How to get people to sign up for HubPages on my profile

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  1. Dolores Monet profile image98
    Dolores Monetposted 9 years ago

    Okay, I've been here for quite some time and done quite well but still don't understand a lot. I want to put in a referral thingy on my profile - one of those 'sign up for Hubpages here' referral trackers.
    I see where some people are signing up for shetoldme through me and would like to do it here, only for HubPages.  I read so many posts but still don't get it. Could some kind person please explain it for dummies?

    1. sofs profile image89
      sofsposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Go to your  profile, edit profile  say http//hubpages.com/(yourtracker id)
      _ abc/user/new and link it with the link option. Hope this was helpful.

    2. agvulpes profile image87
      agvulpesposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Dolores you have to insert a tracker code that you have made up into your URL and then post the whole thing into a link!
      Here is the help page link for you :
      http://learningcenter.hubpages.com/2-attract-readers/

      Good luck smile

      To make a new tracker go to your 'account' page then 'url trackers' then 'create a new tracker' You can call it just about anything you want but remember that your reader will probably see it smile

    3. sunforged profile image67
      sunforgedposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      You currently have:

      ht tp://hubpages.com/profile/http/hubpages.com/_(3w0rc4a5smaev)abc/user/new

      you want:

      http://hubpages.com/_3w0rc4a5smaev/user/new

      that is your ref link that goes directly to the sign up page

      You copied the example given to you which was just an example of the random numbers that are generated.

      Its usually easier to remember if you use a custom tracker that you make up:

      http://hubpages.com/my/trackers


      for example I use _stme   to keep track of how much traffic comes from shetoldme

    4. katiem2 profile image60
      katiem2posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Great question and something I've yet to get around to, just spaced it off, thanks for the heads up Dolores smile

    5. profile image54
      Helenwhposted 9 years agoin reply to this

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      1. profile image0
        Website Examinerposted 9 years agoin reply to this

        Posting identical posts to the forum is against the rules. As is spamming links to the forum. Your second post has been reported as spam.

        EDIT: And has now been removed by the moderator.

    6. Jezzzz profile image42
      Jezzzzposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Don't Worry about it Doloris.  I have been trying to figure this one out for some time now also.  I have gotten the link up and running on my profile but I can't seem to get people to signup once they click.

  2. kmackey32 profile image69
    kmackey32posted 9 years ago

    Dont feel bad Deloris i dont know where my ID is.. lol

  3. Dolores Monet profile image98
    Dolores Monetposted 9 years ago

    okay will try...let's see - I can't be the only one who does not understand....

    1. kmackey32 profile image69
      kmackey32posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      No i still dont get it...

      1. agvulpes profile image87
        agvulpesposted 9 years agoin reply to this

        Which part don't you get?

    2. lorlie6 profile image82
      lorlie6posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      You are NOT alone at all! smile

  4. Dolores Monet profile image98
    Dolores Monetposted 9 years ago

    Kmackey - the tracker can be found on your accounts page...now my problem is how do I tell if I did it right?

    1. agvulpes profile image87
      agvulpesposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Once you have made a new tracker you must insert it into the url address that you are going to use.   Then you have to make a link on your profile page using the new url you just made as the link!

    2. kmackey32 profile image69
      kmackey32posted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Ok I found my tracker. Do I post the link in my bio? I feel dumb and Ive been on this site a year... lol I created a new tracker now where do I post that?

      1. Lisa HW profile image61
        Lisa HWposted 9 years agoin reply to this

        If you're dumb then I'm dumber.  I'll be here three years in October, and I still need to look into putting the "sign-up" thing on my profile.   lol

    3. Pandoras Box profile image69
      Pandoras Boxposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I just looked at your profile and it looks right. I'm not loving the "here", but it's right.

      If you should decide you want to place these in more than one place, it may be a good idea to create different trackers, so you can track which placements are getting results, ie. through a hub, your profile or elsewhere.

