teach you how to massage keywords and make thousands of dollars a day while you suntan on your yacht, that they should run away and not pull out their credit cards. Money can be made, some people make more, some others make less. But the gargantuan income claimed by the snake oil weasels is sooooooooooooo rare as to be virtually non-existent.
vrajput: Thanks!
Hal,
Nice job on this post. Very informative for a newer person to SEO such as myself. There are certainly tons of claims of huge Google adsense earnings out there, you have to wonder who you can believe!
Well, you can believe me! And if you send me your credit card number TODAY I will share with you HAL'S SECRET WAY TO MAKE MILLIONS ON ADSENSE THIS WEEK. By this weekend you too can be earning a million dollars a day or more, more, MORE just by placing an Adsense ad on one single webpage alone. Just two minutes of work and a lifetime of riches will be yours! Now type in your credit card number with expiry and CVV, as well as your online banking password and... :)
Hal, you're a riot! I love your honest, straightforward approach. As always, this hub is informative, as well as the comments of your readers. Thanks, Lissie, Rob, Deabener, profiler, and BadCompany for giving us insight as to what's working for you.
Thanks, Staci-Barbo7! I appreciate your kind words as well as the shout-outs to all the commenters who have provided such valid input!
There is a saying in our SEO that good sites have a very low CTR which is less than 1%. So what I have gathered from the info you provided is you write too good and yours(hubs) ar a good website.
What I have noticed from your topics is that people would come to your hubs seeking information and when they get it there, they don't really need to click on ads to further gain information. So praise yourself from my side for writing such good content.
If you need money, do one thing, delete half the content you have written from each hubs and people will click ads to get more info as they wont get all of it from your hub.
CHEERS!
I love you for writing good informative hubs
Ultimate Hubber: Your compliments were so kind that I'm speechless. Thank you very much. I really appreciate it! :)
I hung on to the bitter end but nothing except complaining.
Ok, what would you like to see? :)
Oh my God !!! At last, I have met someone who is not bragging and lying about his online income earnings to charm newbies. Since I make thousands of dollars a day, I write this message on my newly bought small village at Hawaii :)))
Setting aside my disgusting joke; CTR is not the key factor. According to me, eCPM rate (Earnings for 1000 pageviews) of $2 is normal and safe with a mixed US and other world traffic. It is needed to get 100,000 page views to make $200 daily. So, it is really hard to earn living with just Google Adsense. Almost impossible for us unless we don't publish 10,000 effective hubs with 10 daily constant search engine organic traffic. Mostly, US community driven dating websites or social network niches can reach this level because of high pageviews for a single visitor.
But, earning a daily rate of $20, $30 can be a reasonable target by building SEO traffic in a few years. You should also multiply this with 0.6 since there is pageview share with hubpages. It is a hard world really.
Unless there is no significant US traffic, an eCPM rate of $0.20 can be even a dream on international traffic. I had to close many Turkish and Russian blogs since there are no good advertisers in Adwords who pay more than 0.01 ppc.
On the other hand, according to my experience I think the best way to monetize with Google Adsense is to write about technology driven products and accessories. So, for example mobile phones and cases are good choices. Eventhough these visitors are more tech-savy, they do click well on product pages. They also do buy from Amazon with a conversion rate of 4 product orders / 100 clicks
I closely look at the new technological devices and combine them with my KEI formula. Here is how I calculate the Keyword Effectiveness Index.
http://hubpages.com/hub/My-Developed-Version-of-KE
I am not an expert but think and analyze to find the best ways surely.
Thank you very much for your extremely kind words and your informative comment. I truly appreciate it.
I have had a couple of days where I've hit $15 a day in AdSense revenue and although they have been few and far between, I certainly cannot argue that with enough hard work $20 or $30 a day is a reasonable expectation.
The problem is the work to earnings equation. In my local supermarket the cheapest loaf of bread costs $2.79. The cost of living that North Americans (and even worse, Europeans) face is extremely high. I've lived in countries where $2 will buy you a truly great meal at a lovely restaurant and a wonderful two bedroom house can be rented for $80 a month. If I had the option of living in one of those nations again, I would be more than happy to work towards a steady income of $30 a day, as I could live like a king. The reality is that many of the writers on this platform live in nations with stratospheric costs and $30 a day income is very welcome, but it only qualifies as a mere sideline to the main income generation which has to be done in other ways.
