How to use Referral or URL Trackers effectively to earn ongoing royalty
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As a new hubber, I always underestimated role of URL trackers. However, after one year I can say that this small widget do wonders. Can you believe that these trackers showed ways to 48000 visitors to my different hubs? These trackers brought 44 new hubbers to Hubpages and these hubbers created 55 hubs. These 55 hubs attracted 100,000 visitors to hubpages. I really underestimated these tiny creatures. Have a look at right sidebar to see the snapshot.
Other than using the affiliate programs of Google adsense, eBay and Amazon, there is another way to generate revenue through HubPages. It's HubPages Affiliate Program. Whatever hubpage views are generated through your efforts (e-mail, posting in forums, links etc.), a share of revenue goes to your account. Not only traffic but signup to hubpages using your links generate revenue for you. There are different ways to earn money using URL trackers.
How to create trackers?
We will discuss how to insert URL trackers later; first let us know how to create trackers. Everything is discussed by hubpages about it but not so easy to do. Use of URL trackers is important for generating revenue. You can create several URL trackers just by clicking create tracker. Since its difficult to remember "default tracker", it is wise to create simple 2-3 words trackers. You can use your initials or your close friend or relative's initials to remember. For tracking performance of your links at different sites or different pages, you should use different trackers for different web links. In this way you can know which link is generating more revenue to you.
How to insert referral trackers?
As you invite your friends to hubpages using e-mail, you have to place a link in your mail. What you will do for that? You will place a URL address of your hubpage/hub or someone else's hub. OK. Its fine but how hubpages will know who have invited them to hubpages. To help hubpages to identify you, you have to put either your default tracker or other trackers you have created. If you failed to understand how to insert your URL tracker in the URL address even after reading help page at hubpages, I'll clarify this. Open a hub and copy its address from address bar of your Internet browser. You have to use this address as URL address whenever you wish to place a link. For example, URL of one my hubs is: http://hubpages.com/hub/earnmoneywithblogs; I'll paste this URL in my e-mails to my friends. But this address will just bring my friends to my hub but it will not generate any revenue for me as hubpages will not know who brought the visitor to the hub in question. For this you have to insert URL tracker in the URL address like this: http://hubpages.com/_vvv/hub/earnmoneywithblogs; you may notice _vvv inserted before hub in the URL address above. Now if your friend visits the hub or sign up as a new hubber, you will get some share of revenue generation. Even hubview by your friend will generate revenue for you. Other way to use URL tracker is to click " Link to this page" or e-mail this page. Even you may use different trackers in your different hubs whenever you interlink your other hubs. Wherever you place a link to your hubpage or someone else's hub, you always should insert your URL tracker. In simple words if you wrote a blog at Blogger.com and placed link to any of your hub and in response to that link someone visits your hub by clicking on that link you will not share any revenue until and unless you insert your URL tracker in that link (Hub's URL). Likewise, if you refer or recommend for signup, without your URL tracker, you will not get credit for that sign up.
How to know who has signed up using your referral tracker?
Hubpages has made a change in use of referral trackers from April 16, 2008. I started a thread in the hubpage forum “There is no way to help downline because one does not know who has signed up under you.However, it...” 4 weeks ago. Most of the hubbers participated in the discussion and supported my views that there must be some provision to know who has signed under you so that you may help new hubbers to understand the hubtivity. I am happy to learn that HP staff has now made this change in URL tracker use and now hubbers may know who has signed under them. It’s a welcome step. One can know about new hubbers signing under him/her by clicking on default referral tracker or created trackers by clicking on the tracker. Hope I could clarify all aspects of how to use referral trackers. If you have still few doubts, let me know using comments capsule.
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Thanx violetsun it gives me immense pleasure to know that my efforts are not going waste.
great hub. really good for beginners. such a pity this was not here when i came. i could have used its help. but i finally managed to learn on my own. thks
Yes, me too. I learnt the hard way!
Thanks for sharing, the premise of a URL Tracker is to allow you to evaluate the performance of your blogs, websites and web applications...
Thanks very much Premsingh. It really helped me a lot. Now I can benefit from URL trackers. Thanks once again.
Such hubs are useful for fellow hubbers who do not know anything about technical aspects. Your concern is laudable.
One clarification is needed.Whenever we clink on 'link this page' ( after entering by signing in)while seeing some others' page, the window opens and our URL is automatically selected.Then, is it not just to click on 'FINISH' present at the bottom?I am doing just that only. And I read somewhere here that such linking remains for 120 minutes only.Is it true? I think Mr. Paul deeds &co also can clarify this.
Thanx sminut13, Kenny Wordsmith , highwaystar, tanzeelniazi , prasadjain for posting nice comments. This gives great impetus
to a writer to write more and quality content. However, I always try to write in simple and understandable language.
