Is anyone earning more than $100 a week from their writing?

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   formosangirlposted 12 years ago

   Mine came in 3 days. Just wait.

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   Jessi10posted 12 years ago

   Yes. But it took a while to get there and A LOT Of marketing from my part. I'm talking about writing and Marketing a good 5 hours a day..

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   jcmayer777posted 12 years ago

   You have to be careful, but the best money I've ever spent in my entire lifetime was $30 for an ebook on writing content online for passive income.  It gave me the basics of seo and keyword selection, which I used to build my income online.  I've spent the last couple of years adjusting what I do and analyzing the resutls. The next best money I've ever spent (which I still spend) is for a subscription to wordtracker for keywords to title my articles and use in the content.
   
   I'm not saying you have to spend money to make it, but if I had never spent that initial $30, I have no doubt I wouldn't have stuck with it, because I would have continued to make pennies per article, per month.
   
   If you want to make decent levels of money, imo, it's important to learn the basics of seo and learn how to target profitable keywords and adwords.  There are free tools out there that can get you going, if you don't want to spend any money.

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   mega1posted 12 years ago

   let's say I was, or am, or whatever.  Would y'all love me then?

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   spirit929posted 12 years ago

   I have only made pennies a month so far but I dont look at this to make money any longer . I do this mostly to have a place to write and have my hubs viewed and commented on and to read other peoples work. At least I have a forum where I can post whatever I write which is cool.

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   Mighty Momposted 12 years ago

   Nope. But my earnings are increasing magically thanks to Hub Pages Ad Program.
   I didn't come here to make money.
   I came here to write something other than marketing copy (my day job).
   
   I don't write commercial hubs but seem to have stumbled upon (no pun intended) a few popular topics and even some really personal topics that others seem to relate to (go figure).
   
   Be patient, grasshopper.
   If you follow the guidelines set forth by Hub Pages tutorials and read the "How tos..." of some of our very $ucce$$ful hubber friends, the money WILL come.
   
   To give you an idea -- and this is truly passive, passive marketing on my part.
   This month I have already made more than I made in my first year on HP.
   So that's progress!
   Good luck!
   MM

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   Winterfateposted 12 years ago

   I'm set to make about $15 this month.
   
   I wish I were at $100+!
   
   But, considering my income has been increasing steadily over time, hopefully it's just a matter of time before I reach that point.
   
   I just have to say that the Hubpages Ad Program is awesome (I'm more than a little disappointed with Adsense though).

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      mistyhorizon2003posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      If you are using HP Ads you won't get much from Adsense because there is only one block of Ads on your page that will be paid to you direct from Adsense, all the rest are HP Ad paid blocks. If you want to see how revenue compares try switching off HP Ads for a month and you will see Adsense revenue shoot up as it will all be paid by them.

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         Winterfateposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         You know, I never realized that.
         
         Thanks a lot for clearing that up for me!

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   Bitingtruthsposted 12 years ago

   I have written 8 hubs in last 21 days and I have made 1 dollar. The 1 dollar has comes from hubads. Ad sense at the moment not making any money. I think it will take time before money starts trickling from ad  sense.

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   The Rising Gloryposted 12 years ago

   thank you misty, I was wondering why my revenue had virtually dried up!

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      mistyhorizon2003posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      You are welcome The Rising Glory. It is amazing how many people seem surprised that their Adsense income drops dramatically when they go on to HP Ads, when actually it is simple when you think about the fact that Adsense is now only paying from 1 Ad block that is way down the page on the right hand side, and may not even show at all on shorter hubs.

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    joseph merlinposted 12 years ago

    Lol after reading the first page I am thinking that money is not too much difficult as some are earning 100$ in a day also Huh!
    
    100$ / week is also the amazing amount ....and for me....
    
    In my 8 weeks I hardly reach to my first dollar
    
    I think that money tree is not for us......
    
    But yesterday I write one Hub and that hub was alone better then my 22 Hubs
    
    The traffic I have yesterday in one day is too much then rest of my Hubs.
    
    I am sure one day I will also reach to good amount of money.