Hi,
I enjoy very much reading true stories about people learning how to earn with Google Adsense. I also enjoy sharing my experience with Google Adsense so other Hubbers can benefit from it. Take the time to visit my most recent Hub. I'm sure you will find it to be beneficial. The topic is about "finding the most popular target keywords to increase traffic to your Hub. Enjoy everyone and thanks for the tips.
Glad you liked it! :)
I have read an awful lot from other people including on infobarrel and squidoo and I feel there are a lot of people who would be making 10x as much from the same number of hubpages. I just do not buy it that they are all photoshopped. I do not doubt some are, and some are scammers, but others I know have never scammed in other of their pursuits and web sites, and find it hard to believe they are scamming in this instance. So I researched extensively possible reasons for Hal's poor results and I think I explain them well here:
http://workathomebasedbusinessideas.blogspot.com/2
--Dave
Hi Dave. Excellent blog! I'm currently writing up and publishing a test of 100 Hubs (tagged haltest100) to derive hard data on the efficacy of these optimizations. I will report back with a conclusion Hub once I have accumulated enough data!
u must be a very rich man for receiving a check of 536,553.32 dollars did u really receive it from google .well i have a ploblem with adsense sign up but they have given me my adsense pub id but the activation is still pending. here is their reply Hello Osagie,
Thank you for your interest in Google AdSense. Unfortunately, after
reviewing your application, we're unable to accept you into Google AdSense
at this time.
We did not approve your application for the reasons listed below.
Issues:
- Domain ownership not evident
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Further detail:
Domain ownership: To complete our review, we need to confirm your
ownership of the site you've submitted. Please follow the steps below:
1. Access the source code of www.hubpages.com.
2. Create a separate page on the site and paste "This post confirms my
ownership of the site and that this site adheres to Google AdSense program
policies and Terms and Conditions."
3. Resubmit the application as described below after replacing
www.hubpages.com in the 'Website URL' with the URL of the page where you
have pasted the snippet.i dont know what to do pls help me contact me at g4lords@yahoo.com
I'm SOOOOOOOOOOO confused. Do you mean that Google wants you to prove you're the owner of HubPages?
Hi Hal,
Meso and other "high-paying" keywords are not actually high paying for the content network (and thus for content publishers). Just the search network (and thus for Google). High-bidding advertisers can opt out of having their ads appear on the content network, and generally do, because the conversions are traditionally low.
Your best bet is targeting middle-of-the-road paying keywords. In fact, your best bet is staying away from seeking out high-paying keywords altogether and doing what you do best--write what you love. (No, you don't have to write about coffee makers).
With one or two modifications.
Figure out what problems people are having for which the solutions lie on the Internet. Tell them what the problem is and how to solve it. You know--the oldest advertising trick in the book.
Your newest product-related hubs are getting there, but your tongue-in-cheek humor about keywording comes through and probably has one of two effects: it amuses some people and it turns off others (i.e., the ones who might bite if they weren't flying off the page.)
Your motorcycle hubs, as far as I can see, don't solve a problem for your readers. They're interesting and entertaining and probably soaked up by bike lovers. But they're not hitting your page to solve a problem. They're hitting your page because "Hey--that looks neato!"
If I were you, I'd try a series of motorcycle articles based on the "how-to" format and on topics you know people are searching for and that have low competition. Try "How to Repair a Motorcycle Tire," "How to Fix a Motorcycle Clutch," "How to Repair Metal Fuel Tanks for Motorcycles," "How to Tie Down Motorcycles," and especially "How to Find Suzuki Scooter Parts." These should all earn decently.
If you've personally conquered a motorcycle problem (and I'm betting you've conquered several thousand) then write about those. But first get your title by using Google Suggest and finding a search string that sounds natural enough to become a title, or half of one, and that doesn't have a lot of competition and that accurately reflects what your title is.
For example, say you want to write "How to Get Widgets Repaired." Say you find that people search for this exact term, but there are 6 million results. So brainstorm another way to say it. You find that
"Widget Repair Ontario"
has 325,000 results. But that's not so pretty for titles. So you try:
"Ontario Widget Repairs"
And that has 400,000 results, and that's good. So turn it into a title.
"Ontario Widget Repairs--Better than Quebec?" And there's your title that no widget-lover with a broken widget can resist.
Hope this helps. Good luck...
