HubPages Ad Program Payment Date

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   PBody5205posted 12 years ago

   I reached the $50 threshold for the HubPages Ad Program payout last month and I was wondering when I should expect the payment to show up in my PayPal account.  Any ideas?  I realize it's a holiday weekend, but since this is my first time getting a payout I wanted to know when to expect it.
   
   Thanks!

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      wildernessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      You should see it around the 20th or 25th of this month.

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         PBody5205posted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks!

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         IsadoraPandoraposted 12 years agoin reply to this

         So then I should see my payment next month around the 20th/25'th, too? Thank you very much for the information!

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   Victoria Lynnposted 12 years ago

   Congrats! How long did it tell you to get to $50???

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   PBody5205posted 12 years ago

   I slowly built it up, but one of my hubs took off and got some good traffic last month which pushed me over the edge.  I'm on vacation right now, but am looking forward to continuing to write and get some more Hubs out there.

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      damekposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Wow, you have only 24 hubs and over 100k views. That makes approx. 4100 views/hub!  Congrats!

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   Victoria Lynnposted 12 years ago

   What's the secret to getting so much traffic with so few hubs????  I only get a few views per hub and some get zero views some days. I know I should just focus on writing quality hubs, but I get frustrated with trying to learn the whole traffic thing.

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      Marisa Wrightposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      You've only been here 7 weeks.  It takes time for your Hubs to move up the ranks in the search engines - very few people are going to see them if they're sitting on the third or fourth page.
      
      "Just write and they will come" doesn't work.  To be a writer online, you need to grit your teeth, learn about how to promote your work and then go out and do it.  It's tedious and I know you'd much rather be writing, but it's a fact of life.  If you don't want to do it, then you would be better off freelance writing, where you write and sell your work to others.

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      johnwilliams33posted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Great. I think you have a learned a lot. Now I see that your bub has ket the 100 thousand mark. All the best

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   Victoria Lynnposted 12 years ago

   Thanks, Marisa. I hear you saying two things. One, promote your work. Okay, so do you mean backlinks, revising key words, etc...? On the other hand, "it takes time for your Hubs to move up the ranks in the search engines." Does that mean that older hubs usually DO move up on the searches and thus do better? Thanks for the info!

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      Marisa Wrightposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      Yes, I mean getting backlinks by promoting in forums on related topics, sharing on Facebook, guest blogging on other people's blogs about the same subject, writing articles on other sites etc etc. 
      
      And yes, Google respects age so Hubs do gradually do better with time.  The effect used to be very marked, but with the new site structure, it's hard to know what the future effect will be like.

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