Scared to Add Lots of Hubs to HubPages Dilemma
70Sorting Out Dilemmas in My Head
I often talk to myself, or, at least, write to myself. I make lists too. Sometimes I think I plan or think too much instead of just doing, but I'm making progress. I'm improving. See, I'm writing about this dilemma instead of just thinking about it, or instead of scribbling down some notes only I can read.
Why am I scared to add lots of hubs to HubPages?
Well, it's very easy to add lots of hubs to HubPages. I could just write and write. I'm not the owner of the site and don't have to worry about hosting fees or domain registration renewal fees, or anything that could prevent me from simply just concentrating on writing.
I also see that some hubbers have many articles, indicating that they have already done what I fear to do, and they seem to be earning nice amounts from their efforts.
The problem comes in with the fact that I earn more from using Adsense on one of my own sites than I do from using Adsense on HubPages. I need this extra income that I make from Google Adsense. It comes quite easily from one of my own sites.
Now, if I just wrote and published hubs instead of publishing them on my own site, I would ultimately be neglecting adding more articles to a site of my own, a site that I already know earns me a greater extra income more easily.
Let's Compare Adsense Earnings
I added a blog to one of my sites in March 2011. Since then (5 and half months) I have written, and added 50 articles to this blog.
I've been a member of HubPages for 13 months now, and prior to this hub, have written and added 42 hubs to HubPages.
Adsense earnings from HubPages in those 13 months?
Just over $30.
Adsense earnings from my own blog in 5 and a half months?
Just over $100.
This is just from the blog I added to the site; the site also earns me a bit, as do some of my other sites.
What To Do?
I've been working from home for 3 and a half years now, and do not have a steady monthly income. My earnings are not yet all that great. I need the extra income I earn from Adsense and I enjoy working at increasing these earnings whenever I get the chance to.
With that said, it seems the only sensible thing to do is to add all and any articles I write to only my own sites, but seeing that others are doing well with HubPages and have added many hubs tempts me to try to do the same.
Solution, I Think
I must continue to concentrate more on my own sites, but still add the odd hub to HubPages here and there, when I have the time to.
Why, when I can obviously earn more from adding articles to my own sites, and when I need that money?
HubPages has a fantastic community, and I can't just leave. HubPages has also helped me increase my earnings that I make on my own sites. I have used many tips other hubbers have given and explained, in my attempts to make money working from home. I can also make use of HubPages in some of my hubs by linking to one of my articles on my own sites.
All sorted then, and thanks for reading about my dilemma, and for putting up with me "talking to myself!" Hopefully my conclusions can help others who have a similar dilemma.
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Interesting stuff :) I hope to be earning with my own site soon aswell... What is your website all about? I would love to take a look at it. Feel free to take a look at my website - it is in it's infant stages and finding time to add content, well, lets just say its difficult -- www.mindhealthmoney.com.
Keep on keeping on :)
There was a time when working only on Hubpages would yield you a sufficiently good income. Those days are long gone and now there is a need to diversify your online work. Never put all of your eggs in one basket! My grandmother was right.
@FloraBreenRobison - thanks for the long comment and that's a great suggestion, to write what I love to write here, and keep the other articles for my own sites. The problem is what I love to write about is trying to help others with working from home ideas or make money online ideas etc, and that's what I'm already doing in both places. Here and there though, other topics crop up that I may enjoy writing about, but I have sites for those too. Hm. You're making me think, thanks, but I think I'm going to stick to not adding too many hubs here - perhaps when I'm making enough money not to worry too much about how much I may be missing out on earning on my own sites by writing here, I can get to enjoy HubPages even more than I already do. That's a nice goal to work towards, and I'll get to it quicker if I spend more time on my own sites, lol!
Hello! This seems like kind of a catch-22, especially if the income is needed. There are some ways that you can make your blog and your Hubpages account work /with/ each other though, instead of against each other. For instance, you could write a Hub about a topic, and then write a blog post about the same topic (different guts obviously, not copy-paste, but same topic) and link it to your Hub!
I hope you find a good balance and best of luck :)
@nicred - I'm such a klutz, just went to follow you and automatically clicked and then saw I was no longer following you (I already was!) so I clicked again to follow you, so now I'm following you twice, I guess :)
Thanks for the comment. The site I speak of in this hub is very plain and ordinary, with Adsense ads sort of spoiling any look it could have, but with what I hope others consider is good ideas and tips for being self-employed etc. Very many people in South Africa are struggling to find jobs, or jobs that pay enough, so I try to offer them alternative solutions.
Your site is beautifully clean and neat, even with the ads, and I congratulate you on choosing to use WordPress for your theme. WordPress is simply awesome, and very powerful. Some interesting looking titles on generating traffic and income; I'll have to check it out in some more detail soon.
hehehe... Sometimes it's better not to "plan or think too much instead of just doing", and just dive in head first, to see if you come up again. Seriously tho', getting the balance right between your own sites and Hubpages is tricky
@ Mark Bronze - yes, your grandmother was right - and it's also a lot more fun sorting different sized eggs into different baskets, with each basket more appropriately suiting the eggs in it.
