How To Increase Traffic To Your Hubpages!

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By SunSeven

HubPages Traffic

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.

Increase traffic to your pages with better keyword strategy, link building and the right amount of promotion. Ideally, you should be aiming for search engine traffic.

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.)

BibSonomy

BlogMarks

BlogMemes

BlogLines

Blue Dot

Bookmark Manager

BuddyMarks

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)

Google

MarkaBoo

MindDeposit

Mr Wong

MyWebDesktop

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

Searchles

Shadows

SiteTagger (Bookmarking with automatic popularity ranking)

Smarking

Spurl

StylHive

Technorati

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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Thank You.

Comments

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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!

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Tams R Level 4 Commenter 5 days ago

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

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Cardozo7 Level 2 Commenter 2 weeks ago

Good hub. I will definetily try some of these sites.

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Swetankraj Level 2 Commenter 2 weeks ago

Thanks for this hub. Voted up and it helped me a lot and wishes helps others too.

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tammyfrost Level 3 Commenter 2 weeks ago

Great Hub. Yes social bookmarking is the key along with choosing the corect keywords for search engines.

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kehussy 3 weeks ago

Great post for a new hubber like me. :)

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urmilashukla23 4 weeks ago

Great tips! Thanks a lot!

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PDXKaraokeGuy Level 7 Commenter 5 weeks ago

good hub. thanks for sharing these helpful tips

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Brinafr3sh Level 6 Commenter 5 weeks ago

Hi, this is one of the best Hub traffic sites I've seen. Thanks so much.

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Lady Guinevere Level 5 Commenter 5 weeks ago

Thank you, thank you and more thank yous.

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rajan jolly Level 6 Commenter 5 weeks ago

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.

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dumindu89 Level 1 Commenter 7 weeks ago

Useful list of social bookmarking sites. Great Hub.

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gunnasai 2 months ago

Really good one. Thanks for your blog

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lobobrandon Level 4 Commenter 2 months ago

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.

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bdmatboard 2 months ago

Very Interesting! Thanks for sharing tips.

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happychappyjb Level 1 Commenter 3 months ago

Useful advice about bookmarking. I will check out the sites. Thanks...

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sam-eg Level 3 Commenter 3 months ago

That’s helpful I will give it a try and tell about the feed back, thx for your share :)

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rai2722 Level 3 Commenter 3 months ago

thanks for the tips!

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Karen N Level 3 Commenter 5 months ago

Very helpful information, bookmarking is something that I really need to do more of. Thanks for list of sites!

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viking305 Level 4 Commenter 5 months ago

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.

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