100 in 30 Days: Can You Make Money Writing at Hub Pages?
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The Challenge: Write 100 Hubs in 30 Days
I have to admit that when I first saw this challenge I thought, what are these guys smoking?
No way am I going to write 100 hubs in 30 days for pennies a hub when I can be making $10 to $30 writing articles for other people over at Elance and get some real money up front.
Elance can be frustrating though.In fact, writing for the internet can be frustrating.
By almost unanimous hubber vote (taken in an informal poll of other hub freelancers), $10 to $30 for an article is pretty pathetic in the bigger scheme of things, especially when 9 times out of 10 in order to get that kind of work you have to sign away all rights. Contrast that with magazine publications, which usually only buy FIRST rights and pay 5 to 10 times more per article.
Lots of us here at Hub Pages take on spec work from the freelance boards, but like anything you do over and over again for someone else, eventually freelancing turns into just another job.
On the up side, when you freelance you learn a lot of things about a lot of things because you're always researching this and that. You get to work at home, in your jammies if you want to, or if you have a lap top you can go get caffeinated at your favorite coffee place while you work. Maybe best of all, you don't have to write anything for anybody. If a client turns into a megamonster pain in the rear, you can fire that client (but in a nice way--say you have to wash your hair or something) and you still will have money coming in from other clients.
On the downside, for most jobs you have to sign away all your rights. All of them. Most of the time, I don't want the rights to the stuff I produce for others anyway. What am I going to do with 43 silk wedding flower descriptions? But sometimes I write something that I know is really good, and I get my $10, and I think, ugh. That was stupid, Pam. Why did you sell that for $10? That was half way decent. Now you can't use it ever again unless you totally rewrite it.
This is the way my mind works.
When that happens, I get out my 'I'm-a-lowly-freelancer' stick and start beating myself over the head with it.
- You should be writing for print media! (Yeah, they're doing great right now, aren't they?)
- You should be putting up your own web sites with your own original content! (Yeah, it only took me 6 months to load Word Press to my personal web site because I had the wrong server set up or some such crap and I'm so web-illiterate that even with six really smart people trying to help me it still took 6 months and I haven't even tried to load my resume yet...because first I have to write one...I'm busy! Writing about silk flowers... for other people...)
- You should DEMAND MORE MONEY! (Yes that always goes well when soliciting other people's business. Start off by beligerantly demanding things...I find that people appreciate that kind of assertiveness, especially over at Elance, where third world copy writers will happily pump out 1000 words for a dollar all day long, day after day after day.)
- You should be doing creative work! Write a book! Write some fiction! Write poetry again! (Yeah, I think the electric company would totally accept copies of my latest art publications in lieu of filthy lucre. Money: Ick! Bleechk! Ack feh! On the other hand, soon, very soon, copies of Maize: An Indiana Journal of the Arts may well be worth more than the U.S. dollar...)
But Can You Really Make Money at Hub Pages?
So OK, maybe 100 hubs in 30 days is worth a try. I'm taking a second look at this challenge.
Hub Pages has a lot going for it that other blogging sites don't. First off, the community here is fabulous. I've met great people here and lots of other writers too. The staff is helpful and funny and available: They're nice, you guys. They really are. Here's a good perk: You get to keep the rights to your own material; all they ask is that you not duplicate it elsewhere on the web.
Last but not least,
you have the option of generating your own Google ad revenue or Amazon
sales or Kontera revenue here at Hub Pages, instead of the measly
finite crumbs they throw you at certain other not-to-be-named writing
sites. Amazon and Kontera have been a total bust for me, but Google has
been kind of interesting.
With Hub Pages alone, it took me 10 months to hit my first Google Adsense payout. During that ten months I pretty much assumed I'd never get a Google payout and I didn't mind if I never got one, so when I did get one, it felt like Christmas. It only took me five months to hit my second Adsense payout. The third one I hit in just over a month. So I do see progress there.
Oh yeah, and money. Progress and money.
So far I've never considered Hub Pages a money making enterprise. Instead, Hub Pages is where I come to have fun and write what I want instead of what other people want. So I never worry about keywords, longtail keywords, content choices, tags, links, or anything related to boosting my ad revenue, because 1) I don't want to, and 2) what ad revenue?
