7 Days on HubPages: Might Not Be Worth the Hype
Written on January 22, 2008 by Susan Payton
Last week I told you about a great new tool I’d discovered: HubPages. It’s essentially an article marketing site, with a few unique features that make it stand out from the rest. I decided to put it to the test and see if the hype was true.
Day 1.
Signed up for HubPage account. Created first hub, Why Your Business Should Be Blogging. This was an extremely successful blog post and article I’d written elsewhere, so I expected a strong flow of traffic to the article. Within 1 hour, Hub score went from 46 to 51. My personal score is 9 (out of 100 I think).
Day 2.
In the first day, my Hub score went up to 72, and 12 people read the article. Not too bad. Not too much activity on this article throughout the day.
I added a second hub on Getting the Most Out of Your Marketing. It posted at a score of 48.
Day 3.
Didn’t post a new hub today. First hub is still at 72, with 15 readers. The second went up to 64, with 5 readers. Kinda slow, but I don’t really know what to expect.
Day 5.
Posted a hub in a new category as an experiment: Everything I Know About My Business I Learned From My 3-Year-Old. We’ll see how the traffic varies. I’ve had a total of 15 views on my 2 previous hubs (and one fan…hope it’s not my mom). My overall score is 83. No change in the scores for the first two hubs. I think I earned $.45 from Google AdSense on the Hub pages.
Summary
Over the week, 25 people viewed my articles.
While the platform for HubPages is unique and fairly easy to use, I didn’t have any clicks to my website or blog. Sure, a week isn’t very long to judge, and maybe it takes longer. Certainly the ability to earn money through your Google AdSense, Amazon Affiliate and eBay accounts is attractive. If you have the time to dedicate to seriously creating a presence on HubPages, you should. Otherwise I’d say it’s not a great article marketing tool (at least for me).
Do you have experiences with HubPages you’d like to share with us?
-Susan
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Hi Susan,
Thank you for posting your experience with HubPages. Your first 3 Hubs show a promising start, but if your hope is to see traffic grow exponentially, it is just a start.
As you probably know from your own blog, getting readers (fans) and search engine traffic takes quite a bit of time – it doesn’t happen immediately. Both our users and search engines approach new posters with a bit of caution – they want to make sure you’re not a “fly-by-night” contributor that will vanish after a post or two.
Our best authors have been able to get significant search engine traffic, but in addition to publishing regularly over a longer interval, they also interact with other users on the site, leaving comments and communicating in the forums.
I encourage you to not give up just yet. If you have the time to write more and interact more with other writers, you’ll be pleasantly surprised with the outcome. HubPages is not a site that you will see an immediate benefit from contributing to, but a longer, more substantial investment of time will earn you traffic and fans.
Cheers,
Jason Menayan
HubPages
Jason–
Thanks so much for stopping by! I’ll keep plugging away with HubPages. I really like the format, by the way.
Susan
Hmmm…I read some good hubbers makes a good traffic using bookmarking sites.
And to build a good score on you hub you shouldn’t publish it right away. Make it stand for a day or two before publishing it. Some claimed they reach the score 70 before they publish it. You can try it though. I myself only made 65.
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Hi Susan,
I personally think that you have some really good content here and please keep up the work as I am always looking for good content for my blogs.
Dennis