The Highest-Paid Hubbers Make $650 to $3,800 per Month: Learning from their Stats - Part 2, Conclusions
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© 2012 by Aurelio Locsin.
This is part 2 of a series. Please read Part 1, Big Money, so you can understand this information thoroughly. Otherwise, much of it may not make sense.
Hubs
One of the big differences among the top hubbers is the number of hubs they’ve written. Susana S has only 96 hubs and yet earns $850 a month from them. Kathryn Vercillo boasts the greatest number of hubs at 1,123 and is the second highest earner at $1,500. Marye Audent, the most successful hubber with $3,800 a month, has 742 hubs. Clearly, you can succeed with a lot of hubs or just a few
I’ve performed a few calculations to show some interesting information about the hubs. The following names are arranged in alphabetical order by first letter to make hubbers
Name
| Hubs
| Monthly Income
| $ per Hub
| Views per Day
| Views per Hub
| $ per View
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Blake Flannery
| 134
| $1,280
| $9.55
| 28,000
| 208.96
| $0.0015
|
Glassvisage
| 462
| $650
| $1.41
| 7,000
| 15.15
| $0.0031
|
Habee
| 926
| $1,300
| $1.40
| 5,000
| 5.40
| $0.0087
|
Jimmythejock
| 494
| $1,200
| $2.43
| 7,500
| 15.18
| $0.0053
|
John D. Lee
| 494
| $1,300
| $2.63
| 7,500
| 15.18
| $0.0058
|
Kathryn Vercillo
| 1123
| $1,500
| $1.34
| 24,000
| 21.37
| $0.0021
|
Marye Audet
| 742
| $3,800
| $5.12
| 12,000
| 16.17
| $0.0106
|
Relache
| 200
| $850
| $4.25
| 9,000
| 45.00
| $0.0031
|
Stephhhicks68
| 307
| $950
| $3.09
| 9,000
| 29.32
| $0.0035
|
Susana S
| 96
| $850
| $8.85
| 4,000
| 41.67
| $0.0071
|
Views per Hub
Dividing the number of views per day by the number of hubs produces the Views per Hub (per Day) column. This shows how much traffic each of a hubber’s articles attracts.
- Blake Flannery boasts hubs that attract more than four times the traffic of the next closest writter. Each of his hubs gets an average of 209 views per day. His total monthly income is slightly less than average for this group.
- Relache is next with 45 views per hub per day. Her total income is near the bottom.
- Susana S has 42 views per hub per day. Her total income is equal to that of Relache.
Earnings per View
Another way to measure earning power is to divide the monthly income to get the earnings per day, and then divide that result to produce the $ per View (per Day) column.
- Top hubber Marye Audet makes the most earnings at $0.01 per view.
- Habee, our only 100 HubScore hubber, is next at $0.008 per view.
- Susan S, who also gets one of the highest earnings per hub, gets $0.007 per view.
Earnings per Hub
Dividing the monthly income by the number of hubs produces the $ per Hub column, which I think measures the earning power of each hub.
- Blake Flannery rises to the top of the list with each of his hubs worth an average of $9.55 per month. He has to do the least amount of writing to earn the most money.
- With fewer hubs than Blake, Susana S made her hubs the second most valuable at $8.85 each per month.
- Biggest income earner Marye Audet does slightly better than the average $4.02 per hub. She earns $5.12 for each of her hubs.
Types of Hubs
The types of subjects these top hubbers write about cover a wide range. Presumably, they only write about things they enjoy and have some knowledge about. The following list includes links to the hubbers’ profile pages, so you can find out for yourself what specialties cover.
- Mary Audet focuses on home restoration and homesteading. Her page includes indexes to her thousands of hubs. She also writes hubs that do nothing but organize her other hubs. This makes it easy for her fans to find their favorite topics.
- Kathryn Vercillo writes on business, computers and alternative medicine. Many of her hubs appeal more to men, who are the main users of the Internet. In contrast, Mary Audet’s efforts focus on the interests of women, who are the main users of hubpages. For more information on audience types, read my hub entitled Who Reads HubPages? Audience Stats to Increase Your Traffic and Maximize Your Hubs.
- Blake Flannery concentrates on jobs, employment and music. He also has a series of hubs about birthday wishes at different ages. I suspect this unique niche gets searched for a lot on Google.
