How to achieve success on Hubpages
79It is possible to make money
Udates
As I learn more I will try to update these tips. Hope this hub continues to help.
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Before I start
Let me just give you some background on who I am.
- I am Not a professional.
- I am a 20 year old politics major.
- I have never written a blog or published anything before.
- I have not payed massive amounts of money for advertising
So if I can have this kind of success then any average person can.
My Results
Just so you know what I mean by success I'm going to let you see what my Statistics are so far. This way you can know if this is going to be of any use to you and from what I've seen in the forums here on HubPages I have done quite well in the 6 weeks I've been posting.
Theres several ways to judge your success:
- Page views on your hubs
- Earnings from Google adsense and Affiliate programs
- Hubpages Ranking
- Number of Fans
Of course most people are more concerned with the first two and understandably so....
Some examples of my work
Here are some examples of posts where I have used these tips.
Page Views
Lets start with the first measure of success. Page Views. That is... how many times people have looked at your hubs.
As you can see from the graph below I have 7000 views in my time hubbing so far.
From what I can gather that is an excellent result. And inspired me to share how I achieved it.
Earnings
Well I think that earnings is probably the main reason people will be reading this, so here it is.
I have made a total of $30.98 in my first 6 weeks.
The majority of my revenue has come from Amazon. After my first 6 weeks I have made a total of $20.87.
To break it down a little more I made $10.51 from Amazon in December. Then I made $10.36 from Amazon in the first two weeks of January.
Unfortunately it took almost two weeks for Google to approve my adsense account but I still managed to make $10.11 from their ads. A respectable amount for the kind of traffic I have generated.
You can look at the pictures for more details on my stats for my first six weeks.
How did I do it?
So now that you know the kind of success I've had let me try and tell you how you can achieve the same kinds of results.
- First you must make sure that you write interesting, original, and useful posts. If you don't nobody will want to read them.
- After you publish your post you should get involved in the hubpages community(or whatever website you're publishing on). The easiest way to do this is by participating in the forums and reading other peoples posts. Find people you like and become their fans. This will get your name out in the community in a relatively fast and easy way.
- While you're becoming known in the local community you must begin to reach out to the greater internet community. The best and easiest way to do this is through Backlinking.
Other Great Hubs with tips
Shortly after I created this hub I also created a thread in the hubpages forum. The purpose of the thread was to provide a place for experienced hubbers to post their helpful hubs and also to provide a place for new hubbers to seak help.
I would recomend that you use this thead to your advantage.
Writing good posts
So I bet you're wondering what exactly you should write about...
Well its pretty simple. Whatever you feel passionate about or whatever you have a large amount of knowledge on. That way you are almost guaranteed to create great content every time.
It really is that simple.
The next thing you might wonder about is what first step should I take to get people to visit my post?
- You should make sure and tag your post with relevant tags. For example if you are talking about pizza you might want to use the tags "pizza, tomato, sauce, cheese, food" so when people search for those words your post comes up.
- Make sure you use relevant pictures and videos (like the ones I have included in this post). They will help when people are using picture and video searches. And they have another hidden benefit which is that they will keep people on your page for longer periods of time and that will help increase your rankings on search engines.
ALWAYS try to include as much relevant media in your posts as possible. This will make your site more attractive in every sense of the word and people will be more inclinded to read what you have written.
Try to include videos that are relivent
Backlinking
Ok so if you've followed my advice you should be getting some decent traffic from hubpages (or whatever community you are publishing on) but that is only the half of it.
The real key is to get a signifigant flow of traffic from outside sources. How is this done you ask?
Well its pretty simple. You backlink to other sites... Many other sites. What is backlinking you inquire?
Thats another pretty simple thing to explain. Backlinking is when you place links to your posts onto other sites. For instance when you look at my traffic sources (below) you will see that MikeHuckabee.com is my second (to Hubpages) biggest source of traffic.
