To Make Money Online Increase Traffic, so that Google AdSense Needs to "See" Your Business

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By Rebecca E.

Increasing Traffic= Make Money Online? Wait a Minute.

This is a fairly good question where the person has asked if you get say 1000 impressions( or page views) per month, what is the average money you would receive from say Google AdSense, and the other affiliate programs. This is a good start to making money, but this is a business and you need to know what can make you money, and impressions are not one of them.

Again given that this is a business and we all love to make money, and we would love to make it in a faster manner than we are now, where is the fault in asking this sort of question. This is a valid question which does have a good answer to it. The fault is the assumption of how to make money with Google AdSense and your affiliate programs

The one thing this question does not give is the content that they would use, so as this is an online article and I will discuss how you need to market your hubs to see success, I will give a few examples that will help you in making money online.

yes you can make this with a few views per month, but really you need to step it up a lot.

So you want to make money online?: Yes, we all do, but the question is how to get it and where is the link to get it and sooner? We would like to push that glass ceiling away from where we have had it.

So, time to break that ceiling, and get to work. First go to your profile and look at it, and see what you have as a profile page. Do you have links to your blogs? Do you have links to some sites you frequent? Is it interesting to the reader? Do you have some hubs of yours up there? Ask why should anyone read your profile?

The reason I first look to the profile is because people look at it as much if not as often as your hubs in the beginning. Of course make it look professional and have those links so you can drive traffic to your other work. You need people to go to your profile so they can find some of your other hubs.

In this case if you only get 1,000 impressions per month, which also include your own, I would really be surprised you would make any money at all. I would be very surprised if based in hubpages you will make more than ten dollars on Google AdSense. So... you want to make money you need more. More Traffic, more links, more time and of course you'd love more money.

Next you need to look at your hub topics and do some work on your hubs.

Great my profile looks good... now what about the glass breaking part?: Okay, so profile looks good, what about your statistics? How do they look?

Under your account there is a little thing, which really is a big thing and it is called statistics. Now, I will do this in few steps so that you can look at what is right... and what needs to be made better.

-- Look at every one of your hubs. Go and look at the daily visitors or page impressions, and then the 7 days and then the 30 days. I like to go from lowest to highest, to see where the most fixing needs to be done to improve my traffic and my chances of making money in this business.

-- Look at try to figure out which hubs are doing poorly in terms of your expectations, now look to the far right and then look at the published date. The oldest published hub with the poorest traffic is the one to look at first. I base it on a 30 day page view. otherwise it will not help much. Go to that hub.

Now for the fun part....

Okay I am at a hub which looks okay to me... but it isn't doing well in terms of traffic or money: In this business there is a little thing called links. Think of it as a network. The goal is to see what makes this hub not work well.

I begin by going to the hub statistics and then to the hub metrics where I will find a couple of things, the potential for money, the level of links that I have to this hub, and the time people have been on this hub. I also can find word count of the hub.

Now here is what you should see with a hub that has been around for a while that based on your Google AdSense is doing pretty good.

-- The Incoming links should have three stars or more. Anything less and you have some work ahead of you, if traffic is a problem with this on chances are your incoming links are below three stars. Time to add this to social networking sites, and to some of your blogs and websites. Blogs are great because I can add link to a blog post to a hub. Just a quick not: Five links to a hub will not get you five stars, I believe it takes about 10 incoming links to get two stars. It also means you need to do some foot work, and plan at least fifteen links to it.

-- The money potential is between three and five dollar signs. The more dollar signs the more potential for money. Now be advised this means potential to make money. This does not mean you will make money. Now if the money is two dollar signs this is okay as well, as long as the incoming links have at least three stars.

-- Next word count, anything less than 400 words for most hubs will not cut it, as people will not stay for too long otherwise, so about 800 words for most hubs are prefect. So, if your hub has about 300 words, add to it, give more details.

--Title is is good, I mean does anyone really care to read on? If you do not have a good title fix it, most Titles should tell you what this hub is about... do not get fancy tell the reader what your hub is about.

 So, that helps but what else?  Google AdSense.  Rather Google itself, begin with some basic keyword research.  I used to do this the hard way, but I have found a few things which are a bit faster.