I like to just have fun here.
But what if I did do all those things? What if I put the same energy into writing Hubs for ad revenue for me that I put into writing content for other people (for ad revenue for them)?
I have to admit, the prospect of 'passive income' (a misnomer if ever there was one!) is pretty sweet. It's kind of like cold fusion though. I'm always so close...and yet so far. Meanwhile, if I speak of it, friends and family look at me like I've lost my mind.
So yes, I'm in. We'll see what happens.
The worst that can happen is, nothing.
Chances are it will at least be fun. My goal, such as it is, is to push myself into monthly Google payout territory.Towards that end I will be writing hubs with lots of 'how to' and 'what is' tags and I will try to select topics I actually care about but that might be of interest to other people searching for info as well, just like I do when I'm looking for Elance work.
It should be interesting.
Wish me luck!
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Thanks Cindy!
And on day 31 you'll let us know if you've burned out your computer or your brain, right? Seriously, best wishes on the challenge!
Ann, my brain hurts already...
(Not a good sign!)
Well, gotta go... time's a-wastin'! lol!
OK this is like totally and utterly weird. I was just over at Mark's hub and he is like don't write too well or they won't click the ads and now you, the funniest, most talented writer I've met here, is talking about writing COMMERICIAL HUBS!!!! All I can say is that I am really, really pleased that I didn't have alchoholic beverage in my hand at the time beause it would have been wasted on the laptop.
Passive income is my middle name - or at least my anchored keyword signature on blogs quite often - some of my blog readers think its a joke - they may be right - but slowly the income is coming, I am now earning more money from affiliates and adsense than from freelance writing -which suits me just fine cause writing is like - well work- while finding keywords and building website is like a game, with a payout (maybe, someday!).
I'm doing the 100in30 challenge annon for reasons I explain on http://lissowerbutts.com but I am going to blog about progress as my little experiment evolves - maybe you could blow off the dust on your blog and do the same - at least you can backlink to your hubs - I can't otherwise I wouldn't be anon anymore LOL
PS you forgot to add the hubchallenge tag to your hub - its a good idea because you will be in a trending RSS feed which Ryan is promoting - if that didn't make sense - just add the hubchallenge tag to your all your challenge hubs...
You go, grundygirl!
Hi Lissie & Teresa, Thanks for the encouragement!
Lissie--What a nice thing to say. You know, I'd bet on Mark though. I think he's right--I think writing well is not really, I don't know---lucrative--but I thought, oh hell, I'll give it a shot. When I first started writing online I wasn't all that focused on the money and honestly I'm still not---I'm really not web-savvy enough, and I doubt I ever will be. I like the writing part, not the web part. But like you say here, I thought it would be fun experiment, so we'll see. Thanks for the idea about my sad little blog. That's a great suggestion. Good luck back at ya!
I love your writing style and I have no doubt that when you hit the 100 hubs in 30 days you will reach your target of a monthly Google payout. Good luck and I look forward to hearing of your results
Good luck Pam. I must admit I wouldn't even consider it, but you're a much faster writer than me, so you might make it.
okay grundygirl sounds worthy of a try!
Hope you have success, Pam.
I do believe you can do it p.
Thanks you guys!
I believe it might be a symptom of insanity though.
I guess I'll find out. :)
Good luck on it, Pam! I think it'll be interesting to see what happens. I've had actual payouts only at one online place: eHow.com still gives me a steady trickle that goes right into art supplies and electronics and other overhead.
I'm doing my own website using SBI! from http://www.sitesell.com, which took a $299 investment last October and I didn't get the first page up till mid December -- but once I got past the parts that were hard for me, it became easy to add more and more pages and at 75 pages I'm now actually on my way to my first Adsense payout and Commission Junction payout for Blick and Jerry's Artarama ads.
Because I have that and it isn't finished -- I want it to have about 200+ pages in all its categories to be complete -- maybe 220 or so -- I don't want to do 100 pages in 30 days here yet.
Yet.