    4. agvulpes profile image87
      agvulpesposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      @dolores I don't think it is quite right I believe there should be and underscore in the url as per this sample:
      //hubpages.com/_newtrackercodehere/profile/yourname
      or
      //hubpages.com/_newtrackercodehere/user/new

      Note the underscore after the .com/_
      I left off the http: so it would not make a link smile

  5. agvulpes profile image87
    agvulpesposted 9 years ago

    I just had a look and I don't think it will work having the two lots of hubpages.com you may confuse the machine:)

  6. Dolores Monet profile image98
    Dolores Monetposted 9 years ago

    okay, agvulpes, will check that out. And hmmmm, don't like the word here. All this stuff just takes some time to sink in.
    K - well you can't be any dummer than me and I've been here longer than you have.

  7. raisingme profile image81
    raisingmeposted 9 years ago

    Thank you for asking the question - I have been muddling about on my own trying to figure this out for three months.  And to agvuppes, you have my undying gratitude for supplying the answer.  Thanks to you I'm good to go!

    1. agvulpes profile image87
      agvulpesposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      It's a pleasure to help smile

  8. lxxy profile image61
    lxxyposted 9 years ago

    I shall make a video for people so they can visualize these concepts...not today; sorry, but soon.

    1. Dolores Monet profile image98
      Dolores Monetposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Ixxy - that would be wonderful!!!

  9. Lisa HW profile image61
    Lisa HWposted 9 years ago

    I see that so many people do that on their profile pages, and I've never looked into it.  I guess I've always just kind of assumed nobody would want to sign up through my profile.  It's nuts, I know, not to just include it (and I guess maybe I'll "copy" everyone else and add it to my profile one of these days).

    I guess I've always thought about how, even if I were reading on some site and saw that, my instinct would be to return to the site's home page and look for "sign up here".  One of the biggest things I need to overcome is not taking advantage of some things (on here) because I just assume they aren't going to be effective without even trying them.   hmm

    1. Dolores Monet profile image98
      Dolores Monetposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Lisa - as a high profile hubber, people interested in writing online articles may decide to check out HP, see you there, read your stuff and say 'hey, this is good stuff. I want in!'

      1. Lisa HW profile image61
        Lisa HWposted 9 years agoin reply to this

        Dolores,    hmmm.  Thank you.  I think I'll add it.    smile

  10. mwatkins profile image66
    mwatkinsposted 9 years ago

    Hmmmm, a video would definitely clear up the muddy water - Thanks for being agreeable to that!  I don't get it either and I am  trying to teach 2 other people how to do it - We three are officially, "The blind leading the blind,"

    Hang in there, Lisa!

    Thanks!  ;-)

  11. raisingme profile image81
    raisingmeposted 9 years ago

    It has to be done exactly as agvulpes writes.  And I do mean exactly and you have to remember the http:// 

    And do it in the absolute correct sequence.  It took me over an hour of messing about making all kinds of mistakes before my dull wit was able to duplicate the communication.  I am definitely a 'show me' type of learner.  big_smile

  12. wytegarillaz profile image69
    wytegarillazposted 9 years ago

    I have had a few sign up thru the tracker but havent written hubs yet.
    It took me a while for it all to sink in, where to find everything !
    A lot to learn, however most things are found in the forums if you use the search button up the top.

  13. Richieb799 profile image76
    Richieb799posted 9 years ago

    I have had quite a lot sign up through my shetoldme, but none from my hubpages tracker yet! strange!

  14. Lisa HW profile image61
    Lisa HWposted 9 years ago

    After just seeing Dolores' post, I thought I'd try to do the tracker thing on my profile.  Besides often having a reading-concentration problem these days (stress), I'm such a "verbal person" I have trouble digesting any instructions that have anything other than words in them. 

    So, can I try to reiterate for myself and anyone else here...

    A.  There's these codes?

    1.  The URL tracker code we can find on our account.
    2.  The URL for our profile page?
    3.  The URL for the sign-up page, right?

