Are people making much money from squidoo?

I would rely on a community, any community, to give me advice and feedback, but I wouldn't rely on them to be my traffic or target audience.

 

How can you get feedback or advice if there is no traffic to your hubpages? I am trying to establish if you need to promote the hubpages to make it worthwhile.

 

There's the possibility that some HubPages users will happen across your hub due to a "latest hub" or "related hubs" link within the site, but usually you have to do promotion yourself (or at least comment on other Hubs) to get noticed.

 

I am saying that you won't get significant traffic from the HubPages network. I wouldn't rely on them for traffic at all. The average hubber is not going to click a PPC ad or buy a product from your hub.

The only thing I'd rely on the community to give me is feedback and advice.

 

So you need to promote the Hubpage to be effective. I don't really see the point in it to be honest. Why not use the effort and time promoting your own site instead?

 

The theory is that with HubPages (and Squidoo) you have a head start in the promotion. This means that it can require less effort to get a Hub (or Lens) to the top of the SERPs compared to a brand new site.

 

Yeah, but why not build something that you own instead.

 

Navigate to HubPages.com and type "overly promotional" in the search box. There is a hub I wrote that clarifies our rules regarding outbound links. (I wish I could just post the link for you, but I don't spend enough time here on DP to have met the requirements.)

If you're writing on popular topics and include relevant, specific tags, search engine traffic will come to you. And it's search engine traffic that will monetize the best.

Hope this clarifies.

Maddie Ruud, Community Manager
HubPages.com

 

Hi Maddie (do you get pissed off a lot?) Kidding with ya.

Thanks for registering and answering my questions.

I understand the benefits of search engine traffic, but in order for the pages to get indexed they at least need links from hubpages.com Do new hubpages get linked from other pages?

 

According to a recent blog post from Squidoo:

...and that doesn't include any external affiliate revenue that some Lensmasters are also making.

 

http://hubpages.com/_learn/hub/Overly-Promotional

 

i haven't tried to monetize Squidoo but all i know is that it's very good in driving traffic

 

can u contact other hubbers or squidooers

.. like finding ur niche hubbers.. sending them a messege or email

that can surely bring more traffic..

say make an automation program to contact all niche ur hubbers and make friends with them..

they will come and visit and put comments in ur hub or squidoo.. and u do it in return same for them..

this can be useful no?

 

I pretty much use squidoo exclusively compared to hubpages (just haven't had time to get into it). I'd say making decent money is definitely possible I've been at $1700-$2500 a month from Squidoo the past 3 months (had a slight dip in May but should still be over 2k) and I'm really only seeing it go up from here.

I've found success using both ways, driving traffic to my sites as well as straight to other money making method or just through the adsense share (about $300 a month ).

It's not rocket science... just work.

 

i have made about $30 in 2 months from my single lens , i think if i get more traffic earning would be seriously more

i love squidoo because it pays through paypal and you dont need to a adsense account and yah you dont need to pay for hosting and all

 

How much of this 2k/month is directly from Squidoo commisions? What niches do you target with your lenses and how many do you have in total?

How much time did you spend making and developing the lens and what is it about?

 

Wow im starting to like what im hearing. Im gonna go make some lenses now. thanks for all that info

 

well i just made it in a day and then did some regular updates as i came to know google gives to better results when you upadte your lens regularly

and then some digg & stumbles thats it

i was not expecting i could be making so easily but now i am thinking of making more lens

here my lens " start a hosting company "

 

So does the money come in from your hostgator affiliate account then?

 

i got around 40 clickouts but no sale in last month

hostgator pays $100 per sale

$30 is from squidoo royalities