-- Pick a series of word which is based on your topic.  In other words if your hub is about traffic and making money, I would go to Google and type in some sentences to give you a good idea of who your competition is and how many links you are going to need on your hub.  This is a low method but if you have one or two hubs to fix, it is worth it.  look at see what some of the sites have to offer.

-- Use Google AdWords wisely and like a business.  Understand that a word with high competition might take longer to make money with.  Often the hubs which seem to get a lot of traffic might not get that much money.  Traffic is needed to make money, the type of traffic which gets the most money is from search engines.

-- Make certain that as soon as you publish a new hub you add it to all the social networking sites you can.  Also put it in places that can also make you money.  Do this within ten minutes of publishing the hub, and you will have about 7 links in a matter of minutes.

-- Make your hub interactive the longer someone stays on your site the more likely that your will get a click on a Google Ad.  Do yourself this favor and make your site something people need to talk about.  So adding links between your hubs and other people's hubs will help also having polls.  Anything to keep people reason to stay.

Hmm, To Make Money I Need

  • More Links
  • More Content
  • More Traffic
  • Better Keywords
  • Better Titles
  • Better Links
  • More Interactive Things
  • More Readers
  • All of the Above
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One Last Word:

The monthly traffic you need to have needs to be over 1,000 visitors per month, in fact the more successful hub writers will say that 10,000 views or more a month is the best.  Read it again, ten thousand pages views per month. 

So, set your goals high and get those links between your hubs and your blogs and on social networking sites, not only that but content is a must, and interactive hubs.  Of course for promotion purposes, you need to promote your hubs for at least three months to see some real success. This ia business and you need to focus on it.

To your success in traffic and making money. 

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 3 months ago

waynet-- this is true it's a bit of everything, but I think some have said it best quality is what counts.

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waynet Level 4 Commenter 3 months ago

I always think I need a combination of more backlinks and more article pages as both are really the same thing, although finding those high page rank pages if possible to hold your backlinks would be highly useful. Great hubpage, rated up up and away!

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 4 months ago

Wba-- yes I think that whole get rich quick is just about tossed out teh windows that way. But keep on keeping on!

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wba108@yahoo.com Level 5 Commenter 4 months ago

Wow it takes that long, I guess you'll know whether your cut out for this kind of work because you certainly won't last if you aren't!-WBA

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 4 months ago

wba-- this is the start of a long term journey-- I think most have said three years before you see any real earnings with affiliate programs, that is thinking long term.

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wba108@yahoo.com Level 5 Commenter 4 months ago

Thanks again! I know I have to see this as like a college course and then some.- Regards and blessings-WBA

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wba108@yahoo.com Level 5 Commenter 4 months ago

Thanks again, there's alot to learn!-WBA

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 4 months ago

wba-- I've been changing my hubs a small bit, and that has seemed to help. Avoid duplicate content at all cost. That is another one.

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wba108@yahoo.com Level 5 Commenter 4 months ago

Thank you very much, I'll make sure I do that!-WBA

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 4 months ago

wba-- that's a start, if you have 9 articles, and you really work hard on them you'll see success. Content and proper backlinking seems to be key

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wba108@yahoo.com Level 5 Commenter 4 months ago

Rebecca-Terrific advise as usual! I think i've just got to write alot more articles. I just started and only have 9 articles, they average clase to 100 views per month.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 6 months ago

rexerta-- use teh social bookmarking sites-- but in your case also get an avatar up for your hub profile-- that is as important as anything.

rexertea 6 months ago

Hi Rebecca, It's amazing that you get so many views in a month. How long it took for you to achieve this number of traffic?

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 12 months ago

LeeWalls-- in fact on average I get about (for all ym hubs combined) about, 11,000 views per month. but mind you I have been building links and building traffic and working with my keywords.

It is easier to get about 1,000 views (page impressions) in a month

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LeeWalls Level 1 Commenter 12 months ago

10,000 views a month? Do you honestly think that many people will view your site in a month?

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 19 months ago

make more visitors-- I am certain to continue not a problem, do not fear!

Need more visitors 19 months ago

Wow, really nice post about make money traffic and money. I'm sure to follow your tips. keep it up!!!!!!

