How can a viable online business model be built and maintained when we have google messing with things every other day. The short answer is, you can't. Nobody in their right mind would create a source of primary income with google dancing all over you. They change and tweak and alter the rules hundreds of times a year with their search algorithms. They favor a crap site like ehow and slap hubpages.
My advice, treat it as a bonus side income that may only be short lived. Never expect to live off this gig cause it just isn't meant to last.
This is the future. There is no way this can be shut down, this should really be a full time job for many people. There would be a lot more useful content out there, especially if we got paid more.
Its about diversity.
Google search traffic is the cheapest and easiest traffic but if you are 100% reliant on it then you are at the mercy of another entity for your bread .. that is bad.
There are other search engines, there is Adwords, Overture and the like, there is social marketing, email marketing , there is the benefit of having a truly awesome authoritative site that people will refer for you.
etc.
etc.
SO you are right and you are wrong - the online business model does not have to be reliant on google search but if yours is then you better have contingency plans!
by Don Bobbitt 8 years ago
I've been an active user of HP for over 6 years. Over that time, my income would increase until, suddenly, my "reads" would take a hit and my (modest) income would take a drop.This has happened a number of times, as you all know.And, I dutifully went through my articles and modified,...
by Elisabeth Meier 3 years ago
Hi fellow writers,Yesterday I recognized that the homepage of HubPages has a new design and in the mid of this I discovered a fellow writer with the most earnings here at HubPages. He's a member since 7 years, has published 55 articles which have been read over 1,000,000 times and he makes over $...
by Mark Knowles 16 years ago
I am moving this question over here to ask for help from the hubpages team.2 of my hubs and some of hovalis' hubs seem to have had a penalty applied by google and have disappeared from the search rankings down to the last page. The conclusion we have come to is that they have been flagged for...
by sunforged 13 years ago
With all the hub-bub about traffic drops across the hub domain and the uncertainty about how that may effect hub publishers in the future, How are you reacting?Did you have an exit plan?Personally, whenever I wrote here with a hubber/writer audience in mind, Ive always harped on the importance...
by Susannah Birch 11 years ago
Just kidding!I'm seeing dozens of threads from people stressing about losing traffic. Asking if this is the end of Hubpages. Asking if it's pointless writing here anymore. Asking if there is even a point to writing online.I saw my traffic drop by more than 50% in 2011 - when the original Panda...
by blondepoet 15 years ago
Yes I was wondering if anyone could tell me how long normally til you see any signs of any earnings at all,or how many hubs do you have to write to start any type of earnings lol
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