Okay,... I'm still relatively new to the hubpages environment. I have written 9 hubs now and have had about 1,000 hits on one of them. I'm signed up for Google Adsense and also signed up with Amazon for affiliate activities.
Here are some questions:
1 - How does one "attract" fans and what difference does that make in the overall rating I see which certain contributors have attained? My rating has peaked out recently as high as 92 or so,... but not sure what drives that and how it impacts anything.
2 - Wondering how to achieve more success in the area of hubpage traffic. As indicated,... I have one page that has attracted about 1000 page views since July 10. Not phenomenal,... but definitely my best effort to date. I have written 9 hubs on various topics. Open to thoughts and information on how to increase traffic. I'm already using links in Facebook, DIGG etc. to reference my pages.
3 - Thus far my "results" with Adsense and Amazon are less than stellar. I am still below $5.00 earnings on Adsense and under $2.00 earnings on Amazon as an affiliate. I have read a number of articles within hubpages on the topic of earning money via hubpages articles, adsense and amazon affiliate programs. Right now my add click through percentage is about 2-3%. Not anything to write home about for sure!
4 - Finally,... how can attract more feedback (the helpful kind) in comments on my pages? I'm not seeing much from that perspective either.
Okay,... hopefully this isn't too broad of a topic to get some feedback on.
i guess that i will have to keep my eyes on this question because i am going through the same thing.
Well, as to the AdSense earnings, write more hubs. Make sure they're unique, of high quality, targeting the right keywords and providing good information to their audience. If you do those things, the clicks will follow. (Caveat here -- I haven't looked at your hubs yet.)
Second, if you're here to make money, don't worry about the HP traffic and fans. They're not going to be making it for you. And besides, if you do what I said in the first paragraph, the fans and the HP traffic will follow you naturally.
Getting involved in the HP community does two things for you: first, it helps to keep your author score up (helping any links from your hubs to your external blogs/sites become DoFollow links); second, you get to meet some really great people who know their stuff.
And look up some great "how to" hubs by hubbers like Darkside, Relache, Mark Knowles, Frogdropping, et.al.
Thanks lrohner! I appreciate the feedback and encouragement. BTW - what are DoFollow links?
dofollow means any outbound links from your hub will be followed by search bots, and the site they go to will get the weight of those links for their pagerank. If your author's score falls below 75 all your outbound will be nofollow and their target will not get any link rank from the link
Interaction with the hubpages community will bring feedback to your hubs. As Ironher stated the hubpage community will help guide you through with hubscores and author scores. You can attract fans thorugh your writing and through your interaction with others on hubpages. Your fans will give you feedback on your hubs and that will help you improve. You only have nine hubs so it may take more than that to get noticed. Keep writing Also bookmark other hubs that talk about marketing for future reference.
Good luck and have fun!
My advice is that you write about things you like, things that interest you, things you know. If those hubs are about things that other people are interested in, you will get traffic.
Some people will give different advice. But for me my number one priority is the reader. Not the search engines. If you try and cater to the search engines first and foremost, you'll too easily forget about the humans.
I can see that you're trying too hard, for instance this URL:
hub/Garmin-Nvi--Garmin-Reviews--Garmin-GPS-Nuvi--Garmin-Navigation--Garmin-Nuvi-760-GPS
Using the word 'garmin' five times in a URL? I've never seen that before. I don't think it going to score you any extra SEO points. In fact it can too easily be seen as keyword stuffing.
I am learning from other peoples posts- I too am a newbie. I can say that I am making more than the 2-3% I guess- Because I have 300 clicks- and have made $15.20 in 12 days. I did not know about the no follow thing.
Welcome to Hubpages sandwichmom. Sounds like you are doing okay with your efforts to date. Good luck to you.
I just visited your site...I wonder if your natural topics are appealing to a crowd that has more time, and therefore hangs out online more (the elderly and homemakers).
I just started posting my hubs then replying to others on their hubs and doing a lot of talking here in the forums. And some how I have over 100 fans. Don't ask me how I did it 'cause I'm still scratching my head on how I got those fans lol
Good luck!
I have been a member of HubPages for a while but just started adding my own pages. I read through the ideas and questions that need answers to get inspired. I am primarily a blogger, but these pages are fun to make, and the community seems really friendly.
It is fun setting up a HubPage, because I just get to do what I enjoy. Research and write. I do not have to concern myself with much other than that so far.
Now I would be happy with 2% income once the traffic starts showing up.
I like the responses to this question because that is my question, too. I have written, now what? What do I do next to get someone to find my great HubPages?