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    Xenonlitposted 12 years ago

    One thing that just dawned on me is to mention that articles, once published, may continue to get views for as long as they are there. So an article that made no pennies this month can make dollars over the next few months or even years.
    
    I have one article at another site that has topped the $100 mark. Do not even think of asking how long that took!
    
    So, while I don't expect to make much for about 3 months, I am investing for the long run, when I will have built up my hubs base.
    
    But I am still in awe of those who get tens of thousands of views a month! I've never figured out how to do that.

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       SandraLeeC50posted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Thanks for sharing! This is wonderful insight to this discussion with the principal of patience behind it all. One area I am extremely weak at in all of this is learning how to attrack traffic. I am completely lost in how to link my page with amazon, google, and just how to get traffic period. I am not very intelligent in creating links and so on and guess I should look into getting a book on SEO for Dummies...lol. Thanks again for sharing!

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    wwolfsposted 12 years ago

    I am fairly new to HubPages and not sure if I have everything set up right. Still learning. Looking forward to having or finding some help with how you proceed to make any money here. That too could be a reason why others are having a hard time. I know that writing good hubs would be the first thing to do. Obviously - But I am useless when it comes to figuring out how to set up the earnings programs and have already been disqualified from Google Adsense. I have managed to set up the Amazon ads but not sure if I did that right. However, the ads do show up on my hubs. So until I figure it out I will probably be writing more for pleasure.

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    Journey *posted 12 years ago

    What was once less than $30 per month for me is now around $60 per month. I'll keep on writing hoping that one day there will be a significant increase.  Congrats to all hubbers that are up to earning $100 per week or more!

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    Xenonlitposted 12 years ago

    I'm going to chuck it. I spent a lot of time here and the results are disappointing.

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       JustMikeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Xenonlit
       don't just chuck it as you say keep working on it. Also give some other things a try. i did that for awhile. I got my first payout that way at Webanwers.com
       http://www.webanswers.com/_hubber that is a link with my tracking token so try that out and see what you think but don't give up on hubpages just yet.

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    LindaSmith1posted 12 years ago

    I already know money is not here. I make mine for articles elsewhere and even if I don't post a new article, I earn more for the month than I do here when I do publish hubs. I also do freelance work which is my main source of income.

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       Cagsilposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Just because YOU don't make money here, doesn't money cannot be made here.

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          Xenonlitposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          That's not the point. It's a lot of fun here and it is a great writer's site, but I need to see more progress. I will just not work so much here.

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       IzzyMposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Why are you still here then? One day you are leaving and all your hub get unpublished, then you publish a couple more, then you unpublish them, the publosh more...like, WHO CARES?
       
       Your main source of income is through freelancing? Are your clients word-blind?
       
       Oh well, perhaps English isn't their first language.

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    mistyhorizon2003posted 12 years ago

    Right now at least I am making a lot more than this, but still don't know why I am and others aren't unless it is because I don't write sales hubs, I write informative hubs (what, why, how to, where, etc titled hubs).

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    LindaSmith1posted 12 years ago

    If there was so much money to be made here, then there would  not be as many comments about not  making money here.

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       IzzyMposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Why are you here then? To educate us?

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       Cagsilposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       And, like I said, just because YOU are not making money here, doesn't mean that money cannot be made here.
       
       You continue to post "anti" HubPages post is getting ridiculous to the point it's becoming absurd.

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          brittanytoddposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          True that. 

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    LindaSmith1posted 12 years ago

    Misty: I read something about the 5 W's style. It is a format used by journalists, and Google likes it. In fact, that style is said to be best for sales articles.

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       IzzyMposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       I am asking you again, seeing you are ignoring me. Why are you still here when it obvious you hate being on Hubpages?

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       mistyhorizon2003posted 12 years agoin reply to this

       I think there may well be something in that, at least in terms of attracting vistors. I don't write product reviews or anything like that though, just information articles on day to day stuff. To quote from HP FAQ's on earning potential here:
       
       "There are revenue generating opportunities with HubPages, but we are careful not to over-promise any results.
       
