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Get More Hubpages Traffic using Article Directories

chris — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:48:55 +0000

If you’re looking for a sure-fire traffic generation tip for your Hubpages articles, one way to go is with article directories like ezinearticles.com or articlesbase.com.

If you haven’t already, sign up at Hubpages.com

These sites are well-respected by Google and other search engines because they are moderated by human beings (which means that all articles must adhere to the quality standards of the site), they have been around for a long time, and they churn out hundreds of pages of new content every single day consistently.

You can utilize the power of these large article directory websites to get more traffic to your Hubs on Hubpages. And if you’re trying to make money on Hubpages or any other site for that matter, then you know that traffic is the name of the game. The more traffic you get to your Hubpages, the more money you will make.

Traffic is the name of the game, but targeted traffic is golden. Targeted traffic means that you have a hub about a topic like “free ebooks for the Amazon kindle” and you get a visitor who owns a kindle and is currently looking for ebooks to read without paying for them. That’s targeted traffic and you can see why it’s a beautiful situation when things work out like that.

The visitor has a problem (or question) and you have a solution (or answer). It’s a perfect match.

Article directories will help you gain targeted traffic to your hubs because you get to include two links in the footer at the end of the published article. When people finish reading the article, they may click one of the links,which makes it pretty clear that they are interested in what you have to offer in you Hub. In addition Article Directories give you extra backlinks, which will help your rankings in the search engine results pages over time.

Try article directories. They work for any kind of content promotion. They work long term too, which is a great thing to know. Over time, these articles will gain more authority, traffic, and higher rankings (or at least they should–and this is why you should always focus on quality articles) and will over time create more opportunities for your business.

Read about how to make money with Hubpages.

How to Actually Make Money on Hubpages

chris — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:39:11 +0000

The simple answer as to how to make money on Hubpages is to actually have something to say. Some value to add. Some information to provide. It’s important to understand how to use keywords, but don’t take it too far.

Don’t become obsessed with SEO linking schemes and don’t stuff keywords where they don’t belong. In short, don’t overdo it. Provide good information and do it consistently.

Yes, I said consistently. The people who publish hubs on Hubpages consistently are the people who make the most money.

If you consistently write about a certain subject (which you certainly don’t need to do) it will help you establish a niche. More importantly, you will be able to more effectively link between your hubs. Write 10 or so hubs on the same topic and interlink them all. It’s always helpful to provide links to more pertinent and useful information.

If you write about honeybees (wow–that’s random), write another hub all about the nutritional value of honey and another about the American honey industry and another about how bees actually make honey and another about how honey farmers (are they called farmers?) operate the honey collection process.

Don’t know if there are any honey-hounds out there, but hey, it’s just an example. You get the point. This kind of coverage will help bounce traffic around between your hubs, will establish some authority, and will build trust from readers and even will help you earn links from other websites.

Notice how I wrote “earn” links. It’s important to understand that a natural organic link from someone who genuinely finds value in your work and thus wants to share it with his or her readers is priceless. It’s the name of the game. It’s how you succeed with content online. And, yes, it’s how you make money too. One natural link is worth 100 forced links.

Making money on hubpages also requires that you do a little bit of promotion. Well, you’re not required to do anything, but it will really help you gain exposure for your hubs if you build a few links to them.

One of the best ways to get more traffic to your hubs other than understanding how to write for a specific audience and doing a little bit of keyword research, is to create links from article directories. Ezine Articles is the most well-known and consistently is at the top of Google search results pages for thousands of different niches.

You are allowed to include two footer links at the end of your articles, which you can point to your work at Hubpages. Use keyword-rich anchor text to promote your hubs. Using the honey example, you could write a basic article about the health benefits and the downsides of honey. Make it 400 words long and make it worthwhile–the Ezine Articles staff has to approve it, so you have to meet their certain standards which can be a little difficult in the beginning. Build at least one link to each of your Hubpage hubs.

Write another hub titled something like “My Honey Hubs” or “All You Ever Wanted to Know about Honey” and include links to all of your Honey hubs. This link post will help people see all of your content organized and is another way to build links.

