It has been one week since I started this make money online experiment using Hubpages not as a source of links for other money making sites but as a place to make money in and of itself. The results so far have been a little slow. I have not made any money and I am not ranking very well in the search engines.
Let’s take a gander at how I am doing via the criteria I sent out in my initial hubpages experiment post:
- Is the page indexed? Yes! The page was indexed within the first 72 hours of the experiment. I wasn’t looking for super quick indexing on this one but it is good to know that I got in there and got in there relatively quickly.
- What are my rankings for a series of related keywords? I kind of changed the number of keywords I was trying to rank for from 9 to 14. Right now I only rank in the top 100 for 3 of the 14 terms and only 1 of them is in the top 50 (44 to be exact). I think I got a freshness boost when I checked the stats at 72 hours because I ranked in the top 100 for 9 of the 14 words and in the tops 20 for 3 of the 14 words. I was kind of expecting this - I just hope that the rankings improve over time.
- How many links do I have? According to Yahoo Site Explorer I have 6 links - 4 from hubpages, 1 from digg, and 1 from one of the Unique Article Wizard submission that I submitted (I can tell it was from UAW because it is at artipot.com, an article directory I am pretty familiar with, and it has the links in author resource box). Google says I don’t have any links.
- Am I getting any traffic? According to my stats on Hubpages I have received 27 views on the hub in 1 week - 20 from hubpages, 2 from Google, and 5 from an indiscernible source.
- How much money have I made? $0.00.
I wasn’t expecting much out of this experiment at this point, so there is not too much to talk about. I am most interested to see how the rankings change over time and if the Unique Article Wizard and Article Marketing Automation work well. We’ll see. I hope this turns into a good way to make money online.