The no hub experiment
Introducing the no hub experiment
We all know that Hubpages can bring us passive income but have we ever asked the question - "How passive is passive?". I noticed that every time I published a hub, there would be some sort of spike in traffic to my hubs and I seem to earn a little bit more that month. Unfortunately, this process is not exactly passive and I started to wonder, what if I don't publish anything for some time, how would my earnings be affected?
And so I embarked on this experiment where I just left the hubs to run on their own for 3 months. In between, the only activity I did was to refresh an old hub with new information and that was more than 30 days ago from the time of this hub publication.
Earnings for months with 0 hubs
Month
| Earnings
|
|---|---|
June 2012
| $3.34
|
July 2012
| $1.82
|
August 2012
| $1.66
|
Updated Aug 31 2012
|
The results
Before we can appreciate the results, we have to look at the past performance of my hubs when I still had some activity. You can refer to them via this link.
For the whole month of June, July and August 2012, I published a total of 0 hubs.
My old hubs still continued to generate income for me. The numbers look smaller, but it was still income nonetheless.
Conclusion
It seems like the income is declining, but having only numbers from 3 months, I am unable to make a concrete conclusion on this.
However one thing for sure, as long as you have published hubs previously, you can be pretty much assured that they will still passively bring you your income for some time at least.
Not too bad for a side hobby really.
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