Those people who have been following my blog for a long time may recall that about a year ago I decided to carry out an experiment to compare Infobarrel and Hubpages to see which one would get the best results financially. I wrote articles for Hubpages on a number of subjects and then wrote articles on the same subjects and submitted them to Infobarrel. At the time it was clear that the articles in Hubpages had much higher Google rankings for all keywords (although Infobarrel seemed to rank higher in Yahoo!) and so my conclusion was that it was better to concentrate my efforts on Hubpages. I have every so often revisited this, but at all times Hubpages has come out on top, although Infobarrel seemed to be closing the gap.
I recently decided that with the recent Google algorithm changes it would be wise to review these conclusions to see whether they still held, particularly since Alexa seemed to show a decrease in Hubpages traffic, but if anything an increase in Infobarrel traffic.
Once again to assist with the comparison I used the Firefox add-in Rank Checker, which can be used to see how highly a particular website ranks in search engines for a particular keyword. The results were quite surprising and showed that a complete reversal has happened over the last year - now Infobarrel seems to rank much higher in Google and Hubpages ranks higher in Yahoo! I am not sure why the Yahoo! ranks have changed around but I have at least a theory as to why the Google results have changed. Since writers on Infobarrel are pre-approved, this results in much higher quality content and the site having articles of a higher quality whereas on Hubpages substandard content is removed as and when it is discovered by Hubpages saff which probably results in a lot of dodgy pages slipping through the net. As I say, this is only a theory, but it appears to tie in with the theory Kidgas came up with for why eHow may prosper.
Whilst I am impressed with the potential of the Hubpages ad program, it can only be successful if there is the traffic and at the moment I am thinking there is the potential to get more traffic on Infobarrel and so I shall start to concentrate a little bit more on Infobarrel and a little less on Hubpages and I suppose it is always good practice to have a diversified income stream.
If you are on Infobarrel and Hubpages have you noticed any changes in the earnings between the two? Is it similar to my findings? As always do let me and other readers of this blog know by commenting below.
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Monthly Update - March 2011
In March 2011 I have been relatively busy, however I have still managed to create a few articles. I wrote several articles on this webpage (a Tickles review and a Hubpages ad program review review) as well a Webanswers review on Hubpages. I also carried out a bit of backlinking. One site where I did considerable backlinking is on the new website Excerptz. It runs in a similar way to Infobarrel - articles can be written and these are checked before being posted to the site, which should hopefully result in less spam and substandard content resulting in higher Google rankings etc. Money is made through Adsense revenue share and the percentage is 80% for the writer. At present the site is just starting but it is growing. It was set up by the Hubber Ryankett and I would recommend that you go and check it out.
Now on to the bit I am sure you want to hear, my monthly online earnings for March 2011. Remember most of these earnings are once again residual.
Webanswers: £13.37 (46% decrease from February 2011)
Infobarrel: £1.44 (12.5% increase)
She Told Me: £0.01 (the same)
Xomba: £6.02 (147% increase)
Hubpages: £71.29 (5% decrease)
Total: £92.13 (11% decrease)
As can be seen, I once again had a decrease in total earnings, primarily driven by a large drop in Webanswers earnings and a slightly less extreme drop in Hubpages earnings. I was expecting a drop from Webanswers and Hubpages, since traffic to these is down both individually and site wide (according to Alexa) linked to the Google algorithm changes.
As Hubpages is my major revenue source I thought I would review this, especially in light of the Google algorithm changes and the launch of the Hubpages ad program. I was actually worried that the decrease in earnings would be much greater than this and so I am in a way quite happy with a 5% decrease in earnings. At the moment (as far as I am aware) the Google changes have happened only on Google.com from the US and obviously US traffic is the major earner for Hubpages. Despite March having more days than February, overall I saw a 11% decrease in views to Hubpages. This was entirely driven by views from the US decreasing by approximately 50%. At the same time, views from all the other major countries actually increased by between 5% and 20%. This saw the share of traffic from the US dropping from over 35% to less than 15%. As I have already suggested American traffic is some of the highest earning traffic, so considering I had a 50% drop in this traffic, resulting in a total drop in traffic of 11% and yet only saw a 5% decrease in earnings I am very happy. I believe that the main reason for earnings holding up is the Hubpages ad program, which I believe at the moment is north America only. In fact, despite American traffic dropping to account for less than 15%, the Hubpages ad program accounted for a similar percentage of earnings as Google Adsense, which is obviously still shown in America as well as the rest of the world.
As can be seen, I have had a drop in total earnings this month. However, thanks to the Hubpages ad program it is a lot less worse than I was expecting and in fact I consider that the worst of the drop is over and in fact over the last week or so I am starting to see a recovery in traffic with a corresponding increase in earnings. Hopefully this will continue over the next month and so I hope to see my earnings for April 2011 to at least equal the earnings in March 2011.
Now on to the bit I am sure you want to hear, my monthly online earnings for March 2011. Remember most of these earnings are once again residual.