I intend to write more and see where it goes. Plus there are some great HubPages here and I will never run out of things to read.
by Melanie Palen 13 years ago
I have noticed that upon removing Kontera from my hubs that my AdSense earnings went up. Kontera seemed pretty useless even when I was earning with it because the click were not really all that profitable. One AdSense click seems to be worth more than a Kontera click even when it's like one of the...
by Klevis Rosario 14 years ago
Hi,I'm new to hubpages and I haven't created a hub yet. My question is: Should I create a hub and then apply for Adsense, Ebay and Amazon or can I apply without creating a hub?. Thanks
by KnowledgeAnywhere 13 years ago
I almost made a hub had all the information down typed up in Microsoft Word was very enthusiastic because it was my first hub. But two things about hubpages slammed in my way.1. According to the rules when I publish a hubpage I will have to update it or post around on the site to keep...
by Anamika S Jain 13 years ago
My Adsense earnings this month from HubPages was only 40% of what I normally earn with HubPages and for the first time in several months I did not make a payout in Amazon this month. However, the saving grace was some of my blogs which earned double of what they normally were earning and the...
by Daniel 11 years ago
Here's something for you guys to consider, and I am simply reiterating a comment I made on another post. You need organic traffic to your Hubs! Why? If you are using adsense, or any other monetization method on Hubpages, you will not, I repeat, you will NOT get credit for clicks on your ads from...
by Mike Rogers 14 years ago
Hello Hubbers,Just a quick question for the more experienced hubpage authors:For maximum revenues, do you recommend AdSense and Amazon together on your commercial hubs or *just* AdSense alone?From what I read it seems the bulk of revenues are via AdSense, but I could use some direct input and...
Copyright © 2024 The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers on this website. HubPages® is a registered trademark of The Arena Platform, Inc. Other product and company names shown may be trademarks of their respective owners. The Arena Media Brands, LLC and respective content providers to this website may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website.
Copyright © 2024 Maven Media Brands, LLC and respective owners.
As a user in the EEA, your approval is needed on a few things. To provide a better website experience, hubpages.com uses cookies (and other similar technologies) and may collect, process, and share personal data. Please choose which areas of our service you consent to our doing so.
For more information on managing or withdrawing consents and how we handle data, visit our Privacy Policy at: https://corp.maven.io/privacy-policy
Show DetailsNecessary | |
---|---|
HubPages Device ID | This is used to identify particular browsers or devices when the access the service, and is used for security reasons. |
Login | This is necessary to sign in to the HubPages Service. |
Google Recaptcha | This is used to prevent bots and spam. (Privacy Policy) |
Akismet | This is used to detect comment spam. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Google Analytics | This is used to provide data on traffic to our website, all personally identifyable data is anonymized. (Privacy Policy) |
HubPages Traffic Pixel | This is used to collect data on traffic to articles and other pages on our site. Unless you are signed in to a HubPages account, all personally identifiable information is anonymized. |
Amazon Web Services | This is a cloud services platform that we used to host our service. (Privacy Policy) |
Cloudflare | This is a cloud CDN service that we use to efficiently deliver files required for our service to operate such as javascript, cascading style sheets, images, and videos. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Hosted Libraries | Javascript software libraries such as jQuery are loaded at endpoints on the googleapis.com or gstatic.com domains, for performance and efficiency reasons. (Privacy Policy) |
Features | |
---|---|
Google Custom Search | This is feature allows you to search the site. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Maps | Some articles have Google Maps embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Google Charts | This is used to display charts and graphs on articles and the author center. (Privacy Policy) |
Google AdSense Host API | This service allows you to sign up for or associate a Google AdSense account with HubPages, so that you can earn money from ads on your articles. No data is shared unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Google YouTube | Some articles have YouTube videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Vimeo | Some articles have Vimeo videos embedded in them. (Privacy Policy) |
Paypal | This is used for a registered author who enrolls in the HubPages Earnings program and requests to be paid via PayPal. No data is shared with Paypal unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Login | You can use this to streamline signing up for, or signing in to your Hubpages account. No data is shared with Facebook unless you engage with this feature. (Privacy Policy) |
Maven | This supports the Maven widget and search functionality. (Privacy Policy) |
Marketing | |
---|---|
Google AdSense | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Google DoubleClick | Google provides ad serving technology and runs an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Index Exchange | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Sovrn | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Facebook Ads | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Unified Ad Marketplace | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
AppNexus | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Openx | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Rubicon Project | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
TripleLift | This is an ad network. (Privacy Policy) |
Say Media | We partner with Say Media to deliver ad campaigns on our sites. (Privacy Policy) |
Remarketing Pixels | We may use remarketing pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to advertise the HubPages Service to people that have visited our sites. |
Conversion Tracking Pixels | We may use conversion tracking pixels from advertising networks such as Google AdWords, Bing Ads, and Facebook in order to identify when an advertisement has successfully resulted in the desired action, such as signing up for the HubPages Service or publishing an article on the HubPages Service. |
Statistics | |
---|---|
Author Google Analytics | This is used to provide traffic data and reports to the authors of articles on the HubPages Service. (Privacy Policy) |
Comscore | ComScore is a media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, media and advertising agencies, and publishers. Non-consent will result in ComScore only processing obfuscated personal data. (Privacy Policy) |
Amazon Tracking Pixel | Some articles display amazon products as part of the Amazon Affiliate program, this pixel provides traffic statistics for those products (Privacy Policy) |
Clicksco | This is a data management platform studying reader behavior (Privacy Policy) |