how does Hubpages give you money based on the Ad program?

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   AngelaJJposted 4 months ago

   how does Hubpages give you money based on the Ad program? is there a minimum amount needed? I don't think i ever got any money from Hubpages?

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      theraggededgeposted 4 months agoin reply to this

      Click on Help, top right, and navigate to the FAQs. Also take a look at the Learning Center at the same time.
      
      The very short version is that you need to earn at least $50 up to the month before you get paid.
      
      Generally speaking, sadly poetry rarely earns much on HP.
      
      Edit: You can see your earnings history here: https://hubpages.com/my/earnings/history

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   PaulGoodman67posted 4 months ago

   theraggededge reply is correct and gives you all the info that you need.
   
   Poetry = pennies, so you may never reach the $50 threshold.
   
   You need to publish info-based articles that Google users are searching for to generate lots of traffic. That's generally the only way make significant earnings.

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      WriterJanisposted 4 months agoin reply to this

      Here's a question for anyone who wants to respond. I assume longer hubs get more ads so is it safe to assume that the more you write in a hub, the more ads you get and therefore the more money you make?

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         eugbugposted 4 months agoin reply to this

         We've never been able to establish that although we've asked lots of times. We think it doesn't matter and we still get paid per page impression if ads are seen. But Hubpages gets more because of all the ads.

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            WriterJanisposted 4 months agoin reply to this

            Thank you Eugene. I appreciate the response.

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               PaulGoodman67posted 4 months agoin reply to this

               As Eugene says, I don't think any of us knows how ad numbers affects the earnings.
               
               My view is that the construction of the article should focus on readability and SEO, rather than trying to maximize ad numbers.
               
               For one thing, the ad systems tends to change fairly regularly. It's rare for any system to last longer than two or three years and often they don't last that long. It would therefore be unwise to build evergreen articles around ads.
               
               It's not that long ago since we had the huge floating video ads. The current system will likely change in the not too distant future, if the past is anything to go by.
               
               Perhaps more importantly, though, the keyword values, followed by where the traffic comes from, are the two biggest factors in revenues and almost certainly have a greater impact than having a few more or less ads.
               
               I think people tend to underestimate how wildly the keyword values vary.
               
               HP are also advising us to not make our articles too long nowadays. I suspect that it's related to keyword density. Waffle and changing one's horses in midstream was previously ignored but is maybe now seen as a negative by Google.

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                  eugbugposted 4 months agoin reply to this

                  What about being comprehensive? I've broken articles up into smaller ones and they didn't do any better, so I put them back together again.

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                  WriterJanisposted 4 months agoin reply to this

                  Yikes. I'm in the middle of writing the longest article I've ever written and it's not something I can really break up. It'll be interesting to see how it does when finished.

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                  Kenna McHughposted 4 months agoin reply to this

                  For clients, I get to visit competitive sites. I have noticed that some sites have ads but are more aware of allowing the reader to read the article. After all, that is why the reader is there. SEO is super important as long as you give the reader what they need/want to read and can read it easily.

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                     PaulGoodman67posted 4 months agoin reply to this

                     "I've broken articles up into smaller ones and they didn't do any better, so I put them back together again."
                     
                     If you're writing for a niche that Google is effectively punishing, it may make little difference whatever you do as an individual. Improving articles is mainly about improving how Google sees the site overall in the current situation, I believe.
                     
                     That's why an individual writer can follow good advice, change an article, and there's not necessarily any big change.
                     
                     I guess the hope is that a tipping point will be reached eventually when enough improvements have been made to the thousands of published articles for Google to perceive niches differently.
                     
                     Post-Panda, it became necessary to see things in terms of sites overall, not just individual articles.

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