       That said, those who approach Hubbing with diligence, patience, and attention to writing high-quality Hubs on what people are searching for can earn a steady side-income through HubPages. The most important thing to keep in mind is that it takes time to gain the readership that leads to significant earnings."
       
       
       I have to agree with this because it took me well over a year of being on HP to get my first payout, but within two months of that I was getting monthly payouts, and I have never missed a month since. My earnings have grown over time, and now I earn more than I used to from a 20-25 hour per week job in a local vets practice. I can't guarantee it will last, but right now I am very content and grateful for not having to get up each morning and go out to a normal job in an office, shop etc.
       
       Edit: I should add probably over 50% of my hubs are probably not making any money as they are humour or photo hubs. This means my income is coming from about 129 hubs.

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       relacheposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Do you mean whine, whimper, wail, warped and wayward?

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    melbelposted 12 years ago

    I'm having some luck. I'm not going to share any exact amounts, but it's not enough to quit my day job, nor is it so little to unpublish all my hubs and leave.
    
    It obviously works for some people and doesn't for others. It's really style of writing, what you write about, how much you write, etc. I'm seeing some people have great success and others fail. There are reasons why some people fail and some do better. Yes, there is a degree of luck in it given that Google doesn't tell us exactly what to do, but there is also a degree of elbow-grease as well as common sense.
    
    I don't believe that it's really 'if you work hard enough', I really do think it's a skill that some have, some don't. That doesn't mean that if it hasn't panned out thus far, that you should quit. However, it really takes a lot of looking at yourself, looking at your work and saying to yourself, "maybe I need to change my approach."

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    LindaSmith1posted 12 years ago

    'Reviews are okay if done correctly.  I think the concept on the 5 W's style is that, let's say I am searching for flooring.  You write 5 w style and tell me what is available, why one type, maybe one that you are promoting is the best or even one of the best, where I can find it, how to install it such as an easy DIY or best done by professional, etc.  There, you have written a sales article, possibly a product review, yet instead of it being a I want you to buy this, buy this from me, you  have written an informative article rather than sales pitch.

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       mistyhorizon2003posted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Maybe that is true, but I would die of boredom writing about that kind of thing.
       
       My most successful hubs are more on subjects like 'how to reduce severe period pains' or 'How do you tell someone they have a body odour problem?'. Bearing in mind I am using HP Ads and get paid on impressions and not on clicks, I naturally get a lot of views on such topics, therefore I do well income wise as a result.

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          Eranofuposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          You're a great writer too. I'd say that's the most attractive in your hubs.
          (Just spent a good half an hour browsing through.)

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             mistyhorizon2003posted 12 years agoin reply to this

             You sweetheart, thanks for the lovely compliment, and your time spent reading my hubs

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    LindaSmith1posted 12 years ago

    Misty you are also writing in a hot niche! Health articles are biggies!

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    LindaSmith1posted 12 years ago

    Izzy: I just bought a house with my writing income.

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       brittanytoddposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       But not HP income?  Like she said, why are you here then?  I have seen a lot of your posts that seem to depict HP in a negative light.  If you aren't happy or successful here, don't discourage others.  Some of us are doing quite well...

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       IzzyMposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       I bought two houses!

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          brittanytoddposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          That's awesome, Izzy!

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    LindaSmith1posted 12 years ago

    Where I go, what I do with MY ARTICLES THAT BELONG TO ME, IS MY BUSINESS NOT YOURS

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       brittanytoddposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       You put it out there.  I am just offended by your attitude.

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    LindaSmith1posted 12 years ago

    Like I said, I just bought a house with my income.  I dump the trash articles here for awhile, then move them where even the trash makes money for me.

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       Cagsilposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       And that's irrelevant concerning your continued flippant attitude about dissing HubPages.
       
       Having to watch you continue on this horrid pace and diss a company I write for, as well as thousands of others.....it isn't necessary and quite rude.

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          brittanytoddposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          +1

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    LindaSmith1posted 12 years ago

    I post the good stuff where they make money from day one, and continue to make money.