Webanswers: £13.37 (46% decrease from February 2011)
Infobarrel: £1.44 (12.5% increase)
She Told Me: £0.01 (the same)
Xomba: £6.02 (147% increase)
Hubpages: £71.29 (5% decrease)
Total: £92.13 (11% decrease)
As can be seen, I once again had a decrease in total earnings, primarily driven by a large drop in Webanswers earnings and a slightly less extreme drop in Hubpages earnings. I was expecting a drop from Webanswers and Hubpages, since traffic to these is down both individually and site wide (according to Alexa) linked to the Google algorithm changes.
As Hubpages is my major revenue source I thought I would review this, especially in light of the Google algorithm changes and the launch of the Hubpages ad program. I was actually worried that the decrease in earnings would be much greater than this and so I am in a way quite happy with a 5% decrease in earnings. At the moment (as far as I am aware) the Google changes have happened only on Google.com from the US and obviously US traffic is the major earner for Hubpages. Despite March having more days than February, overall I saw a 11% decrease in views to Hubpages. This was entirely driven by views from the US decreasing by approximately 50%. At the same time, views from all the other major countries actually increased by between 5% and 20%. This saw the share of traffic from the US dropping from over 35% to less than 15%. As I have already suggested American traffic is some of the highest earning traffic, so considering I had a 50% drop in this traffic, resulting in a total drop in traffic of 11% and yet only saw a 5% decrease in earnings I am very happy. I believe that the main reason for earnings holding up is the Hubpages ad program, which I believe at the moment is north America only. In fact, despite American traffic dropping to account for less than 15%, the Hubpages ad program accounted for a similar percentage of earnings as Google Adsense, which is obviously still shown in America as well as the rest of the world.
As can be seen, I have had a drop in total earnings this month. However, thanks to the Hubpages ad program it is a lot less worse than I was expecting and in fact I consider that the worst of the drop is over and in fact over the last week or so I am starting to see a recovery in traffic with a corresponding increase in earnings. Hopefully this will continue over the next month and so I hope to see my earnings for April 2011 to at least equal the earnings in March 2011.
Monthly Update - February 2011
During February, as per many recent months, I did little in the way of online work and building a residual income. Furthermore, like many other people, I have been hit by the changes to the Google algorithm. Whilst it only affected the very end of February, I have already noticed a 10%-20% fall in traffic to my Hubpages, which pretty much chimes with the Alexa chart for traffic to Hubpages. I would expect that I will see a similar decrease in earnings and whilst this may seem like a high amount I have only dropped (in traffic at least) to where I was in the latter half of 2010, and considering I hadn't spent much time on hubs in the time between it wasn't too bad.
Well now on to earnings:
Webanswers: £24.71 (30% decrease from January 2011)
Infobarrel: £1.28 (1729% increase)
She Told Me: £0.01 (97% decrease)
Xomba: £2.44 (1062% increase)
Hubpages: £75.44 (18% decrease)
Total: £103.88 (19% decrease)
As can be seen I had a decrease in earnings. Initially this would seem like a bad result. However, as I have already mentioned, I did little online work and so this is pretty much true residual income. Furthermore, February has approximately 10% fewer days than January and so I would expect to see a corresponding drop in income. Furthermore, there have been the Google algorithm changes which probably knocked a bit more off of my earnings. There are reason to be positive though.
Firstly, whilst Google traffic to Hubpages and Webanswers may have fallen particularly due to the changes outlined above, I have noticed massive increases in traffic to Hubpages at least from Bing.
Secondly, and possibly more considerable to my short term earnings is the fact that Hubpages have opened their own ad system. At present there is a limit of 5 Google Adsense ads per page, but for some larger hubs there could easily be more adverts and so Hubpages will display adverts from other sources and will pay hubbers through PayPal for these adverts. A number of hubbers carried out a trial and they saw an average increase in earnings of 60%. It has recently been rolled out to a further 500, of which I was lucky enough to be one, and so I am hoping to see the benefits of this soon. If I see a 60% uplift in earnings this will more than make up for the earnings lost from the Google changes (and more!). I have signed up, but believe I am yet to have these adverts shown as my details haven't been process, but when they are you can see them on my hubs such as Great Dance Party Songs, Top 10 Most Expensive Cities in the World, Motorola Xoom Screen Protectors and How Do I Find my WEP key?. Furthermore, I will provide an update on how I find the Hubpages ad program, either in the next update or if the news is considerable in it's own blog post before then.
Well now on to earnings:
Webanswers: £24.71 (30% decrease from January 2011)
Infobarrel: £1.28 (1729% increase)
She Told Me: £0.01 (97% decrease)
Xomba: £2.44 (1062% increase)
Hubpages: £75.44 (18% decrease)
Total: £103.88 (19% decrease)
As can be seen I had a decrease in earnings. Initially this would seem like a bad result. However, as I have already mentioned, I did little online work and so this is pretty much true residual income. Furthermore, February has approximately 10% fewer days than January and so I would expect to see a corresponding drop in income. Furthermore, there have been the Google algorithm changes which probably knocked a bit more off of my earnings. There are reason to be positive though.
Firstly, whilst Google traffic to Hubpages and Webanswers may have fallen particularly due to the changes outlined above, I have noticed massive increases in traffic to Hubpages at least from Bing.