Hi Fiction Teller. Thanks for your indepth comment. I have no intention of continuing my current earnings test once I'm finished the 100 Hubs I'm working on... (only about 20 to go, long suffering Hal fans...) I have noted all of them with the tag Haltest100, and I'm tracking each one via URL channels. Sure, I'm doing EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHING to make sure that they are high earning, and as soon as I start accumulating some hard data on them, I'll write a Hub to inform my readers exactly how they have performed and come up with several solid recommendations on helping them write profitable Hubs from my own real world experience.
As you have shrewdly deducted, there are times when I'm singing the praises of the 1 cup coffee maker in my third Hub on the subject that I want to put my head through the wall, and believe me I've edited out waaaaaaaay more sarcasm than I have left in. If I took out even the handful of winks I have in those 80-odd Hubs then it would be a violation of Halism and I would have my Halcertification taken away by the Hallacious Halthority. :)
I've published more than twenty How To on various subjects, including bikes, and all but one of them have not drawn flies. How-ever, I do believe you're correct in your statement that a series of mechanical-technical how tos could be successful, but I'm not even going to start thinking about those until I have given my Haltest100 Hubs a good chance to prove what they can (or can't) do! :)
I appreciate your comments! I'll keep you and all my other readers posted on what happens!
hello hub master i have created 47 hubs but i have not seen a penny on my adsense account pls help me out
Thank you but I am not a Hub Master at all, just a Humble Hubber! :) It is unusual for there not to be any earnings at all on 47 Hubs. Have you checked all your adsense settings to make sure that they are being properly credited? If everything is fine and you're still not seeing any earnings at all, you might want to copy the format of capsules I'm using on the last 90 or so Hubs I've published. Just go to my Profile and click on the Latest tab to see them. Those are part of my test of 100 and they are all set up in a very specific manner which should optimize your earnings. Please keep me apprised of your progress. Thanks!
Adsense is art and science. You have to know what you are doing, and it is a lot of work to make it really click. But I assure you that if you "do it right" Adsense can make a lot of money. And I am not talking about just HubPages, I'm talking about content sites you create and work hard to promote. http://hubpages.com/hub/Adsense-Discover-EXACTLY-H
Your hubs are probably too good and people stay on your hub too long and don't click on any ads. I have several websites and the worst ones make the most money because people click on ads to leave my page, my good blogs get very little clicks but I can see that users stay on the page for awhile. Just saying...
MikeNV, I have no interest in creating websites outside of Hub, so that doesn't apply to me. As for "not knowing what I'm doing" feel free to check out the well over 100 "merchandise & product" related Hubs I've posted in the past couple of months and tell me if there is any way to optimize the formula I'm following to format those more than I have. I'll save you the trouble of checking: THERE ISN'T.
uniman: Thanks for the compliments. All I can respond to your comment is the lyric from the old Ricky Nelson song: "If you gotta play at Garden parties I wish you a lot a' luck. But if memories were all I sang I'd rather drive a truck." If I have to write crap to make money, then there's an 18 wheeler in my future! :)
NICE POST HAL!
I live on Brazil, so i dont get so much fun in writing in another lenguage to be honest...
I do receive a good profit from Google Adsense, not from the HubPages though...
Actually, i dind't get a single cent from my hubpages... i think i maybe get a wrong configuration, or i dont know... i was hoping to get unless a few bucks in a mounth with 15 Hubs hehe...
But the truth is that just writing to people almost ever, dont get any good results...
The ideal, is write to People and for the Google, use the Keyword Tools and alot of backlinks hehe
Anyway... amazing post! Hope you incrise ur profits :)
PS:
I was making some calculations, with 1200 hubs, if you get 1 click in each Hub, with the lowest profit per click that i ever get ($0.05), you still be getting 60 dollars a day! :(
Incredible see your real profits :o
Thanks, Trow! I haven't hit the magical nickel a Hub per day yet, but I live in hope. I am continuing to accumulate data on my recent experiments in writing Hubs specifically for earnings, and I'll report my findings in a Hub as soon as I have a proper statistical study completed.
Hal,
I hereby accept your challenge.
Here are the details: http://hubpages.com/hub/Help-HubPage-Hal-Make-Mone
(As a new Hubber, I'm not sure how the whole comments linking thing works, so see below for how to find it if this link gets messed up.)
