Comments on: How To Make Money With Completely Free Traffic

By: Karol

Karol — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:31:29 +0000

Rob, dude! You are not late to the game. You are IN the game! Thank you and congrats! :)

I’ve found the Medium setting to be optimal for getting affiliate sales. The High setting had too many ads and detracted for the sales I actually wanted to make. :)

By: Rob Shemeley

Rob Shemeley — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:06:31 +0000

I finally got around to trying this out — I know, I’m late to the game! I decided to create a hub that I wish had existed when I bought my MacBook Pro: http://hubpages.com/hub/Top-5-Cases-for-MacBook-Pro

I have a question, though, if it’s not too late for your attention on this! You call for unchecking the “commercial” checkbox and setting Ads to “Medium.” Wouldn’t that reduce your income? It seems most of the hubs I see leave it on High. Any thoughts?

Thanks for this great tip!

By: Karol

Karol — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:06:04 +0000

Nice job Nyle!

By: Nyle

Nyle — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 17:46:41 +0000

Karol,
‘Pologize for this unpunctual post, but I gotta share my hub page with ya!
I wouldn’t mention it if I didn’t think you’d find it interesting:
http://hubpages.com/hub/chill-out-music

By: Karol

Karol — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:36:50 +0000

at least 3 words for a phrase…exact match = yes

By: David Hutchison

David Hutchison — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:12:39 +0000

Karol,

I certainly didn’t expect to learn it in two minutes – though I have been accused of being impatient before!

But seriously, that why I tried the absurd phrases…I assume finding absurd things not well covered wold be easy…and that the tougher, profitable middle-ground is indeed challenging. The surprise to me is being unable to go to the absurd uncovered end right away.

Can I ask – how many words typically in a useful phrase? Can you, do you, search based on exact match (with quotes) or not? Just a couple of hints would be fantastic!

By: Karol

Karol — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:05:21 +0000

Hi David,

Thanks! What you’re “missing” is that you’re not going deep enough. Keyword research isn’t something that you’ll figure out in 2 minutes. It takes hours, days, weeks, months to get really good. The first step is opening up the Keyword Tool and getting to work. :) There are an incredible amount of phrases with less than 50,000 competing pages.

Karol

By: David Hutchison

David Hutchison — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:02:51 +0000

Thanks for the article…great stuff. But as with all “easy” ways to make money there’s a hitch – or at least something I don’t understand. It’s all quick and easy – IF you have the keyword to fit your criteria. The tools are easy to use. BUT…find a keyword or phrase with less than 50,000 pages on google? I started with words, then phrases, of things I could easily write about…no luck. Not even close.

Then I went on to what seem like insane combinations: “aluminum hardwood” nope – well over a million. “milk loons” nearly 600,000. “woolen cars” getting closer – nearly 400,000.

And these are absurd phrases.

What am I missing?

By: Karol

Karol — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 03:41:52 +0000

Awesome Josh! Thank you.

By: Josh Kohlbach

Josh Kohlbach — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 02:13:24 +0000

Hey Karol,

Thanks for the scoop :) I’ve heard of HubPages before with mixed reports so didn’t really do anything with it at the time. When I first read this article back at the end of feb I added it to my to-do list.

Finally got around to it the other day and I’ve turned it into a bit of a mini project. I’ve linked back to your resource here (http://www.codemyownroad.com/up-and-running-with-hubpages/).. nice work!