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    LindaSmith1posted 12 years ago

    And I don't have to rely on Adsense, or wait until I hit a minimum.

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       brittanytoddposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Good for you.

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    Wesman Todd Shawposted 12 years ago

    I'm not a hundred bucks per week guy here at Hubpages...or even in total across the internet with all of my blogs, and assorted monetized articles all over the freaking web.
    
    I will be though, and I know it.  My earnings are ever increasing here at Hubpages.com.
    
    I've never made more than $14/day here - and even that was during the pre panda days when any idiot could make money here, and everyone had Adsense ads everywhere.
    
    Guess what?  Panda improved the internet - nowadays just having a million backlinks to a crap article only gets you slapped.
    
    When the HP ad program rolled out...I saw that it was a gamble, but stuck to that for consistent earnings.  I started off making twenty cents or less per day via the HP ad program.  Nowadays I typically make two bucks a day with that program, and it's ever getting closer to three bucks a day - that's a hell of an increase from twenty cents or less.
    
    Of course I spent huge energies towards subjects here that I cared about....and wanted to make money from - but I have to tell you, your political opinions ain't going to make you much of anything - so it's just dumb to write even about global politics and expect some kind of sustained or growing income from that...it's stupid to complain about unmet expectations in that arena. 
    
    Product articles, information articles - that's where money is made here, and it's because the Obama bashing wagon....just ain't a shopping crowd.
    
    Nobody asked me...but what do I care?  Melbel is always a beacon of sanity.
    
    I love Izzy....but am bored with the Linda Smith negativity train.
    
    Better to light a candle than just curse the darkness, or whatever....

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       melbelposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       I feel like it's blasphemy to the large number of people who hate Panda, but I really, really agree. Panda vastly improved search results for me. Some of my hubs just fell and never came back, but you know what? It raised the bar for me as a writer.
       
       
       
       OMG! That is extremely nice of you to say!

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          Wesman Todd Shawposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          Oh mine got the shiznit slapped out of them too....but the good ones all got their traffic back over time.
          
          I'm not certain what the proper terminology is, whether it's "sandboxed," "slapped," or what...but after Ryan Kett did the whole " your RSS Feeds are duplicate content" hub/idea....I removed them all.
          
          Traffic spiked from the changes on the pages...then fell to almost nothing at all from daddy G.  After a month it all came back.
          
          I'm not able to be positive that the RSS Feed capsules had anything to do with it...

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    LindaSmith1posted 12 years ago

    Wah-Wah-Wah

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       ttocsposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       With the amount of time you spend here, I can't help but think that you're a lackey for other writing sites or something....

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    LindaSmith1posted 12 years ago

    Whoopee  I have apartments with mine, so  I have a house, and more income

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       IzzyMposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       I lied.
       
       Compared to you, I bought six houses.
       
       But hey I am in need of sleep, not medication.

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    LindaSmith1posted 12 years ago

    Children, especially those with mental deficits bore me

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       Cagsilposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Must be the reflection that bores you.

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       IzzyMposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       That's where you and me differ then, because I love all children, deficient or otherwise.
       
       You have shown your true colors with this post.
       
       Nobody here has any time for someone who dislikes children, especially handicapped children.

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       brittanytoddposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       While I was flagging your profile, I saw you had a few typos in your profile text.  You might wanna fix those.

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          Cagsilposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          

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    melbelposted 12 years ago

    I bought a mansion with my HP earnings! Anyone care to tour it?
    Pardon my bathroom, by the way. We're in the middle of remodeling so there's not as much privacy as I'd like there to be.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

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       Eranofuposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Win!!
       You get free, naked Ken in a bath!!!!!!!

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    LindaSmith1posted 12 years ago

    Nothing wrong with my profile.

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       IzzyMposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Did someone else write it for you?

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          the clean lifeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          Well You guys are killing me. Fight nice please HubPages is a great place and even though I don't much money here or on my Blog or other sites I write on, I do it to help others and not make a living at it. Helping others is much better than the all mighty buck and those who know me,  know what i write about.
          
          Anyway I hope all of you fine people have a Very Merry Christmas and a Safe and Happy New Years!!!
          