Like you, I am also a writer, not an SEO slickster. Frankly I too have a hard time with the concept of writing "for" things like search engines. I wrote up a rant about it on my ArcticLlama(dot com) blog called Google Made Me a Worse Writer. It's basically about how being creative gets penalized because it won't show up in searches if it doesn't say the same thing as everyone else.
Anyway, I don't make huge money of AdSense, but I do fairly well and hope to build it up enough over the course of the next year or two to cut back on my freelance writing business.
I like reading your hubs, and you seem like a nice guy. I think a couple of fundamental misunderstandings about online advertising are causing you to reach the wrong conclusions.
I need screenshots (and a bunch of text) to explain. Since I don't know how to do that here, I wrote a Hub (what else?) containing both the explanation for what is happening with your hubs, as well as the step by step instructions to actually make money with them.
I'm not sure how the comment rules on linking work (I'm a new Hubber) so if the one above gets hammered somehow, you can find the Hub via my profile (Hub Llama) or you can search HubPages for "Help HubPage Hal Make Money With Google Adsense" Hopefully, that doesn't rub you the wrong way :) If so, let me know and I can re-title it or remove you from it altogether.
Hub Llama
Hope u get good results Hal,
Other nice idea will be publish some sites or make your own blog, i get much more money just with domain parking or sites with keyword names... to me... is easyer that right a hub in a different lenguage and get good results :/
But good luck! I hope you get yours photoshop profits soon as possible hehehe
Cya
Hub Llama: Just a quick note to tell you that I will be reading and digesting your Hub and I will be answering in detail on your own Hub's comments capsule. I really appreciate the great work on that Hub and thank you for taking the time and effort. It is profoundly appreciated! :)
Trow: Thank you very much for the kind words, and I'd like to see that check for real too! :) I do realize that greater results can be had by having one, ten, or a thousand standalone websites, all optimized for SEO, etc, but I'm really not interested in pursuing that avenue. I'm perfectly happy on HubPages. Thanks again!
With so many readers and you really only caring about writing rather than the money. (quite noble by the way) Why don't you start up or join some type of magazine, online or off? I'm sure you could earn damn decent money from doing exactly what you love.
I'm sure you know already but also simple things like researching keywords and phrases and putting them in your title and content maximize adsense earnings. I'm not positive if the thousand dollar days are real or not but I do know 6 or 7 people making $100-$300 a week from it. Not retirement I know but definitely something.
R.J., thank you for the comments. First of all I've been there done that and have the magazine T-shirt. I spent almost two full decades in the magazine publishing business and when I went to work at 8 am one morning and went home at 6:30 pm THE NEXT DAY I figured that it might be a good idea to get out of the biz before the biz took me out. As for researching keywords and phrases, just check the well over 100 Hubs that I've published in the last two months which are "exquisitely" keyword researched and formatted to maximize Adsense return. It's still way too early to declare them a success or failure, but when I accumulate sufficient and conclusive data on them, I will publish a Hub with my full results.
Hal,
I personally believe the better the content, the less likely to see adsense clicks.
Why click out to an advertisement or any link at all, when all the content and info you need is right in front of you.
People click away because they are bored or dissatisfied with the content.
I know personally the higher the page view duration the lower my ctr is.
Suggestions to stay within your ethics, write the occasional teaser article that leaves your reader wanting more, start joining up with publisher networks besides the hub defaults ...Harley davidson perhaps? ..i know from experience that the motorcycle crowd loves to buy HD branded gear ..from eyeglass cases to steel toes! ..buying parts or bikes on impulse, probably not..sunglasses . hats etc..pretty likely.
heres a big list of motorcycle affiliate programs
Thanks for the link, and I do appreciate it. My page view durations are usually pretty damn high on my "conventional" Hubs and although it is still very early to make any firm determinations as my "merchandising" Hubs have not had time to "age" yet, they are considerably shorter on the 100+ Hubs I've written in the past couple of months that are pure and utter mercantilism verging on the mercenary. What I'm not clear on is how HubPages would sync with an affiliate program like that.
I dont mean changing your style, i mean you have a motorcycle crowd, throw them some impulse buys at the end of your informational hubs..just to get that cookie in their browser
Aff programs when selected right blow away amy adsense earnings.. I have a hub that gets 20 views a day (very targetted...and converts $50 a week, on a great free offer that I use myself, and suggest...nothing sleezy, or unethical
I did have an opportunity to look over a few of the motorcycle hubs, An ebay and amazon section with low priced motorcycle accessories with the kind of traffic you are getting - should certainly get you some impulse buys.
