Places to Get Ideas for High Traffic Topics and Websites
93How Do I Make a Hub That Gets Traffic and Earns Money?
I recieved an interesting email today asking the question of where do I find topics that drive traffic. She said she felt like she could do a good job researching just about any topic and make an authoritative Hub. In fact research is her favorite part, but her efforts hadn't been rewarded.
So, I want to put together a Hub with examples of high traffic Hubs and show you how they do it.
I'm going to put this in three steps
- Selecting a topic
- Crafting content
- Promotion
And as part of this, I'm going to create a Hub and report back on how much traffic it is getting.
Places to get ideas for hot topics that earn money
- Mahalo Top 50
Most of Mahalo's traffic comes from search engines and their site is pretty new. This means that a Hub created on one of these topics of better quality is likely to get significant traffic. Notice how they title their pages. Use that type of title - Hot Trends By Google
Google monitors its search results and creates a page with hot trends. If you mark this page and see a new item hit it, you can create a Hub as the go to resource for the topic. - EBay Pulse
EBay is the king of niche commercial topics. By cross referencing what is hot on eBay and Google trends, you can find some targeted gems. The best thing about picking topics from eBay is that they are commercial. And if they are commercial, there'
How To Select a Topic To Write About?
With our content we have three goals. First is to provide the go to resource on a topic. Second, to attract visitors from search engines, blogs, and other sources. Third is to produce a piece of content with the ability to earn a payback on my time.
There are a few techniques to selecting a topic.
- Write about what you know well. If you don't know it well, be prepared to spend significantly more time researching the topic.
- Find lists of hot topics and where there are people searching for items, but few pieces of targeted content on the subject.
- Select a topic that is commercial in nature. A topic where their are premium advertisers that pay more. Many topics are over done, but if you dig a little, you'll start to see what I mean.
- After you have a piece of content that is getting traffic, study your google analytic reports to find how people are finding you. Then create other pieces of content targeting keywords that stem from the words that are already delivering traffic.
Examples of Hubs that Get Good Search Traffic
- Weight Watchers Points
See how the Hub targets "Weight Watchers Points" but by looking at its Google Analytics, this Hub gets most of its traffic for "Weight Watchers Points System". It's a good Hub and earns about an $8 CPM and gets about 7,500 pageviews per month. - Rolex Hubs
This series of Rolex Hubs has 46 Hubs that were created in about one month. They get over 16,000 pageviews per month and earned over $120 last month with AdSense and eBay. The series is nearly one year old and has been earning consistenly in this r - Exchange Email Story
My Hub on 1and1 Exchange Email is one of my most consistent traffic and earners. It's a very niche Hub on a topic that we were trying to solve, so I created a Hub about the experience. It gets 500 views a month and makes about $3 dollars per month.
Crafting Content to Drive Traffic
In order for people to find your content, the content must have the words and phrases in the content. This is an art.
1. Title your Hub with the main keyword phrase. If your are not sure, make a "How To" hub.
2. Writing for search engines takes some skill. If you are new, I suggest going deep. Create rich pages with lots of details. When you get a little more advanced, you can apply formatting techniques that help.
3. Everyone can add google analytics to their Hubs. Use it to find the exact keywords that people use to find your Hubs. The more you study this, the more you'll understand how to craft good content.
Promoting a Hub
This week we had a visit to our office from one of the top Hub makers. I was very interested to hear about her experience and how she promotes her Hubs.
She creates high quality hubs. They are among the very best, filled with rich information. She publishes the Hub and then lets it sit there. She adds a bit of information to it and then lets it sit there for several more days.
After a number of days have gone by, she'll get a link to it from a forum she's in, if it is appropriate to post a link, otherwise, she relies soley on creating great content.
This works! High quality Hubs and very little promotion. The key is very high quality.
An extra boost can be provided by having a few people link to a Hub, but that's all it takes. Great content gets links and more traffic.
Chronicling My Own Advice
I'm going to walk through this process. I want a Hub that will make $5 per month.