          Mark *(The Clean Life)

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             brittanytoddposted 12 years agoin reply to this

             You too, Mark!

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             IzzyMposted 12 years agoin reply to this

             Nice to see you posting again:)
             
             You have a good one!

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                the clean lifeposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                Same to you also. Enjoy your Holidays. I just love HP, don't you. We are all just family don't you think? it seems like all of us have known each other for years
                

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       brittanytoddposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       "There are those make derogatory remarks about those that are disabled, even after their death, including HP members."  You forgot "that".  That's just one...

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       Cagsilposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Actually Brittany was accurate. You do have some typos in your profile.

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    skyfireposted 12 years ago

    Replacing organic results with PPC ads is an improvement ? Panda update is far from word "improvement". Anyway, I disagree with most of the clueless HP members on this point, so take that as my 2 cents.
    
    

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       IzzyMposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       On a serious note here, some of the articles that now beat mine by a long shot, could have been written by a 5 year old.
       
       Google is broke as far as I am concerned.

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          brittanytoddposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          I agree, but try to be optimistic.  Some of my best ranked hubs are ones about my island that there is little info on.  "Write about what you know," is true I guess.

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          skyfireposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          Randy and You are the one I can think of here who got hit with this update. I'm sure there are many others on HP.
          
          What I find funny is that asking users to reduce the number of ads on a page and then adding more PPC ads on search results page. Do as I say ? lol
          
          Deleting old and less performing pages from website never made sense. I can only think of one direction google is trying to enforce on folks who care about first page result- "Got panda penalty? use adwords".

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       melbelposted 12 years agoin reply to this

       Yes, but in regards to the actual search results that have been coming up, I've been seeing much higher quality websites, articles, newsbites, etc versus before when my search results were riddled with little more than Yahoo Answers, chacha.com posts, sales pages, and very old blog posts, and of course, a large number of made-for-adsense wordpress blogs whose basis of quality was nothing more than meeting a x% keyword concentration.

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          brittanytoddposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          That's the problem.  So many people have figured out the SEO and keyword optimization methods that they get ranked highly in the search engines, but have low quality or no content.

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          IzzyMposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          We all see something different, because we all search for different things.
          
          I can only tell you that if I am doing serious research, I stay away from Google and its crap, and go with duckduckgo.
          
          If I want to just look at the SERPS, I go with scroogle, which is google on steroids.
          
          Seriously Google is screwed up. I am still seeing major sites taking up most of the first page for one keyword.
          
          How is that an improvement?
          
          If they didn't answer my query in the first result, their 5th result going to the same page I already saw in 1, 2 ,3  and 4 is not going to help.
          
          Meanwhile, I have answered the 'exact' query on page 5, which is like never going to see views because it is 4 pages away!

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          skyfireposted 12 years agoin reply to this

          Do you search while logging into any of google service? If yes then your search improvement is not because of panda but due to connections in G+, your search history and other social data.
          
          Most of us who use it without logging into google services still see scraper websites, MFA and other garbage. In fact many scraper websites rank higher than original sites. Want example? See all the scraper threads on HP and there are many others scraping other websites that we're not aware of to date. There was one blogspot blog with all the python posts from my site. That site was ranking high and it was taken down only when I sent DMCA to blogger team. I got my place back in SERPs now.
          
          There are some software hosting sites that are ranking much higher than original software owner. Take case of Cnet, softonic, alternative.to etc. these sites are using softwares name as subdomain and jacking all the google results. I don't see these sites as quality or authority websites. These are leeches and google never penalized them because they're adwords customers.
          
          I can show you tons of examples like this where panda screwed original content only to boost their customers.

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             melbelposted 12 years agoin reply to this

             I am generally logged out when I search, depending on the browser I use. I'm sorry to hear that you're seeing different results than I am. Perhaps it's partly based on differences in the things we search.

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                IzzyMposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                It is the things we search for, of course it is.
                
                But why have Google varied things so widely? Why should x,y and z things you search for, show good results, but a, b and c, don't?