I did this by writing posts that relate to Mike Huckabee and then writing comments on Mikehuckabee.com and placing my links in those comments. To do this you may need to learn a very small amount of html or bbml code (things like <a href= ></a> or [url= ][/url])
This is why you see so many sources on my traffic sources graph (below)
Easy places to backlink to
Outside of niche sites like MikeHuckabee.com there are many many places you can backlink to.
Social bookmarking sites are an easy place to start. Places like Digg and Stumbleupon will give you solid backlinks and have the potential to bring massive amounts of traffic to your site if something you post becomes popular.
I use a site called socialposter.com to easily post something to multiple sites. I highly recomend the same site to you. Make sure you backlink somewhere or you will see little to no traffic.
How to use Socialposter.com
So I've gotten a few questions about Socialposter.com. Here's a quick overview of how to use it:
After you've gone to the site and you've filled out all the fields that you want to with information about your hub you should hit the "start posting" button. After that you have to go through and click the post button next to each site you want to post on. Social poster will then take you to that site's posting page (with most of the information filled in) and you will have to go through that sites steps to finish posting (which will take 2 or 3 minutes per site). You have to do this for every site you want to post to. I know it sounds like a lot of work but it really isn't. The site is an easy way of organizing and centralizing your backlinking. Good luck!
Url Trackers
Whenever you are placing your backlinks make sure you use trackers!
Trackers are important because if someone visits your post and then decides that they want to join hubpages too. You then get a percentage of that person's earnings for their entire career on hubpages.
You can find links with trackers at the bottom of each hub. Just click on the "link to this page" button and it will take you to a page with trackers already embedded into your links.
That way you can make others work for you!
You can make other people do the work for you
Good Luck
All thats left to say is Good Luck. If you put in the time and effort it should pay off for you in the long run.
Also if you have any questions or want me to expand on something just contact me or you could even just leave a comment and I will most likely be able to get back to you soon.
And if you think what I've written is good then please click on the SHARE IT button and spread the word! Thank you for reading.
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Comments
the view expressed in the hub is excellent tips. I admired these views , thanks
Good work, politico.
Right on! I've been publishing (what I think to be) good quality Hubs here, but not backlinking. Just in two hours of setting up a few accounts, traffic started coming in. I really appreciate your setting this all out for us.
Thanks guys! I'm really excited to hear my tips are helping people!
Thanks! These tips are helping me to improve my hubpages.
The line crosser
your hub is so useful for me. thanks!
You're very welcome Wisdom Kim... thanks for checking it out and I'm happy that I can help!
Great tips, CP, thanks...
Thanks for making this hub man. Love it. Answered everything I wanted to know. And I especially am thankfull for the slideshow with the exact screenshots.
good
Great Tips great hub
Thanks guys. Glad I could help!
I just dugg your article, but it was already dugg, so i double dugg it.....
Sweet I really appreciate that! You're awesome dj!
Well I am just learning all this stuff! My friend Dr. Spake got me involved in this.
Nice compilation !
Thanks for the info!
Glad I could help you guys!
This helped me.
Hey Thanks...Great info for newbies...I will definitely be back...keep it coming!
Nice set of data here. Doing well.
Great work, thanks! I'll see what I can do to use some of this stuff.
Today is the first day of my new life.
I am a believer in do your apprenticeship and learn.
You have given me my pass out certificate.
right behind you.
Thanks
Will be back
Solid Info.....
Good hub
I am a newbie in Hubpages...glad I stumbled into your hub. I learned a lot and thanks for being generous in sharing your knowledge.
Great article!
I'm just getting started here...really appreciate the tips. Thanks!
Thanks everybody I'm estatic to hear that this hub has been so useful to so many of you.
Also I would like to thank everyone for their encouraging words.
