Despite all the changes, I still have my HubPages account. According to my stats, I have been with this site for 15 months.
Okay, so I received my first payout in March. Let me tell you. Things looked so promising.
"Things will look better after the Labor Day holiday. This is when all the kids go back to school."
I suppose. Being childless, that would not apply to me. I am always looking for a good read. If I don't find it online, I'm going to Barnes and Noble to support the publishing industry. I cannot wait on Amazon. I buy magazines and books. I give my permission to buy anything I want because I am retired.
I am Maxine. I don't kiss ass, and I don't have the time to take crap. I have come to a point in my life where all I want is a good read. And may with some photographs and videos thrown in. I'm not that hard to please.
Anyway, I have done everything to my Hubs. Sure, I've complained and dug my heels in. I've joined their Forums and had tantrums with all the others who decided to complain. But I complain because I have done everything. I even updated my profile. Do I like my new profile? Yes, I do. I love my new profile. I also look at my account every morning for the Zzz's. So far, only two. Fixed one and unpublished the other.
As I watch my HubPages flock, I realize that this in not what you call earning passive income because you are still working on your Hubs.
So what is a girl to do? I decided to write a WTI each week because the titles are already there and search engine friendly. Isn't that a no-brainer? I can go for that because I am so lazy!
Unfortunately, there is no sign of a WTI this week, so I guess I will be waiting for next Monday or Tuesday for a new topic. When I write a WTI, I need to complete and publish one by Wednesday. Thursday at the latest. Otherwise, I'm off to do something else.
I check in on my flock because it seems like the new Zzz program allows me to keep my account on autopilot. I can wander off, but still check in. There has been a lot of complaints about Zzz, but like all the changes and upcoming changes, there's nothing I can do about it. My traffic stays at a constant 130 most of the time. It goes up. It goes down. I get little red Christmas trees and upside down blue ones.
The best thing I can do right now is check in. Check out. I am retired. I don't rely on payouts so that I can eat and pay bills.
What a sad, sad situation if I did!
I still value my account, but since I got my 230 Hubs down to about 101, I won't write as much as I used to. I'll write and unpublish to keep my Hubs down to less than about 120. I don't want to reach the 230 point again. I don't envy anyone with a lot of Hubs. It is so hard to keep track of the flock, and when you have to hack and tweak, you're better off with a manageable number.
Also, the Zzz program allows me to work on other writing projects because it gives me the heads up to check in. I like writing fresh articles. I have yet to rewrite my unpublished Hubs so that they can be used elsewhere. To be honest, all of them put me to sleep, and I'm not motivated to do anything with them.
Zzzzzz.
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