The first day I started (10 days ago), I was excited to see that my one hub had made me .32 cents. I've now written 15 hubs, and have recieved over 200 impressions, but every day my google adsense account balance says zero. I'm assuming I've set up my account the right way, but I don't understand why I only made money on the first day and none since then. Can anyone tell me if there's a reason this is happening? I'm enjoying writing but it'd be nice to start seeing a few bucks (especially since my hubs seem to be kind of popular).
It takes a while.
The thing is though 200 impressions divided by 10 days divided further by 15 hubs means you're not as popular as you think you are.
But I have had a quick look at some of your hubs, and you appear to be going in the right direction. Just keep doing the important bit, the writing. It can take months and months before you ever see your first $100 payout.
Delaney, almost everyone finds they don't make much money in the first three months or so. I wrote 55 Hubs in quick time when I joined, and still took three months to reach $10. However once the money starts to come in, it snowballs - I'm now reaching the $100 mark each month.
And I know this sounds like the bleeding obvious, but a couple of newbies thought they were earning nothing because they were looking at the figure on the front page of Adsense, not realising that was "today's earnings" only. When they used the drop down box to look at the month's earnings, they got a nice surprise!
It all depends on if someone clicked or not. There are days that I get a few cents and there are days where I don't get anything. You can get some cents for impressions but it all depends. I have 41 hubs and to date only made $1.11. I think it'll start making a difference once you really start getting people from search engines.
Also remember that 40% of the time, hubpages code is in the ads not yours. You may have had a few more clicks but hubpages received the money.
When you have few page views luck plays a role. It is only when you have hundreds or thousands of views a day does everything start to even out and the actual monetary breakdown apporach the 60:40 split.
Your scenario is entirely normal.
Keep plugging away and everything will pick up.
Patience
Hard work
Patience
Research
Patience
Can't stress that enough.
You can get 1 click for months or you can get many a day. Pageviews don't mean clicks, and it normally takes a lot to get one. I get roughly 1 click per 250 impressions. And that's after doing a lot of work and waiting a long time.
(There are exceptions to this for me also.)
~thranax~
Thanks for the advice guys. I should stress that I'm not here to make money (I have my regular 9 to 5), but I was seeing a lot of newbies post about how they're making a few buck a week. It just got me worried because it seemed strange that I saw a return on my first day, but every day since then has been zero. I'll keep writing so definately keep an eye on me and thanks again for the shared wisdom.
While I'm no expert, yet, I think that the keywords search engine searchers find your hubs with will have a lot to do with your AdSense revenue, some keywords can pay several dollars for a click, while some may pay only pennies. You will find you'll get very few AdSense clicks from fellow hubbers, the clicks will come from those that find your hub via search engines, who are looking for additional info, or a product, or service.
So generally if you target high paying keywords (harder to rank for than cheaper ones of course, usually)and can get your hub on page one of the serps, you should get some search visitors make some AdSense money.
I had my own domain and website for 11 years and experimented with that as to what the public likes to see. I started here 2 months ago and I'm up to just under $10 in click money. That is because I have had the experience of 11 years and knowing what to put in the keywords area. I also made sure that my ads compliment the area of interest that my hubs are in. Don't get frustrated, it takes time and patience. There are days I only have 50 or so page views and other days that I get over 100. The click rate for those days may only be 1 or 2 clicks but as my hubs increase so does my traffic and my click ratio.
I really appreciate the feedback guys. Thank you profusely! I still haven't made any money since day 1 but at least I know that my account isn't screwed up. I was just playing out scenerios in my head of losing out on all sorts of money because I hadn't posted my URL correctly or some other minor mistake. Now I know that I'm still doing everything right. Again, I have a slew of hubs coming soon and you guys are a huge help! It's refreshing to see such encouragement and advice coming from a group of people I've never met.
Ya just never know. I wrote one on Propofol (Diprivan), you know, the drug Michael Jackson used. Just sat there for a month. Then the L.A. Coroner cited it as the drug that killed Jackson.
It shot through the roof...for a whole day...now it's back in the basement again.
You just never know what's going to click sometimes.
Im happy with 1 click per 100 impressions.
So if i was you, and had 1 click for 200 impressions in my first couple of weeks, I would celebrate.
So congrats, traffic will grow, and with some research you can make those .35 clicks become 1.xx clicks and higher
by Bible Studies 14 years ago
I got into an interesting discussion on another thread, and thought it would make a good thread itself. The question of the day is how do you feel about other hubbers clicking on an ad in your hubs?Personally I really don't see a problem with it as long as the ad interests them from a good quality...
by lady rain 13 years ago
My adsense earnings have reduced from dollars to only a few cents per month. Revenue used to average about 40 cents per click, now it is only one or two cents per click, if there is any click at all. Just wondering if it is the same for everyone.
by Daniel 12 years ago
Here's something for you guys to consider, and I am simply reiterating a comment I made on another post. You need organic traffic to your Hubs! Why? If you are using adsense, or any other monetization method on Hubpages, you will not, I repeat, you will NOT get credit for clicks on your ads from...
by rancidTaste 15 years ago
How does Google AdSense pay for page impression? I amn't clear about that and so I ask it? Would you please help about that?Thanks
by Sabrina Yuquan Chen 14 years ago
For a while I was seeing quite a few of my hubs getting 1 or 2 cents everyday, but recently not anymore, even though the pages are still getting similar amount of traffic. It's no coincidence, and would like to know how the google impression really works here
by Donna Janelle 14 years ago
I am pretty new to hubpages, and I hear that a lot of people make money off of adsense and amazon, but I have heard almost nothing about Kontera. Is anyone using this or making any moeny from it? Is it worth my time?
Copyright © 2025 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2025 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |