I have sites based on the same niches and fetch over 1500 clicks a day.

You don’t ALWAYS have to find niches with $4 CPC and that stuff Court preaches… there are MANY niches like I search… and profit wildly on.

I have averaged about $6/day for the past week.

And I am putting backlinks almost instantly to them. and I have something like 4,000 page impressions at Hubpages so far.

The last 20 hubs have been in lower comp niches (1k-2k exact searches, PR 2-3 for top 5 websites). However, I still haven’t seen any clicks the past 2 days from these.

In total, I’ve got 518 page views in 10 days.

What level of competition do your keywords have? Are we talking like 300-700 exact searches a month, with like PR 0-1 websites for the top 5?

I’ve started to send backlinks to some of the first hubs now, so I’m keep to see what’s going to happen. I think comp might be too high too see any immediate effect.

I think I’m going to have to go after even lower hanging fruit now — keyword searches that bring in the 200-300 a month with NO competition. It’s not working going after high, medium or even low-mid comp long tails…at least not without backlink work.

We’ll see. I’m determined to at least make 5 bucks a day here!

I started the hub challenge on the same day, but fell behind for 3 days. I finally caught up today and made 3 extra… So I am currently 3 ahead.

You mentioned how you basically have no traffic, I have just over 2000 views as of today, and today I have made about $5 bucks. Keep at it, and remember to use these as backlinks as well. (I have enough content already written in my niche, sitting on my computer to bust out 300 or so hubs, just don’t know if I want to use it all.)

Once you do that, it hooks your hubs to your adsense account ( you have to verify it first — google sends you an email with a link to click).

Also, you need to make sure you ADD URL CHANNELS using the address of that hubpage you want added — otherwise, adsense won’t register your clicks.

I think you really have to send backlinks to Hubpages to get very far, which is a pain as I have enough sites to work on backlinks for already. Although I haven’t formally joined the challenge it has spurred me on to make a few more hubs.

The niches you are targeting are very similar (and in some cases the same - with different keywords though!) to the ones I made Blogger blogs for. Although I did all the usual keyword research they are not performing very well at all. One or two are starting to get some long tail traffic after a couple of months, but for self hosted domains I usually get that kind of traffic much earlier. Often a good boost initially, then a slump, followed by a slow creep back. I’m not seeing any of that pattern with the Blogger blogs. I’m not really sure if it’s the niches (they tend to be on health related subjects) or because they are Blogger blogs.

To track adsense clicks, you need to go to the Manage Channel Section of Adsense. You need to add a URL channel (using the address of your hubpage). If you add a Custom channel, it won’t work apparently.

Yea, it’s easy to get a do follow. I’m having fun with my hubs and I can use them for a farm for sure. But, I am a bit disappointing I am not making any money with them. I was hoping I wouldn’t have to start sending backlinks, but it look like it’s going to be the case.