    B.  Step 1:  We go to our account and copy our tracker code? (and maybe paste it in notepad for safekeeping) until we type into our profile something like, "Sign up here")

        Step 2:  We click on the blue "link thing" across the top of the text, right?

    C.  We see the space/blank line where we need to enter or paste codes.

    D.  Now, if all this is right so far, we need (I know) to be careful not to add or eliminate any characters whatsoever (obviously).

    E.  There should be no spaces, right?  Everything should just be "rowed up" without spaces or commas, right?

    F.  So, now, are the only two codes we need to enter the code for our URL tracker and the code for HubPages sign-up page?

        F1.  Which code goes first?

        F2.  Do we also need to enter our profile page URL there too?

        F3.  In what order to we enter the three codes, if we need to enter three?



    Having re-worded the whole thing for my own "mental sorting", the main questions are:

    1.  Are the three codes I included above the three (and only three) that have to be entered.

    2.  We add them where we usually add the in-text links, right?

    3.  In what order? 



    (Sorry for all this over what's obviously a pretty simple thing to do, but, as I said, I have trouble concentrating on some kinds of reading these days; and that kind of reading is reading that isn't in super-simple, straight, words.  The minute I start seeing "http://" (and particularly the rest of the codes) I get "mind-boggled".   lol)  I thought, maybe, though, that "simplifying" (if that's what you'd call it) the instructions so that even a mind-boggled person can understand them might help a few other people on here too.   hmm

    This isn't a reflection on other people's attempts to explain, but, at least for me, having letters substituting for what really needs to be there is causing mind-boggling.   hmm

  15. profile image0
    Website Examinerposted 9 years ago

    Lisa HW, the following will do the job - no more, no less.

    The referral trackers (also called "URL trackers") can be found under "URL Trackers" in My Account.

    A) To set up a referral link that directs visitors to the HubPages signup page:

    http://hubpages.com/_xyz/user/new

    Simply replace "xyz" with your own referral tracker.

    B) To set up a referral link that directs visitors to your profile page:

    http://hubpages.com/_xyz/profile/Lisa+HW

    Simply replace "xyz" with your own referral tracker.

    It is either A or B each time, do not try to combine the two.

    1. Efficient Admin profile image93
      Efficient Adminposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      I have went under my account and do not see URL Trackers anywhere on the page.  Is this URL Tracker section hidden under another name?

  16. Lisa HW profile image61
    Lisa HWposted 9 years ago

    WE, thank you.  It looks like I have it working. 

    Dolores, again, thank you for pointing it out.

    Just for anyone else on here who may be a little mind-boggled, just enter the main HubPages URL, including the final /.  Follow that immediately with one underscore, then immediately after the underscore enter your URL tracker.  That should be followed by a /

    Immediately after that there should be "user/"

    Immediately after that there should be "new"

    (No quotes in any of it, though.)


    (Sorry to say the same thing others have already said, and I don't presume to be able to say it any better than anyone else; but since I had that trouble "digesting" some of it (for some reason that would seem hard-to-believe to anyone who knows how easy it is to do), I thought (yet) another way of wording things might help someone.   hmm  )

    Website Examiner, again, thanks.   smile

  17. profile image0
    Website Examinerposted 9 years ago

    Lisa HW, you are welcome. Your tracker looks good.

    1. Lisa HW profile image61
      Lisa HWposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      and it even works!   lol      Once you see how easy it is to do it's hard to figure out what the big deal was.   lol

      1. sunforged profile image67
        sunforgedposted 9 years agoin reply to this

        Its only the direct to new user sign up page that even requires this much thought -

        Otherwise, the link to this page option on the bottom of every page on Hubpages.com will set this up for you automatically.

        You only need to manually create the sign up link http://hubpages.com/user/new/ because the footer option does not appear while logged in.