Secondly, and possibly more considerable to my short term earnings is the fact that Hubpages have opened their own ad system. At present there is a limit of 5 Google Adsense ads per page, but for some larger hubs there could easily be more adverts and so Hubpages will display adverts from other sources and will pay hubbers through PayPal for these adverts. A number of hubbers carried out a trial and they saw an average increase in earnings of 60%. It has recently been rolled out to a further 500, of which I was lucky enough to be one, and so I am hoping to see the benefits of this soon. If I see a 60% uplift in earnings this will more than make up for the earnings lost from the Google changes (and more!). I have signed up, but believe I am yet to have these adverts shown as my details haven't been process, but when they are you can see them on my hubs such as Great Dance Party Songs, Top 10 Most Expensive Cities in the World, Motorola Xoom Screen Protectors and How Do I Find my WEP key?. Furthermore, I will provide an update on how I find the Hubpages ad program, either in the next update or if the news is considerable in it's own blog post before then.
Monthly update - July 2010
Time for my latest update on what I have earned in July 2010. I can't believe it is that soon already, but it is.
This month was another month in which I created very little new material, and also I did very little in the way of backlinking and so my earnings this month can once again be pretty much classed as residual. I did a very small amount of backlinking but that was it. So here are my earnings and as usual only those sites which earned me something are included.
Hubpages: $122.61 (8% decrease over June 2010)
Infobarrel: $0.18 (69% decrease)
Redgage: $0.11 (57% increase)
Shetoldme: $0.53 (No earnings last month)
As can be seen from the above, I had a decrease in earnings, with some sources of income such as Webanswers and Xomba having exactly no earnings during July. This was disappointing, but hopefully the numbers will increase over the coming months. I am hoping that due to the small amount of traffic that I get this is just a statistical swing. I also have a long standing aim now that my earnings are increasing to have a month where every day my Adsense earnings exceed $1 - this month was the closest I have come yet with the only day when I earned less than $1 from Adsense was 31st July where I only earned $0.97!
You may remember my targets from my June 2010 earnings update - well as you can see I didn't reach $150 combined and neither did I reach $5 from Xomba - in fact I was as far aware as I could possibly be. This is disappointing, but considering I did no work in July 2010 to still manage to keep my decrease in earnings to under 10% is uplifting and I feel this shows the true potential of residual income. I hope to be able to do more work during August and so I hope to reach earnings of $150 and also keep daily Adsense earnings above $1 every day! I am also getting very close to having lifetime Hubpages earnings of $1000 and so I hope to hit this amount during August 2010.
Were your July 2010 earnings more successful than mine? Have any tips on how I am going wrong? As always use the comment box below!
This month was another month in which I created very little new material, and also I did very little in the way of backlinking and so my earnings this month can once again be pretty much classed as residual. I did a very small amount of backlinking but that was it. So here are my earnings and as usual only those sites which earned me something are included.
Hubpages: $122.61 (8% decrease over June 2010)
Infobarrel: $0.18 (69% decrease)
Redgage: $0.11 (57% increase)
Shetoldme: $0.53 (No earnings last month)
As can be seen from the above, I had a decrease in earnings, with some sources of income such as Webanswers and Xomba having exactly no earnings during July. This was disappointing, but hopefully the numbers will increase over the coming months. I am hoping that due to the small amount of traffic that I get this is just a statistical swing. I also have a long standing aim now that my earnings are increasing to have a month where every day my Adsense earnings exceed $1 - this month was the closest I have come yet with the only day when I earned less than $1 from Adsense was 31st July where I only earned $0.97!
You may remember my targets from my June 2010 earnings update - well as you can see I didn't reach $150 combined and neither did I reach $5 from Xomba - in fact I was as far aware as I could possibly be. This is disappointing, but considering I did no work in July 2010 to still manage to keep my decrease in earnings to under 10% is uplifting and I feel this shows the true potential of residual income. I hope to be able to do more work during August and so I hope to reach earnings of $150 and also keep daily Adsense earnings above $1 every day! I am also getting very close to having lifetime Hubpages earnings of $1000 and so I hope to hit this amount during August 2010.
Were your July 2010 earnings more successful than mine? Have any tips on how I am going wrong? As always use the comment box below!
Monthly Update - June 2010
Is it really already that time of the month again? It only seems like a week ago that I did my last monthly update. Time really does fly when you are watching every game of the World Cup, even when your team plays absolutely awfully! No point in making excuses about dodgy linesmen etc - all of the performances were rubbish. Anyway enough of the footie - I am sure most of you only care about the figures (if you want to know about the World Cup find yourself a different blog!).
During the last month I have done very little in the way of trying to increase my online income beyond a quick little bit of backlinking using the sites mentioned in previous months (Redgage, Xomba, SheToldMe etc) but even this was in very small amounts. I did however receive money in my bank account from TopCashBack - over £230 which is in excess of US$350 which is not too bad considering I was going to take out that exact mobile phone contract anyway!