But I may try for it later on after the move and once I finish my website. I also set a goal earlier this year to edit my fantasy novel, "Curse of Vaumuru" starting June 1st and finish it before August 1st. Two months, one novel to edit, should be possible if I really work on it, then send that out.
Meanwhile I didn't know when I set the goal that I'd be moving to another state on June 1st.
So that makes the editing challenge a bit tougher. But if you do well I may try it here as soon as I've finished building my site. With Adsense on both it can only increase what the Adsense is doing. Also I could actually start bothering to do keywording stuff with Hubs and do more how-to hubs that'll get hits on topic.
But for now I think I'll keep Hubpages as a bloggy hangout like my Livejournal and just enjoy it -- and see what happens for you, if your Adsense income gets solid I may well want to do that.
After all, 200 pages of oil pastels is a finite task and so would be "rack up 100 good Hubs in a month." I have about 100 articles at eHow and that's why their trickle is decent.
Also, for the record -- you are not insane. It's not that impossible. It takes focus and dedication. It does take starting three new topics and it's a different kind of challenge than "write a novel in a week" but I know that good writing can flow that well and I know that when I was doing eHows to build that stash, I sometimes did several in one day.
That is what it takes -- it'll take averaging three a day. Whether you steadily do three a day and one extra sometime during the month or pick a random Wednesday to write like a maniac and knock out twelve so you've got coasting room, that's up to you. The goal is eminently doable and I'm going to enjoy reading the results!
I really like abouth the way you think and must say u come across to me who is honest and claear as what she wants to do.All the very best for the challenge though I can never imagine writing 100 hubs in a month. Iam too lazy for that
Good luck! :-)
I started following you when reading your hubpage about job interviews, and rooting you on this 100%. Love your writing style and know for sure you got what it takes. Hope to see my email inbox flooded with your hubs.
God bless
Edgar
robert--Hearing about your web site experience is encouraging. I'm just trying to make good decisions about where I put my energy, and it's hard sometimes. At first I thought, oh, clearly the spec work is best but now I"m not so sure. Lissie has me reconsidering that, plus, I do see the pay going down there with all the people recently out of work now competing for the same work. I'm already feeling a little regretful that I started this (pressure!!!) but now that I have, I will finish, just to see what happens. Thanks as always for you thoughtful comments and good luck!
jay--Thank you! I'm lazy too. Which is one of the reasons I decided to bite. You know, push myself a bit. lol!
Thanks Nancy's Niche!
Eggie1-- Thank you, I appreciate that! I suspect it might end up being like a diet though. First day goes great. Next day less so. A week into it, eat a pan of brownies. We shall see!
If you write them, I will read them.
Hi! I, too, wish you success and want to know what happens. I have 23 hubs so far, (And I thought it would take a lot longer to get to even that number!) and will certainly write more. While I have not yet gotten a "payout", I do know that I've earned some (very little) money so far and, writing on Hub Pages is easy to do. I've never actually tried other writing sites, but in looking at them, they just seem less user friendly than Hub Pages.
Good luck!
Thanks cobraski and myway720! I like HubPages the best out of the writing sites I've tried. I do think Associated Content pays a bit better, but it's more fun here.
The problem with Elance and other sites is the money is a one time fee and usually a low one at that. At least with Hubpages you can continually make money off of your hubs.
Hi Ashley Joy--I agree. Elance would be more palatable if you could sell first rights or some such thing--give the buyer the right to first use, but let the author retain the right to use the material at a later date. The low pay just makes it all the more frustrating, because you've sold all rights for a one time payment that won't keep you in milk for the week. That's why I keep writing here, why I set up (but am neglecting) my own website, and why I still look for other opportunities to write for pay. I'm grateful for the job boards for now though. I see it as a bridge to something more sustainable and rewarding. Thanks for your comment.
Good luck with the challenge Pam. It took me a few months to get my first google hit, let alone a payout. lol. I do however make the payout month after month with hubpages and my own site.
Amazon worked for me as well, but took close to 4 months to finally get a bite! The bites still come in though so Im happy. : )
I only made $1.00 on Ebay thus far. lol.