Another way to promote your hubs is by building a Blogger blog or WordPress blog (for free) and linking to each of your published hubs with a short description of what it’s about. This may help widen your search footprint and drive more traffic to your hubs.

See how each link-building exercise is also providing value at the same time? This is what will work for you over time. If you’re not selfish and consistently think about your audience and providing great information, you will succeed in making money online–with any website.

So go get started making money on Hubpages. If you sign up through this link, let me know because I have a little bonus to give to everyone who signs up through my site!

How to Promote Your Blog and Make Money

chris — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:52:14 +0000

I was getting ready to write a new post and for some reason revisited some articles I had written months ago but I hadn’t thought of in some time. There was some good info in some of these posts, so I decided in this post I would bring them to your attention.

Here they are in all they’re glory. Click ‘em, read ‘em, let me know what you think.

Four Ways to Promote Your Blog and gain traffic, subscribers, and maybe some friends.

Looking to start a brand new blog? Why Not Buy One? An established blog will have some age, links, content, and hopefully traffic. These are all good reasons to buy.

Five SEO Tips to Turbocharge Your Website These are some basic and easy things you can do to make your website more visible to search engines and clearer to your possible visitors. Make the user experience better, and you will be rewarded.

Can You Really Make Money with Internet Marketing? Many have tried. Many have failed. Some have succeeded.

Six Online Business Myths the Aren’t True As in any line of work there are misconceptions, misunderstandings, and sure, some lies in internet marketing.

Ways to Make Money Online from Hubpages CEO

chris — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:32:44 +0000

Hubpages is a website I’ve written quite a bit about lately. It is a site where you can publish your own writing and earn money from advertisements and affiliate links displayed on your pages.

Today, I found out that Hubpages’ CEO, Paul Edmonson, actually writes quite a few “Hubs.” He wrote a very good article titled Three Ways to Make Money Online, which is really informative for anyone who wants to know how to make money online.

Have a look.

Also, see my post titled Four Ways to Promote Your Blog and Gain a Following.

Make Money Writing for Xomba

chris — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:29:39 +0000

Xomba is billed as “A social network geared toward people who like to write” and is a great place to make money online for creating written content. It is an Adsense sharing site, which means that you split Adsense advertising revenue 50/50 with the site. It’s owned by Internet entrepreneur and writer Nick Veneris and run by a very competent and passionate team based in Florida.

It’s a good place to write and earn. Xombytes are posts a minimum of 150 words and can be about, well, anything you want them to be. You can write about music, politics, the new camera you want to buy, or celebrities and movies. Celeb and movie subjects do really well on this site, so if that’s the kind of thing you write about, mount up.

You can also include a link back to your site in your post, so it can be a helpful way to promote yourself and gain exposure for your content while making money in the process.

Xomblurbs are more like a social bookmarking type of thing, in that they have to include a link to a website or article and only have to be 50 words long.

So why Xomba?

Get more exposure for yourself and your writing by writing for an established site that already gets substantial traffic.
Connect with other writers (if you want to)
Earn money from advertisements displayed
Dedicated staff and owner who really care about the site and the writers

Meet Abmox, Xomba’s official mascot. Cute, ain’t he?

Top Earning Blogs Online

chris — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:23:57 +0000

It’s always inspirational–or daunting–to see how much money bloggers and internet business owners are making from their online ventures, especially when you compare it to what you earn! I think some of the people out there have great stories to tell and can help you get to where you want to be in terms of online income.

It’s quite hard to find a solid list of blogger income online, but one of the best I’ve found is on IncomeDiary.com.

You will recognize many of these websites, like Mashable and TechCrunch, but there are quite a few blogs you may not have been exposed to. Check them out and see what they’re doing.

Another good post on the same site is a list of the top 50 most influential bloggers.

Message to Those Who Hate Their Blogs

Make Money on Hubpages by Writing Multiple Hubs on the Same Topic

chris — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:07:24 +0000

One of the ways that people make good money with Hubpages is by writing several hubs on the same topic. If two hubs are about a related subject, you can link them to each other. Not only does this give your readers access to more information, it also creates a new permanent link to your other work.