You may remember that my target set in my May 2010 Monthly Update was to try and keep my earnings above $100, and if possible push on to $150 (although this was dependent on time and the World Cup took up the majority of my time during June 2010). So here are my earnings for June 2010, again with an indication of whether it was an increase or decrease.
Hubpages: $133.75 (6% increase over June 2010)
Infobarrel: $0.58 (16% decrease)
Xomba: $2.55 (50% increase)
Webanswers: $0.33 (65% increase)
Redgage: $0.07 (63% decrease)
This month I actually managed to increase my total earnings slightly, with an increase in Webanswers, Xomba and most importantly Hubpages more than making up for a decrease in Redgage and Infobarrel income. This meant I exceeded my conservative target of earning $100 from residual income sources and actually was less than $15 within my target of $150 which is impressive considering I did little to nothing this month with my online activities so this can truly be called residual income.
My targets for July 2010 are to increase my earnings further - I would like to make a minimum of $150 from all sources combined and try and get Xomba over $5 if possible (although this will require a near doubling of income from this source).
I also hope to manage to make a few more posts on this site to see if it results in more traffic (I am driven by the excellent traffic to My Money Making Experiment, Residuals and Royalties and My Online Income By Kidags to name just a few blogs which also do monthly online money making updates and if I could achieve just a fraction of their traffic I would be very happy).
During the last month I have done very little in the way of trying to increase my online income beyond a quick little bit of backlinking using the sites mentioned in previous months (Redgage, Xomba, SheToldMe etc) but even this was in very small amounts. I did however receive money in my bank account from TopCashBack - over £230 which is in excess of US$350 which is not too bad considering I was going to take out that exact mobile phone contract anyway!
You may remember that my target set in my May 2010 Monthly Update was to try and keep my earnings above $100, and if possible push on to $150 (although this was dependent on time and the World Cup took up the majority of my time during June 2010). So here are my earnings for June 2010, again with an indication of whether it was an increase or decrease.
Hubpages: $133.75 (6% increase over June 2010)
Infobarrel: $0.58 (16% decrease)
Xomba: $2.55 (50% increase)
Webanswers: $0.33 (65% increase)
Redgage: $0.07 (63% decrease)
This month I actually managed to increase my total earnings slightly, with an increase in Webanswers, Xomba and most importantly Hubpages more than making up for a decrease in Redgage and Infobarrel income. This meant I exceeded my conservative target of earning $100 from residual income sources and actually was less than $15 within my target of $150 which is impressive considering I did little to nothing this month with my online activities so this can truly be called residual income.
My targets for July 2010 are to increase my earnings further - I would like to make a minimum of $150 from all sources combined and try and get Xomba over $5 if possible (although this will require a near doubling of income from this source).
I also hope to manage to make a few more posts on this site to see if it results in more traffic (I am driven by the excellent traffic to My Money Making Experiment, Residuals and Royalties and My Online Income By Kidags to name just a few blogs which also do monthly online money making updates and if I could achieve just a fraction of their traffic I would be very happy).
Monthly Update - May 2010
I wrote a few articles over the past month for Hubpages, Xomba etc and continued with my backlinking using sites such as Xomba, SheToldMe etc. I also set up a few more free blogger blogs to try out new ideas.
Another large income source for me this month was TopCashBack (I earned in excess of £200!). I intend to write a full blog post on this in the next few days but basically it is the most generous cashback scheme in the UK. However, since this isn't strictly a source of residual income it isn't included below. In addition, if you sign up through the link provided here before mid June then you will get a bonus of £2.50 when you reach £5 in your account.
If you remember from my April 2010 update my aim was to hit $75 with Hubpages and $5 with all the other sources combined, with an ambitious target of $100 in total. Without further ado here are my online residual income earnings for May 2010:
Hubpages: $125.81 (62% increase over April 2010)
Infobarrel: $0.69 (78% decrease over)
Xomba: $1.70 (133% increase)
Webanswers: $0.20 (25% increase)
Redgage: $0.19 (94% decrease)
SheToldMe: $3.33 (New this month)
As can be seen from this I easily exceeded all my targets. Hubpages, which makes up the bulk of my earnings, had a massive increase and by itself took me over the magical $100 level. The best news about this was that teh increase was due to increases in traffic to most of my Hubpages.
Infobarrel unfortunately fell quite sharply and was passed by SheToldMe and Xomba which is probably a result of all the work I have spent on these sites with backlinking articles etc.
Redage had a sharp fall, but this just reflected the fact I didn't use the site as much in April and I didn't get a $3 bonus like I did in March.
My targets for June 2010 are quite modest, mainly due to me being pre-occupied with the World Cup in South Africa. As a minimum I would like to keep my online income above $100 although I will be aiming to push on to $150 if I get the time.
Another large income source for me this month was TopCashBack (I earned in excess of £200!). I intend to write a full blog post on this in the next few days but basically it is the most generous cashback scheme in the UK. However, since this isn't strictly a source of residual income it isn't included below. In addition, if you sign up through the link provided here before mid June then you will get a bonus of £2.50 when you reach £5 in your account.
