Making money from Google Adsense traffic - get traffic on Amazon Associates

To make money on Hub Pages and earn money from Blogging people need to concentrate on two main areas - Google Adsense and Amazon Associates. Using both these systems will help you to earn from your writing, and use your Blogger Blog to provide free Back links to your Hubs. Some have speculated that Google and Amazon almost a licence to print money revenue? Although it takes time, income can increase from optimising our hubs with searchable keywords and tying the niche of the hub in with what the Amazon ads will display on the Hub also. So how many people out there have both of these and yet claim they don’t or can’t make money from them? How many people struggle to earn money online? And can you make money blogging?
Fact: Google Adsense and Amazon ads are available on Hub Pages.
Fact: Google Adsense and Amazon ads are available on Blogger.com.
Fact: Blogger.com can be used to backlink to all of your Hub Pages, and make money online.
Fact: you can get a free Website on Weebly.com (which includes Google Adsense) and promote anything on it for free and link to anything you like. If you wanted to make money on the internet, why wouldn’t you have a free website like this? Wordpress will do the same thing.

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I wrote this Hub originally as an answer to a call for help and assistance for a very good friend of mine and Cathy’s from within Hub Pages. It was noted at the time that it would make a good hub, and so here it is. I will show you simple ways to make money – and the cost of putting these tips into effect is nothing. Apart from the cost of having the internet, these ideas let you make money with no money down. At college, at work, or making money at home, it’s all the same. Here you will learn to make money with Adsense. Let us begin.

This is what new Hubbers will statistically look like after just a few Hubs published

First of all, let’s assume that you are the following. You have a Hub Pages account, and you have Hub Pages written, and you will write more. Hub Pages lets you put ads from Google Adsense, Amazon Ads, EBay ads, and Kontera Ads on all your Hub Pages, provided the material you write suits the ads terms. I will deal with Google and Amazon in this hub.
I need to stress that whatever hubs you are writing - that you are writing good quality relevant content that people on Hub Pages genuinely WANT TO READ. The subject of your hubs should be topical and entertaining, and especially useful in providing information. When you write Hubs that people really respond positively to - they will rate you up and want to read more again.
Let’s get to specifics here and also assume you are interested in earning income from your Hub Pages and you are willing to add a blog to your output so that it will provide both back links to your hubs and also have Google Adsense and Amazon ads on the Blog, all earning you income while optimising your presence on the web. Having Amazon products there on your Blog will allow you to have 2 incomes instead of just an Adsense income.
You need to be open to the idea that Social Networking sites like MySpace and Facebook and Twitter can be a very useful tool for acquiring readers / viewers and directing traffic to a website, blog or Hub Page. (There are nearly 500 million users of Facebook in the world right now, MySpace has a terrific record also when it comes to Social Networking.) Facebook has a Google Page Rank of 10/10. It's the world's highest ranking Social Networking Website. Facebook has a space for placing a blog and making announcements, so providing yet more Back linking possibilities for your Hub Pages for you.

Compare the Page ranks of the bestseller Sites here...

Another promotion possibility and again a free Hub Page promotion option is setting up a free website on Weebly.com or Wordpress. Reason – you want to market or promote something, your writing talent, hubs, articles, information, a hobby or interest or business or company. And for free, and with Google Adsense added again, and very configurable Adsense ads provided.
The fact that you can configure the size shape colour and location of your Google Adsense ads on Weebly means that they can earn you maximum income. Naturally the website should have a good solid Niche area, and should be a subject that people search the web for a lot. If it is popular, then you are off to a good start. Tying the function of the website into your Blog or Hub Pages will help even more

What makes a good Hub?

You will know your hubs are of good quality, if your writing and subject is good, relevant, topical, catchy, interesting and poignant. Your Hubs will benefit from appealing to readers from outside the Hub pages community. Look at the illustrations here. the more you have outsiders arriving at your Hubs and checking them out, the more Hub Pages as a community grows. Your High Quality Hubs will attract interest from outside Hubs to come in and Join the Community.
While Hub Hopping recently I came across some hubs that were very short and brief, and cobbled together in a hurry and had very few Keywords or tags added or photos or videos added. These kinds of hubs often go unnoticed by readers if they look less than appetizing. The rating of those kinds of Hubs will always be low. So a Hub should have plenty of “meat” on it. Make them sexy and interesting and people will read them for certain.

Google Adsense Keywords tool will allow you to find Keywords that people search for on the internet. These are words that crop up in your Hubs. You are strongly advised to make sure that good quality popular Keywords appear through out your Hubs - then your hubs will be showing up in Search Engines. Getting them seen by Engines is another item I will deal with here.

What percentage of your hubs are found as a result of searches? The answer is the more the better. You can never have too many links to your hubs from outside Hub Pages itself. And making them easy to find has many rewards. The secret to Hub success is good relevant topics and linking.
What follows here below in the diagram is a simple system that I have used to create backlinks and get visitors and traffic to my Hubs. Some people call this a funnel, others use different names. The funnel should take and direct traffic from outside of Hub Pages back into your hub pages and send them to the relevant hubs. Music related hubs can have music articles written in a web page article, and could even have a music player that can play the music in question to readers and listeners. Or maybe videos for instructional hubs on subjects like Clickbank or Adsense or whatever your pet subject is. It becomes a focal point that eventually sends people to that hub or hub group. Group your hubs in Hub Pages and make sure they are keyword-findable, so searches can zero in on them.