  18. Dolores Monet profile image98
    Dolores Monetposted 9 years ago

    Lisa - I checked out your link and of course it told me that I was already signed up, so it works. I had a friend try mine from another computer and it popped up "this user does not exist" which I found pretty funny. But I think that I fixed it. Will test it on another computer tomorrow. We will see.

  19. habee profile image92
    habeeposted 9 years ago

    I thought if they clicked on "join" at the top of our profile page, we'd get credit??

    1. profile image0
      Website Examinerposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      If they came to your profile page via the referral tracker, that would be the case (for as long as the cookie hasn't expired). Otherwise, there is nothing to associate that visitor with you.

  20. sugz profile image68
    sugzposted 9 years ago

    i tried to do this earlier, but one of those blonde moments, i got lost and after reading the help in here.. i'll try it tomorrow, its 1.30am an i guess i should go to sleep haha, maybe..

  21. shazwellyn profile image72
    shazwellynposted 9 years ago

    You could paste the link in your hubs?

    1. profile image0
      Website Examinerposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      If linking to to other people's hubs, it would be OK to add the referral tracker. Otherwise, it may be a problem since links are supposed to be relevant to the contents of the hub.

  22. habee profile image92
    habeeposted 9 years ago

    Okay, let's say one of my friends wants to join HP. She goes to my profile page and clicks "join." Do I get credit?

    1. profile image0
      Website Examinerposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I tried to answer that. Without the referral tracker, there is no way for HubPages of knowing that she is your friend.

      http://hubpages.com/forum/post/1167935

  23. NZUNG SERAPHINE profile image65
    NZUNG SERAPHINEposted 9 years ago

    I have also learned a lot today.thanks for the question and for the wonderful answers.stay blessed friends.

  24. habee profile image92
    habeeposted 9 years ago

    I feel so stupid! I have people wanting to join HP, but I still don't know how to do it! I created a new tracker for this called "habeejoin." I posted it on my profile page. what else do I have to do?

  25. profile image0
    Website Examinerposted 9 years ago

    The tracker link you currently have on your profile page does not lead to the signup page. So you should replace that with a link pointing to the URL provided below. You can also insert that into emails etc.

    Here is your tracker link (URL) for signups:

    http://hubpages.com/_REDACTED/user/new

    (This based upon you telling me that your tracker's name is "REDACTED." If you change to a different tracker, simply replace "REDACTED" with the new tracker.

  26. habee profile image92
    habeeposted 9 years ago

    Thanks, WE. I think I did it right. I had just changed it before reading this. It should be right now.

    1. agvulpes profile image87
      agvulpesposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      habee, it is looking good here in Australia. Good luck I hope you get many sign-ups smile

  27. Dolores Monet profile image98
    Dolores Monetposted 9 years ago

    Hooray! I got it, by George, I got it!!! Thank you, sunforged! This is what worked: http://hubpages.com/_3w0rc4a5smaev/user/new

  28. Dale Hyde profile image87
    Dale Hydeposted 7 years ago

    What a mess, lol. Why can not HP just post a URL somewhere on our account that we can simply copy/paste.  I know I DO NOT have the link on my profile simply because it is much too challenging for me.....me with certification in computers, lol.

    I shall wait until someone posts a URL link that I can simply copy/paste on my account.

  29. prektjr.dc profile image80
    prektjr.dcposted 7 years ago

    WELL.....I had it on my profile, but with changing the profile over to the new format, I lost it and now have 2 close friends that have signed up, but do NOT show on my referral tracker....any help out there from the powers that be??....Please and thank you....

    Greatly need an update on how to do referral trackers with new profile.

    1. relache profile image80
      relacheposted 7 years agoin reply to this

      The only place in the new profile that will let you add a URL with a HubPages signup tracker is if you use the "my website" slot.

      1. Efficient Admin profile image93
        Efficient Adminposted 7 years agoin reply to this

        I just tried that and it worked except you cannot include the http:// part of it.
        Thanks for the info!

 
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