Money - HubPages vs Blog
Hey all,
Just like to share some stats on my Hubs vs my blog.
My blog - 105,000+ pageviews so far (started 1 year ago)
My Hubs - 305,000+ pageviews so far (started 2 years ago)
Earnings via AdSense:
My blog - significantly less than $10
My Hubs - 7 payments, average of about $135 each
I've made about 200 times as much money on my Hubs as I did my blog (with the same amount of time & effort), and for my blog it has actually been a net-negative since I have a hosted account and pay $7 per month for hosting.
So I've gotten more traffic to my Hubs, but they've been around longer, too. The difference is the source of traffic. The vast majority of my traffic to my Hubs has been from Google and Yahoo. To my blog: Stumbleupon, Metafilter, Digg, and some Google.
I enjoy using my blog for non-topical entries and to send links to my Hubs, but as a money-maker, well, not so much.
Thank you for sharing your experience. You are definitely doing great with hubpages! Hope I can do as well.
Just curious, are you saying you earned less than $10 in a year with your blog? I guess I have been lucky with my blog then. I have only had it a few months and have made around $100. However, I don't have adsense on it at all. I make my money with affiliate sales (amazon, eBay and affiliates through CJ and Sharesale. )With Amazon it seems that the trust factor is more important that with Adsense. So people who land for the first time in your page perhaps will click an Adsense ad, but they won't likely buy anything. On the other hand, regulars that trust you seem more incline to buy.
Perhaps Mark Knowles is doing so well with his Amazon because he is well-known here in Hubpages and people trust him. All that fuming on the forums against spamers seems to be paying back or could be his name as other threat has pointed up. http://hubpages.com/forum/topic/5466
Hey livelonger,
This is a good idea.
I have had slightly different results. I started a blog around the same time (2 months after) that I started here.
My blog - 577,000 page views
My Hubs - 360,000 page views
Earnings:
Blog - $400-$600 a month adsense - plus some affiliate commissions
Hubs - $120-$150 a month adsense - plus $200 - $300 a month amazon and $60 a month ebay
There are some on-costs for the blog such as hosting etc. I would say I have put roughly the same amount of time into both, although neither of them made any earnings for about three months, and it took more effort to get traffic to the blog than hubpages.
Traffic sources are similar, i.e mostly search engine traffic. Google top of the list, followed by Yahoo and occasionally MSN live.
Hubpages overall is less effort because there are limitations to stay within, but with your own hosted blog, you have unlimited options, which can be too much sometimes. I share links to and from with both of them.
This is a commercial blog rather than a personal one. I have one of those also - income nil
Okay, I see what you are saying now.
My blog is a niche blog on kid's birthday parties and I just insert affiliate text links whenever they are appropriate. I write what I am going to write and then link when I can. Sometimes, however, I do create a blog post just to push a partyware design that is currently popular or a new product I just discovered, so in that case I guess you could say I am writing to fit that affiliate offer.
Kind of hard to sell a lot of water4gas kits if you are slating them
I'm curious to know if you guys are tracking which blogs/hubs are earning you the most.
Obviously, with Adsense, clicks in some niches pay 10x or 100x what clicks in other niches do. If you're building hubs on goldfish, you're not likely to see big Adsense earnings, whatever the traffic.
(disclaimer: I just built a hub on goldfish)Just another way of making money is to provide your e-bay and amazon links to other people to sign up as done above by broalexdotinfo.
They are not referral links.
I am not so sure that is the case David. Most of my traffic to my hubs is from search engine visitors (90%) - so they are not necessarily regular hubpage visitors.
Hard to say for certain, but out of 40,000 visitors to my hubs last month, only 460 of them checked out my profile page. Perhaps they are the 460 who bought something from Amazon, but who knows?Yes, it is difficult to tell for certain, but we all like to have theories (or at least I do
With respect to high percentage of google visitors, you have to consider that the search engine here in Hubpages is not extremely useful. Sometimes, I like to read a Hubpage, which I have already glanced at, or to check something from a hub that I have read time ago. It is easier for me to use google than hubpages search engine, and as a result I will count as a google visitor, but I am not. I don’t know whether it is only my anxiety that make me use google, or others hubbers have a similar experience.
To put an example, try to search Wu-Yi Tea in hubpages and in google searching for Maddie Ruud’s hub. In google is number one, in hubpages I reached to page number five of “relevant hub” and didn't find it.
The other possible explanation is well written and highly tailored hub to Products. Like your iPhone accessories series. Or perhaps the sum of all that.
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