The Funnel, according to Cheeky Girl...

I use this system to direct traffic from my Facebook pages, my blogger blog, my Weebly pages and blog, and my MySpace page all in a funnel to my hub pages, where I post one hub roughly every few days at a time, but which keeps my hub stats high, brings new traffic from outside of hub pages into the hub pages universe, and straight to my hubs. Now you know my formula. And the good news is - you can improve on this if you want to. You can never have enough links to your Hubs. Links = Traffic = readers = income + high ratings.
But that is only part of it. There is more. I have an advert link for my hub pages profile going from about half a dozen other Hubbers profiles to mine, which makes a micro funnel within hub pages, which gathers more hubs readers and sends them to my hubs. In return, I put a reciprocal link from mine to theirs, and the other Hubbers in question also benefit from the arrangement...but we all get more traffic and more Hub reads. There’s a knack in this, as it does not pay to have too many links as they might seem too extreme a way of focusing traffic to your hubs, or too spammy. All traffic looks better to Google Search Engines and Bots (which search and index the net) if it looks “organic” or natural.

MySpace and Facebook serve a valuable free use as generators of people or readers  / customers - who for whatever reason, will congregate and eventually follow my many laid out links here to the hubs I write. These have had a big affect on bringing new traffic to my Hub Pages, and as I add more pages and promote and announce my Hubs on them and add their links, I get more people checking them out. Twitter is also a very useful tool in getting traffic, but it can be almost too powerful and should be handled with care. Everyone on Twitter is trying to sell someone something. Some people will un-follow you if you over-tweet them with promos and adverts. Pick your fellow Twitterers with care!

MANY WAYS TO GET TRAFFIC FOR YOUR HUBS

Here are 2 more things you need to know, which will boost things for you a lot.
SUBMIT EXPRESS
Find this website submission service which is totally free, (though there is a pro version you can op for if you like) and submit all your sites and blogs to it, you can submit 5 at a time as I found out. It will submit your url on to 350 different search engines – this includes the Top Ones. The free version of Submit Express works very nice indeed! Cheeky Girl has used it many times and I always get excellent results.

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My Cheeky Girl Top Tip: Banner exchanges. This is when someone does you a good turn and lets you put a banner ad on their website or blog in return for you doing the same for them, with a banner ad from them on your page. A tit-for-tat exchange, which costs nothing. It is another cost effective way of getting organic traffic from another location to your website, blog or Hub Pages.

A banner that would be used in a Banner exchange. Typically when clicked on - the Banner would take the user to a target site / blog or Hub Page...

Source: Cheeky Girl

So what about Youtube or Clickbank. These are also a very interesting subject and well worth pursuing. Youtube is free to join up to and it takes little effort to create videos to help get your message, story, article, product, point or Hub across. Clickbank is a separate area which is like Amazon, in that it allows you to sell items and make a commission on their eventual sale. You don’t have to make or produce the goods, just sell them for others through Clickbank. It is another money maker and it takes time and patience. But these are real ways to make money over time. I have dealt with Clickbank separately in this hub.

There are sites such as “SheToldMe” and “Delicious” which are further Google-adsense compatible ways of making income and backlinking to your hubs. Another free way to freely promote yourself is to set up a Digg account (free) and include your best or all hubs. Also promote your other sites / blogs. The same thing can be done by freely registering a StumbleUpon account (also free) and this can be used by you to stumble your own sites and hubs, and they will be read by even more people, thus pumping up your stats. Article Directories are another way to promote your writing, and there are many on the web to choose from.
I have found Weebly.com to be a very effective platform for my own personal website and a blog, and for the value of the Google Adsense it offers, which is highly configurable. Wordpress is very popular on the web, and both these sites offer amazing options and very effective.

Using Amazon capsules to create ads on your hub pages is another good way to generate income. By setting up an Amazon Associates or Affiliates account (for free), you can use this to set up and have adverts on a Blogger Blog. You might be surprised by the choice of items available, there are many. And you can choose where you want them to appear. Amazon is one of the best ways to make money on the net that I know of. Anyone can do this.
When you activate Amazon Associate accounts in Blogger, you can even have suggestions made to you as to what products might suit the blog you write! Why not write about your Hubs? They will usually appear on the right side border where other ads appear, depending on what layout you have. Blogger blogs can serve as a useful Back link provider for your hubs. I have used this to generate traffic on my hubs. Now people who blog with this platform can earn income from Amazon ads that are generated. The more you blog, the more you can potentially earn. It’s up to you. And this compliments Hub Pages nicely.

I hope this has been of some use to people setting out to earn cash from Hubs and the ads that appear on them. I will return to Adsense again in a future hub. Good luck with your hubs in Hub Pages.