Hi,
I have been a member of Hubpages for a while. I have a bunch of hubs, published on various accounts, and since the Google slap, have noticed that my hub views, which weren't all that great before, have now dropped to almost nothing. On average, I seem to be getting about 1/2 a view a day per hub.
I have done the math, and know that to make money with Hubpages that is worth the time and effort of writing Hubs, I would need to get 5 views per day, per hub.
However, I cannot seem to get this kind of traffic. Here are some of the things that I have tried.
1) Getting a large number of back links for 5 of my Hubs (40+ Backlinks). It did increase my traffic a little before the Google slap, but now they are getting the same as every other hub.
2) Writing hubs centered around keywords getting at least 25,000 searches per month according to the Google Adwords Keyword Tool.
3) Going after keywords that have less than 10 allintitle and allinurl results.
4) Writing a long and comprehensive hub that incorporated every keyword related to the main keyword according to Google Adwords Keyword Tool (was around 5000 words and had around 60 keywords embedded in it)
5) Bolding my main keyword and cousin keywords in the text.
6) Linking my hubs to each other, with one Hub linking to four others.
With all of this stuff that I have tried, I have not yet been able to consistently research and write hubs that get at least 5 views per day. If anyone has any instructions or advice on how to do this, especially those that are actually able to consistently research and publish hubs that get at least 5 views per day each, please tell me how.
I would appreciate it very much.
If I could figure out this "magic formula" of researching keywords for a hub, and writing it so that it gets at least 5 views per day per hub, I would finally be able to make money from Hubpages.
If you happen to be able to get 5 views per day per Hub minimum, perhaps you could answer the following questions for me.
1) Do you choose keywords based around products or have some other method. For instance, do you write a hub on "the best skin cream" or choose a different non-product topic like "how to burn a CD"
2) How many views per month does the Google Adwords Keyword Tool say that your main keyword is going to get?
3) Do you incorporate cousin keywords (keywords related to the main one according to the Google Adwords Keyword Tool) and if so, how many?
4) How long on average are your hubs?
5) Do you check the top results in Google for your keyword, and if so, how many inbound links on average do your competitors get?
6) Are there any other methods that you use to check the viability of your keyword before writing your hub?
7) Do you link to other hubs of yours that are related?
8) Do you have any tips on writing the hub itself. For instance, putting your main keyword in both your first and last sentence.
9) Do you link out to other websites in your hub and do you add a no follow tag to amazon products advertised on your hub (if you use amazon)
10) Do you build links, and if so how many do you create per hub and where do you get them from?
Thanks very much for any advice anyone can give.