Answer to prasadjain's question: Most of the time "Link this page" link is inactive. Simplest way to link someone else hub is to copy the address in the browser and place this link manually to "Link" in edit mode. Paste the URL address in "Add URL" and insert your tracker prefixed with underscore before hub abd after hubpages in the URL as discussed in this hub somewhere. Hope this helps you.
well now i know why even when a lot of my friends visited my pages i was't getting any money. thanks for your tips they were very helpful.
thanks blerim for compliments. Thanks esteria for visiting my hub and I am happy that information in the hub will be helpful for fellow hubbers to earn more money.
Some super and easy-to-follow tips, written in a very attractive manner.
Thanks for such a decent appraisal, pjdscott .
Good one. As a new comer I faced a lot of difficulty. I shorted it out but it took lot of my time.I wish, this will help the new comers as well as those not very sound technically.
Jyoti Kothari,
hyderabad/jaipur
Thank you for explaining this is simple terms - sometimes I have to read this stuff out loud to myself a couple of times to make it really register in my brain...But this was very clear and informative - what a relief!
Thanks to both Jyoti and KelleyMari for nice comments. I have passed through the same difficulty and when a hubber placed this request I promptly answered it and I tried to use simple and non-technical approach to discuss. I am happy this hub is getting popular and same time proving great help to many hubbers. Thanks to all visitors also.
It took me 6 months to get my trackers in place!! I just wish i had learned and implemented them immediately!
These are a must for all hubbers!!
Just starting to learn all about the trackers and blogs and all the other stuff you need to know to earn money online. Boy, it gets complicated at times but I'm getting there!
Good Hub, thumbs up and joined your fan club!
Ruthie
These are all great ideas for making money online I just posted a new hub explaining how to make a ton of easy cash on the internet using linkbid script.
Hi Prem,
Even after reading the "offical" Help/instructions in Hubpages on this matter a couple of times, things were not clear to me (rather dull headed!). Then I did a title search on 'Referral tracker' and ended up in your article. NOW I UNDERSTOOD after reading your article.
Thanks!
CVR
Thanks Rajan, Like other hubbers, you found answers to some of your questions. I came to learn from the comments on this hub that simplicity also pays.
Good one dear. I just started using trackers lately. This hub helps more than official HP instructions. I agree with Rajan.
Hi prem Thanks for the info
Instead of attaching in mails
Is there any other methods to use these url trackers effectively?
Thanks weblog. Also my sincere thanks to jyuva. You should use url trackers everywhere you place a link. When you post links in your hubs to drive traffic to other hub, you should insert your url tracker. You will not only divert traffic to your other hubs but also earn revenue. Additional advantage of placing text links using url trackers is that when anyone copies(steals) your content and post it on some other site, you will earn revenue from the traffic diverted from that site to hubpages and not the personwho has copied it.
Thanks prem i think i got your point
But one more small clarification to use this url
hubpages.com/_VVV/hub/hereishuburl
I did't get this _vvv. Means i can create a url trcker and give my name or what ever i can then i need to include that name in the hub url.
Am i missing any thing here?
Don't get me wrong
thanks
great tips thanks.
Great, informative hub. Thank you! As a new hubber, I find this very helpful. :)
Thanks jyuva. You can create URL tracker using your initials or full name also like i created using my name. Take care to insert tracker before ..../hub/.... and it should follow the underscore.
Thanks Adeshwar and KT pdx.
already doing it... no signups yet but several views!
Hi Profiler, You have to write about hubpages on other sites like blogger, wordpress and yahoo etc and convince viewers that they can earn some money if they join hubpages. I'll suggest you to read articles psoted on other sites by some good hubbers about hubpages. Even if they are not signing, no problem, you will earn some money if they come to hubpages and view few hubs.
dear Vast, your profile address is your url. URL tracker created at HP works only for HP. If you provide a link on some other sites you can insert your tracker in the URl. You can use url tracker in any document which targets your pages at HP. by default a url tracker is assigned to your account. You can create simple trackers using your initials and by clicking "create tracker button". Hope this helps. I am deleting your comment as it has several links to external sites and not allowed here.
thank you for helping, it helps a bit more, but I am still not sure if my url is the one i sent you that you deleted ending in /profile/VAST ?
Create a New Tracker
Tracking Token (3-16 chars, letters and numbers only)
Description
and then when you hit create tracker what do you do?
when you hit create tracker, a tracker is created. You should insert this tracker in your url where ever you wish to link it back to your hub. suppose I wish to provide a link to this page, url of the page is: http://hubpages.com/hub/Suggestions--to-use-URL-Tr You should insert your tracker (if it is 'vast') as shown here: http://hubpages.com/_vast/hub/Suggestions--to-use-
To make things more clear, if this link is clicked by a visitor, this hubpage will open and hubpages will know that this particular visitor was brought by you to HP. If the visitor sign up you will get a share of impressions as long as he stays at HP.
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VioletSun says:
11 months ago
I enjoy your tips as I like to learn and your hubs provide a good source of information. Thank you!