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How to Be Succesful on Hubpages

Updated on May 21, 2024

Everyone needs motivation

That's right everyone needs motivation, when you can't be bothered to do any more work but someone tells you a motivational story it helps, it really does.

What this article is about is how I started at the bottom of the ladder like most of you and how now with a little hard work and perseverance I am now starting to see the earnings roll in, don't get me wrong im not driving a Ferrari or living in a sumptuous pad in the Hollywood hills, I'm talking about some small earnings that are getting larger and larger every month, which in itself is motivational.

Also, I can not tell you the right way to go about achieving this as I am not an expert in SEO (search engine optimisation) nor am I a wizard in achieving very high traffic.

Essentially like the vast majority of you out there, I am a normal bloke who would like to increase his or her earnings, and anything I have learned has been from reading the forums and listening to people with more experience than me such as Mark Knowles or Nelle Hoxie.

I will share some of what I know and how I approached things in the hope that for those of you who are only seeing a few pence or cents in your AdSense account, it will give you inspiration like some of the stories in the forums did for me.

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How it started

How did it start for me? Well I have always fantasised about working online, no getting up and commuting to work just getting up and getting on the computer, it might seem like a lot of people's worst nightmare but I like it.

I was surfing online when I came across Hub pages (can't remember how)and I thought "Let's have a look" I decided having just come back from Australia that I would make my first hub about that, so I wrote about what places were good to go to in the city I had visited and good things to do.

I then followed that with a few hubs about weightlifting and bodybuilding as I have a good knowledge base in that, then I lost interest a bit and drifted off to some other sites for a few months and kind of forgot about Hub pages.

I came back to it and checked and had earned a couple of dollars and thought hang on I haven't done anything except leave my articles for people to read.

So then made a conscious effort to increase my writing and concentrate on what people in the forums were saying, so I got semi-serious.

I will also say that these first few articles were some of the worst writing you will ever have seen, with No punctuation or grammar of any kind and no paragraphs.

They were messy to read and despite all of this still earned me some money. They have all since either been deleted or edited to make them a much more pleasurable experience to read.

Writing,checking and learning

Writing,checking and learning

I had my wedding in July of 2009 so as that took up a lot of my time I couldn't devote so much to Hub pages so I didn't get much writing done, During my honeymoon whilst laying on a beach on Mauritius I came up with a few hubs mainly to do with the ufc (ultimate fighting championships )of which I am a huge fan and have extensive knowledge of.

Upon my return to the UK, I wrote about 8 hubs on the ufc and varying aspects of it and linked them all together, by this point I was enjoying my writing and not really doing it for monetary gain.

I did however have a bad habit of checking my AdSense account every day and still do if im honest.

Trust me don't do it, if you do anything keep a record of how much you earn from AdSense, eBay and Amazon each month, I do and it only helps motivate you further when you see the figures rising.

Like I have said before I am not an expert in SEO or know how to get traffic, I also did not at the time look for keyword ideas before starting to write yet some of my Articles ended up on page one of Google so I was doing something right/

What I do now when starting a hub is have a good idea about what to write then think of a good title and go to my keyword tool and enter the title into it to see what it churns out and then pick some of the best words to use as my keywords.

I then make sure that I try and hit 800 words or more but no more than 1500 if I can help it as I think this would put people off, who wants to read an essay?

You can of course split your articles into a series if it is going to be quite long.

Success

Success

I know, you thinking "Well you have prattled on now for almost a thousand words and I am still none the wiser about how much you make"? Well, listen it didn't happen overnight and it's not a lot of money...Yet!!

I started earning a dollar here and a dollar there, and then they changed the monetary system to pounds and pence because I'm from the UK.

Now with 59 hubs and maybe 9000 hub views a month I'm getting roughly 15-20 pounds a month or 25-30 dollars a month to you U.S. guys and gals that's between AdSense, amazon and eBay.

Now you're surprised...You were expecting me to say 3-400 pounds a month right? Well no, but I will, To me people like Nelle Hoxie and such, have proved that with hard work you can earn $1000 a month or more, they are the motivation for people like me who are earning a bit of cash, and I should be the motivation for people who are yet to make a dollar and are looking for some inspiration.

Bottom line, read the forums, write good content and learn, learn, learn, and ask questions to those more experienced they dont mind. Success will come to those that are patient.

Update: I now have 122 hubs and am making roughly £70-100 a month which is $109-$156 it steadily grows and will continue to do so.

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