Residual Online Income Report: My AdSense Revenue Per Hub for 2010

The year 2010 was my first full year of attempting to earn residual income online and so I wanted to provide a full year's report on my Google AdSense income for 2010 so that I could compare my results from year to year.  I was able to go to my Google AdSense account and select the HubPages channel so that I could determine exactly how much I made with HubPages over the past year.  I found the exercise interesting and was able to look at the number of ad impressions over the course of the year.  Fortunately, I did see an upward trend and hope to see a similar trend next year since it is my goal and desire to triple my AdSense income in 2011.

For the entire year, I was able to earn $339.39 from AdSense as a direct result of my Hubs. I am pleased with these results but would like to put more effort into writing and linking in 2011 in order to increase traffic to my Hubs. Right now, I believe lack of traffic is the main reason that my earnings are not where I would like them to be. Granted my topics are not the most interesting but I have seen some of my Hubs generate consistent levels of daily traffic that I feel could be improved upon with a better position in the search results.

If I consider the fact that I have written 173 Hubs total, then my per Hub residual income for the year turns out to be $1.96. I would expect that as these Hubs age, I could see an improvement in that total. I have noticed several articles that start out somewhat slow and will pick up after several months. I can only imagine that the work that I have done over the past 2 or 3 months will begin to yield benefits in the next several months.

I should be able to track my progress as next year progresses by tracking my monthly earnings per article. If I divide the almost $2 annually by 12, I should expect to see 33 cents per article per month on average. Since I have 173 Hubs, then I should expect a monthly income of about $57. Unfortunately, for the month of December, I am only at $55 total for AdSense and that includes other sites such as my blog and Xomba as well. That would suggest that I am behind the pace for residual income for this month if I want to even maintain what I did in 2010 let alone grow income in 2011.

The good news is that I have a target for which to aim and will have to do what I can to continue to drive traffic and use good keyword research to maintain my current level of revenue per ad click. I think I can do it but it will take quite a bit of effort next year. I also think that the effort will have to be consistent. I need to avoid the dry spells for publishing that I had this year and keep up a solid backlinking effort as well.

I am sure there are many others who are able to earn much more than 33 cents per article. I do hope to be able to increase this figure as I write more articles. I have learned quite a bit this year and can see a positive trend. Now it will simply be up to me to keep it moving in the right direction.