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 19 months ago

tracey-- yes SMART is valuable, but then if you don't know a certain part such as Time or Realistic goals, then the rest will not work as well. Setting goals is important, but be relaistic. I will check this out.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 19 months ago

research analyst-- i keep writing them and people need them so I am so blessed, but it took a long while to make what I have today.

Tracey 20 months ago

Hi Rebecca

Great article on Traffic and Money, rated it up for you. I wonder if you have tried goals on target. It really is a great tool for exactly this kind of thing.

I use it and have found it helps me focus on creating SMART goals that I can understand and also helps with adding all the tasks you need to create in order to achieve your goal. This is the most critical thing I have found. If you don't do the things that lead to your goals achievement then you never achieve your goals.

If you want to check it out (its free!) please sign up at http://www.goalsontarget.com/6/MakeEasyMoneyOnline

PS: You can even earn money by recommending the system to others.

All the best.

Tracey

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Research Analyst 20 months ago

another good hub and helpful tips that teach all us hubbers on how to better maximize out writing with traffic.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

MoC1967-- i am glad you stopped by and commented, it is a very interesting question I must say.

MoC1967 20 months ago

Interesting reading

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

Runway-- you are most welcome, glad you came and commented.

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Runway 20 months ago

Interesting hub, thanks!

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

Polly C-- three is a minimum for me, and I have a few which have 4 and five, but these take a lot of time to get there, but it is so worth it in teh end.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

rasiingme-- it does owrk and it is teh small thigns which start it off. it makes my day when you've come back to tell me it works. You keep going and keep it up you will see success.

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Polly C Level 3 Commenter 20 months ago

Hi Rebecca, again you have written a hub that both inspires me and gives great information. I definitely have learned that I need some more links - I do have a few, but not enough I don't think. Not three stars worth, anyway! And I know I need more hubs as well...trying to get to that!! Thank you for your statistics about how much traffic you need before making money, that is really interesting to learn.

Your hubs are just the best for me to read when I want to learn something, I love the fact that they are useful, but also personable somehow. Thank you :)

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raisingme 20 months ago

I just had to come back here to tell you that even though my time was limited today I updated my profile as per the suggestions in this hub and also fixed up titles on two of my hubs. The result, increased traffic to the two hubs and an increase in hub score. A couple of little things made a big difference to me. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! and too for the compliment!

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

Property-Incest-- I try to gvie some advice to use, and really this is the foundation to everything else.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

MasterLife-- youa re most welcome keep up teh good work and you will see success.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

raisngme-- I am so pelased you have come back, you are an awesome wirter, one of these days you will see so much success you won't know where ti came form. Keep it up!

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

masmasika-- you are most welcome, the links are vital to any hubs which you write of course going to do a link to someone else hub is awesome as well since it allows people to see things that they wouldn't otherwise.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

rzibit-- yes there are tons of related hubs around, and some are tailored to questions and answers found in teh answers section on hubapges, so there is always something good to find around here.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

Gralic Angel-- work is work but it can be fun... in fact i love doing what I do, and I love to see other succeed. Keep up teh good work.

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Property-Invest 20 months ago

Really helpful advice Rebecca. Thanks

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Master Life 20 months ago

This is a great hub and excellent advice-thank you!

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raisingme 20 months ago

Thank you so very much! You are a fabulous mentor! You could have added one more tip - "follow me" as you are a wealth of good, solid information.

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masmasika Level 4 Commenter 20 months ago

Your hub is interesting with lots of links to drop by and read helpful tips. Really great hub.

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rzibit 20 months ago

Very nice...there are so many money related hubs around here. They are strongly useful, you have my vote.

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Garlic Angel 20 months ago

Oh I have so much work to do... Thanks Rebecca for all the great advice and now I have to go and do so much work... I look forward to reading more of your articles...

Garlic Angle :-)

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

vinu-- it is pasrt of luck but also part content and comments, it depends on traffic and comments and a lot of other thing such as voting but I would say traffic is the big one.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

rzbit-- no one make much money on making money hubs, but if you have hubs, you can of course leverage them to make you money somehow... welcome to hubpages,

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

wormcompostingfan--- I hope so as well, but remeber it does take a bit of time to get traffic.

vinu 20 months ago

one thing i have to ask you is whenever you post a hub it comes to hot hubs.how do u manage to do this ?