- Susana S has the fewest hubs and says she writes on a variety of subjects. Her consistent earnings are all the more remarkable considering that with one exception, she wrote all her articles over a year ago. Many of her writings are product-related with a strong marketing slant. I suspect much of her income comes from sales at Amazon. If you’re interested in making your money that way, you need to read her hubs to discover what excellent SEO writing for sales is all about.
Conclusions
So, how can we apply all these statistics, plus looking at the to increasing our earnings.
- Get a ton of followers. Having at least 2,000 is a good start.
- Increase your total page views to at least 4,000 per day. Until you reach that threshold, you won’t be making much.
- The number of hubs don’t matter. You can have about 100 hubs that you market well, or you can go for quantity with at least 700 hubs that you don’t market as well. If you want some information on marketing your hubs, check out my links below.
- Find a profitable niche. There’s no one subject that makes money. Find something profitable that you enjoy writing about and then spin that knowledge into many different articles.
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If you can increase website traffic to your page, you increase the number of ad impressions, and ultimately, the amount of money you earn from those impressions. Viewers ordinarily find your page through Google. But you don’t have to rely on that sea - How My Hub Went from Zero to 3,000 Page Views in Just Under Eight Hours
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I agree that the number of followers that you have makes a difference. Even though they won't all read your hubs every time that you publish one, it is obvious that there is more potential for others to view them, especially until google indexes them.
I cannot imagine that many views a day--wow!
Very interesting reading--especially for someone new to HP as I am. Voted up. I read part 1 also. Great job compiling all of this info!
I looked over this information myself and came to the same conclusions. Time and traffic is what will earn you some decent income.
Very interesting statistics! You've done quite a bit of "homework" here - thanks for sharing all of this with us!
If you compare the data of the average hubber, it will be helpful to the regular hubber and new hubbers, who are thinking how to earn and see their capacity.if you compare with top earning people,later they get disappointed. Thanks for SHARING :)
Very interesting set of hubs. I guess I need to put more work into generating traffic, and then just let time do the rest! Thanks for the information.
Very good guide for new hubbers.
It is nice to know that people really make attractive level of income from hubpages
Sharing
Interesting observations. I'm still trying to figure this thing out and hopefully, I will get it soon. Thanks for sharing.
Very insightful and interesting to a fairly newbie as I am. Oh, I made it back on reddit last weekend! I had gotten banned. You helped with advice in your Hub on reddit! Thanks!
This is why I joined hubpages, to make money writing my own articles. The breakdown og earnings helps me a lot. I do pretty well as a newbie, but know I can do better. It is harder for me to a lot of backlinking and marketing my articles with two little ones at home, but this information gives me hope to continue.
Thanks for SHARING your wisdom with us all! Voted up and useful.
Thanks a lot for sharing this. This hub is truly awesome and very useful.
More great info! Thanks for SHARING! Votes and shares!
I'm sure that one could do well in other areas, but if you jot down what everyone says they write about, you see a lot of this: food, cooking, home. This tells me that although I most enjoy writing humor, that might not bring home the bacon. Of course, four years from now I could be the one that makes a lot of money from humor stories. But it's more likely that I'll do well with the aforementioned topics. this is a nice analysis, Aurelio. Thanks for doing the heavy lifting.
Good, Motivate us to write.
Excellent analysis & information! Thanks for publishing this! Voted up and useful, and bookmarked.
Thank you all for stopping by. I appreciate your comments and that you found this useful.
Yep - so you CAN make a living at this. Okay...back to typing, typing, editing, marketing, sharing...YES! Thanks alocsin for publishing this - it's inspirational! Voted up and across and SHARED.
Smart idea on making a part 2.
Great work getting these stats together. A fine job well executed. I too noticed that a few hubbers only have around 100 hubs and seem to earn a decent income.
Voted up useful and very interesting.
SHARING is caring.
Thanks for giving us incentive and something to shoot for by way of earnings. Voted up and SHARED!
The statistics reveal the true potential of Hubpages. But, it is a fact that for every successful hubber there are hundreds or thousands of unsuccessful and disappointed ones. Not everyone can crack the code. With this hub, you remind beginners like me that it can be done. Voted up and useful.
very helpful, interesting and inspiring hub. Hope I can pick up a thing or two from the top earners...
