Hubpages and Infobarrel took a Hit
The latest google farmer update at the end of February affected my Hubpages and Infobarrel income, but I am very glad to say that my blogs remained unharmed.
This is why I always stressed high quality content and authority blogs as opposed to tiny little 5 page blogs that get penalized by the search engines over the long term. The Niche Blogger and niche blogging is about building a long term sustainable business and not about earning a few bucks or getting rich quick and then losing it all.
It seems that people are usually on the look out for the next short cut to money. Anything that will still be here in 5 or 10 years is not done with short cuts. Sure, you could make some money for 6-12 months, but it wont be anything you could retire on.
I’ll even admit that the past several months I was working more on Hubpages than I was on my own blogs because I was able to see more immediate results. If I had just stuck with my own blogs all along i’d actually be in a better position right now.
The moral of the story is that your own websites and blogs are always going to be better than putting your content on someone else’s site. Yes you can use Web 2.0 properties like Hubpages and Infobarrel for traffic to your blogs, but the bulk of your energies should be on properties you have full control over.
Progress Overview
Hi Amy,
I hear ya. My Squidoo income plummetted recently, but my niche blogs are running along steadily, but other than that, I haven’t seen any losses from the Google change.
I have been using more email lists more regularly to make my income stream steadier and grow it some more. I should have been doing that a lot earlier than this but I didn’t want to sit down and write all those autoresponder emails. I finally made myself do it one long, rainy afternoon and I’m benefiting nicely from not very much work.
Those of you out there who don’t have an email sign-up on your blogs or aren’t using those lists to help grow your income need to start. The money really is in the list.
I’ve been keeping up with your goodreads updates as well. You are one busy WAHM, Amy! Hope all is well with your family.
Sherri
Good point, and the most recent update definitely reinforces that. HubPages took a huge hit and while that dented my income pretty good, the niche sites I own and work on are doing better then ever. It pays to look long term.
Having your own online real estate is always best.
HubPages or the like could shut down tomorrow and say kiss my butt and there wouldn’t be a darn thing that anyone could do about it.
Ok.. I am trying hubpages. Can you please share you stratergy towards infobarrel & hubpages? All of you articles are keyword targeted? backlinks you build for each article?