If you remember from my April 2010 update my aim was to hit $75 with Hubpages and $5 with all the other sources combined, with an ambitious target of $100 in total. Without further ado here are my online residual income earnings for May 2010:
Hubpages: $125.81 (62% increase over April 2010)
Infobarrel: $0.69 (78% decrease over)
Xomba: $1.70 (133% increase)
Webanswers: $0.20 (25% increase)
Redgage: $0.19 (94% decrease)
SheToldMe: $3.33 (New this month)
As can be seen from this I easily exceeded all my targets. Hubpages, which makes up the bulk of my earnings, had a massive increase and by itself took me over the magical $100 level. The best news about this was that teh increase was due to increases in traffic to most of my Hubpages.
Infobarrel unfortunately fell quite sharply and was passed by SheToldMe and Xomba which is probably a result of all the work I have spent on these sites with backlinking articles etc.
Redage had a sharp fall, but this just reflected the fact I didn't use the site as much in April and I didn't get a $3 bonus like I did in March.
My targets for June 2010 are quite modest, mainly due to me being pre-occupied with the World Cup in South Africa. As a minimum I would like to keep my online income above $100 although I will be aiming to push on to $150 if I get the time.
Hubpages versus Infobarrel - Comparison number 1
In my February 2010 monthly update I mentioned that I would do a comparison of Hubpages, Infobarrel and Xomba. I created an article for Infobarrel and an article for Hubpages on the same subject but was unable to get enough information to create a third article which was on the same subject but still slightly different (but not too different) and as a result I decided to just leave it at an Infobarrel article and a Hubpages article. The article in question is very UK based and so I felt this would give a good comparison of how the respective websites coped in a foreign search engine (I believe both Hubpages and Infobarrel are based outside the UK).
These were both published about a week ago now, and so this is a quick update on how the Hubpages article has rated against Infobarrel. To start off with the Infobarrel article was published slightly ahead of the Hubpages article, but they appeared to both appear in Google results at the same sort of time (certainly it wasn't large enough to make a difference unless the article in question is a breaking news story). Neither got very high in the Google SERPs and in fact both articles were struggling to stay in the top 200 places, although the Hubpages article was positioned slightly higher. I placed a single link to each site on She Told Me (a great backlinking site) and this improved the search engine rankings. Again the Hubpages article is much better - in Google it is higher than the Infobarrel article for the chosen keyword. In addition, this difference is even more pronounced when using the British version of Google - with Hubpages far outranking Infobarrel. For both Hubpages and Infobarrel though the articles rank higher in the Google US than Google UK. The difference between the two sites in Yahoo is even more interesting. On the US Yahoo the Infobarrel article ranks 50% higher for the chosen keyword than the Hub. When using the UK version of Yahoo this is repeated - only the Hubpages article is even further behind the Infobarrel article.
So far this has been interesting - Infobarrel appears to rank higher in Yahoo and Hubpages higher in Google. At the moment this would suggest Hubpages is the better choice since Google is used more than Yahoo - particularly in the UK where Google accounts for about 95% of the total search engine usage!
Over the next few weeks I hope to increase the number of backlinks which I have to each article to see whether I can increase the point at which each article sits in the search results to a level where I can get decent traffic. From this, I hope to be able to do a comparison to see whether there is any vast difference in earnings (eCPM) and click through rate between Hubpages and Infobbarel - although obviously as per Google Adsense TOS I will have to be very vague!
These were both published about a week ago now, and so this is a quick update on how the Hubpages article has rated against Infobarrel. To start off with the Infobarrel article was published slightly ahead of the Hubpages article, but they appeared to both appear in Google results at the same sort of time (certainly it wasn't large enough to make a difference unless the article in question is a breaking news story). Neither got very high in the Google SERPs and in fact both articles were struggling to stay in the top 200 places, although the Hubpages article was positioned slightly higher. I placed a single link to each site on She Told Me (a great backlinking site) and this improved the search engine rankings. Again the Hubpages article is much better - in Google it is higher than the Infobarrel article for the chosen keyword. In addition, this difference is even more pronounced when using the British version of Google - with Hubpages far outranking Infobarrel. For both Hubpages and Infobarrel though the articles rank higher in the Google US than Google UK. The difference between the two sites in Yahoo is even more interesting. On the US Yahoo the Infobarrel article ranks 50% higher for the chosen keyword than the Hub. When using the UK version of Yahoo this is repeated - only the Hubpages article is even further behind the Infobarrel article.
So far this has been interesting - Infobarrel appears to rank higher in Yahoo and Hubpages higher in Google. At the moment this would suggest Hubpages is the better choice since Google is used more than Yahoo - particularly in the UK where Google accounts for about 95% of the total search engine usage!
Over the next few weeks I hope to increase the number of backlinks which I have to each article to see whether I can increase the point at which each article sits in the search results to a level where I can get decent traffic. From this, I hope to be able to do a comparison to see whether there is any vast difference in earnings (eCPM) and click through rate between Hubpages and Infobbarel - although obviously as per Google Adsense TOS I will have to be very vague!