Hi MellasViews--Yes I hope I can get to a monthly payout--if I get my site more in shape maybe that will help. I'm pretty close now though. Good luck to you too!
Good Luck to you, I was too chicken, spend my time reading all of 'your' hubs, Inbox totally flooded, love it.
Good luck Pam - I'm not going for it, because I just don't have time. But you know, I've been thinking. A modest income from adsense would go pretty far if I chucked in the Middle East and moved to Thailand (well away from the cities) instead of back to UK.
Hi Hawkesdream--Already I'm semi-regretting the committment myself. I'm going to finish though. I said I would, and I will. But then, I think I'll take some time off and just read!
Paraglider--Is living in Thailand a pleasant prospect? I don't know much about it except it sounds muggy and wet. I live in a part of the U.S. that is relatively cheap so far as cost of living goes, but nowhere near as cheap some foreign countries.
You sound like Lissie. She says stuff like that all the time. :)
I'm looking at it as a learning experience, and hopefully a way to get up to a monthly Google payout. If I learn some stuff and hit a paycheck a month, I'll consider the experiment a success.
Pam best of luck with your challenge goal, I know you can do it.
;-)
Lots of ex-pat contractors end up in Thailand, Philipines, Malaysia. No-one retires to the Gulf States. But no, realistically, I'll wind up in UK, after maybe about an other 4 years on the road. Probably...
Go Pam. You can write my share!
Thanks ag & Jewels!
Paraglider--I'll be happy if I just get to retire, period. Our game plan is to pay off the house, and I'm working on making my writing business more dependable, so that way, even if social security tanks and we don't have that we'll still have a place to live and enough. Enough is all anyone really needs. I do have a small pension coming from my insurance work, but who knows if they will actually pay it out? Corporations are doing such horrible things now with pensions--you can't count on anything anymore
Pam - I think you're poised to make a breakthrough with your writing. And I don't mean the Hub Challenge!
Thanks Paraglider! I hope you're right. I sure enjoy it. :)
thanks for your opinion about this challenge. But imposible for me to make 100 article with fresh original content. because I don;t have much time to think about 100 new topic.
Great post and great writing style. I really enjoyed your post and plan to continue. Good luck with the hub challenge.
I'm pretty new to this hubsphere. It's only today that I created 4 hubs in a span of 12 hours then I realized there was this 100 hubs in 30 days.
I'm not sure if I'm up to the challenge but you sorta inspire me to take the plunge. I'm not too sure yet but I kind like it here so far.
You know what? This is the first comment I make. So thanks for everything and surely I wish you luck.
I'm off to explore what's inside....
Yan
Good luck back at ya, Yan and Info Help!
Thanks for your comments too. :)
i like the part about being able to do it in your pajamas....
i do receive so regular google checks but they are about 5% of what my living expenses are and mostly they come from other blogs than hubs....
I can think of two things people in pajamas do....one is be ready to catch some zzzzzz...the other is they are ready to talk to a shrink.
I have two fantasies....one is to make money from my hubs and the other is to make money from my forex trading.
Both keep me tied down to my pc in my pajamas....waiting for something or someone...
Good one pgrundy
Hi lbtrader,
Yeah, I do kinda think the internet is all about the ILLUSION of money. I mean, you always hear about people making money at that this stuff, but I personally do not know any people making enough money to survive doing it.
It's a great fantasy though. And there's that pajamas perk!
Thanks for your comment. :)
Pgrundy, you write with so much fun. I can't believe that you are on Hubpages to pitter and patter between serious writing for elance. I plan to move up to Helium but I take Hubpages seriously with keyword search included. It is amazing how certain people approach certain websites. I write for Triond.com the way you write for Hubpages. Anyway, I am glad that you decided to join the 100 hubs in 30 days. Good Luck.
Pam, good luck with this. I know I could never hope to do 100 in a month, and even 30 would be many more than I could manage, but I know that if anyone can do it, you can!