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rzibit 20 months ago

The problem is that this kind of money making method is much to popular. It's like a vicious circle: most viewed articles are about money making and everybody is writing more and more.

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wormcompostingfan 20 months ago

A very helpful hub. Hopefully, I will be able to work on my hubs to generate income. Thanks for this very informative post!

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

internetmoney100-- you are welcome.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

thomas-- first check back with Google and look through you junk mail folder, but if you've just signed up it can take about a week. if you are denied, then you will need to use eBay, amazon and Kontera to make money here on hubpages.

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thomas clarke 20 months ago

Hi Rebecca E. A lot of information there for a newbee which I will try to get my head around, I signed up to add sense but they did not get back to me so how do I get paid? Thankyou for your info blog.Keep it up.

Thomas.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

samsons1--- there is always a list of things to do, and it takes time to do them but every step helps!

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

pressington-- I'll also add that it akes about a month before the link stars change, but get them right away.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

pressington-- party when your hubs get about 3 stars becuase that means the links are incoming, and that really I would say takes about 20 links, so each link is of value.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

Anonemuss-- I am always ahppy to help othesa nd to give tehma hand in improving their chances to make money. To your success.

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samsons1 Level 5 Commenter 20 months ago

As always Rebecca E. very good discriptive, concise--

After reading your hubs, I see I have much to do-, thank you for all your help and advise. Rated up!

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pressingon 20 months ago

Well I guess I got some work ahead :) Thanks for explaining about the stars for links...I was wondering why my links were not being counted...

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Anonemuss 20 months ago

Nice Hub- Well written, organized and helpful. Your suggestions on this hub and all of your other hubs will definitly help me later on. Thanks-Anonemuss

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

FredIndy-- It is probably to me at least-- a tie with great content, as people won't link to a site that doesn't have great content or somthing useful for them. And these can be expaanded for other sites as well. Linking does increase traffic.

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FredIndy 20 months ago

Linking is such an important part of any modern marketing/promotion strategy. Here's a link to my hub about the importance of linking:

(http://hubpages.com/hub/Creating-Synergy-in-Your-O

Great Hub, I couldn't agree more that these notions fully relate to Hub Pages. Cheers!

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

lctood1947-- yes it does take work and time, but it means that you will make money in the end, and we all love our business enough to make it work.

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lctodd1947 Level 2 Commenter 20 months ago

Rebecca, read your article and it is encouraging. I do try to link from here to my blogs and Infobarrel. I also send my articles to Article Directories and have another source. It takes work and time don't you think?

Thanks for sharing.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

Ellen- business and writing and something we love, if you love your business you will find success.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

jill of all trades-- not a problem I am always ahppy to help, it is fun doing what I so and it is a passion I nuture.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

TattoGuy-- I have an idea, and you'll like it... har har, no thanks for teh comment, made my day!

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

hynodude---thanks for teh comment, great to see you back, thanks so much for the rating and stumble!

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EllenGraeger 20 months ago

Thank you, Rebecca. You remind us that it is not only about writing but that we are talking business. A very honest hub, thanks again.

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jill of alltrades Level 4 Commenter 20 months ago

You always give great advice in your hubs Rebecca. I'm happy that you are around to teach and guide us here. Thank you for being so helpful.

All the best!

TattoGuy 20 months ago

Well done on making it, proud of you ; )

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hypnodude 20 months ago

As always great advices. Rated up and beautiful and obviously stumbled. :)

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

brian-- for the most part I do it by hand so I can customize teh link, adding teh write content to get people's attention. Bit longer but more success.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

allpurposeguru-- I would say the tipping point is both links and followers, when promoting your hubs, sometimes less is more, so that you can focus your effort, but about 40 hubs on the same topic will get you more than 1,000 impressions a month, way more than that. I would say to make good money you will need closer to 10,000 impressions a month to do this.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

crazybeanrider-- thanks, Ido these myself and have seen teh benefits, you can find my profile on Stumble Upon and Digg and a lot of other sites, which means you can find my links...

