How To Increase Traffic To Your Hubpages!
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When I joined the HubPages long back, I didn't have any clue to how to bring people to read my articles. Slowly I learned how to do that by emailing friends and posting links in digg, reddit, and del.ico.us which was readily available at Hubpages then. But even then the traffic was so slow! I had only about a few hundred visitors in the first 5 weeks or so.
How To Increase Traffic
You can say that I was more than disappointed with that! Then I noticed a pattern emerging from the statistics for Hubs. Most of the traffic were coming from various google domains! Although there was a slight increase in traffic, still it wasn't much.
It was then I discovered the potential of Social Bookmarking. After some research I've found hundreds of sites offering bookmarking services for free! I decided to test a few sites. And my traffic improved considerably. I started bookmarking with more and more sites. Now I am in my 4th year at The Hubpages. My statistics shows more than 10,000,000 hits. I am really happy now, that my strategy regarding bringing visitors to The Hubpages is paying off, as my adsense account has also been doing well. Now I have crossed the 10 million page views mark for all my published hubs. The lion's share of the visitors are from search engines. In fact I published one hub thanking all my fellow hubbers for making it possible.
Social Bookmarking
You can multiply your traffic by bookmarking your blog to Social Bookmarking sites. Social Bookmarking websites are basically sites that categorize and store bookmark links. Millions of visitors flood these Social Bookmarking sites to search for information. So the idea of bookmarking is to post links back to your web page from these Social Bookmarking websites. You will specify some keywords or tags which categorize your bookmark.
A Word Of Caution!
Social Bookmarking is time consuming because you have to manually bookmark your sites. There are many softwares out there that will bookmark your pages automatically. They sound great but they are way overpriced. Some of these tools have ridiculous monthly fees. Most of them are spamming tools developed to destroy the Social Bookmarking sites. These spamming tools randomly generate account name and passwords at these Social Bookmarking sites and post hundreds of links at a single go.
So, even if its a little laborious and takes longer I will suggest that you do the bookmarking the manual way, its more rewarding. Moreover, if you go for Social Bookmarking Automation Softwares you run the risk of getting blacklisted.
Apart from these, I also post links in relevant forums and mail regularely to my friends who may be interested in reading the articles. Also tag your posts well!
All The Best To You!
SunSeven
List of Social Bookmarking Sites
Here's a list of bookmarking sites that I use apart from the 10 you find at the "Share it" at the bottom of your published article at Hubpages. With so many Social Bookmarking sites, you can easily get hundreds of backlinks for free
• A1-Webmarks (Personal bookmark server with social bookmarking features.)
• Blue Dot
• ChipMark (Online bookmarks with web access, a Firefox extension, and an IE plugin.)
• Connectedy (Converts browser bookmarks into social categories.)
• Connotea
• Dohat
• Favoor (Available in English and German)
• Fritterware (Social bookmarking site related to gaming)
• MarkaBoo
• Mr Wong
• Netvouz
• Newsique
• NooZ (Social bookmarking that integrates with MySpace)
• Pligg
• Rambhai (An India centric social bookmarking community)
• Rojo (Social bookmarking that integrates with RSS feed reading.)
• Scuttle
• Shadows
• SiteTagger (Bookmarking with automatic popularity ranking)
• Smarking
• Spurl
• StylHive
• Social Bookmarking (Provides users with a personal social bookmarking sub-domain)
• TekTag
• Tutorialism (Bookmarking website for tutorials)
• Wink
• Yahoo! My Web (Available in many languages)
Post Script:
I am open to all your suggestions on how to improve traffic and bring in more visitors. Please post your comments here so that all of us benifit from it!
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Interesting hub. I'd never even heard of some of these sites. You've done your homework. I'll have to work on getting to work on these. Thanks
Good hub. I will definetily try some of these sites.
Thanks for this hub. Voted up and it helped me a lot and wishes helps others too.
Great Hub. Yes social bookmarking is the key along with choosing the corect keywords for search engines.
Great post for a new hubber like me. :)
Great tips! Thanks a lot!
good hub. thanks for sharing these helpful tips
Hi, this is one of the best Hub traffic sites I've seen. Thanks so much.
Thank you, thank you and more thank yous.
Hi Sunseven,
Though I have been on hubpages for 9 months now, I really started writing about 3 and 1/2 months back. I find that getting traffic from outside is slow. I share with the sites whiich hubpages offers plus some blogs and pages on facebook too.
You have written a wonderful hub listing many bookmarking sites. I will definitely be trying to post links there though it will be time consuming.
thanks for sharing. I will be sharing this hub too.
Voted up and awesome.
Useful list of social bookmarking sites. Great Hub.
Really good one. Thanks for your blog
Great hub, nice list of bookmarking sites, I never thought they work but after seeing your graphs it's worth the try.
Will keep you informed. Bookmarked voted up, useful, interesting and awesome.
Very Interesting! Thanks for sharing tips.
Useful advice about bookmarking. I will check out the sites. Thanks...
That’s helpful I will give it a try and tell about the feed back, thx for your share :)
thanks for the tips!
Very helpful information, bookmarking is something that I really need to do more of. Thanks for list of sites!
I do use the bookmarking sites on the Share button but have not really used others. After reading this article I will for definite. Thanks for sharing your knowledge here.
Josh Lakie 2 days ago
Thank you for this hub. I have felt like I have been getting increasingly better with each hub but I was not seeing any increased activity. I am definitely going to give this a try. Thanks again!