Quick Tips For Maximizing Sales, Clicks and Traffic on Hubpages

I've only been on hubpages four months and so far, I've written quite a few hubs. Slowly I've learnt more and more about hubpages... so here are some really simple, easy things to do that might just bring in those few extra ad clicks and amazon sales.

I'm nowhere near an SEO expert or a top hubber or a sales guru. However these small tips might just give you that extra boost you need without too much work - and they don't require tons of time to learn the methods.

Hopefully if you're new to the site and looking for some quick and easy tips - you've found the right hub. Maybe if you've been here a little while you can still find a tip to help. Feel free to leave any comments or feed back or tell me I'm wrong!

This is a well known one, but I thought I'd include it anyway. Try to put your first picture or right aligned text box further down the page - along side your second main text box is a great spot. This allows adverts to be placed next to the first block of text, where they are more noticeable to readers and more likely to be clicked.

Use your summary text box! When in edit mode it's at the top of the hub to the right of the "settings" tab. 

Simply write a small blurb about your hub, making sure to include your keywords. If you don't write one, it's automatically generated from your first paragraph which may not be very relevant to the reader who just wants a quick overview before visiting your page.

Including your keywords in the summary text also increases the chance of ranking  well in SERPs.

Any time you align a box to the right, you have a choice of leaving the background white, making it grey or making it pale blue. Use this to your advantage.

Remember that hubs have no major colors in them other than pictures.

Add a blue or grey box around your amazon items, so that the reader's eye is drawn to the items. Otherwise the reader might just get a case of "banner blindness" and ignore them.

Don't put one entire block of 6 amazon items on your hub. Spread them out. For instance, in a hub about drawing techniques:

Put an amazon capsule with crayons beside the crayon information.

Put an amazon capsule with paints beside the paint information.

And so on....

This is also important because many people skim read. For instance, in our drawing techniques example, a reader may only want to know about pencils - and even want to buy them. However if your one and only amazon capsule with pencils for sale is next to your introduction or your capsule on crayons, you may have just missed a sale. 

Many phrases in search engines are questions. Most people view search engines like a robot that knows everything - simply ask a question and get an answer. Millions of questions get asked each day, ranging from "How do I make my car work?" to "Who is the most popular singer in America?"

If you put in a few questions about the topic, that you know people are regularly asking on search engines, chances are you'll get just that bit more traffic.

This also gives you a chance to repeat your key words.

You might want to make something sound very impressive - but will impressive get you search results? For instance, why would someone search the word "Sphere" when they can just type in "Round" or "Circle."

Another important thing is to make sure the grammar and wording matches up with your target audience. For instance, if you wish to target Australians and English people, you might want to write "Colour" instead of the American version - "Color." If you're targeting normal house wives, writing big medical definitions instead of just "Acne" or "Dandruff" will lower your chance of traffic.

Add some information that points towards the products you are selling. Simply throwing in a random brand of item that has a slight relation to your article just might not get you that many sales.

If your hub looks like it's selling something, some people will just leave. However if you have relevant information, plus you can manage to throw in a few "item placements", it can pay off.

You can connect your hubs in a pyramid so that you get more traffic going to lesser viewed hubs as well as keeping clicks on your hubs instead of going to another site.

For instance:

Write 1 hub about a broad topic - for instance, art.

In that hub link to three more hubs - maybe famous artists, mediums to use in art and a basic guide to drawing.

Now each of those three can link to more intricate hubs. For example, the hub on famous artists can link to more specific information on one artist, the hub on mediums can then link to four separate hubs on paints, pencils, crayons and charcoal.

All your hubs will be interconnected and users will be able to find more about any topic in your hub without having to google it and visit a different site!

You can use the pyramid in two ways - 

1. If you have a topic you really like to write about, simply go back and edit them to connect to each other on relevant topics.
2. You can come up with a whole new topic and interconnect them all - coming up with new hubs and ideas as you go!

Do you want to "set and forget" your pages? Google loves fresh content and there's an easy way to get it - write interesting and thought provoking hubs that get:

Comments - Every comment someone makes is new information for google. So the more comments means more traffic - especially if your key words appear in a few comments.