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

Brian-- traffic and making money go hand in hand, and without traffic you have no money, so it is up to you to leverage it.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

Micheal-- links and profile are big, I estimate a lot of my traffic to my blogs comes from e-zine articles and hubpages, so it is vital to have teh links there. Links are teh lifeblood, use them where you can.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

Linda-- I do my best, it is fun to do and even more fun to get teh traffic. Of course it takes time but it is fun.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

hello hello-- those are great beginnings, I would add e-zine articles where you can write a few articles with your link to a specific hub.. it takes a bit of time, but it helps, also other online article place such as e-zine will help.

Brian V. Hunt 20 months ago

Great post, Rebecca.

Do you use some kind of plugin to pull the links from your other hubs into the present hub or do you do all those by hand?

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allpurposeguru Level 3 Commenter 20 months ago

My project for the month is increasing traffic, so your article is very timely. The traffic I get on Xomba is pretty miserable, so I'm thinking of giving up on it and concentrating on something else instead. I'm already on RedGage and enjoy it. Of course, if I spend a lot of time promoting, that gives me less time to write. How many hubs do I need to have a realistic shot at 1000 impressions a month? Last month I got 433 impressions on 36 hubs. I spend most of my writing time keeping up with three blogs, and traffic is terrible there, too. I've got lots of work to do all over the place!

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crazybeanrider 20 months ago

Thanks for this information in well written, easy to understand terms. I have just started doing some of the suggestions you mentioned. And it has been working in my favor. Your hubs are easy to grasp and fun to read, they make you feel like you can accomplish what you are writing about.

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BRIAN SLATER Level 3 Commenter 20 months ago

Rebecca, at last someone has delivered a great hub on traffic and making money in one go. Thankyou

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Michael Ray King Level 3 Commenter 20 months ago

What great info! I probably need this as much or more than anyone! Thank you for an excellent, easy to read and understand Hub. You de-mystified some things for me...

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Linda Myshrall Level 1 Commenter 20 months ago

Rebecca, I just love your practical, no-nonsense advice! You have a great way of outlining what needs to be done and explaining how to do it. As always, thanks!

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Hello, hello, 20 months ago

Thank you for a good reminder which I was planning for today. I am putting backlinks as much as possible from Shetoldme, Xomba, etc but could you give a list of some more?

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

drbj-- yes well, I seem to kick myself in the pants once or twice while doing hubs like this... the oh yeah should go and do that again... all that fun stuff we do to keep going and going.

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

Duchess-- I shall "hop" to it.... and get it done...

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

hello my dear-- I'll put that e-book on my list of things to do then when it is done put it up on my profile.. the adventures of hubpages... like the sound of the title...

thanks for the idea...

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

Mike-- a bit of a hint, Stumble Upon, facebook, Digg, redgage and a blog post with a link and voila, 5 instant links. =) I try to do two blogs posts, and at least three e-zine articles based on teh hub, but those take mroe time...

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Rebecca E. Hub Author 20 months ago

samboiam-- I have just as many to fix up and well edit and edit and edit some more, and often wonder why until today when an older hub got some "hub love" as Duchess O'blunt likes to call it.

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drbj Level 8 Commenter 20 months ago

You know one of the things I really like about your hubs, Rebecca? You never fail to remind me about something I should be doing more of. In this case, reworking older hubs and adding links. Thanks, my sweet Hubbuddy.

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Duchess OBlunt Level 4 Commenter 20 months ago

I'm with Mystique1957. An ebook sounds like a good idea

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Mystique1957 Level 2 Commenter 20 months ago

My sweet Baby...

You´re going to have to create an e-book out of these wonderful hubs. How you manage to get new information out of a very trite subject, is a marvel in itself. Very useful, fresh and quite helpful. Rated up and useful, Bookmarked and Stumbled!

Warmest hugs, zillions of kisses, lots of love and light and infinite heavenly blessings,

Your Sunshine,

Your Al

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Mike Lickteig Level 3 Commenter 20 months ago

Creating links has always been my (pardon the pun) weak link. I create them, but frequently not enough of them. There still is a lot for me to improve on, but that is definitely where I need to focus my time.

Off to it, I guess.

Mike

BTW, excellent information--as always.

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samboiam 20 months ago

There are so many of my hubs that need work but I do not have the time or the discipline to work on the them. I know until I get serious about making money on HP I will continue to be at the level I am at now.

I do enjoy reading your hubs and hopefully will get my butt in motion and take your advice.

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