@ nikki_m - thanks for the tips and I will certainly be trying to find a good balance :)
@ Tony - yeah, It's certainly tricky. HubPages is a cool place to be, and yet my own sites are calling me too :)
Have you added the Hubpage ad program? I am earning double what I did with Adsense with the program and I'm still earning a little bit with Adsense. It seems to be based on traffic rather than hits.
If you haven't tried it, you need to at least try it for a month and see what happens, because you can always go back to just Adsense. I don't get a lot of traffic, but it has really helped my earnings.
Hi Barbara, thanks for popping in and for the tip. Yes, I added the HubPages ad program 3 months and 1 week ago. In that time it has made me $4.91. It all helps and I will certainly be continuing to use HubPages, just not at this stage devoting tons of time to HubPages. When my efforts at my own sites result in them doing much better than they already are, I can get to spend more time here :)
I'll admit that my main 2 sites makes a lot more money than I make here too, but my income here has been growing. Hopefully it keeps up.
I like to write here when I want to write about something that doesn't fit my websites.
@ Barbara, yes, HubPages is perfect for writing about things that don't fit websites or blogs people already have. Then again, writing (on HubPages) about similar topics that people have on their own sites can provide a good place to include a link to their own site!
@teresa Schultz , There is a rule. Google charges its Advertisers $1 to $50 fot 300+ pages website.
Yeah, on hubpages you will miss your two main earning sources: 1. Pay Per Pageview (CPM) - Buysellads, and 2. Google Affiliates (new).
But the adsense earning is same.
Well, it may have dimensional effet when it comes at the point of adsense. The difference is - the payment per click may vary upon Top-level-domains and Non-top-level-domains. I am not sure but it might differ.
Hi allmytricks and thank you for the comment. Welcome to HubPages!
Hi too. One thing more, why don't you go for buy sell ads with your website? I found your website pretty cool; I guess you get a good amount of traffic there as well. But, adsense earning is not sufficient with a PR2 site. ;) You can earn even more through buysellads. The thing you have to do is - just to modify your adsense ads, so that buysell ads don't look like adsense ads. In fact, you may not use the image ads by adsense.
Thanks again, allmytricks. It's just so much easier to just put Adsense ads there and forget about them, than to monitor selling advertising space, but I have thought of this before, and may consider it sometime in the future, so thanks for the reminder, as well about pay per impression ads. I am fairly familiar with the program policies of Google Adsense and have read their conditions regards other ads appearing on the same pages as their Adsense ads. I generally go to trouble to ensure that any other ads do not look like Adsense ads. In your earlier comment you mentioned Google Affiliates. I know that Adsense used to have affiliates a good few years ago, then dropped it, so it's interesting to hear they are trying it again, thanks, and thanks for visiting my site - I'm glad you liked it.
I think diversification is important. Now, with the subdomains fix and HP ads, I am actually getting a reasonable return for my efforts. I am not sure that the 5 months of "death grip" can be viewed as a good period for comparison, assuming that it was an abberation. The problem is that once bitten, twice shy: I would never fully trust HP again. So like you, I write for my own sites mainly and am writing a couple of hubs/week at the mo (I gave up on HP completely at one point). The great things about HP (besides the eearnings) are the community, the fact that you can write about any topic even if it doesn't fit a niche, and also, if the HP site is hit by Google, they have experts to fix it and you're not left on your own like with your own site. But I agree with you that diversification is the key and HP is just one potential method.
Glad you agree about the diversication, Paul, and I think it's good you are working at both your own sites and HubPages. I sometimes think it would increase my own site's earnings nice and quickly if I removed my articles from HubPages and then reposted them on my own sites after a while, and close my account here, but then diversification has flown out the window, I will miss the community, and I will lose the backlinks I have from this site for my own sites. Also, over time, I hope to see an improvement of my earnings on HubPages.
Well, I got fed up with Squidoo and closed my account there, which in some ways I regret. The other great thing with HP which I didn't mention is that it is good for market research, you can try things out without spending any money! :-)
(The HP backlinks haven't been great recently because of the panda hit, but now that HP is back in the ascendent, they could be very useful!)
I agree with the don't put all your eggs in one basket approach, but I had a few blogs of my own that I tried to promote, but since i'm not an SEO expert, found my traffic lacking on my personal sites. At least with hub pages, they do all the SEO submission stuff and actually get you placed in search engines... This is something I was never able to do on my own.
@RichardPac - I agree - for people who do not yet know much about SEO and getting traffic to a site of their own, HubPages is a good place to start. Of course, just being active on HubPages, reading other hubs and also the answers to questions as well as forum thread, can help these people start to learn more about SEO, and then they may choose to branch out into getting and trying to make their own sites get a decent amount of traffic too - if they succeed, there's the benefit of not having to share their ad revenue with a site owner, because they are that site owner.
FloraBreenRobison 9 months ago
Well, I can say that the people earning on hubpages have written a large number of artcles on products that stifle some people's creative writing process. I do not make adsense money onthis site but you need it to be on this site. Instead, I make money on impressionss. I know the time I spend writing hubs is taking time away from things that might make me money, but I'm writing on topics I love here. I don't know if you enjoy writing about subjects you either haven't written at all here or just a couiple of hubs, but why not use this site for writing what you love, and keep the articles that would make you money on other sites if they make you more.