Remember if you have any questions just email me! I'll do my best to help.
great hub, keep up the good work
Hi, I'm new to hubpages, this info definitely shows me the right way to get started right. i like how you broke up your hub into text, graphs, video, stats, and bullets. Great format and mindset to share what you know. Thnaks. Best, Mary
Good information thanks for sharing. I am new to hubpages so it is good to read something like this, it inspires me :)
Great information for someone like myself who is 2 days into hubbing and just starting out. Thanks!
Thanks,
Just the informations I was looking for. I'm on a journey to make myself know and make lots of friends in different areas of interest - photography, skiing, sailing, music, and of course, day trading.
If there is anything I can do for you in return, just get back to me.
John
Thanks very much for all this great information. I joined this site less than half an hour ago and I'm glad that this is the first article I chose to read. I will definitely be using the tips you've provided.
Thanks again,John
Great information that will make anyones experience on HubPages more rewarding. Well done!
Hey - Great! Just getting started and your HubPage is going to save lots of hours.
nice detailed report. Thanks for posting.
Great tips. Thanks
Thank you for the compliments everyone. I am extremely happy that I could help! Remember to email me if you have any further questions!
I came across your page at the right time. This is exactly what I needed. Thank you for sharing this useful info. I will update my first hub page following your tips. Keep up your good work.
J
This was very helpful as I am new to Hubpages but am on ActiveRain, Facebook, Stumbleupon, Digg, MyBlogLog etc. and and am still learning how to backlink to my personal blog and use this new site as well.
Good information and best of luck.you are shining
Thats a great and useful stuff!!! As a beginer and have no back ground I wish to learn more from you,..I really want to make money online..
Great Job Man..
Really good information and I've bookmarked it so I can keep up to date.
I loved your site, I have been trying to understand what backlinking really meant and how it helps you get more hits, you explained it simple. I am older and new to all this and your hub was what I needed. I am having a hard time getting traffic and etc. No matter how old you are you can learn from another generation. thanks
Happy to know that u got total 7000 traffic...
Thanks Politico.....good information. I have much to learn!
good hub.
today i learnt about backlinking.
thx
your hub is nice
but i have a question.
How do you use www.socialposter.com
It has two buttons named 'Start Posting'. I pressed them both after placing my URL but nothing seemed to happen.
What could be the reason?
Thanks everybody! I'm extremely glad that I was able to help so many of you. Good luck with your hubs!
prems4u thank you but actually Im at about 9700 views!
greathub once you've filled in the information and clicked on start posting you have to click on post next to each site that you want to post to.
This is terrific, thx!
Should I assume that it is NOT okay to use traffic exchanges to get more hits?
very informative post. thank you very much!
Great Hubpages tips- well written!
Thanks Shirley and I would definately say that its NOT okay to use traffic exchanges.
Also I would like to thank ruel and angela for the complements as well!
Great advice, well presented and explained - does anyone know if you can add trackers to Stumble or Digg? - I've not worked out to do it so far.
Yes you can add trackers to stumble and digg. You just need to insert your tracker into your url. Heres an example:
My url:http://hubpages.com/hub/hubpagessuccess
My Tracker: _GoNow
My Url with my tracker: http://hubpages.com/_GoNow/hub/hubpagessuccess
Thanks! This is just the type of information I was looking for!
Great Hub never knew about backlinking now I do thanks for passing it on.
You've got serious mojo. Yeah.
Great tips. Thanks for sharing. :-)
Well Done! If you give good info, success will follow and I love the social bookmarking stuff!
http://hubpages.com/hub/Singorama-Lessons
Awesome tips...I believe some of these can help me.Thanks for the article.
very good tips, thanks for sharing : )
Thank you for the interesting and helpful information. I'm written a few hubs, and am working on the backlinking part right now. Thanks, Dorsi
I had to read this like three times, thanks.
How do you use "socialposter" went to the site and entered all ino and pressed submit, is that all there is to it?
Thanks
I just added a little section about socialposter.com to try and clear up some confussion with that site. I hope it helps!
And Thank you everybody for the comments. I'm glad I could help!