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                skyfireposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                I agree that some of it could be because of keywords, location and other unknown variables. But by long shot, I don't see youtube, google books and G+ recommendation as credible result for #1 position.
                
                There is a big flaw with G+ results which is very annoying atleast for me. For example, my music preference is Trance and folks in my Circles prefer classical or jazz then any search made for the song name will give preference to what my circle likes or shares, which is not the type of results I expect.
                
                Take case of Authorship flaw with new google+ guidelines. If they want real picture for the authorship, there are many scrapers who can use pic of dead celeb or model from another country. There is no way google can verify if this particular model has no internet presence (which is possible for many struggling models). Using that picture even scrappers will start competing with other genuine authors. So if anyone thinks using G+ authorship will weed out spam then that's joke. Panda with all these suggestion itself is a big joke.
                
                Google is aware of all this and only solution they can offer to genuine biz and authors in this chaos is PPC result in SERPs. Profitable eh ? Anyway, time to fly away

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                   lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                   Obviously google is just after $$$$$$'s and nothing else. Why do you think they're even flooding the search results with ads now!

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                      bloggernotjoggerposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                      As I am new here, I´m wondering if, eventually, the amount of writers necessary will reach a saturation point.

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                         lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                         I didn't get your point. What do you mean reach a saturation point. Saturation point where

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                            bloggernotjoggerposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                            Is it possible that in a few years with so many new content writers, the number of opportunities will decrease?

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                               lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                               Opportunities will never decrease as there is more and more that can be written, there's so much info in the world that it won't fit anywhere so there's no end.

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                                  bloggernotjoggerposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                  

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                               relacheposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                               As HubPages has grown over the last five years, the site has changed and so has the Internet.  Things have gotten more competitive, so while opportunities have increased somewhat, it takes smarter effort to be successful.

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                                  bloggernotjoggerposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                  I thought as much. I think it would be wise to get on board the gravy train as much and as soon as possible.

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                                  Wesman Todd Shawposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                  Totally agree.  Thus the importance of writing about what you truly know about - and NOT chasing keywords for dollars.

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                                  Eranofuposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                  Celebrities change with time. Also technological advances are getting more complex. It's not prehistoric era when a wheel was something incredibly amazing that people would write their stone hubs about wheel for thousands of years.

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                                     Eranofuposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                     I apologize for my spelling mistakes.

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                               Wesman Todd Shawposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                               No.  The best content will still be the best content, and will always rise to the top - it's not opportunity, it's competition.

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                               David 470posted 12 years agoin reply to this

                               I was thinking the same thing. If everyone writes on this site - there will be more competition. I am just glad many people can't handle writing 500-1000 word articles every day LOL!! Well, it was like that at my school at least. Most people are not patient enough - I am.
                               
                               90% of the people at my High School HATED writing 250 words...Even people at College hated writing - not everyone, though.

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                                  lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                  Hey David - there are many hubbers signed up and the total hubs for each of us on average is just about 5 - so many have given up and the rest are here just for a backlink

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                                     David 470posted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                     Recent joiners or the site as a whole?

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                                        lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                        As a whole wait a minute I'll get you the stats

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                                        lobobrandonposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                                        Here: From the about us page -
                                        As of December 21st, 2011, there are
                                        
                                            1,218,645 Published Hubs
                                            231,616 Published Users
                                            116,944 Questions
                                            385,813 Answers
                                            1,897,243 Forum Posts
                                            and 24 Staff Members
                                        
                                        That makes it about 5.26 hubs each and with some of them having 1k, 2k and plenty in the 100's guess how many have just 1 or none!.  I'm planning a 60 hubs in 20 days challenge in Jan but I learnt from some experienced hubbers not to do that many as the big G may take it as spam and sandbox me. But, I'll write and publish them one at a time over a month and a half instead.

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    alphagirlposted 12 years ago

    That would be dream.

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    erniesliterposted 12 years ago

    I make around $300 a month from all my article writing sites, but haven't made much money yet on Hubpages.

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    tuilaiposted 12 years ago

    it is ver cool. i like it.

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