Links between hubs will help you gain more impressions and could help you make more money. Say you write a hub about brewing beer at home. You could write a definitive hub about this hobby and include some information answering the basic questions on how this kind of thing is done, how to get started, and possibly even where to purchase home beer brewing kits.

Your next hub could be about a specific home made beer or your own experience brewing. Maybe you write a product review. You could then link from this hub to your previous hub, thus strengthening your Hubpages search footprint. What I mean by this is you are creating a wider net for people searching for this kind of topic on Google and Yahoo.

You can do this a few times, or you could do this one hundred times. As long as you are creating useful, search engine friendly content (which I will be going into deeper later this week), you will be on your way to getting some good traffic and even earning some money on Hubpages.

Three Reasons Writing Multiple Hubs on the Same Topic Is a Good Idea:

1) It strengthens your previous Hubs by creating back links. Back links help your content become more findable in search queries.

2) It increases your pageviews. More pageviews means more ad impressions and more opportunity to make money on Hubpages.

3) It provides access to more information to your reader. This is a big one because if your content is authoritative, meaning you provide very useful information, your readers may pass on the link, save it on their desktop for future reference, bookmark it, or even link to it from their blog. All these are cool things and will help you gain more exposure.

Learn how to make money with Hubpages. Also, read my recent Hubpages income report.

Can You Make Money with Internet Marketing?

chris — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 06:54:51 +0000

The answer to this question is, yes you can. But it isn’t easy. Well, it isn’t as easy as people seem to think it is.

It’s pretty funny how many people out there start blogs, websites, or even internet video series and think that just because they put their content up on the web and splash a few keywords around that thousands of people are going to find their content and fall in love with it.

The truth is that making money with internet marketing is probably as hard as making money in any other kind of job. Just because internet marketing involves the internet doesn’t mean it’s easy. But for some reason many people believe it is.

One of the reasons is that the barrier to entry is so low. Anyone can log into blogger.com and start a free blog. You can choose a domain name, write a post, and publish it in minutes. We are used to things happening quickly on the internet.

The making money online part takes some time. But if you put the effort into it and work at it you will be able to achieve your goals of creating income streams on the internet.

What does it take to make money online?

In short, it takes getting a lot of traffic to your website or sales page and converting that traffic into an income stream either by selling something or displaying advertisements to your visitors. You are either selling a product or selling your audiences attention to a third party advertiser. ?The advertising networks you might use are Adsense or Chitika–there are quite a few. ?It’s important to test several to see which ones work best.

I’ve simplified things here, but essentially this is how you make money with internet marketing. The real thing you need to do is attract an audience. In my next post, I will write about how to gain traffic or an audience to you website.

But if you were wondering, yes you can make money online. But it’s not easy. It takes time, effort, knowledge, and the ability to figure out what’s working for you and what’s not. Some people have difficulty letting go of a project that’s not working for them, but sometimes you have to let go. It is amazing how quickly your time can disappear when you are trying to tackle too many things at once.

The best internet marketers figure out what’s working and multiply their efforts, while discarding the things that are only taking up time and aren’t profitable. Successful online business entrepreneurs also find partners to work with, which is a great thing to do so you can focus on your strengths while your partner can focus on his or hers.

Subscribe to this site so you can read more posts like this one. I have a lot of good stuff planned, so stay tuned.

PS. ?If you’re getting traffic to your website from Bing, read this article about Bing vs. Google ad revenue.

How Do You Make Money with Internet Marketing?

chris — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:46:00 +0000

Internet marketing is such a broad term, that it really would take a long post to explain exactly how to make money with internet marketing. It would take a book. Heck, it would take several books to start to crack that subject. I am definitely not an internet marketing expert per se, but I do know a little bit about it.

