Satisfaction with Hubpages
- annvansposted 14 years ago
0 No
Just dont make enough
- Nelle Hoxieposted 14 years ago0
Perfect - useful and tremendously appreciated Darkside!!! Started to read your hubs and they are equally so. After offering (hopefully) thought provoking, heart changing healing, I will definitely turn to the financial aspect of targeting for bucks. And I know just where to begin learning
I am new to Hubpages. I've just written 12 hubs so I guess I still have a looooonnnnnnggggggggg way to go. Right now, I'm not thinking about earnings. I'm just enjoying my freedom to write and to read other people's hubs / comments. I have a day job and other part-time jobs that can keep me satisfied in terms of financial rewards
. But if I earn anything from this, why not? It will be an added bonus. As to satisfaction with Hubpages? Yes, I am satisfied. As to the earnings? I'll get back to this question next year. Cheers!You can kiss it if you want
Nice to know you notice what I do, personally I haven't a clue what you do, keep watching though, I like it. Keep that ass clean
Oh no, the sock puppets are ganging up on me, I can't take it.
Ok no more, I actually like you MrVoodoo you can both give it and more importantly you can take it. Enjoy your day and keep that humor going
My apologies for your confusion on that one Shannondoah, I hijacked the thread earlier to pick a bitch fight with BC and CabinGirl, we rolled around on the floor and called each other tossers for a bit, then made up. It happens occasionally at Hubpages (especially if we're either drunk, or had been drunk the night before)
Hi there ,welcome to Hubpages
My experience was naive ,and I fumbled about quite a bit ,but people learn in various ways , mine was just do it and be open to critque along the way.
In fact I look back now ( all of 9mths) and my first hub , I bared my soul
next two were crappy , then I actually started to improve..
Just be yourself , learn from others ,but if you write exactly what only brings money ,people wont stay long on your page either.
Good Luck
- pgrundyposted 14 years ago0
This turned out to be a very long response, and I always feed bad to be long-winded; but I thought - because I have been here awhile, have a mix of types of Hubs, and have earned fairly well - it might be helpful to anyone who hasn't put in two years on HubPages. It's the kind of specific info I would have liked to have seen two years ago:
I'm not necessarily "satisfied with the earnings" as far as wishing a lot of my Hubs earned more goes; but I'm satisfied to have seen for myself the earnings potential if Hubbers write the "right" kind of Hub.
Of my 200 or so Hubs, an awful lot of them were answers to requests (over 100 or more). That's because when I first signed up I was just looking to write and found subjects by answering requests. (I've been "Number 4", or so, "request answerer" for months now.) The trouble is that requests aren't often designed as topics that people will search for, so "write off" over 100 of my Hubs as not being designed to be very searchable. If I knew more when I wrote most of them I would have designed them differently.
Then I have some "searchable" and "useful" Hubs. Those do well. (I have one I wrote on a disgusting subject, in answer to a request - yellow finger and toenails. That does surprisingly well, and I kind of regret that I have it in my "collection" because it's so "gross".) Some do VERY WELL. They're the reason I am (in one way) very satisfied with my earnings. (They're also the kind of Hubs HubPages recommends people write.) Writing on something that everyone else writes about won't do as well as writing on something that not too many people write about. Writing something different from "all the other, same stuff, out there" will do better than writing "yet another same-thing about something".
I have some Hubs that some people would call "hawking infomercial products". I've even been accused of working for the companies (if the Hub is positive) or competitors (if it's negative). I wrote them because I had the products, would have liked honest thoughts from someone else who had them before I bought them, and thought they were, in their own way, useful. Those do well because they're searchable. I'm not selling anything and don't care who buys any of the products I've written about. I just saw my experiences as useful.
Then there are Hubs I've written that are either based on life experience, research, or what I think is "life wisdom". I have more than 500 such pieces on one other writing site and 45/50 on another; and a relative few (of that type) on here (after you subtract all the types mentioned above). I would say the earnings are either comparable or much better to other sites, depending on the individual piece of writing.
I've paid little attention to keywords and don't really promote any of my Hubs. Even with that, those useful, unique, Hubs aimed at the "right" field/subject can really earn. The "what-I-know-about-potty-training" type of things earn, but that type of Hub seems to me (again, without promoting, keyword-attention, attention to how the title is worded, or any number of other things that would get me more traffic) to need to come in higher quantities to add up to earnings. Just as HubPages recommends, "unique" and "useful" (things people will be searching for) will earn best. "Keep writing" (and adding quantity) will also add up in earnings.
