Steps To Blogging Profitably

Around June last year I decided to take part (in my quiet way) in my own personal Hubpages challenge. The going trend was to post 100 Hubs with the aim being to make some money off them. Before the challenge was mentioned by Courtney Tuttle of The Keyword Academy, the favorite use for Hubpages was as a strong link back to your own site.

My stated personal challenge was to build those 100 Hubs and report on the success or otherwise of my attempt. The truth is, I have only managed to get halfway through my goal of creating 100 Hubs. In fact, I now have 51 Hubs published largely due to the fact that I have been unbelievably busy building content and links to the sites that I own (and that I am getting to keep all of the revenue I make).

I have been reading reports from other people who have taken part in the 100 Hubpages Challenge saying that their revenue and their Hubpage traffic has dropped off considerably. They go on to admit that apart from some very basic link building they have done nothing to promote their Hubs. Consequently the revenue they have made has dropped dramatically. Personally, I think that comes down to one of two factors. Either poor keyword choice or neglect.

So after…let’s call it 6 months, the scorecard for the Hubs that I have built is as follows.

No of Hubs = 51

Average Page Impressions = 1370 per month

Average Revenue = $43.95 per month

So I’m getting a return of almost $1 for every Hub I published per month. Unlike other people, I haven’t experienced any drop off if revenue over the last couple of months. In fact, the visitor numbers are just starting to kick higher again which prompted me to write the last 3 Hubs in the last week or so.

Using Hubpages to test for promising looking niches is still a solid way to use the tool and it is providing an income stream that is very reliable. Far from being the bust that some people are claiming it to be, I can still see a lot of merit in using Hubpages to make some money. At the very least the $40+ I’m making can be reinvested into buying some articles for my other niches or another 5 or 6 Hubs.

Hubpages is not going to make you rich (unless of course you right a crazy number of Hubs) but it still has the potential to pull in good revenue figures. As for talks of penalties and other such nonsense, well, once again it’s proof that it’s a good idea to steer clear of forums in which IMers lounge around and spread their conspiracy theories to one another, passing their paranoia off as fact.

So, as far as I’m concerned my personal Hubpages challenge is still not over, not by a long shot. I am still planning to make it to 100 Hubs although I am not placing any priority on writing the content for each Hub. My number one priority remains the niche sites I own, after all, they’re the ones that are making me the money.

The progress of my personal Hubpage challenge has been as follows:

My Personal Hubpage Challenge Introduction
My Personal Hubpage Challenge After 1 Week
My Personal Hubpage Challenge After 1 Month