This is an interesting hub. I am just wondering why you didn't include your stats or maybe you have made an exclusive hub for that already...
Great hub you have here! Its interesting to analyze the type of hubs that Marye Audet writes because she has the highest earnings in terms of $ per view.
I suggest we all benchmark on her topics and style of writing.
Aurelio, you have analysed the whole issue of earnings very thoroughly. I think it can be said safely that though the number of hubs do make a difference to the earnings it is probably the niche that counts a lot looking at the earnings of hubber Blake Flannery. His income per hub is extremely high. I think his niche maybe, is what people are searching for everywhere and this is gaining him super high views which are resulting in more clicks.
It is very true that marketing of hubs is extremely important to get more readers and eventually make money.
Thanks for this wonderful hub. I am bookmarking both parts of this hub for further study.
Thanks for SHARING.
Awesome hub Alocsin. I think the key is time for many. I heard a while ago that it can take 6-12 months for a hub to reach its maximum search engine traffic, as it gets respect for age and interest. However, your facts also backup something I believe to be true, that you don't really start earning well until you exceed 100 hubs. This amount of content is then LOVED by search engines and your 'authority' increases a lot!
SOCIALLY SHARED, up, interesting and awesome!
Great hub enjoyed the analysis about each of the others successes. Thanks for putting this together!
Maybe you could make another hub on where you found all this information? This is really helpful, I'd like to see how many fall into the medium and lower percentiles.
Alocsin...
I'm not going to lie. When I read 4,000/day views, a small trickle of blood came out of my left nostril. That is a lot of views. Well...I guess I'm off to read your "3,000 views in 8-Hours" hub.
It is good to have goals.
Thomas
Another great hub of many I've read here on hubpages that directs me in the right direction. Thanks.
Interesting and useful hub series. Thank you for all of your research and calculations. Voted up, interesting, useful, and shared.
Thanks for sharing. This hub gives an idea about earnings/hub, page views ,income .Voted up useful. Best wishes.
Yeah, that 4,000 views per day is making me sweat. I was really impressed when my daily views went into three digits!
Well done! Interesting hub for all of us. The bottom line is that you need to produce lots of great content on well-targeted keywords and the money will follow. Must amend my policy of writing few hubs on a haphazard array of subjects!
Very informative - thanks for posting!
A very interesting analysis, definitely food for thought, for old and new hubbers alike.
This was a very interesting read with what seemed like surprising conclusions but the explanation you gave for your conclusions made sense.
Thanks for sharing this information. Voted up, useful and interesting. It's inspiring to know some hubbers are making good money through their efforts and informative to learn the reasons why.
Very Interesting facts Alocsin. Thanks for taking the time to put this together. Sure gave me another reason to keep writing.
Actually, I have quite a few about my own stats. Here's the latest:
I mention the source as well as have links to it in Part 1. Check it out.
I've actually managed to get over 4,000 page view in a day for one hub, twice. But the trick is doing that consistently to make the big money.
Thanks for this..fairly new here (5 weeks) and really enjoying the community! I left a site where i left over 90 'hubs', and, while i can never go back - i do miss my babies..sigh..
Awesome Hub, you have answered a lot of my lingering questions and part one is a definite read.I had no idea that followers had such a great impact.Thanks so much for this informative hub....now I am on my way to part one.
oh wow! I was just thinking about this the other day! Thats amazing! What you said, its true: You have to write, and then market your hubs like crazy! I loved this hub. So much information about how to make good money on Hubpages AND HOW to get there!
Amazing! I'm bookmarking both hubs! Thank you for writing them! You have a gift for giving information!
VOTED UP!
Thank you for another very useful hub, alocsin. I appreciate your analysis and conclusions. You've given me a lot to think about.
well I dont know how you got this information,but if its true it does open my eyes.
Check out Part I for the link to where this information is from.
very, very, very, inneresting!
I really enjoyed both part 1 & 2 of your hub. Great information!
Voted up & shared.
I have been looking for this information since I joined Hubpages almost 2 years ago but I didn't know how to research it. Though I use my computer daily and make money online in various ways, I still consider myself somewhat computer illiterate. I read part one and part two. Thank you for compiling this information. These two hubs are probably the most informative I've read so far concerning how to make money or how to improve our Hubpages experience. Great Job! Voted Up!!