Just a small unobtrusive capsule with 1 or 2 items for each at the end of each hub of low priced impulse accessories should really get you some earnings
I've already crossed the line severely with the "mercantile" Hubs, so I'm certainly willing to experiment with other forms. The problem is that I placed Ebay and Amazon capsules on well over 500 Hubs and to date I think I've made a couple of bucks total. I stopped placing them as they weren't even worth the effort of clicking on the capsule and filling in the details! :)
It seems to me that the biggest mistake you made was not choosing better keywords. A lot of your keywords that you have written topics on suck! Most of the get between 0 and 100 exact searches a month, and that's why your pay is so low. You need to choose better keywords, that people are actually searching for. Use google's keyword tool to help you find good niche keywords: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExter and change it to Match Type: Exact which is the most accurate. Also choosing keywords that have a high PPC would help you earn more from google adsense.
Dude, I didn't write any of those by keywords. I wrote them because I'm a writer. I have run a test of over 100 super SEO'd Hubs and it's still a bit early to determine the actual results. I'll be writing an indepth Hub with my full findings when all the data is in.
Wow, daniel came down on hard on you. He must be a bazillionare.
Good. I hope he sends some of his bazillions both my way and yours as well! :)
Hal Licino,
Most of the hubbers have similar stories. They are not earning much. There are 40K hubbers with more than half a million hubs and only few (Finger counts) have some descent income. I am in a regular full time business of Gemstones and Jewelry and do not care for adsense income.
It is even lesser than you but it is rising constantly. However, My hubs send customers regularly to me and brings reputation.
Thanks and thumbs up for a detailed and honest hub.
Jyoti Kothari
I am still compiling all the data on the 100+ "Merchandise Test" Hubs I posted, and when all the stats are in, I'm sure that it will be extremely useful information for all Hubbers. Thanks for your comment and support.
haha, the first earning report is more encouraging than actual earnings, even though it's fake!
Yeah, I can be encouraged all day long, but the bottom line is that my bank account isn't being encouraged much by Photoshopped earnings reports! It prefers cash! :)
@scheng1, this cheque could encourge the owner
of the hubber to put more effort to earn that amount
Ok, i could tell you to earn a real figure here.
Ok vannarith... so lemme get this straight... I guess that I am "the owner of the hubber" and with nearly 3 years invested and almost 1500 Hubs written that's not enough effort for ya? But if I go to your SCAM page where you have over a dozen spelling errors in the FIRST paragraph alone because you're not only A SCAMMER but AN ILLITERATE ONE AT THAT, you can teach me to do what? You couldn't teach anyone to tie their shoes as that requires a mental capacity which exceeds an amoeba! You PAY ME AND I'LL TEACH YOU ADSENSE morons make me sick. You are the lowest form of life and are only good as volunteers for cannon fodder duty. You are a waste of protoplasm and a blight on humanity. Yuck! I think I need to have a shower...
I don't know how I missed this hub!! Very entertaining and educating! Loved it!
:)
Thanks, I appreciate it! Stay kitten! :)
People want to believe. They crave hope and they're willing to risk 20 bucks to get a shot at it. The economy of scale favors the SEO huckster. A single $20 isn't much to risk, but hundreds of $20s rolling in are a nice payoff. They only need to bamboozle a fraction of a scintilla of all the would-be Internet millionaires.
nicomp, super quick note as I've been on a massive project for a couple of days and am likely to be there for a couple of more. First of all please don't let your horse drool on my helmet. :) Second, thank you for all the nice words and as soon as I finish up and have a chance to catch my breath, I'll contact you with a more "direct" mode of communication. And third, I tend to lump online scammers who raise the hopes of the more naive among us in order to take their lunch money away at the bottom of carbon-based life... somewhere below amoebas. Thanks and see ya in a couple of days! :)
I wanted your first chart to be true! I was already adding up how long to create 1000 sites and get that from AdSense on hubpages. Oh well. Thanks for writing this. – Carol
Believe me, I wanted that first chart to be true as well! :)
hey very good information about google ad
Maybe you should consider other monetizing methods, such as Amazon or Ebay. I think the commission will be much more than Google Adsense earnings
jacky: Thanks
hoe: I had Ebay and Amazon on my first few hundred Hubs. Dropped them after that.