The reason I decided to write this post is because I spoke to two people today who both asked me this very same question. I thought it was a sign that there are a few people out there who just have no idea how people go about making money online with internet marketing, affiliate marketing, blogging, etc. They understand that you can sell advertisements on a blog or earn referral fees for products sold from links on your site, but their understanding stops at how people actually get to your site, how you set up a site, how you decide what to write about, and how to increase the traffic to your site.

This post will tackle a few of the basics of how people make money internet marketing.

Getting Traffic to Your Site is Key.

The real thing that helps people earn money online is website traffic. There are basically three way to get traffic to your website. The first is organic search, which is when web surfers find a page of your website or blog from a search engine like Google, Yahoo, or the brand new MSN search engine Bing. If your site is relevant to a search query, there is a chance that it may pop up and will earn a new visitor who is looking for information or has a problem that needs solving or is looking for a service.

If you’ve done your job, then you may get a new visitor to your site.

The second way people bring people to their site is from links. If you get links to your site, then that is another chance for people to find your site from another site. It’s crowded out there on the WWW, so the more links you get back to your site, the better. Search engines may also start to give your site some more relevance if you get links from related and relevant sites, which means your pages may appear higher in search engine results pages. Obviously, link building is something that people who are trying to make money online through internet marketing pay a lot of attention to. Getting relevant, high quality links is one of the keys to internet marketing. Look at it as your website or blog receiving a vote from another site that pushes it higher and makes it more popular.

The third way to create traffic to your website is by purchasing advertising. A typical way people do this is with the Adwords PPC program. PPC stands for pay per click, which is exactly what you do. You agree to pay a certain amount every time an internet surfer clicks a text ad that appears on websites (through the Adsense advertising program) or in the search engine results. The blue text ads you see at the top of the major search engines are PPC links. If you can pay a low per click rate, and can sell advertising at a higher rate, you can make some money off of a transaction of this kind.

Now that You Have People Visiting Your Website, How Do You Make Money?

To make money with internet marketing, you need to have traffic to your site and you need some way to monetize that traffic. People monetize their sites in many various ways. Some webmasters and bloggers simply broker their own deals with people who pay a certain amount for a link or a banner on their site.

Others use affiliate product links on their sites and earn when a visitor makes a purchase through their site. CJ.com, Clickbank, and Amazon all provide ways for you to earn money from the traffic to your website.

Perhaps the most popular way people make money online–especially in the beginning–is with the Google Adsense program. This is a fairly simple ad network to implement on your site, but it’s not necessarily easy to make money online with this program. As I mentioned above, you can earn money with internet marketing schemes that involve paying for traffic and then converting that traffic into a sale or a higher priced click on an advertisement.

The amount of money you earn online also depends on the niche that your site falls into. If you run a blog about cars, you may earn more money than if you run a blog about movies. If your online business makes and sells antenna balls, you may earn less than if you sell real estate classes. The reason is that the products associated with cars and real estate are more expensive than the products associated with movies and antenna balls. A muffler can cost a hundred bucks, while a DVD costs $19.99. Logically, the money you can earn from a more expensive product will be greater because the person selling that product has a larger margin (usually!).

Making money with internet marketing also takes diligent work and a lot of trial and error, just like in any other kind of job. If you have money to invest in your online business internet marketing efforts, you will be able to get up and running a little bit more quickly than if you have no money to put into your business.

People earn a living in many different ways online. You can find all kinds of businesses and services on the internet, as you most likely know. The internet marketing angle really comes in after you know how you want to make money online. If you have a service to offer–for example, you are a lawyer who represents people who have been in accidents due to drinking (or whatever it is you may do)–then you can start to try to target keywords in your PPC campaigns. Say you live in the city of Austin. If you could get visitors to your site who are looking for a term like “Austin DUI Lawyer” then that is highly targeted traffic that may convert into a sale or a consult. The person who searches for this term in Google and gets to your site may have their cell phone in hand ready to dial a number.

So make sure you have your office phone in big lettering on the front page. The internet marketing is what you do after you know what you want to sell or what service you have to offer. Some marketers are more like “information entrepreneurs” and set up blogs that are built around specific keywords and have strong SEO qualities to them. The goal is to create traffic and then convert into ad clicks and make money online that way.