Great Hub. vote up
You have done a brilliant job here. I will try to work out your conclusion.
Another great hub topic! I appreciate your advice and sharing on this topic. One can only prosper from this article. Voted up.
I really enjoyed reading your Part I and Part II. I liked comparing the stats. But I think relache's stats for earnings are for more than just her "relache" account, and I'd guess the same would be true for some of the others. So the hub counts would be more than reflected.
I think there is a big difference between "getting" a bunch of followers and having a bunch of followers.
The first implies that you might offer some incentive like following back. Those followers will do nothing for you even if you had millions.
A high percentage of unsolicited followers are useless for similar reasons - they may follow in hopes that you will follow them, for example. But some percentage will be readers, so the more you acquire, the more chance of real visits.
As always, this hub is well researched and informative. I hope someday to be able to use the information to my advantage! : )
So how do you respond in the comment section to all those views that leave comments? Sounds like a plan to try to achieve though.
The numbers constantly change. Also, I don't think they include income from Amazon and Ebay sales.
Absolutely right, Pcunix.
I don't leave a response for every comment, just those that ask questions. I do also try to leave a general comment every once in awhile to acknowledge everybody who has visited.
Thanks for doing the number crunching and SHARING your findings with the rest of us. If I could consistently hit 25 views a day I would be happy ;)
Give it time and writing. You're relatively new and even those of us who've been here awhile have a lot to learn. Thanks for stopping by.
This Part 2 answers my questions from Part 1. Thanks and great job! Bookmarking this to check out some of the other helpful hubs later. :-)
What an eye opening hub! Well done! Voted up!
I've noticed a couple of things from my own observations. Most of these hubbers have been on Hubpages for a long time, except Habee and she is an excellent writer. Possibly it helps to have really aged hubs. Relach wrote in the forums that if she has hubs that don't preform well, she deletes them. I wish I were getting 4000 views everyday!!
I wish I was getting that number too. But if we stick with it, it's bound to happen. Thanks for stopping by.
This is great alocsin what a fantastic Hub and so refreshing to read, it certainly gets me excited to see the success stories and the ultimate reward?
The monthly payout, ah yes how I will strive to be up there with the best of them, I better get writing more Hubs then.
Voted up multiple times, good stuff!
Very interesting and useful
Take care and enjoy your day.
Eddy.
Another great learning article Alocsin. You have really went into some great detail with all these stats. A very useful article my friend.
What a wonderful review our top performers. I love the way you outlined everything. Alocsin, you are so prolific, I predict you will be up there with the best of them before too long!
I'll be using some of these tips for sure.
Thanks for taking the time to break down the earnings for the top hubbers. This breakdown shows that writing quality hubs and selecting the topics is just as important as quality.
Thanks Again.
Great information, thanks. plan to be on a list soon.
I can imagine that we can that amount of money from our hubs
i mean to say i can't imagine
wow, that's really something. Thanks for the heads-up
Good luck. Perhaps I will join you there!
I am nowhere near those amounts myself. But we can always dream.
wow, inspirational...
Thank you, I will study their techniques too...
useful and voted up.
I would love to read more hubs like this. I found this hub so interesting and inspirational! I will definitly be going back to this hub more thanks for sharing I know everyone appreciates you are a great hubber!
Thanks kayyluh. I've actually indexed all my related hubs here:
I'd like to know how you got the info you talk about here. I love your articles and do wish I knew what YOU know! I've been here 7 weeks, have won 2 hubnuggets awards and have been nominated for a third...yet my page views remain low. It gets depressing, but I just soldier on. Maybe one day I'll be on your big earners list...if not, well...I'm enjoying Hubpages immensely. Thanks so much for this article.
Be here a few years and your page views will go up ;) Honestly, I think you're doing quite well. You've even won awards, which has not happened to me. Just hang in there and your views will hopefully pick up.
This is all public information. It's on the success page, which I link to in the intro on Part I of this series. Hang in there -- you're very new. Give it time and you're views will go up.
I read this earlier but didn't comment. I think the compilation you've done is just overwhelming! I have a long way to go, but it gives me goals. I'm happy to see a recipe hubber is one of the top earners, as well. : )
Thanks vespawolf. I wish I were part of this upper echelon myself. But if we keep at it, we'll probably get there.