Good luck Pam on your 100 in 30 challenge - re your comment"Meanwhile, if I speak of it, friends and family look at me like I've lost my mind" I get that too! - some people just don't seem to understand do they?. I have never tried elance as I don't think they pay non US writers - or so I have heard but I do like your suggestion of spec boards - am going to check out your link...
re."where third world copy writers will happily pump out 1000 words for a dollar all day long, day after day after day." I checked out a site from India the other day where you can re-write articles for a set client base. Well - it was the hardest dollar I ever earned even with the one cent incentive!...I don't know how many re-writers they have but there are certainly many, many articles to be re-written (I think that they must have bought lots of those plr articles for their bank of words) - i am putting it down to experience!...
cheers and hope you do well..
Thank you Linda, that was very nice of you to say. I try to have fun. I've been a bit driven lately. Need a break I think. :)
Amanda--thanks for the encouragement! I'm already semi-regretting it. It's a lot.
ajcor--I'm to the point where I'd apply for a 'real' job if there was one to apply for, but there isn't, so I'm still at it. I do OK at Elance, but it definitely is getting more competitive. That's why I thought I'd try to beef this up, and next I'm going to have to work on my web site. I think if I broke it down hourly, the amount of time I spend writing, it would work out to about 20 cents an hour...
Good luck Pam - I am trying to do the challenge as well - started off great but today has been a slow day.
Am new to hubpages but you are right - everyone has been lovely so far.
All the best
Rach
Good luck, Rach--you can do it! And, Welcome to HP!
"I think if I broke it down hourly, the amount of time I spend writing, it would work out to about 20 cents an hour..." this makes my dollar for 2 hours work not look so bad then...eh Pam....oops forgot the 1 cent incentive...
I am sure you will come up with 100 wonderful articles. I also hope you will not lag too far behind in your personal milestones(having the book ready). :-)
ajcor, see? You're doing way better than you even realized! lol!
CW--Oops! I thought you had forgotten! I guess I better get busy!
No no don't be so busy. I am sure better quality comes from relaxed mind/body. :D
Pam, I am wishing you a ton of luck! You're one of my favorite hubbers here. I expressed a lot of the same sentiments you did on my hubbers vs. blogging hub. I spend more time on my own blogs these days, but am giving HP another serious try - at least for 30 days?
Hi Stephanie--I have to check that out, thanks! It's on my mind a lot these days, I want to hear what you have to say about it. It's so hard. There are a limited number of hours in the day, a limited amount of energy, and I want to use it well. Sometimes I'm not so sure I am. Good luck to you too!
Pam Good Luck I know that just putting out one a week on hubmobs is a challenge for me. But I will be reading and commenting as far as I can.
Thanks sixty or so!
Hello Pam; I will be looking forward to monitoring your progress. I just wrote my 1st hub yesterday and I certainly dont know about 100 in 30 days, but certainly possible if one was ambitious. I have a hunch you will surpass it. the lure of passive income has lead me by the nose for a couple of years now and it gets so discouraging trying to sort the 99.99% BS out of your search results! I just learned about hubpages yesterday and I being in fantasy much of the time think i might be able to actually write. good luck and keep us all posted:} JQ
Two or three days of watching you do it and I did start the challenge -- when I got the news from Kitten that I'm not going to be as rushed on the packing. I need to prioritize for "what goes in storage vs. what I need to have around me for the next three months or so" and that's a lot easier -- and less stressful.
So I jumped in, on the off chance that it'll jump start my interest in writing for Empty Easel, which I've slacked on but shouldn't, and on my site, which is thriving and getting great traffic, and either get more adsense or more site traffic or both out of doing this.
I decided that riding the wave while it's going on would be more fun and also get me more potential traffic, though I may have forgotten the hubchallenge tag on one or two of my first three.
I never would've found it but for you though. Don't regret doing it because once these things are up -- they're up, they'll always be up, these things are cumulative. Ehow was cumulative and has held steady since I did the first heavy spurts. Hubs are easier to write than eHows.
As for print media, I want to do that too but more focused on getting a couple of the SFF digests and submitting stories to get my SFWA card to help my novel submissions.
One of the things that convinced me this was a good idea is that I'm pretty sure my 122nd Hub will read better than my first challenge one -- this is like a sketchbook for practice. These challenges polish skill when they come along, and speed and prolificity.