Monthly Update - February 2010
During February I did a lot of work to try and assist me making more money online. I published two new hubs, one on The Helford River in Cornwall and another on buying Motorola Droid Screen Protectors Online. In addition I joined Xomba - which is a site which allows both bookmarking of existing sites and new articles to be written. As a result I wrote five articles on Xomba - We7 Music, Work from the beach with Google Adsense, Amazon, eBay and Hubpages, Get A Hotel in Falmouth, Cornwall, What time does evening start? and Valued Opinions. As you will notice several of these articles are linked to articles I already have in Hubpages and Infobarrel etc and so it was a chance for me to see how well Xomba compares in terms of the search engine rankings which will be something I shall do more and more in the future so keep checking back to this page to see how I get on.
Hubpages - $49.62 (70% increase over January 2010)
Infobarrel - $1.29 (2% decrease over January 2010)
Xomba - $1.41 (New this month)
As can be seen, I did sort of hit my targets from the January 2010 update. I managed to stop the slide in total earnings and in fact posted a large increase. However, this was mainly due to excellent performance from Hubpages and there was still a slight fall in earnings from Infobbarel which is worrying. I was also pleased with the earnings from Xomba, especially as I only started using Xomba during February 2010 and only wrote five articles.
In March 2010 I hope to keep my total earnings from all sites over $50 and hopefully manage to push the earnings from Hubpages alone over $50 and with that I shall round up my monthly earnings report for February 2010.
Hubpages - $49.62 (70% increase over January 2010)
Infobarrel - $1.29 (2% decrease over January 2010)
Xomba - $1.41 (New this month)
As can be seen, I did sort of hit my targets from the January 2010 update. I managed to stop the slide in total earnings and in fact posted a large increase. However, this was mainly due to excellent performance from Hubpages and there was still a slight fall in earnings from Infobbarel which is worrying. I was also pleased with the earnings from Xomba, especially as I only started using Xomba during February 2010 and only wrote five articles.
In March 2010 I hope to keep my total earnings from all sites over $50 and hopefully manage to push the earnings from Hubpages alone over $50 and with that I shall round up my monthly earnings report for February 2010.
Monthly Update - Janury 2010
In January 2010 I did very little work on my online sites etc and so it would be expected that I would have a similar income to last month. I still felt I should be able to meet my targets from December 2009 for my income.
Hubpages: $29.24 (6% decrease)
Infobarrel: $1.32 (6% decrease)
Once again I have had a fall in my earnings. However, it is no-where as big as the fall in December 2009 and so hopefully I have reached the bottom and it will start to increase. As such my target for February 2010 is to at the very least avoid my earnings from Hubpages and Infobarrel falling any further.
Hubpages: $29.24 (6% decrease)
Infobarrel: $1.32 (6% decrease)
Once again I have had a fall in my earnings. However, it is no-where as big as the fall in December 2009 and so hopefully I have reached the bottom and it will start to increase. As such my target for February 2010 is to at the very least avoid my earnings from Hubpages and Infobarrel falling any further.
Annual Earnings Update - 2009
So it is the end of the year and I guess it is time for me to look at my earnings for the whole of 2009. At the beginning of the year my only experience of making money online was through paid survey sites and the like, but now I have much more experience and have moved on to much more profitable things like Hubpages (and hopefully in the future other similar schemes).
It appears that creating websites, or articles for websites is a good way of making money and if the right keywords are selected it is possible to earn a lot of money. However, there is some hard work and quite a bit of a learning curve to understand how to earn the money. Even after a year I am in no way an expert, in fact I would say I am not even moderate, yet I have still managed to earn quite a bit from Hubpages (and latterly Infobarrel) using only 34 Hubpages and 6 Infobarrels. So without further ado here are my annual earnings:
Hubpages: $303.00
Infobarrel: $11.95
As can be seen, despite not spending much time etc it has still been possible to earn a bit of money. Even without work (surely the true definition of passive income) it should increase in 2010, since I didn't write many of these hubs/infobarrels until mid 2009. However, it is my intention to write many more hubs and infobarrels during 2010 as well as looking at other ways of making money. As such my 2010 target for earnings from Hubpages is $600, $50 from Infobarrel and $50 from as yet unidentified online sources.
It appears that creating websites, or articles for websites is a good way of making money and if the right keywords are selected it is possible to earn a lot of money. However, there is some hard work and quite a bit of a learning curve to understand how to earn the money. Even after a year I am in no way an expert, in fact I would say I am not even moderate, yet I have still managed to earn quite a bit from Hubpages (and latterly Infobarrel) using only 34 Hubpages and 6 Infobarrels. So without further ado here are my annual earnings:
Hubpages: $303.00
Infobarrel: $11.95
As can be seen, despite not spending much time etc it has still been possible to earn a bit of money. Even without work (surely the true definition of passive income) it should increase in 2010, since I didn't write many of these hubs/infobarrels until mid 2009. However, it is my intention to write many more hubs and infobarrels during 2010 as well as looking at other ways of making money. As such my 2010 target for earnings from Hubpages is $600, $50 from Infobarrel and $50 from as yet unidentified online sources.
