How Quickly Can You Earn Money On HubPages?

I’ve been blogging about making money by writing articles at HubPages recently… it’s a new found fixation, one of my experimental phases I pass along to you. At least I didn’t charge you for it!

Here’s the simple answer… I’ve had several people sign up from my HubPages links. 1 out of 5 on average actually built a hub! So I can tell you right now that the 80% who haven’t done anything will NEVER earn money on HubPages!

But if you go to the site and check out their “success stories” you’ll find people who – after a while (on average 2 years and many “hubs”) are earning up to $1500 per month from HubPages.

Does such earning have to take forever?

I mentioned this one case study where a fairly experienced (in terms of keyword research) person made $475.26 in his first 30 days. He’s gone on to make $4,000 in fairly short order. Remember that he built 40 hubs using extensive keyword research in his first week.

I’ve been doing the hubs at the rate of about 1 per day over 2 weeks or so (maybe 3 now) and have 17 active hubs with some just being published.  I’ve put in a couple of hours per day maximum. Now I’m about to give you an affiliate link, but this is the product I used to isolate the keyword in question. The product is MicroNicheFinder and it helps me brainstorm keywords to write about (unless I’m just ranting about something where no keyword research is involved! A few of my hubs are just that sort of thing.)

In that time – between Adsense, Ebay, and Amazon – I’ve earned @ $18.70. I consider that pretty decent because lots of people on the forums there talk about going months to a year to get a $100 Adsense payout. At this early stage, most of the traffic is other people on Hub Pages checking out your hub. These are usually other authors, not buyers. 

The best part of that were two product sales from Amazon from a highly targeted keyword for an electronics product.

Bottom Line: while the “real money” at HubPages is in the long term “residual” traffic and (usually it seems) Adsense clicks, you can start earning money right away if you use a tool like MicroNicheFinder to find keywords that are highly targeted, have decent traffic, and little competition. HubPages can get you at the top of the search engines for these “long tail keywords”  all by itself without lots of back linking on your part.  For more competitive keyword niches, you’ll need to do backlinking too most likely.

The best thing about HubPages is that you can start for free, get experience, learn from the other folks there, make some money and impr0ve gradually. You can see how your hubs are producing and then work to refine them.  There are many helpful people there and as long as you try not to produce spam pages, you’ll be welcome!

And now you know you can start making some money right away… maybe several hundred dollars if you have the time, knowledge and energy!

One more thing. People who are successful writing hubs often make more money than just from Hub pages. The person making $1,500 from Adsense monthly makes twice as much from other ventures that are attributable to what she learned at HubPages. She works from home in a beautiful rural area and attributes much of her success to learning to write at Hub Pages.  You may find people who check out your hubs asking you to be PAID to write for them. Not too bad…