So, I am satisfied that there can be excellent earnings on "the right kind of Hub". I'm satisfied that "any old, reasonably well written" Hub on any subject can earn if Hubbers write enough of that type of Hub. I'm satisfied with knowing that I could/should be earning a lot more if I put in the time/effort in promoting my Hubs or writing more specific/searchable ones. I'm satisfied in that I've generally earned about 10 times more on HubPages each month than I've earned on other sites (although this month I've seen a decrease so far and may only earn about three times more). (Again, though, consider that I have 560-something articles on one other site and only 200-something here, with - like - 145 of them aimed at answering requests and disregarding what "the right kind" of Hub is.) Hope this has been helpful.Lol hey dont apologise to me, I was winding you up and trust me as you well know nobody takes the hump more than me, but sure the place would be damn boring if we were all the same. Take care Voodoo
- laughin with you not at you
lots of water and Vitamin B
Im impressed, seriously I am way to go MrV n BadcoYeah, who do you think you're laughing at?!? Wanna fight?
lol (Joking)
I was gonna drink lots of water and maybe some Vit B, but just discovered another 6 beers left over from last night, sweet, hair of the dog!
Oh shut up ya nosey cow
PS - Meant in a funny, nice way ok !!Lol noooo way, I only wind guys up, do I look stupid enough to try and take a woman on, especially one like you moi friend
Thats who she meant, will you please tell her it wasn't me or moi
your word is good enough bc
p.s I use the word moi too though ,so wasnt sure if she thought it was me...
I have only ever been eaglekiwi (diff avatars,in case ya never noticed..sshhh bc..) but same name
but hey dori if ya wanna talk to her just email one of mandys avatars??
- pgrundyposted 14 years ago0
In regard to commercial hubs, I think it they are not guaranteed money makers. Some people have a knack for writing them and do very well with them, but I find my best-earning hubs are 'how to' and 'top ten' lists. Funny hubs, especially top ten funny hubs, usually do well for me too.
I think writers are all different. It's not lucrative to write about your feelings but if you don't put a personal spin on it you won't have any fun and people won't come back. There's a gazillion ipod blog posts out there, why should anyone especially care about yours?
You can kill yourself finding niche topics, but again, speaking only for me, I like to at least care about what I write a little bit. And sometimes topics I think will be big earners are dogs, and others that I just write on a whim are big earners. My top earning hub was a rant about how stupid affiliate marketing is. It's still earning after a year and a half.
Just my 2 cents, for what it's worth---about 2 cents. lol!Yes! That lingerie stuff really takes off! Bard of Ely has some of those. I wrote one for a lark just to see if it would get hits, and it's my third most viewed hub now but Google keeps pulling the ads. They pull them then put them back then pull them then put them back. It's nuts.
Just wondering Pam ,since my travel hubs seems to do ok , wouldnt I be better trying to write for a tavel place or something?
Thats commercial right?
And with the personal type hubs , in the beginning a few friends said , write about your own experiences because everyone likes to hear about other peoples lives right?...so I did , but those people just read and dont click the adds..,so youre right there.
I decided to put some different Amazon adverts instead,like for a relationship one ,maybe 'career choices' instead of my first impulse to use ' mushy adverts' candles or diamonds etc...dunno yet.
On a positive note my earnings are beginning to increase ,but erratically...definately still penny's, but seeing just one cent jump to 50c (a day) made my heart race!!
I thought I was having a hot flashI know people who do GREAT with travel hubs, so if you like to write them, wow, go for it. I see lots of travel writing projects posted at Elance.com, and I know lots of other web sites need it too. Sufi Dreamer and Lissie both do well with travel hubs. Lissie is making out like a bandit here. She is a resident Goddess of Revenue.
I know you will get there! It seems to take forever at first, but then once you get your first payout, they come faster and faster.
Seriously? I'm gonna try that. I'd love to get a tattoo but I'm too chicken so this could be away to vicariously have fun with that.
Badcompany ...its all good...
For some sick reason I kinda find that sexy, I need to get out and meet a nice woman, or if all fails a nice man
This was so well said. I agree with what you say here.
I like HP because there's more to it than just money. The community, the personal sharing, etc, and I think you are right that there's a certain kind of personal essay that is more universal. I like to read those kinds of hubs, and even though they might not make big bucks I'd miss them if people quit writing them. I'm certainly not going to quit writing them, because for me, that kind of hub is what makes it fun and rewarding to be here.
Sometimes I think the internet hasn't been good for writing and writers, but when I write about that, I get clobbered (usually). What I mean is, it pushes quality down and commercialism up.
Ohhhh I wish..dammit I do,sounds like a blast!
Not this time semiDang - havin' you there would guarantee achy ribs
I'm betting (just so bc knows we all do once-in-awhile) you change your mind after 3 more hubs about it - then you'll be jumpin' in your car saying "who cares if it's 3,000 miles away!" loloh jeez Florida's just down the road ,after a 22hrs up in the clouds on a Boeing
p.s Is Fl only 3hrs from SC?
OOPS sorry speed read and only picked up the number 3 ,in 3,000Speed read? That's a subliminal slip - the bet's down to 2
I'm in GA now, dori's in Chapel Hill (but hasn't responded yet), and old fan and previous bass player are in AZ but James says he doesn't think there'd be enough fans to plan a reunion there... so FL - Orlando - it's already happening wkly. Let's see, few more "jacabear"... have to make a list...
- hubpageswriterposted 14 years ago0
ut ohhh...cheers 
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