Good luck, don't think I can do it. .20$ an hour? ouch. Cool idea to get more people intersted in HP though.
Cool! You can do it and good luck.
Pam,
I loved your writing style and I´m sure you´ll get 100 done (I´m aiming for 30). Having a theme has helped me. I choose a theme I like and try to write three or four Hubs related to the theme. For example insted of writing about "Italian Food"...I break it down: pastas (you can break it into: pestos, tomato based, etc), salads... If I do a bit of work beforehand it really pays off. For choosing tags try using the "Google Keyword Suggestion Tool". https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExter Good luck!
Thanks everyone!
Robert--good luck! I hope it goes well for you. :)
Isela--thank you for the keyword link! Good luck to you as well.
Good Luck, you are a real inspiration.
I learned alot from this hub - I am not a professional writer - I like to have fun when I have time. Good luck on your 100 hub challenge
okay...look at it this way: if you can rank pages in the search engines, than you will have hundreds of visitors and tons of people clicking ads...you throw enough stuff agianst the wall and some if it is bound to stick!!!
Hi, I've read your blog and i like the way you express yourself. Yeah, getting the right keywords for boosting traffic is good. it makes sense to me but of course all i want is to have fun like everyone here in hubpages does. Have a great day pgrundy. : )
Thanks Jim! Same back at ya!
Without a doubt someone with your talent and abilities, will lick this challenge. I also agree with you that it is just fun to write about whatever and to read the other hubs. I am new here myself but am enjoying it so far
100 hubs in 30 days, who do you think you are stephen king lol.
You gotta love writing to be able to do that GL
Another great hub, I think you should group this one with your "Do You Want to Write Spam, or Do You Want to Write?" article. I am amazed at how many great hubs you still come up with even though you're putting out 3 or 4 a day. You are an inspiration - to all of us I suspect.
Thanks for the kind words Alexander! I try. :)
scottyy11--I wish I WAS Stephen King. That guy is so rich. (I am so not!) lol!
love the post!
Pam, I am so new at HubPages I squeak!! But I thoroughly enjoyed your Hub...there is so much I have to learn and you make it sound like fun and adventure and ice cream all rolled into one :)
I love the challenge! I commend you for trying it. I've been on HP almost a year, but I havn't written anything. You've inspired me! I'm going to try to write 100 topics to write about in 30 days... not overly ambitious, but you gotta start somewhere! Good Luck!!
Oh glad to have read this. Hope I could get my first adsense payout in that time too. I also used to ghostwrite for a few clients at GAF, and my first ever elance client simply disappeared after I delivered his project. Right now though I have a steady client who pays me decently, and the topic falls under my interesst and expertise. I can surely relate to everything you said about ghostwriting.
Great hub. Hope you could take time to visit mine too. I'd surely appreciate it, thanks.
Good luck with this! My mom was telling me about this and I'm try it too!
Good luck with this. I think I'll give it a shot as well. No promises, however.
I like the way you're thinking - and writing! Good luck with the challenge. I was in, then out, then in, then out again - depends on the way the keyboard is running... , how the wind is blowing..., what colour socks I'm wearing..., whether the kids are grouching... excuses excuses. Hey what the heck, maybe I'm back in again. Enjoying your hubs.
Great ideas! Inspiring determination! Good Luck!
You are an inspiration Pam. Go get em superpam!
Good Luck Pam, I had a website too but I prefer Hubs because of the people as well plus I am actually making a small bit of money.
Great effort. I m struggling publish 2-3 articles a week. Best of Luck.
Pam, you expressed it all so well! I started at HP for fun, and then it took off. Now, hubbing brings me such a modest amount of cash, but its still mine! I've done a very small amount of freelancing, but its not as fulfilling as my own topics on my own terms. Best, Steph
Hi Stephanie--I like hubbing best too. I have some nice freelance clients, but I'm s-l-o-w-l-y working towards doing my own thing more and more. It's so rewarding. I do love HP. Good luck!
