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An Introduction To HubPage Referrals
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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Good to know!
Great hub on referrals. This can be a rather confusing topic but you managed to explain things well and clearly enough for people to understand.
Very nice explained. Now I am clear with all process. I wasn't sure about the referring the others hub, now I got it. In two weeks I have 7 referral trackers Ids, about 400 traffic views and one sign up, no hubs yet.
Thanks for clarification!
What do I need to have set up in order to be able to be paid if I earn anything? I have AdSense set up and I associated my PayPal account.
Awesome hub, I need this info. Au fait sent me the title to this hub.
Thank you for this wonderful article. I enjoy the advice and will following your lead. Kathleen
Thanks for this hub. It makes it all very clear for me.
Thanks for this information, I find it very useful and helpful.
Very interesting hub. I didn't know about it until this week.
Thanks for the information. I have been using referral trackers, however not sure how they work. I looked at some of your hubs, but did not see a link (referal to another Hub) anywhere in your context. Am I doing this right?
Thank you so much! I've been using referral trackers without a clear idea how they work. Great hub.
Thank you! Does point [b] means that that even if people does not sign up in HubPages and do not write articles I can still benefit?
Nice job darkside! I do have a question that I did not see asked.
What if you have a direct referral sign up then that person gets sign ups? Any pyramid effect commission from those sign ups too? :)
Thanks its very helpful:)
I finally understand what referrals mean. Thank you darkside!
Definitely something to consider. I will need to decide who would be most likely to sign up.
Wow, we use the same footprints in our graphics.
Great minds think alike, eh? :)
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It'll take a few passes over the information before you get a grasp of it. But once you do you'll realise it's the most rewarding system on the internet.
Thank you Darkside. I obviously misunderstood the entire process when I posted on the forum.
Hi Darkside, I'm a new Hubber and was referred to your article by Wordplay. Si I guess the system works.
Good article and will read your others on the subject because I find the Referral system to be far from intuitive and Hubpages don't really provide any help on the subject.
Many thanks
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You don't have to try real hard, but be sure to be patient. This is how I've done it:
1) link from within your own hubs to related hubs with your tracker in the URL (as I've done several capstone hubs I have plenty of hubs within a related theme).
2) On other sites, be it your own blogs, at other publishing sites, or in your sig for your forum memberships, again use a tracker in your URLs.
3) When appropriate to suggest to a person to sign up (such as recommending HubPages in your profile) have a tracker URL to the sign up page, eg: https://hubpages.com/user/new/
Slowly you'll start to find more and more referrals being added to your tally. Plenty won't ever publish a hub, don't let that worry you. In fact, I only check once a day and copy and paste the stats into a document. I spare only a few moments to compare todays details to yesterdays, to see the difference. I'll be sharing some of those stats in my next hub about tracking where I answer some questions I've been asked in personal correspondence (I've kept my replies in the eventuality that I would share it with a wider audience).
Now, when you spell it out that way it makes a lot more sense. Thanks for taking the time to explain, it would appear to be worth while looking for referrals!
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Hi agvulpes.
1) You should be able to see the numbers rise in the Traffic Views (http://hubpages.com/my/trackers) for when people visit via your tracker. I use different trackers for different reasons and it allows me to gauge the effect of the tracker from where I'm receiving the traffic.
2) A one in ten view of someone elses hub can get you an Adsense click or even an Amazon purchase. I am seeing things being sold on Amazon that I definitely don't have on my hubs (the same too when I look at my wife's Amazon stats). Sometimes people can buy something other than what they've clicked through from your hub, but when you see a run of things being sold from the same niche you start to suspect that that isn't the case. Upon closer inspection (and clicking through to see who your referrals are, which was easier to trace on my wife's account because she has less referrals than me) we discovered that one of the referrals is getting a LOT of traffic for some very specific product reviews, and that's where the sales were coming from, the 10% of the page views from HP HQ's cut.
Have just read this Hub for the one hundredth time and I think it is finally sinking in :-)
One question I have though is how do I know that the referral tracking is working (can I see a log of them anywhere) and what benefit financially is it to me to get that extra page views.
Sorry that was two questions :-)
Wow, never knew HubPages was that generous!
Thumbs up!
Thank you so much for this explanation. You made it clear & simple to understand. The only thing I don't understand now is exactly how you know how much you made from each referrals' impressions?
nice hub
Great explanation about hubpage referrals. I didn't know about it till i am reading this hub.
Thank you. I am linking around... :p
Still working on this. It seems that some of this stuff has a horrendous learning curve for me. I figure if I keep reading and trying stuff out, I will eventually have an epiphany. I am still reading and trying but have yet to have the aha! moment. That will be when I decide that I can explain it all to someone else.
Still I am confused about my referal code.
wow thankx for the info, i am new to hubpage but learing alot, thanx
Thanks for explaining this topic so clearly!
Short and sweet! May I request a little expansion on how long the cookies last for, though. Or not ;) Still a great hub, thanks again :)
Number 2 (of your 4 part series)is great! Thanks.
Believe it or not, I finally got around to reading this. Thank you very much Darkside. :D I know, I been here a while. :D
Very good hub! I wasn't quite sure how it all worked until I read this hub.
Wow! Cool info here! This deserves a book of its own! You have expanded my mind on Hubbing and Blogging! Thanks!
Nice hub. Just what I wanted to know.
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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.)
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.
I have come to learn a lot about hubbing and referrals. thank you again
Wonderful explanation .... darkside .... keep the good work up ...
Thanks for the clear explanation.
makes more sense when you explain it! thanks!
A good article explaining trackers.
Thumbs up!
Jyoti Kothari
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
I bookmarked this hub ....this kind of information I am searching on hubpages about thse referrals.........
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!:)
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 for the briefing, I needed it in a bad way! m gna check out that other link you provided now!
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@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
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.
Thank you! Very useful information and I'm heading to your others right now!
Very useful information. Thanks!
Such a useful Hub Darkside - thank you very much
Viv
That referral topic was the most hard to understand to me, but you, as always, did a great job of simplification. Thanks!
Very simple. Thanks again!
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Rusty, go on to https://hubpages.com/community/tracking to read more about tracking, this hub was just a brief overview.
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.
Thats good info about working of url trackers
OK, just making sure. Thanks.
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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.
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!
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.
Thanks for the information.
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
Excellent. I was always confused by the two "types" of referrals.
Thank you, I didn't understand the concept at all before reading this!
Yes this was very helpful! Interesting setup to encourage socializing and sharing!
Excellent Hub! I think I actually grasp the concept of referrals now lol
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