Ten Simple Ways to Increase Traffic To Older Websites and Make Money

If you Want to make money online you will need to increase traffic to new and older websites and articles of yours. On the Internet, your traffic is your way to either gain more exposure or make money through affiliate programs such as Google AdSense. Getting traffic is simple it is the increasing traffic is a bit more of an important issue. Getting traffic is the only way you will make money

When you publish a fine hub with great content and a well research keyword system, then you simply increase traffic to your new hub due to your followers... in other words, you build hubs to get some sort of readership.The older hubs are the ones you will need to focus on. Some hubs seem to get traffic and continue to get traffic and other hubs need some hub love not only to increase traffic but to make money.

The reasons can range from lack of simple keyword research and search engine optimization to the fact that you have simple not used anything like a keyword research tool (Google AdWords being one of them)

In this, your business depends on you and the effort you put in. There are many ways to make money online, but NONE of them (particularly Google AdSense) will work if you do not get traffic.

These two steps are possibly the most vital in increasing traffic to your hubs, your websites and your blogs. Now, this will take a lot of effort particularly if your hubs or website is older.

1) Go to e-zine articles: Pick five of your hubs which have the least bit of traffic. Now, for each hubs write 5 articles this will mean 25 articles total. Make them about 400 words per article. Original content for e-zine articles is best. Go back to your hubs and make certain that they have at least 800 words or more. Also make sure that the hubs is not copied. Do not simply use one means but also plan to go to copyscape and see if anything is copied from your hubs.

Then if your hub is not up to a good standard ( say over 800 words or more, or doesn't have photos) then you will need to add more to it: photos, polls, quizzes, all to make your readers do something on your hub. Always edit your hub to update it.

2) Other online articles sites: To make money you need links,and the more links you have the better... except when all your links are from one or two places. of that is the case, you have a problem. It does not matter about follow or no follow, but how many different places you have your links pointing from. Again look for online article writing sites. They, for the most part, are a slow method, but do get traffic and make you money.

Making money online is a process and it is one where the "rules" are changing. The more important thing is that quality, original content is the most important. A short, poorly written article can now do you more harm than good. Editing, and re-editing a published hub is a must.

Yes making money in this business is important, but if you do not have traffic it does not matter how great you think your work is, you will not make money. So to make money online, you need to think of traffic but also of of Google AdSense and how it relates to your websites.

3) Maximize Your Google AdSense: Look at many hubs of people who have success on hubpages, and what do you see? Google AdSense. Now, I have found the better the content the more traffic, but also, the ads tend to be more what you want them to be. But there is something else many many people miss. That big box of Google Ads to the right of your first bit of text? 250 words or so and then a photo seems to be best to get that rectangle up.

4) Knowing what the ads mean: For example your are writing about water, or about history, and up comes a ads on how to publish... well, what Google AdSense does is look at three things: Your first bit of content, and then to your keywords, and then to the main "search-able words" in your text. Again to make money, look at your title, and your text and then keywords (or tags) you've chosen to correct any Google AdSense inconsistencies. This should improve when your traffic clicks on ads; and when you increase traffic to your hubs.

 This is a simple fact and these three tips will help you improve traffic and make money online.

5) Write on a regular basis.  No really, write on a regular basis, if you are new to anywhere the fastest way to get Noticed is to write and publish your work.  Two points about writing on a regular basis:  Write something that you love to do to begin with, and also always enjoy the process.

6) Write elsewhere: Part of what makes you money is the art of writing on different places.  Some people write on hubpages, but they also write on sites such as Squidoo or wikinut, or blogs or bukisa, or triond, or hundreds of other sites.  Decide where you get your traffic and add links to where you want traffic to go.

7) Plan on money:  This counter-intuitive, but make a plan on money.  In other words, if you are not seeing something moving, go back and find out why.  If you do not understand, ask, but the most important point is that in this business you need to make money.  If you are not, find out and fix it. Fixing your business and accepting that you have to do this is the most hardest thing you will do.

Traffic is something hard to define, but as a general rule when you focus on increasing traffic two things will happen you will increase traffic and still find no money, or you will increase traffic and make money.

8) Traffic from search engines is best: Go to Google or Yahoo or Bing (the MSN search engine) and see what websites come up. Chances are there is an opening for your hub to get search engine traffic but you need to have these search terms in your hub. in other words, this is basic SEO.

Publishing a fine hub will often be the difference between a good money making hub and a bad one. The more photos and other things you add are also important, but do not use personal photos as this can lead to confusion- you are not allowed watermarks on hubpages photos.

9) Traffic is traffic and if your focus is on increasing traffic...: You will increase traffic but you might not make money. Making Money and increasing traffic at the same time is a totally different goal than simply increasing traffic.

10) Know thy business: This is an online business. This is your business. This is your business. You are the only one who can fix your hubs to create more traffic to them.

Remember traffic does come, and increasing it is easy, but the harder part is thinking like a business and setting goals.

To your success.