Five weeks have passed since I created a free hubpage and used a fellow make money online blogger’s AMA and UAW account to send some links to the hub. I structured the link building to be a surge and then a trickle of links to see how this type of link building works. The hub was also targeted a product that I thought people may want to buy so that I could see if hubpages was a good place to actaully make some money.
So let’s get down to the nitty gritty and see how this site is faring given the criteria I outlined for this experiment:
- Is the page indexed? Yes, my hub is indexed and has been indexed pretty much since the beginning.
- What are my rankings for a series of related keywords?
- How many links do I have? Yahoo Site Explorer says that I have 60 links - 35 from hubpages, 25 from other sources. Google says I have 2 links.
- Am I getting any traffic? Hubpage stats tell me that 86 people have seen my hub, but probably a dozen or so have been me. So let’s peg the number of visits to 75 just to keep numbers semi-accurate. 47 of those visitor have come from search engines. According to my Amazon stats, I have sent 11 clicks over to Amazon from this hub and of those 11 clicks 1 person has made a purchase.
- How much money have I made? $4.20. This turns into $0.84 a week, $0.12 a day. This isn’t much, but I still remember when I got excited about earning that much in one day with Adsense less than a year ago!
I am actaully very surprised that I have earned any money at all, so that is why I have counted this experiment as a success - albeit a limited one. I classify it as limited because I don’t really rank on the first page of Google for any of the longtails that I targeted and I’m not even in the top 200 for the main keyword that I targeted - ouch!
I think there is definitely going to be a part two to this experiment (and maybe even a part 3). It certainly isn’t the highest priority on my to-do list, but it does seem like a way to earn money online.