Monthly Update - December 2009
I did no work on either creating new online articles or backlinking in December 2009. In November 2009 I had a target to earn $5 from Infobarrel and $30 from Hubpages so here are my results.
Hubpages: $31.14 (33% decrease)
Infobarrel: $1.40 (100% increase)
As can be seen there was quite a considerable decrease in Hubpages earnings - this despite my page views staying quite similar to November 2009. However from research I know that my page views are coming from different hubs in December to November and these happen to be ones with lower earnings per impression.
In January 2010 (a new year already!) I hope to halt this slide in Hubpages earnings. I also hope to create an annual review soon.
Hubpages: $31.14 (33% decrease)
Infobarrel: $1.40 (100% increase)
As can be seen there was quite a considerable decrease in Hubpages earnings - this despite my page views staying quite similar to November 2009. However from research I know that my page views are coming from different hubs in December to November and these happen to be ones with lower earnings per impression.
In January 2010 (a new year already!) I hope to halt this slide in Hubpages earnings. I also hope to create an annual review soon.
Monthly Update - November 2009
Once again this month I did not create any additional content. In fact, other than replying to a few comments on hubs etc I did no work at all.
Earnings for November 2009.
Hubpages: $46.65 (11% decrease)
Infobarrel: $0.70 (18% decrease)
Needless to say I am disappointed with this decrease but it is not unexpected considering how little work I have done on my online work this month. However, it does show that income from Hubpages and Infobarrel truly is passive, that is to say an income is made even with little (or in my case no) work.
For the coming month I shall have the same targets as I set out in my October 2009 monthly update due to lack of work being carried out in the November.
Earnings for November 2009.
Hubpages: $46.65 (11% decrease)
Infobarrel: $0.70 (18% decrease)
Needless to say I am disappointed with this decrease but it is not unexpected considering how little work I have done on my online work this month. However, it does show that income from Hubpages and Infobarrel truly is passive, that is to say an income is made even with little (or in my case no) work.
For the coming month I shall have the same targets as I set out in my October 2009 monthly update due to lack of work being carried out in the November.
Monthly Update - October 2009
During October I was unable to produce any new hubs or infobarrels due to new work commitments. However I did some work on creating backlinks to improve the rankings of my hubs in the search engines (particularly Google).
Earnings for October 2009:
Hubpages: $51.31 (94% increase on September 2009).
Infobarrel: $0.85 (86% decrease)
Compared with my targets set in my September Monthly Update, I have easily met my Hubpages target, but missed out on my Infobarrel target. Since I have not created any new hubs, I don't plan to increase my targets for my November earnings so they shall remain $30 from Hubpages and $5 from Infobarrel.
Earnings for October 2009:
Hubpages: $51.31 (94% increase on September 2009).
Infobarrel: $0.85 (86% decrease)
Compared with my targets set in my September Monthly Update, I have easily met my Hubpages target, but missed out on my Infobarrel target. Since I have not created any new hubs, I don't plan to increase my targets for my November earnings so they shall remain $30 from Hubpages and $5 from Infobarrel.
Monthly Update - August 2009
During August I have written a further three Infobarrels. These are one on reviews of paid survey sites in the UK, one on shopping areas in Bristol and one on how to unlock a UK mobile phone. As they were all longer than 1000 words, I have achieved 15 points, which means that I will get 80% revenue share. Put simply, this means my Adsense code will be used to show adverts 80% of the time on Infobarrel. What is more, I could have had a revenue share of up to 90% by writing more articles.
I also managed to write one hub on the website Hubpages on the basic rules of soccer.
I continued to earn money from Adsense earnings throughout this month from both Infobarrel and Hubpages, as shown below.
Hubpages: $24.09 (22% increase on July 2009)
Infobarrel: $2.52 (525% increase on July 2009)
As can be seen, there was a considerable increase in earnings from both sources. I exceeded my targets for earnings which I set in my July 2009 Monthly Update. I saw a very high increase in earnings for Infobarrel, however, this is to be expected since I produced my first Infobarrels in July and they are still maturing. The 22% increase in Hubpages earnings is also very good and shows how hubs earn more money as they mature, since in August I increased my total number of hubs by less than 4% and yet saw an increase in earnings of 22%.
I am pleased with my earnings for the last month, but intend on setting further targets for earnings in September. I wish to earn $30 from Hubpages and $5 from Infobarrel. Whilst these targets are relatively hard, particularly the Inforbarrel one, I hope it can be reached and will write articles to help me do it.
I also managed to write one hub on the website Hubpages on the basic rules of soccer.
I continued to earn money from Adsense earnings throughout this month from both Infobarrel and Hubpages, as shown below.
Hubpages: $24.09 (22% increase on July 2009)
Infobarrel: $2.52 (525% increase on July 2009)
As can be seen, there was a considerable increase in earnings from both sources. I exceeded my targets for earnings which I set in my July 2009 Monthly Update. I saw a very high increase in earnings for Infobarrel, however, this is to be expected since I produced my first Infobarrels in July and they are still maturing. The 22% increase in Hubpages earnings is also very good and shows how hubs earn more money as they mature, since in August I increased my total number of hubs by less than 4% and yet saw an increase in earnings of 22%.
