An Introduction To HubPage Referrals
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What is a HubPage referral?
A referral is either:
a) Being a HubPage Author and referring a visitor to sign up to HubPages to become an author. Or,b) Referring traffic to another HubPage Authors hub.How does it benefit you?
a) If someone signs up for a HubPages account via your referral link, you get 10% of their pageviews for the life of their hubs.
b) When you refer other peoples Hubs you get a cut of the pageviews. 9% if they have been referred to HubPages by another Author. 12% if there is no prior referral involved.How does it benefit the referred person?
a) If someone signs up to HubPages through one of your referral links they don't get less page impressions. It always stays at 60%. The reward to the referrer is taken from HubPages Inc's share of the page impressions. So the obvious benefit for the referred is they got to learn about HubPages!
b) Again the 9% or 12% that the referrer is getting is taken from HubPages Inc's share of the pageviews. And the benefit to the referred Author is that they get traffic that they otherwise would never have got. It certainly gives those with the talent and expertise in traffic generation and web promotion extra incentive to tap into their traffic streams and share it with others.However you don't need to explain this to anyone. You'll just waste time and maybe even confuse matters if you repeat this information.How do you do it?
HubPages sets you up with a default tracking URL. Which can be found here.
However you can also make your own. In fact I strongly advise you do.
I explain the system in greater detail and suggest and demonstrate words you can use to maximize your click thrus in How HubPage Tracking Works
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Yes this was very helpful! Interesting setup to encourage socializing and sharing!
Thank you, I didn't understand the concept at all before reading this!
Excellent. I was always confused by the two "types" of referrals.
So is it improper hubbing to place our referral link on each one of our hubs, I guess I thought if someone read my hub and clicked on it and signed up that I would get credit for it?
Thats the way it should be set up
Thanks for the information.
Thanks for thie information - As an affiliate marketer and a newbie to HubPages I was wondering how the referal program worked. You gave me exactly what I was looking for.
You may have answered this and I am just missing it, but if I refer someone to one of my hubs (or any hub for that matter) using my referral tracker, and they sign up with that box on the top right of all hubs, do I get a percentage of that?
Or do I have to send them directly to the hubpages sign up page to get credit?
Thanks!
Yes, if they sign up within 30 days of first clicking through on your URL tracker and they sign up (without using another URL tracker in the meantime) you get the credited for being the referrer (and get the percentage of pageviews for your ads). You can send people to your own hubs, other peoples hubs or even straight to the sign up page.
OK, just making sure. Thanks.
Thats good info about working of url trackers
Hi Darkside:
Excellent hub! I joined your fan club b/c your articles are great.
I'm new, and I'm not sure where to look for this link to refer others to my or your hub. Could you give some more details? Thanks for your time.
Rusty, go on to http://hubpages.com/_learn/hub/tracking to read more about tracking, this hub was just a brief overview.
Very simple. Thanks again!
That referral topic was the most hard to understand to me, but you, as always, did a great job of simplification. Thanks!
Such a useful Hub Darkside - thank you very much
Viv
Very useful information. Thanks!
Thank you! Very useful information and I'm heading to your others right now!
If you dont mind me asking an abecedarian question, from your heading How does it benefit you?..
..at what point, in what application or process, will I see that an author has been previously referred, before I refer his/her hub; therefore, learning beforehand whether Im earning a 9% cut as opposed to 12%? Or is this predetermined cut only seen on payday, after I have referrred said hub?
Thanks for your reply and writing out how to hub so well.
@Newsworthy
Referrals benefit me in two ways... I get about 10% (lets call it ten percent, rather than try and sort out the 9 and 12 percents) of the ad views on a page that I have linked to. How will I REALLY know that I got a click? I won't. Does it matter? No. I make a little money here, I make a little money there. It all ads up. I don't sweat it, I just go with the flow.
The second benefit is that EVERYONE who has clicked through on that tracker, if they sign up to HubPages (and my tracking URL was the most recent tracking URL that they've clicked) I am the referrer. So I get about 10% of their ads views on ALL their hubs. Taken from HubPages Inc's cut of the pageviews (so the author still gets their 60%).
Now the slight reduction of the percentage of pageviews only happens if someone else is referring traffic to a page of an author that I have referred.
I do know a Hub Author who used to have a lot of hubs, but they were greatly reduced when HubPages HQ got serious about duplicate content (they had published the same content elsewhere, and linked to it quite heavily from HubPages). That person now only has a few hubs, but they do have a few referrals. One of whom has made a lot of hubs. And I assume he's getting a nice little trickle of revenue due to that author. From what I understand he makes more due to that author than he does from his own hubs. Having so few referrals and even less (own) hubs would allow a person to track the activity a little easier.
My strategy though is to 1) be aware of how the system works, 2) work it to the best of its advantage, 3) not worry about it after that :-D
Thank you for the briefing, I needed it in a bad way! m gna check out that other link you provided now!
hey thanks for your well written response, darkside. im getting past number 1 strategy in your response, in hopes of absorbing and cultivating more number 2s in your response.
The part about not worrying, i'll worry about when I get there.
Thank you so ..so.. so very much.I just could not understand this..now it is crystal clear.I'm off to your other hub about how this works.Thanks a ton!:)
I bookmarked this hub ....this kind of information I am searching on hubpages about thse referrals.........
Dark Side:
I want to thank Hugh for the specific help you gave me several weeks ago and your articles on tracking I found today. I believe this system is too complicated but I am glad it is here. I would prefer their was an affiliate link a referral could go directly to. I realize this is not your doing and I greatly appreciate your writing the articles to give help to everyone.
I am having a major problem in trying to hear the audio phrases designed to prevent spam when initiating a page. Usually there is an unintelligible word at the beginning of the praise. The system says not to worry about this but the fact is it will not approve most phrases if you do not type it all. I have to get a new phrase 5 to 10 times and then the system hangs up. I realize again this is not your problem it is just a comment.
The company has been outstanding in that it made a simplified system for those of us meeting assistive technology. That was extremely caring, kind and considerate. I have found that to be true of yourself and other members of the group.
Thanks again,
Bob
A good article explaining trackers.
Thumbs up!
Jyoti Kothari
makes more sense when you explain it! thanks!
Thanks for the clear explanation.
Wonderful explanation .... darkside .... keep the good work up ...
I have come to learn a lot about hubbing and referrals. thank you again
The more I read about this the easier it becomes to understand. You've really helped me with this explanation. Thanks! Maybe it will finally click, lol.
It's kinda funny, but read it a few times. Leave it for a while. Come back and read it again. Go away. And then when you least expect it someone else will want to know how it works and you'll find that it all makes perfect sense to you! (Until you then try and explain it to someone else.)
Nice hub. Just what I wanted to know.
Wow! Cool info here! This deserves a book of its own! You have expanded my mind on Hubbing and Blogging! Thanks!
ForTheLove says:
2 years ago
Excellent Hub! I think I actually grasp the concept of referrals now lol