My goodness, you sure have lots of comments on here, politico! Hey, drop me an email, from one Messiah grad to one Messiah student!
p.s. Great hub, for certain.
Will do wedding consultant
Thanks for your guide.I sure will find a lot to use here.
Thank you for the neat and sincere work you've done here. I have in the past purchased many ebooks that could not compare with what've put here.
1. Your data is very good for research. One can easily see where the bread is.
2. The gigantic google is ranking a distant third contrary to expectation.
Again thank you very much for your sincerely, simplicity and kindness.
Thanks for the tips. I am new to Hub-Pages and think the people here have a lot of positive thins to say. If you get a chance check out my page at http://hubpages.com/hub/get-off-the-credit-treadmi I would appreciate any feedback. Thank you
Awesome info here! Very helpful....thanks!
Thank you so much for this really helpful information - I won`t pretend that I actually understand it all ! I am struggling with back linking ..... but this Hub is helping me - alot
Thanks again Viv
This is exactly why I love this site. I can find everything I need to know right here. With people like you College Politico you make the learning curve so much easier and less stressful. I have been on this site for 3 months but have not done much due to work and not quite knowing the best way to make a hub and get traffic. Now you have helped me immensely!!!
Thanks so much.
New here myself! Nice hub...so ignorant computer-internet-wise. How did you get your "go now" tracker? and you need one of these to have backlinks? Or does everybody use _gonow or what? Like I told someone,,,I never bought a "auto mechanics for dummies" during all the years I've been driving! I just want to write!
Thanks for all your compliments everyone! I'm extremely glad that I could help all of you.
desertblondie: in order to get a link with a tracker in it you must - 1. goto the site you want to link to.
2. click on the button at the very bottom of the page that says "link to this page"
3. copy the link link that appears in the "URL" box. (the tracker hubpages give you will just be a bunch of letters and numbers)
If you want a custom tracker like my _GoNow one then you simply click on the "My Account" button at the top of every page. Then click on the "URL Trackers" link on the right side of the screen. Then, finally, click on the "Create A New Tracker" button on that page.
To answer your other question... No, you dont need a tracker in order to backlink. All trackers do is well... track people who visit hubpages through your links that have trackers. That way if someone decides to sign up for hubpages after visiting your page, you get credit for it (and a percentage of money that they make on hubpages). If you don't have a tracker in your link then you don't get credit for the people who sign up after visiting your page (people will still come look at your page but if they sign up then you get no credit).
Very good information here. I'm bookmarking your hub.
Your fan, ST.
Jeepers dude, ya done good! :-) Thanx 4 sharing all that good stuff with us, myman! Gonna join yer fan list too. Ya got a thumbs up from this ol' boy!
lb
Really you have put very practical things here in this hub. It really has a significance to follow for newly joint person as well as others who has not so much back links!
Since I started, I have managed to do pretty good with the hubs I have created, but they would have been much better if I had read this post first...lol.
Thanks for sharing and I hope to be ranking as well as you are soon!
Have an amazing day!
Micheal
PS - What is your Twitter, I would like to follow you, so I can keep up with your hub activity!
Thank you for great info! I will be using several of your suggestions to make my hubpages experience better. :)
great post
I've just stared on hub pages - thanks for your help
Great post...I really liked how you covered things comprehensively!
Thankyou for the great info
Well written and enlightening. This has taught me a lot about writing hubs.. Thanks!
Great info about tracking backlinks and posting on social networking sites.
Have you earned more money (than what you have posted in this hub) since posting this hub?
This is definitely a great Hub on hubpages!Keep up the good work.
Great stuff! Very informative. I'm surprised amazon was the most.
I found this very helpful. You made backlinking very clear. I also realize I haven't been doing it nearly enough. I haven't been participating in the forums and threads enough. Then again, I'm fairly new--less than a week old here! But thanks for the advice.
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.
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sminut13 says:
6 months ago
great tips yet again. thanks so much