Fairly new here and so find all these sorts of hubs really helpful. Thanks
This is a really great hubpage! I really need to get on the ball with writing hubs than, I'm like $95 or so away from getting my first google payout and about the same for Kontera! Yeah I know I have a long way to go, but in the end it will be worth it! Then eventually I'll be able to get a monthly check from both of them too!
Hey, it took me two years to get my first Google Adsense payout. The check came in the mail today as a matter of fact! I know the reasons why and most of my earnings probably came from several of the months. I'll check my stats. You're exactly write about writing how to material.
Congratulations Don! I think I am about up to a monthly check right now. If I'm not, I'm close. It's nice to get money from the Google! Thanks for stopping by. :)
Nice hub, and good writing. Good luck with the challenge. I wouldn't have it in me to do 100 hubs in 30 days. I'm not even up to one hub in one month, yet. Hopefully I will be soon. ;)
I was really surprised as to which hub people seemed to flock to. My first product review. I going to keep writing hubs on my main interest, but will expand out on other hubs. I just wish I had more time to do every thing I want to.
Good luck with your monthly goal on Google adsense payout. I have yet to reach my first one. I'm hoping to do so by the end of this year.
Thanks Bible Studies! Good luck to you too here at Hub Pages. :)
Hi,
When I first joined Hubpages I joined to see if I could earn extra money online. That was my goal. Now, after being a member of Hubpages I enjoy writing online. I am always thinking of new topics to write about which I am interested in and which I can share with people my experiences. Excellent hub you have here.
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Very well said (or written), Pam! In the short time I am here I immensely enjoyed interacting with other hubbers, that I spend more time now looking at and reading the forums than actually looking for (lowly :)) freelance work. But hey, its fun!
I will try to do this.
Hi Pam - I write articles plus I have articles written for me that I only pay form $11 to $30 for. My question is how much would you charge me to write an article about this?
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And ... when you write about something don't you yourself think you should also do the actual program you are writing about?
so is there no point in me attempting to make a little money on here??
pam, I came back and read this again...i'm still squeaking you know but its funny/I agree...I have hopped around a bit...ehow,xomba but hubpages not only pays a few pennies but teaches...and the group/you guys/ are so supporive its way worth it...I do want my own website though...but I am a fraidy cat...thatll have to wait
I agree with you- Hubpages is lots of fun, the money should be a bonus.
Well, five months here now and whilst not rich yet I have seen some respectable earnings from my efforts here at HP. I couldn't keep up with the latest challenge but do try to publish something, anything, as often as possible. Last month I got very lucky and (mainly through eBay) managed to bring in $196 just at HP. Not bad from time I would have otherwise spent sat in front of the idiot box.
I hope you're seeing good results also, great hub. =)
Did you succeed?
You are just the greatest hubber!!!!! hands down or up or...
I think from what I have seen this is your niche (unless you have a golden egg book hidden in some drawer, you better get it out if you do.) I am supposed to be working, and here I am drawn back to your hubsite. Bust a gut funny was that part "writing about...silk flowers...for other people"
mizink--Thank you~ What a nice thing to say. I'm so glad you got a laugh out of some of these. That makes me feel great, thanks. :)
Great hub! This has been my most favorite hub to read:)
I agreed with everything that you said about how you feel about writing on the net, etc. Very well-written and great sarcastic humor, too.
I've done around 25 articles for ehow (but only recently signed up for the Writer's Compensation Program because I couldn't get a Pay Pal account yet).
I've just started on Hub Pages, with one article published and one in the edit stage.
I have one article on Squidoo, which has made zero money because after 6 months Google finally added it to their search engine. You have to submit each article to search engines yourself, as Squidoo doesn't do it for you; therefore, it takes months to get one article onto a search engine!
I'm also signed up with Elance, but I find Elance very frustrating. I'm being very picky on what job I bid on. I keep waiting to find a job that will be right up my alley with a long-term client. I think I deserve decent pay, a reasonable timeline, and work that interests me and fits in with my interests, and I'm sticking to that!! I'm not as desperate for money as some writers are, so I can afford to wait for the right opportunity to come along. Some people toss out their high standards and take jobs they don't want, that don't pay well, that have impossible deadlines, just because they're so desperate for work. I hope I never get in such a position!