I am pleased with my earnings for the last month, but intend on setting further targets for earnings in September. I wish to earn $30 from Hubpages and $5 from Infobarrel. Whilst these targets are relatively hard, particularly the Inforbarrel one, I hope it can be reached and will write articles to help me do it.
Monthly Update - July 2009
During the past month I have started using Infobarrel properly, and have written my first 3 articles - are they called infobarrels or barrels?. They were primarily used to compliment some of my existing hubs, so one was on summer events in Bristol, one was on how to become an avon representative in Canada, and the final was on Cribbs Causeway.
I also published five new hubs. These were, as with most of my hubs, on random topics which came to my mind. As a result I wrote a hub on the hotels in Falmouth, Cornwall, a holiday in Flushing, how to become an Avon representative in the UK and becoming an Avon representative in the US and buying the best rubber teachers stamps.
Aside from these I have discovered that Homepages-Friends, where I got paid for searching the internet, is no longer running the service as of the 1st August, and so July will be my last set of updated figures.
Hubpages: $19.74 (59% increase on June 2009)
Homepages-Friends: £0.83 (12% decrease on June 2009)
Infobarrel: $0.48 (New for July 2009)
I was hoping that I would break through the $20 barrier for earnings from Hubpages for this month, but in the end came very close. However, I should hopefully make it in August. I have also made a smaller amount from Infobarrel, I will aim for much more modest earnings of $2 from Infobarrels over the coming month. To help me achieve these goals over the next month I hope to create a few more hubs/infobarrels as well as improve my existing ones.
I also published five new hubs. These were, as with most of my hubs, on random topics which came to my mind. As a result I wrote a hub on the hotels in Falmouth, Cornwall, a holiday in Flushing, how to become an Avon representative in the UK and becoming an Avon representative in the US and buying the best rubber teachers stamps.
Aside from these I have discovered that Homepages-Friends, where I got paid for searching the internet, is no longer running the service as of the 1st August, and so July will be my last set of updated figures.
Hubpages: $19.74 (59% increase on June 2009)
Homepages-Friends: £0.83 (12% decrease on June 2009)
Infobarrel: $0.48 (New for July 2009)
I was hoping that I would break through the $20 barrier for earnings from Hubpages for this month, but in the end came very close. However, I should hopefully make it in August. I have also made a smaller amount from Infobarrel, I will aim for much more modest earnings of $2 from Infobarrels over the coming month. To help me achieve these goals over the next month I hope to create a few more hubs/infobarrels as well as improve my existing ones.
Infobarrel and Tagfoot - two new ways of making money online
I have recently discovered a couple of cool new websites which I plan on making more use of when I have more time.
The first is called Infobarrel. It is another site where it is possible to submit articles, with the potential of earning money from it. As with Hubpages, it works on revenue sharing using Adsense. There appears to be more freedom to experiment with different formats on Infobarrel, and so this leads to more possibilities. I believe links from Infobarrel are Do-Follow, and so it is a good resource for getting backlinks. Also, revenue sharing is 75% for the author and 25% for the company, but if enough articles are written in May then this becomes 90% for the author and 10% for the company. This website definately seems very promising, and I would appreciate feedback on it. Sign up here.
The second webiste is one which I have slightly more experience with. This is called Tagfoot and is similar to Digg and other social bookmarking sites, with the only difference it is possible to earn money using Adsense. Practically anything can be tagged, from videos and pictures to articles. Revenue sharing is 50/50 between the tagger and the company, but in the case of the referrals the company's share is split. I also believe they give backlinks, and so it is a relatively easy way of getting backlinks, and possibly more traffic and revenue. This is definately something I would recommend using. See the tag of this page, and sign up here. Once again I would appreciate your feedback on Tagfoot, and why not add me as a friend and start sharing the articles you tag with me!
Thanks for reading and I wish you luck if you sign up with either of these schemes.
The first is called Infobarrel. It is another site where it is possible to submit articles, with the potential of earning money from it. As with Hubpages, it works on revenue sharing using Adsense. There appears to be more freedom to experiment with different formats on Infobarrel, and so this leads to more possibilities. I believe links from Infobarrel are Do-Follow, and so it is a good resource for getting backlinks. Also, revenue sharing is 75% for the author and 25% for the company, but if enough articles are written in May then this becomes 90% for the author and 10% for the company. This website definately seems very promising, and I would appreciate feedback on it. Sign up here.
The second webiste is one which I have slightly more experience with. This is called Tagfoot and is similar to Digg and other social bookmarking sites, with the only difference it is possible to earn money using Adsense. Practically anything can be tagged, from videos and pictures to articles. Revenue sharing is 50/50 between the tagger and the company, but in the case of the referrals the company's share is split. I also believe they give backlinks, and so it is a relatively easy way of getting backlinks, and possibly more traffic and revenue. This is definately something I would recommend using. See the tag of this page, and sign up here. Once again I would appreciate your feedback on Tagfoot, and why not add me as a friend and start sharing the articles you tag with me!
Thanks for reading and I wish you luck if you sign up with either of these schemes.
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