I think it is mostly because of the buying keywords, if you have so many hubs and they don't earn its only because your keywords are not buying ones. A person might have found your hub but expecting them to buy or click an Ad is not likely if it isn't targeting towards that audience. There are sites with 5000 visitors a day, yet they make nothing because their content and site isn't about anything that people will want to buy. Social marketing is another down point when it comes to this...
Yes, of course there are types of readers who don't click on any ads. They are primarily the "enthusiast/experts" who drop in following a link about their specialty, but couldn't care less about the ads as they know it all.
Thank you for such honesty.
RockPhotoStar, you're welcome! :)
awesome
Great hub... Looking forward to further reading of your other hubs. I have read this one and a few of the ones you mention on here. Great they are. Keep it up. I am working toward earning at least $4 to $5 per day... I'm not looking for some crazy big payday because 90% of my earnings go to charity/church and the rest to my childrens' college funds/trust funds. Thanks for the insights man.
Quick question for you and your readers... Do you click on other hubbers' ads just to click? I know I do and hope others do for me as well... You'd be surprised at how many deals you can get through google ads as I explain in my Click Click Dot Com hubs.
William Cobb
http://hubpages.com/profile/whcobb
http://williamcobb.blogspot.com
"What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?"
I know this article is a bit old but i am writing hubs daily for a only a week now..This week i have had 1031 views ... 33 pageviews(this week) from search engines and average adsense is 0.23$ a day.Only around 2 or 3 hubs of mine are in the first 20 of google for their search keyword ,I have some hubs i wrote only because i like writing....If i was to make 1000 hubs on high volume keywords i doubt i would make less than 70-100 dollars a day it seems insane to make 1000 hubs and earn only 2-5 dollars... Pageview's don't matter that much i guess if you don't have search engine traffic...internal traffic from hubpages will not make you any money at least that you will notice..and if you fiddle around with adsense to get 1 dollar instead of 0.02$ thats 50 more times than you make so i guess
those clicks will be worth it making you go over the 100$ a day mark ...I wish i had your 1000 hubs to modify adsense keywords a little it would make my life that much easier and i would be closer to becoming a millionaire by next year:)Hub on Hai Licino
iqbal88: Thanks!
whcobb: I'd love it if all Hubbers created a mutual clicking society but then Google would likely yank ALL of our pub numbers en masse. :(
Rubel: Thanks!
nearbuystore: Yes, this Hub was written a while back, but essentially my numbers per Hub have barely budged as I approach 2,000. Someone out there must be making all these millions as it sure as heck aint yers truly! :)
Awesome post Hal. Thanks for the information. I am amazed that you are not making more with that many hubs. I am also amazed that you have time, energy and brain power to write that much. Great job.
Thank you so much for your exceptionally kind words. I really appreciate it! :)
Great Job Hal...
Hal,
I've noticed on a lot of your hubs you only have just the banner size ads at the top which are well known to have terrible ctr's. If you also put the square ads at the top of your pages your ctr's would skyrocket. An educated guess would be at least 3 to 4 times what the banner ads only are pulling in. Just thought I'd share that tip you could try if you want to make more moolah easily :) Great hub
I really love this article. But let me add my two sense if I may.
The real people making "that" kind of money are "HubPages" themselves. They have done a magnificent job I would say.
A possible reason for low Adsense earnings on really good, interesting, and in particular informative hubs, could be that somebody finds what they were searching for in the content of your hub, and there is no need to click away for further information.
Regards aballantyne's comment two comments up, I didn't know hubbers could select which Adsense ads one would like to see where? How does one do that?
Hubpages are seems to have a better relationship with Google with direct connections to Google Adsense. I also have seen that all your hubs are on google first page that is an achievement in itself. Very informative and well written. It's true there are a lot of scams out there.
Yeah, all those first page rankings I have (not on all Hubs but a lot) are that makes me even more suspicious of the cases of people claiming stratospheric earnings. However, there are some people who I believe and respect who are making big money (Misha, etc.).
This is great and it helps put things in perspective. I love your "wish this was real" check
fortunerep Level 1 Commenter 2 years ago
I thought you were going to share abunch of secrets! lol. keep writing, if you don't make money and it makes you happy then do what makes you happy. Your hubs are great, I have yet to find any topic that makes money. I am sure people do but i just prefer to write.
dori