I like that you have addressed the questions the way you did. Personally, I often run over these very questions every time I check out my account. What works, what doesn't? Is one subject better than another? Should I concentrate on writing more or marketing more, etc. Great job. I'll bet this was a good subject for increasing your traffic, eh?
Thanks for doing the hard work and sharing with us. I hope your traffic increases too and that you make just as much money and if not more. I know you will. Thanks.
Wow is this hub informative! Thanks for compiling all this info. Very inspiring to read! Keep up the great work! Voted up.
Thanks for the conclusion. Already bookmarked for sure.
Excellent hub! Love the arrangement and the series tip!
Aloc fantastic Hub. I have read a few of your others as well. I will definitely be following you. You along with Tammy Swallow really give inspirational tips to all us new and here awhile on HubPages. I will be voting this up and sharing. You guys really look out for us. Fantastic job Aloc. Thanks again. If anything this is a great inspiration for writing here on Hub Pages. Great work.
I will work at getting more followers after reading this hub. Thank-you for all of your assistance!
Thanks William. I'm glad this has helped you.
alocsin, the rest of the story was just as interesting. I am going to continue to read your hubs on similar subjects when I have time. There is so much to learn about hubbing. I am slowly but surely getting there in tiny bites :)
Alocsin, more interesting information. It's amazing how well they are doing! Thanks for your excellent analysis.
Great lessons in how to make money from writing Hub Pages; using successful HP stats is essential. Until I see and can absorb the facts (precisely views per day etc.) at my own pace, I can't absorb the usefulness of the information properly. But this Hub lit a light bulb in my head! Many thanks.
This is encouraging information for those who have not started to earn a decent monthly income on HubPages yet.
I agree with you totally that organic traffic is the aim if you want to earn money writing online.
And that it is not the number of hubs that count but the quality of the writing and the SEO of these articles that count.
Very useful hub. Thanks for SHARING. Up, useful and interesting
4000 views seems like a ton. I am glad to know that people do get there and that it takes time.
Lots of information and great facts on the top Hubbers :) I'm still quite new for this (6 months old) and I think I've done quite well with keeping myself in the 90 hub score range and making a few dollars (at least) every month. Maybe in 2+ years I can be at the top with them! Thanks for the info and Sharing :) Voted up and interesting
Great Hub. I stumbled upon a Hubber who been here for two years, has written two Hubs, and received a Hubber award for 100,000 views! Wonder how much he earns? Is not on your list.
Glad to hear you're making some money, CasyLu1981. If you keep writing, the earnings should go up.
That's amazing, mary615. Do you mind sharing the name of that hubber?
Hi, alocsin, I'll email you that info. OK?
Its a great information here. I think a lot also depends on the way one promote his hubs. But are these incomes purely from Hubpages? or it is sum total of other sites of hubbers as well.
We'll need to find him, mary615 ;)
chaturrajneesh, I think this is solely from HubPages.
GREAT HUB Alocsin. I took notes I tweeted and I book marked this hub, very very informative.... I have learned a whole lot. Thank you...
This is what I don't get: Out of over 200,000 published Hubbers, only 6 are making more than $1,000 a month writing on HubPages? I suspect (hope) that there are more $1,000-a-month-writers than your list indicates. Anamikas, sunseven, pattyinglishms, soni2006 – just to name a few – each have about 1% of total HubPages traffic.
Writer Fox, these are only the ones who've chosen to publicize their earnings. Quite a few have decided not to.
Great article. I've noticed after writing here for a year that my views have steadily increased, but I still have a long way to go to catch the top writers.
Well, I guess I have to get my rear in to gear...I have a lot of work to do. Thanks again for sharing this. Voted up and useful.
Thank you again for sharing. A job well done. I will try to learn from this. Can't have everything overnight. Voted up and interesting.
Thanks for this nice hub. Like you have already discussed above, you don't need tons of hubpages to make decent money. What you need however is quality and traffic.
I have just 10 pages and consistently make around $70+ monthly. That is sure to go up if I spend more time writing a few more.
That is fantastic, hhelen. But how do you do it? How do you make that much money with only 10 hubs? Maybe you should write a hub about that.
Rob Bell Level 1 Commenter 3 months ago
If you can't beat em, follow em.