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How 31,000 monthly page views made January 2012 my best hub month ever

Updated on March 15, 2012

© 2012 by Aurelio Locsin.

My profile says that I joined HubPages three years ago. But after my first three hubs received no visitors and no traffic, I quit. I reappeared in May 2011 when my hub writing started in earnest. So technically, my stint here is only eight months old.

Basics

My efforts reached their zenith in January 2012, which rewarded me with my most page views, the most hubs ever written in one month, my highest number of hubs, the most followers, the most comments and my highest earnings. The following tables shows the figures, with some rounding. How do these numbers compare to yours?

January Page Views:
31,000
Total Page Views:
57,000. Note that more than half of my totals came from last month.
Number of January Hubs:
68
Total Hubs:
202. Three were marked as duplicated, with one reversed so far.
Total Followers:
275
Total Comments:
1,107
HubPages Earnings for January:
$100.83
Google Adsense for January:
$3.01
Hubscore:
91, with a peak at 96.
Highest Score:
95, though a few have peaked at 100.

Titles

Source
Ever
Google
12,849
Reddit
11,205
HubPages
7,400
Alocsin Hubpages
4,116
Train Board
1,869
Model Railroad Forums
1,171
Facebook
1,058
Google Canada
1,052
Google UK
886
Model Train Forum
845
Yahoo Search
702
Bing
645
Google Australia
487
Kindle Boards
416
Style Forum
331
Pinoy Exchange Forum
318
Google India
288
Ask
243
AOL Search
237
Total from ten other sites
1,403

Traffic Sources

The table on the right shows traffic sources for all my 57,000 page impressions:

  • About half come from just two sources: Google and Reddit. I have no control of Google hits but I do post occasionally on Reddit.
  • Facebook supplies a few hits. Aside from my own Facebook page, I also post in a few related Facebook groups.
  • I'm not quite sure how to interpret the data from HubPages and Alocsin HubPages: some may come from other hubbers and others from my entering and editing text. If you have any insights into this traffic, please put them in the Comment field blow.
  • A sizable amount also comes from forums like Model Railroad, Model Train, Kindle Boards, Style Forum and Pinoy Exchange. I've posted links here.
  • Some visitors are also coming from the Google versions in Canada, the UK, Australia and India.

Hubs by Groups

The following chart shows how I've grouped hubs by percentage. My favorite topics are jobs, followed by model railroading and then how to use HubPages. Rounding out the list are tech, travel, finance, health and other topics.

Percentage of my hubs belonging to different groups.
Percentage of my hubs belonging to different groups.

How I Got Here

The following are some of the strategies I use:

I’ve abandoned the use of Twitter and Digg as time wasters because they do not provide any traffic. I am experimenting with SocialMonkee and have yet to try StumbleUpon.

Source

What about SEO?

Much is made about the use of Search Engine Optimization in increasing hub traffic. My feelings about it are mixed:

  • Many of my hubs that use SEO receive excellent traffic and have placed on the front page of Google.
  • The same is true for my hubs without SEO: some get good traffic and some don’t.

I’ll continue to use SEO to craft my titles and will continue to experiment with it. But right now, my feeling is that quality writing with useful information seems to trump any kind of aritificial techniques. I’m beginning to think that the so-called SEO pundits are standing on shaky ground. They are the only ones making money from their rules as they peddle their techniques to unsuspecting writers.

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