Hubs and Hubpages: The First Four Months in the Hubpages Money Business

The honeymoon period on hubpages... or the days of madness four months-- or zero to four months in oyur business. Now this might mean to some a time duration, say the time they signed up and then the next four months. To me it means zero to four months, as in the time that you decided to really make your hubpages experience into something and the four months after that. Again this is a business and it really when you decide to start your business that matters.

I look at this way did these four months make a difference to you? Did it mean success on hubs you wrote? More money or income for you? More traffic to blogs and other sites of yours? Getting your name out? What do these four months mean?

There are many things that this can mean, but whatever your reason for being on hubpages here are few things that must be done and understood. This will help you a lot on getting the money and success and whatever you want, a bit closer.

Publishing Hubs: it's a learning curve to some, for others it's simply another hour in front of the computer. The idea is that you write a hub, and then edit said hub and then hit the publish button. Seems easy, and it should make money, and it possibly might get traffic. not likely.

Publishing hubs is one thing, but look at the more successful hubbers whom you think might make money online with their hubs. Do the footwork that is what the first four months are all about. Learn from others.   Some know teh business well.  They can Help You A lot.

For example if you are new and publish say three hubs in one day, well, your hub score wil not go up, in fact it will go down. Don't start by publishing hubs in a hard niche, unless you can manage a following.

Comment boxes: put them in and use them. If you don't sorry you won't have money or success. people want interaction not just a place to tell you how good you are or are not. There are also link capsules and they should be used with care. keywords (tags) are needed. Make them good and look at others hubs to see what words they are using. Research research and research, and find what works for others and for you.

Followers and Following and Traffic:I have some 800 fans (give or take a few) and guess what? I don't get them coming to each and every hub at once, or at all. Some aren't active on hubpages, some have essentially left, but kept their account.

Still having followers is a good thing, but be careful, in terms of thinking that this will mean more traffic, it doesn't. it does mean regular traffic, and regular comments, and some very good followers. Learn through your hubs who is more inclined to check out your hubs and go to their hubs. I can count on at least ten hubbers who will come and comment on my new hubs, but remember that took a long time. It really did.

I have published at this point about 90 hubs, which can be found on my profile in some type or other. Anyone can go to your profile and look at new hub, your best hubs and your hottest hubs. Use this to your advantage, add some of your hubs as links to your profile, so that people can find it right away. I prefer to click on the links on the profiles myself.

Followers like interaction and ease, but you should also work on being found on the rest of the Internet. That however should be secondary.  Your hubs have to be as best as you can get them.  Take advice as needed to make your hubs better.

Forums and Other Traffic Makers: Okay this is a big one but a small one, since it is a dangerous thing you can get lost. it's all about traffic, Go to the forums and look around, now on the forums you will get banned for personal attacks and linking to your hubs or other sites there. So go there to ask for help, or to help others.

Commenting on others hubs will also get you traffic, don't add links to your hubs there since it does look overly promotional and can be classified as spam. It is also not a place to ask too many questions. Still there are other things you can do.

Ask a question to a specific hubber (yes I do those! ask me anytime) and often they will make a hub or two on it. Comment on hubs, add fan mail to other hubber ( not the generic I like your hubs) This will at least get some people going to your profile and looking at your hubs.

The other thing is that to make money online with your hubs you need to increase traffic-- yes, by quite a bit-- so use the social networking sites, and also use the Google AdWords keyword tool to make sure you hubs and websites are optimized for the traffic which will click on your ads.

Linking Hubs and Making Money Online:If you want to make money on hubpages and on your blogs and other sites, you need traffic. The first four months are the most important in this. This is when you get fans and your reputation is established.

Biggest things: Your hubs and you hubscores, if your personal hub score is less than 75, get it up beyond that even if it means deleting poor hubs. Learn about the publishing rules and the content and keywords you are using. If your hubs are less than 60 this is bad, fix them or delete them or better yet unpublish them and fix them that way if they need a big overhaul. If you scores aren't going up this is a problem on hubpages, really anything less than 80 as a personal hub score is bad. You can do better than that.

You can link between your hubs, but you need to be careful. Over promotion will make a hub flagged pretty quick. If it's not got too many keywords, you won't get traffic the keywords and links are poor, you won't get traffic. Fix that now.

Success is up to you: These few things will help and some other methods such as getting on to Digg and Stumble Upon and putting links on your blogs, but making them better, and writing original content, that can't be found on the web are just one part. Getting on Google and other search engines are another, getting the correct keywords for google AdSense is another.

Commenting, Linking, writing great hubs, getting a good hubscores are other ways, Making some Money, is part of your success, but what will help you get there?

Other Readers, so do you best and as they say if you build it they will come... believe in your work, your writing, the publsihed content you wrote, and the rest isn't up to you but to others.

To your success.