April was not a fun month at Bright Hub. The site was hit pretty hard by Google's Panda update, and I personally watched a 50% reduction in page views in about a 24 hour period. Articles that were especially smacked by the update went into holding, where they could not be seen by the public.
The good news about the held articles is that BH did pay out revenue share based on the average performance of the article over the previous three months. This amounted to a whopping .08 cents in revenue for me, but it was better than nothing. The only downside to their method was that I did have one article that was only a week or two old and was on pace to hit about 200 page views, which is about .40 cents. Because it was new, it didn't have the history, and I didn't get credited for it, but it's not a big deal. I am glad that they handled it the way they did. They seem to have a high level of integrity and concern for the writer, at least in my experience.
My earnings for the last few months were as follows:
April 2011--$4.10 (revenue share) $.08 (held content) $4.18 total rev share. I also added 9 articles this month, and still earned less than March. The total article count for April was 34, but 5 were held, so 29 were receiving views .
March 2011--$4.42 with only 25 articles live.
February 2011 $3.18 with 20 articles live.
January 2011 $1.36 with 14 articles live.
I was experiencing upward growth until Panda. It kind of soured me on the idea of writing more for awhile, because they take longer and pay less in the short term than Demand Studios. Still, I think it is a good opportunity, especially if you can get some decent keywords.
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