On Mahalo I see a lot of Halo 3 topics. I've played Halo and could research this. I also noticed a How to Carve a Pumpkin as popular. We are close to Halloween, and this could be a nice seasonal Hub, but I want something with this Hub that has more longevity. I'm having a baby soon. I wonder if there is anything hot on babies now.
Google trends shows baby safety as pretty stable. That means, if we crack it, it could be a good earner for a long time. Let's check out eBay Pulse. Ok. Ebay pulse show's pretty traditional items as well. So, I'm going to take a stab at creating a Hub on Baby Safety and Health Products, largely from what I see on ebay pulse. Now, I need to narrow it down. What's the hot baby safety area. I'm going to plugin some of the baby category ideas into the Google Keyword Tool to see if anything jumps out. OK, I'm doing a deep Hub on Baby Monitors.
I just posted the Hub. I'm going to let it sit there and see what traffic it gets. In a week or so I may add a backlink from my blog or a forum if it's a good fit. I'm also setting up a channel in adsense to track the revenue. Remember, my goal is $5 per month with this hub.
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Great tips and advice Paul. Perhaps I should follow it! Thank you for sharing your expertise.
I write what I see. I write what I think. I write what I believe. I write what I write.
Today i added a few links to the top makers. I still haven't gotten any search traffic, so I'm going to wait a few more days. I should point out, that I don't see it indexed yet. So it needs to be sucked up before it can get traffic.
I use the Google Keyword tool to find phrases that people use when searching to include them in my copy. https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExter
I noticed "baby monitor reviews" as a search term, so I just added a link capsule to my hub with this text.
Case in point: I found out about the lipstick recall news item on Friday, and quickly cobbled together a Hub on it (about 30 minutes). I also "seeded" it to Technorati, Simpy & del.icio.us.
Within 2 hours, it was getting Google traffic - I think because of the fact that HubPages is spidered so often and there's trust/credibility, I immediately got #2 ranking on "Lipstick Recall" (now it's #6):
http://hubpages.com/hub/Lipstick-Recall
I've gotten 2800 pages views total in less than 3 days and I've seen my AdSense earnings per day double!
Worls great I made a Hub about one of the top terms and I was on the front page at Google in 2 hours with hits from Google rolling in swiftly. Thanks Paul
Crazyhorseghost, glad you found success. What was the topic? Did you pick from the Google hot trends.
I'd love to know if others see success with Google Hot Trends as well.
The topic was my Princess Diana Hub. It blew my mind when Google indexed it and put it on the front page for several keywords in under 2 hours.
I am working on some more.
I added some more content about how monitors work and added it to delicious. I also noticed the Hub has been indexed, but no traffic yet.
do you think that the key words work best as tags and capsule titles or one or the other?
I suggest putting a keyword in the title, a few key phrases as tags, and a key phrase in the capsule title.
See this example
So today, day 4 and no search traffic.
So I added some more content. I'd like it to get indexed again before adding more to it.
Paul, have you linked it from some of your hubs that are already indexed?
I've noted too that traffic may take awhile to come on hubs that I'm not promoting outside of hubpages itself, but that eventually it just starts rolling in. Also, my top hub traffic-wise was just a lucky break. I picked the set of keywords by accident, but it must be what people were looking for so it gets usually at least a 100 pv per day and has done so practically since I built it. Now I need to try doing it with a little more intent.
Lots of useful information here. Thanks much! I look forward to checking in on this 'experiment' often.
Robin added one link to the Hub from http://hubpages.com/hub/Why_is_my_baby_crying
Cross linking thematic pages can be helpful to driving traffic. I'll look to create more pages in the baby health and safety category and cross link them.
Yesterday we started to see a trickle of traffic to the baby monitor Hub. So, I went into Google Analytics to find out what terms are driving traffic. The keywords are long tail.
good infant video monitor
wifi baby monitors
angelcare wireless baby monitor review
best baby monitors
best baby monitors on the market
best rated baby monitor with screen
best rated baby video monitors
consumer report for safety 1st video monitor
Now that I can see the terms, I'm going to add some more content targeted at wifi monitors since that is the most popular term and I want to move up the rankings (hopefully top three). Also, notice how "Best" is so common. I'll keep using this word in the phrases and possibly change some heading titles.