Ehow has lots of technical problems lately, but is making some good changes recently, too. Now they won't publish any article unless it meets their standards and guidelines. I think my income will build up with ehow over the long haul; that is, if they don't totally crash due to their technical problems.
I like Hub Pages the best for many reasons, but I wonder what the money-making potential is. I like the looks of the articles and how you can resize photos; I like the fact that you can sign up with Google Adsense directly yourself and that they send you a check in the mail (instead of Pay Pal). Hub Pages doesn't seem to have any big technical problems, either. I figured if HP gives you several ways to make money (Google, Amazon, Ebay, and that other one I can't remember the name of), that you'd make more money than if you were using just Google Adsense. However, I'm not so sure about that now after reading people's comments on here. Still, I will stick with HP, as it seems like a nice place to be, with lots of nice people and beautiful-looking hub pages.
I feel that writing these articles on the web about subjects I know about is my favorite niche, but I am trying to figure out how to make enough money at it to at least have a steady passive income to supplement my current income as a live-in caregiver.
About the HP challenge....no way, I can't and won't do it, as I hate being pressured to write lots of articles real fast. That's why I'm not accepting Elance jobs so far, which have impossible deadlines for very low pay, usually. I've had to push myself to write just two articles a week for ehow and HP.
Still, I suspect that my bigger money will come through Elance, mostly, with HP and ehow being the little bit of side income. I believe I will eventually find a good Elance job, although it's like searching for a needle in a haystack.
My ultimate goal, though, is to write books that become very popular and be able to make a living at it.
If you want to try the HP challenge, go to it, and I wish you luck! Don't let me discourage you! I'm just not cut out for it, myself.
You have a wonderful sense of humor, a great writing style, and the wisdom to see through all of this gunk we writers are dealing with on the web. I sure do hope that we aren't all just delusional dreaming of making a decent passive income with web articles. I hope it's all going somewhere.
Yeah, it's fun, and I'd probably be doing it even if I wasn't making any money at it; but really, we all should be making a decent amount of money in a reasonable amount of time without a lot of time pressure. Anyone who is achieving this, I'd like to know how they're doing it!!
I don't try to write for print magazines because I don't like any of the magazines on the market and because there's too much competition and too much frustration waiting to see if your article has been accepted. Also, they all tend to want their writers to have certain types of credentials and backgrounds. Me, I just have an editor/proofreader background; but I don't have any fame, nor do I have any psychology degrees for the self-help articles I write about. The web doesn't require this of me, and I can write about alternative health remedies without having to have some sort of degree in that, either.
Eventually, for me, writing books seems the best way to go overall, as I get to write about what's important to me that I think others will benefit from; plus, there's a potential to make big money at it if people love my books.
The web articles are just small income, portfolio-building, and fun. Still, I'm wondering if, after say, two years, that all of this work on the web articles could bring me a good passive income, at least as a sideline to other work. The income from this can gradually build up over time.
I'm very new to Hub Pages (started a week ago.) That's why I'm going to begin by reading lots of articles such as this one to see if I can find the secrets to making money with articles on the web, and on Hub Pages. I will also check out the HP forums. But right now I'm working on my second article for HP, part of a group of articles I'm starting on career issues.
I thought that I could make more money on HP than on ehow, but from what hubbers are saying, it sounds like it isn't that easy to do unless you write tons of articles and work like a madwoman 24/7 on it (just like ehow!). I know a woman on ehow who is making $200 a month from her 200 articles ($1 an article, geez); but it took her about a year to get that far with it, and she forces herself to write tons of articles every week.
By the way, posting your article links on Twitter and She Told Me, and other such sites, can probably boost your income a bit. I've just started doing that.
Thanks again for your very interesting, funny article. It made me feel like I had a kindred spirit here! Good luck to you!
Lot's of fun this 100 hubs business is. I gotto watch this. It's only 3 1/3 hubs per day. That's not too bad.
cindyvine says:
6 months ago
Good luck with the challenge, Pam!