My hubs have been viewed 100,000 times....
Well, there is obviously a bit more to it than just tweaking your tags. There are two major things (aside from better-than-machine-generated writing) that define your success. Finding out what people are actually searching for in relation to your topic (keyword research) and making sure your pages appear on the top of search results for those terms you figured out in the first step (SEO). That's all.
You are obviously reading the wrong text. Personalized search is a nice bell or whistle, but it gets bolted to the old good basic search results, and this is where you should start with. Try reading this one, it's the best text on the topic ever written IMO: http://www.seofaststart.com/
And stats are good now. I usually publish something like "CPM a bit higher then 0.6%" when I need to publish the stats. It is fine as long as it is not exact.
Maybe one of the experts will jump on, but I suspect that you are not commercial enough.
I love reading your work, but I am not sure if people are going to click ads. My stories about Greece have generated very little revenue - concrete sealants, exterior doors and office cubicles fare much better.
Once I manage to find the time to write Hubs again, I plan to write one commercial Hub for every 'creative' hub.
Congrats on the 100 000!
I have some way to go, although the system ate over 10 000 views when they had difficulties
Congratulations from a newbie who is 13 away from 1,000. Can't imagine what it must feel like to get to 100,000.
Let's hope that one of the expert Hubbers can give you some good advice as to why you have not generated any income yet.
Good LuckDitto exactly, Aya Katz. You aren't doing anything wrong if you got your hubs viewd 100,000 times. I've been doing this for a couple of months and have about 3000 views, and I haven't made any money either. I don't know that I want to commercialize my hubs. I write about what interests me, and share it. It's out there, for anyone who wants to read it, and quite a few people do. I'm grateful for them and their feedback.
I'm not a commercially minded person, as far as writing goes. That's OK, I think. Provided you have other sources of income, do we need to be?
Much luck in the future and good work!
I am a long way from being an expert, but I wrote about 30 commercial hubs a few months back, using a few basic SEO tips from some of the successful commercial hubbers. I now make 1 - 3 dollars a day - the plan is to get to 100 Hubs, see which ones are doing well, and then check out Hubs by Darkside, MK, shibashake and Sunforged to maximise potential and rework a few things.
Won't happen for a wee while - paid work takes priority.
Good to move the goalposts when once you reach them.
I like your way of thinking.Congrats Aya. Here's to 1,000,000 views
.Congratulations - 100,000 is a nice number to reach
Actually it's a very good question Thranax. I did assume she did, but this might not be the case easily...
Congratulations, Aya! You deserve it
Congrats Aya!
It's no wonder, as you have great hubs! - poetlorraineposted 15 years ago
0 Great work Aya! 100,000 in 15 months is awesome.
CONGRATS !! that's a lot of views! I only got about 1800.
You can edit it. And I will delete mine
- LEWJposted 15 years ago0
I just got back to this here forum. Money? Oh, I reckon I musta raked in somethin' in the area of 1.5 million; my secretary keeps all the books. And I've hired a detective to keep an eye on her.
And TWO detectives to keep TWO eyes on him. And 3 more detectives to watch 'em all!
So I guess I'm doin' alrighty....
Congrats, Aya! Remember when you got 10,000 pageviews? It's right after they started the medals and I wanted to know what people with 10,000 views wrote about and you were one of the hubbers I featured in a hub about people who get 10,000 pageviews. I was so impressed (and still am) with you. You've come a long way.
At the time, I remember thinking how I thought 10,000 was a long ways away yet for me. I just reached 90,000 pageviews today myself. I'm on schedule to hit 100,000 in about 9-10 days.
My suggestion on the money situation, check your Google Analytics and see which hub(s) are making you the money you've accummulated. Write more hubs like those. That's what I've had to do.Aya, I'm not expert whatsoever; but my own experience is that it is not my best writing that gets the best earnings. Stuff I think of as my better writing combines to make up a percentage of my earnings. The Hubs that earn are "nitty-gritty" Hubs about nitty-gritty things (like products or how-to's on anything from "how to whiten yellow nails" (eew, gross - but it was a request :lol) to "how to cope with grief" (ooh - depressing, but it, too, was a request
). I've been thinking that well rated "better written" Hubs may help with the overall Hubscore, and they do kick in to contribute to a portion of earnings; so I don't plan to delete them. Still, if I had nothing but the stuff I think of as my better writing on here I know I wouldn't be seeing much money.
I think you ought to throw in a few Hubs about things you use/do in life - like the car or phone you use, how to keep such-and-such a thing "like new", some software you're using, credit-card tips, etc. I've heard that technology and personal finances tend to attract higher-paying ads.
Congratulations on the 100,000, though. Excellent.- cosetteposted 15 years ago0
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