Geat Hub. Good advice. Thanks
My baby monitor Hub is now getting 10 PVs per day. The good news is the CPM from all the different items on the page is about $15. That's better than I thought. So, to make $5 per month at the $15 CPM rate I need to drive about 19 pageviews per day. So, I'm about half way there. I need to drive 19 pageviews per day since I get 60% of the impressions (If you are trying to follow the math).
So what's next. I'll watch the cache of the page http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:yg55XfW8-IAJ:h/hub/Best-Baby-Monitors-Top-Wireless-and-Video-Baby-Monitors+site:hubpages.com+baby+monitor&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=4&gl=us
When I see that it has a copy of my most recent content, I'll check my stats again and see if new keyword combinations pop up. Now, I should also start to create pages on related topics and link to my hub when it's appropriate. For example, I could make a bunch of Hubs on baby saftey products like gates, outlet covers, thermometers etc. I can go back to the ebay category for baby health and safety to get more ideas as well.
Great info for newbies like us. Also helps us to avoid some pitfalls while writing for our hubs.
So today i added a hub on a related topic of baby gates and linked once to my hub. When I created the link I linked the phrase "baby monitor" to the hub. This gives it a little bit more weight. I also created a baby safety group and added both hubs to it.
I've been doing well for wifi baby monitors, so I updated the title of my hub to include the word wifi to see if I can move it up a few spots.
Excellent advice. Thanks I will be following this.
Wow, thanks for this info. It really is a science.
Great advice! Thank you so much.
I've been wathing traffic stay at about 10 pageviews per day. Today I added a link to it from my personal family blog linking a phrase that I'd like to get more traffic for.
This a good aticle for us. Will try to follow what you have said. Thanks
Hey Paul any recent news in the last three days on your circle of Baby Saftey hubs? Curious and following the development!
Today i added a section about other uses for baby monitors. It's a couple of quick paragraphs. I'm still steady at about 10 pageviews per day.
Next is to work on adding a few links.
I'm so glad I came across your hub. It is so useful and lots of stuff I need to learn. I got here from a comment you left on someone's hub. Thanks so much. Dottie
Great, great advice. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you. I will give this advice a try and let you know how it goes.
tDMg
Update: The hub has cracked the 20 views a day threshold. About two weeks ago, I did more keyphrase research and added related terms to the topic. It took a few days for it to get indexed, but once it did, traffic as increased.
The content I added was related to the topic, but wasn't the exact phrase I've been targeting. For example, I added content related to infants and pregnancy can connected them to baby monitors.
Thanks Paul,
Very informative and helpful.
wow, this is great, thankyou so much for the help
Thanks for the info. What does the hub make now?
Thank you. very helpful information!
Thanks for the tips. I'm new to hubpages and can use all the advise and help I can get. I'm also not very SEO etc savvy, but I'm sure I'll get the hang of it.
Wow - 2 year old post and still great info - thanks Paul - really appreciate the info on crafting a profitable hub.
Sometimes things don't change all that much:)
Thanks Paul for the great info you have done and you are rocking man.
Really excellent. Thank you, Paul, for so much help. As a Newbie, I'm still floundering somewhat, and I think this will speed up my traffic considerably.
Writing on hot trends that provide solutions to the daily needs of people could drive in lots of traffic, for example, I had installed on my phone an Opera Mini browser software that allowed me browse the internet fast and at a reduced cost on my subscribed data plan due to the high data compression of the software. I followed it up early last year by publishing a hub about using this said browser on cell phones, guess what? The continued average of 215 views per day is very encouraging. Thanks for quickening me with these good techniques and tips. I'm grateful.
