Good places to post your HubPages articles for Backlinks + Traffic
Hello Hubbers! I'm fairly new to HubPages, I've been here about a week now and love the community so far! Anyway, I was thinking, since we all have the same goal; to make money, get readers and help people, I thought I would make a topic for us all to discuss the best places to post our HubPages articles to get good backlinks (to help out with our Google search engine rankings) and organic traffic+readers.
About two years ago I ran a magazine/blog type website so I used to have a ton of good website locations that I would link my articles on. Sadly it's been almost two years since I used to host it so I've forgotten many of them. If anyone has any places they would like to add, please feel free to drop a comment.
1. Quora - I used to LOVE Quora answers. I would follow topics in my niche and then when new questions would get posted, I would leave a paragraph or two helping out the original poster and additionally I would also leave a link to my article in my answer. I left around 50 different answers with my website in it, and only one ended up getting removed. The key is the content has to be almost exactly what they are looking for and make sure you add in at least a few sentences answering his question. Then, add a couple more sentences in a new paragraph explaining why you are going to leave a link to X or Y HubPages article.
***For those who don't know*** Make sure to use anchor text that matches whatever your article is trying to get ranked for on Google. For example, if you are trying to get ranked for "Best selling e-books about war" make sure you use that exact sentence in your Quora answer and use that whole sentence as the link text to your HubPages article. You do this by copying the entire length of text and clicking the little "link" button, then pasting in your HubPages article URL.
I'm going to be updating this topic often as more of the places I used to use for backlinks come back to me. I've forgotten almost all of them so I'm sitting here scratching my head trying to remember. As I remember more, I'll either add new posts or I'll edit this original post.
If you have any places you would like to add, please do so! I would love to hear any and all hidden gems I might have forgotten about, or haven't heard of yet! Let's get our articles ranking high together and lets make some money!
That strategy is growing old now, Jacob. The danger is your comments will get marked as spam, and damage you in the long run. For instance, I marked a similarly styled comment on one of my hubs as 'spam' just two days ago from someone calling himself Michael.
On Quora you mean or here on HubPages? I wouldn't advise linking your Hubs on other peoples Hubs here on Hubpages, but I found that if you add in a bunch of useful information and a link to your Hub on a Quora answer most people are fine with it.
However, I'll keep that in mind for Quora going forward if that's what you are referencing. Thanks for the info!
Yeah I understand what you are saying, I used to run a website that had thousands of long tail keywords ranking first on Google search and it was nice getting a lot of traffic from Google, having people subscribe to me and such.
I don't mind if people visit my sub and go to other peoples subs, as long as they are clicking on mine in the search results first and reading it! Haha. I read in the FAQ that HubPages recently will start to lower your hub scores if you aren't receiving at least some search traffic from Google, which is why I came up with the idea of posting this topic. (For new hubbers I think they mentioned you only have about a month to start getting search traffic, whereas longtime hubbers have a year or more.)
Any information on that you might have? I think it was in the FAQ or the help pages, but since I'm new on HubPages I'm still learning stuff over here!To each their own I suppose. Backlinking takes me around 30 minutes whereas writing an article takes 4-5 hours for me because I tend to be a perfectionist when it comes to articles
If you can write 10 articles in a few hours or so, certainly better to avoid back linking at all.
See my strategy is to do extensive keyword research and target a whole article around one keyword that averages 2$-10$ PPC that gets 500 or more monthly searches. If I rank in the top three for that, at a 2% ctr, I'll be averaging $20-$100 per month on that article. If you are targeting keywords (or more likely, not targeting anything if you can write 10 articles in a few hours) the click cost per article will be drastically low.
I tend to go for lower volume, higher quality vs high volume, low quality.
Everyone has their own strategy though and if that works for you, I'm glad. I've found over the last eight years that my strategy works best for meAh you use the Google keyword tool. I hate that thing - I haven't used it in 3-4 years. I use Google suggest
There used to be 30 minute challenges in the forums once upon a time and everyone had to write a hub in 30 minutes. I can write 1,000 words in that time, so I am very much a churn-out type of writer. We all have our own styles!Ah yeah, for me it takes hours upon hours for one article LOL. I write and rewrite and proofread and rewrite... Sometimes it ends up sounding worse than when I started. Haha!
For me doing the keyword research and doing the backlinks are the "fun" and easy part. Writing is not my specialty
I'm the opposite
I don't even like images. I've reached the point where I'll give my husband a list of topics and he'll set up entire blog posts for me, prefilling with title, subtitles and images. Then, all I have to do is log on and write. I also dislike Instagram but it seems a gazillion people disagree with me on that one, too!
Do you have a link to a Google blog explaining this? I find that hard to believe as backlinking is an integral part to getting ranked and it has been since the beginning of Google. I know they are making social links carry more weight but I can't see them not counting backlinks whatsoever. I do client SEO and get people ranked very often, so I'm unaware what exactly you mean lol
If you have a blog post from Google explaining the changes to their algorithm with changes that backlinks do nothing, I would love to read it! Thanks
So far I only really utilize Pinterest. Following so I can read later - I have to go wrangle the kids for bedtime
high quality dofollow links definitely should help google ranking, even on hubpages. my old site before i came over to hubpages was getting around 40k unique visits monthly all from google. mostly from ranking for long tail keywords. this was only about a year ago so i doubt their ranking algorithm changed too much. but my site was a niche site in the money making niche hosting only that sort of content. im not sure how well hubpages domain ranks on google, being that it's such a broad spectrum of articles. their sister sites like toughnickel should rank better. backlinks should help though as far as i know.
of course they can't be spammed, or automated as that will end up hurting you long term, but manually built white hat links on similar content sites should help!Yeah, I've had both Adsense and amazon affiliate for years. I only started Hubpages six days ago so as far as monthly traffic goes, I'm not quite sure yet lol :-D So far I only have 242 views on my six hubs put together, made around 15 cents so far in the six days that I've been here. So I'll only be making probably 60 cents or so every 1k views. Although it might go up a bit once it averages out and I get ranked on Google, I tend to pick decent paying keywords (though I'm not sure how hubpages determines your adsense earnings yet. I'm assuming it's the same as a website would, minus their cut. If so, my earning should def go up.) I used to make anywhere between $8-$13 per 1000 views on my own website. Hubpages will certainly be less but I'm not sure how much less.
One thing with articles is that you have to put in a TON of work before you start making real money, For example on my most recent site before I sold it I was only making around $550/month on adsense each month after six continuous months of hard work around 50-60 hours a week. The good part about that though, is that it is residual-passive income. I could have kept the site and never written on it again and continued to make 400+ a month for the next couple years at minimum. On one website I had I took a trip and didn't touch the site for a month and a half, yet when I came back I had made like 600 bucks for doing nothing. Lol.
I've been doing this for about eight years though roughly, give or take, so I know what I'm doing for the most part. I'm not a millionaire or anything but I plan to be before 35, so I'm working my butt off to reach it haha. If you want advice for keyword targeting you're welcome to send me a message and I'll help you out. To really maximize your earnings its a pretty complicated job. Eventually I'll start doing amazon affiliate sales on here too to boost my earnings. Adsense is one of the lowest ways to make money, it should be used as additional cash flow, certainly not your main income earner. Most sites usually only make like 1-2 bucks per 1k views, it takes a lot of knowledge in order to target specific keywords to get that higher, while still maintaining a large readership.
Let me know if you want help and I'll give you a rundown.
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