I have published over two hundred hubs, over 10,000 hits. Why haven't I made any money with Amazon?
Have you signed up for and been accepted to their affiliate program? (if no, well that explains it right there)
If you are an Amazon affiliate, the next question to ask yourself is are the products you are offering relevant and useful to the Hub topics you write about? Are you trying to sell items?
If you are just writing about "whatever" there may not be any reason for any of your Hub visitors to go shopping. You might find the Hub I wrote about Hub earnings to be helpful,
http://hubpages.com/hub/Improve-Your-Hub-Earnings
It is not about how much you write, its about writing about things that people are searching for on the web, you need to appeal to buyers,not looky loos
by Annette Thomas 13 years ago
Realize it may be different for each person, but based on the average hubber, I'm wondering how many hits to, say, a fairly decent hub. 100 hits? 200 hits? Some folks may get 0 , others get 10. Yeah, yeah, I know. It's too general a question, but...
by Midnight Oil 14 years ago
Well, I very happy and totally confused at the same time. I have been here just two months, posted 50+ hubs, and well was expecting a slow start and build up of traffic, which was true until last Monday, when one of my Hubs went crazy. It went from about 300 hits to a massive 20,000 in...
by eculligan 15 years ago
I can see contextual advertising being a source of income but wouldn't think that hubs would be making a lot of revenue from ebay and amazon. If people are really making money then perhaps I'll give it a try.
by Annette Thomas 13 years ago
Just wondered.................
by carol stanley 12 years ago
Do you find if you don't write a hub for a week your score goes down?I haven't written a hub for a week, but have tweeked several hubs and continued commenting and my score dropped several points.
by Andria 15 years ago
Those who did one - where are you with yours?I did one, four months ago. Yesterday it made $4.85 on it's own. That's not a lot but were it doing just over double per day, I'd be really happy. I haven't back linked, I didn't do anything other than find a highly searched for low paying keyword, and...
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