Just to add another tip. We can use college exam papers and write articles that provide answers to the exam questions. The targeted audience is the students.
great hub
Scheng1, is this not against Google TOS about answers to students
I am going to try your advice. Thank you xxx
Thanks for the great tips. However $5 per month does not sound attractive, I think someone with vast experience like you should do better.
really helpful, bookmarked!, thanks,Paul
Great advice,thanks!!!!!
Very useful info even after two years! I'm going to implement this on my own hubs!
good useful tips...
thanks for sharing this information.
Really useful secrets. Thanks!
Very informative
I have been getting my ideas from ClickBank then go to marketplace and see what products are selling the best. I have read it somewhere online while back and it has been working great for me. There is also website called trendwatching.com. Great post
Can you sign up to google analytics using your HubPage profile or do you have to have a website? I am not quite sure on how to do this. Guess I should search further to find out. I would definitely like to find out what words people are using to find my hubs. Is there another way?
There is a difference between traffic for evergreen title and news content. World shattering news usually generate a few thousand hits within the first 2 days.
Evergreen titles enjoy consistent but low traffic daily.
I definitely need to find out how to use all these key elements you referred to, like google hot trends, etc. It seems the more I read, the more confused I get. :( I just finally figured out the "suggest links" button on my Hubs, and am still confused as to whether or not I have fully completed Adsense. All I know is it says its active..I have no idea how to add links in, but hopefully it doesn't frustrate me to the point that I throw in the towel. Wish I was more advanced when it comes to all this computer talk. Great advice and I will try to figure it all out. :)
This is good info!
Thanks for the great advice Paul. I'm still getting the hang of promoting and getting readers, but with good advice like yours I have a better chance of reaching my goal.
Appreciate you taking the time to write this hub...practical advice! And your step-by-step illustrations are easy to understand giving way to audience application.
Have a great week!
Great resource, bookmarking for reference, thanks!
Thanks for all the details you put into this.
You've got some great advise in this hub Paul! I've bookmarked it for future reference. Keep them coming!
Great advise, I stick to what I'm knowledgeable about and key words of that subject. I do very little links to drive traffic, good advise in this article.
Excellent research... really insighful!
This article gives me more insight into the money making aspect of hub pages as well as how to create a good hub. I like to write about what I know. I feel the article is a better article if I write from experience. I don't like to ask, but maybe you could look at my hubs and give me your opinion? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks! Teresa
Have you gotten to $5 per day? I'd love to read a follow up to this. The baby monitors hub looks good.
Paul, this is an excellent and extremely inspiring hub. Invaluable information here. I would like to know how well your Baby Monitor hub is faring now. Could you give us an update?
The baby monitor hub is doing very well now. It's getting 100 views a day. It probably earns north of 20 dollars a month.
Awesome! I think I'll implement a similar plan and track/share my progress.
Thanks Paul for sharing your tips. Looking forward to follow some which I have not included in my hubs yet.
Super good guide for getting traffic. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks by the way I appreciate it. I love DIY articles. so thanks for this. I was just checking into it I joined this hub to my surprise 2 years ago. I was spending most of my time of my Fit it site
Great article! Really helped me out in terms of learning the science behind getting traffic. Thanks!
Wow, thank you for this! Three years later, and it's still great info. It's so cool that your hub that only got 10 views a day, to start, is now getting 100 views a day. It shows that "maturing a hub" really does work. This is great info, and give me hope! Take care.
This article has been very helpful along with many of your other articles, so thank you. I also want to say I really appreciate the hubber support mentality that you maintain throughout this algorithm change.
Thanks Paul for this Hub. Since joining Hubpages, I've been trying to write a lot of Hubs without spending to much time on the keywords and other research. ALthough I have some hubs that generate good PVs, i.e. between 10 - 20, while another batch are generate between 1- 9 PVs per day and the rest (about half my hubs (non technical) have no PVs except when I first publish them and then I make about 10 - 15 PVs that day. I have will use your advice to rework my hubs, at least the ones that aren't performing well to see if I can better returns.
Hey.. Thanks Paul for your hub. Very useful information.
great tips Paul. A must read for newbies like me. Useful and voted up.
Isabella Snow 4 years ago
This is cool thanks!