As you may be able to tell, there are many ways you can get started in your quest to make money internet marketing. Some people go the content site route and monetize with affiliate links and ppc ads. Others go directly to pay per click campaigns and “push” affiliate programs.

Email Marketing

One thing that is unanimous in the internet marketing business is that use of email lists and email campaigns is effective if you do it right.

For your own information (as at this point you may not be ready for this kind of software), there are several choices when you decide to start email collection and email marketing. One company is Aweber (read an Aweber review) and another is GetResponse. Many people look at highly targeted email lists as the holy grail of internet marketing. Maybe it will help you in your business!

Make Money Online with Hubpages Part 2: Backlinks

chris — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:15:21 +0000

This piece is about one strategy you can use to help you make money online with Hubpages.

Hubpages, as you may know, is a website where you can publish content and earn money for your work. Read my first article about the site at the link above, then come back to this one. Or just read on.

You can write about anything you want and have the option edit your content anytime you feel like it. One of the best parts about making money with Hubpages is that you can earn residual income for as long as the website is around, and it will be around for a long time.

There are many reasons why writing at Hubpages is a worthwhile endeavor for you if you are trying to make money with an online business, or have a blog you want to create links to, or just want to write some content and earn some income from it.

First of all, Hubpages is a well-respected site that gets a lot of love from search engines. Writing at hubpages is like having a head start in the search engine wars. This brings up an important point. One of the main elements that will allow you to make money online is traffic. Traffic is the lifeblood of internet marketing and online business.

Look at it as a store owner would. The more people you get to come into your store, the more sales you will make. This can be translated into Adsense clicks, affiliate sales, or referrals in the online environment. Traffic is a key part of the game. And the more targeted this traffic is, the higher the probability you have of getting a conversion or having an action occur. Obviously there is more to making money on the internet: copywriting, branding, actually having something of value to provide, or in this case, providing useful well-written and highly searchable content. But high traffic numbers is how websites become online money-making machines.

One of the strategies to writing on Hupbages and earning money from your efforts is to write more than one “hub” on the same topic. The more you write about the same thing, the more likely you will look like an authority on that subject. Obviously, to write a lot of content about the same thing, you probably will actually have to be an expert on that subject. But you can also learn as you go. Writing is one of the best ways to learn things and solidify ideas in your mind.

Writing about the same topic will also give you more opportunity to increase the rankings of similar content. Say you have an 800-word authoritative hub about the best ski resorts in California. You spent a lot of time researching keywords, reading about the resorts, and clearly presenting the information to your readers. This can be a very good piece of content for you. If you have three or four other related hubs, you can use them to create anchor text links to give your authority hub a little bit of a boost and create some more traffic to it.

Your “support” pages should be directly related to the main authority page you are looking to link to. In the example I use above about ski resorts, these can be pieces more specific to certain resorts. One could be about Mammoth and another could be about Vail. If the main keyword phrases (and related ones) you are working with are also strong in these pages, and even in the title, then links out from them will be even stronger.

When you create your links, you want to create anchor text using the phrases you are focusing on. In the example used here, the phrase you would want to link out to your main hub would be “best ski resorts in California.” It is much better to be descriptive in the hotlink you create, rather than just linking with text like, “see my other article about this topic here.”

You can do this with several of your hubs to create several relevant links that will give the page you want to promote more direct traffic and relevant keyword links that will help move it up the in search engine rankings. The more targeted keywords and links are, the more likely they will be of interest to web visitors and the more money you will make online.

Websites (and web pages) that adhere to web standards of copywriting, search engine optimization, and linking practices are more valuable than those that don’t. If you think from the point of view of a potential web surfer and do your best to create informative, well-written content that is useful, then you will be successful.

Remember that content is king and high value content will gain more natural links from other websites and more return traffic. The more effort you put into your content on the front end, the easier the entire process will be for you. When writing your hubs, take the time to make them as helpful, informative, and unique as possible.