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TRAFFIC: HOW TO GET MORE TRAFFIC FOR YOUR HUBS, BLOGS AND WEBSITES - TRAFFIC TIPS

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SEE THIS VIDEO FOR A STONKING TRAFFIC HINT!

How to Build Your Website Traffic

Traffic is the lifeblood of any endeavour online.

Traffic is the beginning and the end, the alpha and the omega.

Traffic is the lynchpin of internet marketing success.

Traffic is key to social web success...

OK, Ok, so how do we get it? Here are some traffic getting tips -- this hub is different from my other hubs on traffic, as it focuses in particular on one powerful, and relatively simple technique for getting traffic.

Every one of your hubs has an orange button called a feed button, at the bottom, just above the comments section, JUST BELOW THE TITLE "COMMENTS".

THIS IS THE BUTTON WHERE YOU CAN CALL UP THE WEB ADDRESS FOR THE "RSS" FEED FOR THE COMMENTS FOR THAT HUB.

In addition, your profile has an orange subscribe-to-feed button, available from any of your hubs (on the right hand side).

THIS IS THE KEY TO ADDED TRAFFIC.

After you read this hub, go to the site www.addme.com.

Click on the button at the top which says "Bookmark".

You should be presented with a long list of buttons. CLICK ON ALL OF THESE AND SIGN UP.

I'm not kidding. Set aside a block of time, let's say an hour and a half, and sign up for all of these services.

Then go back to the addme homepage and click on the button that says "RSS feed."

Again, you will see a list of services. Again, SIGN UP FOR ALL OF THEM.

Now that you are signed up for all of these services, use either the regular URL address of each of your hubs, or the RSS feed URL address you will get by clicking on the orange button at the bottom of each hub, just above the comments section, and start posting either or both of these adresses, for EACH OF YOUR HUBS IN TURN, to ALL of these services.

This will take you a long time. You might get confused -- BUT DO THE BEST YOU CAN.

Finally, go to Pingomatic.com and do the same.

Some of My Other Hubs:

Why Should I do this?

Here are some reasons why you should do this if you are serious about getting traffic:

1) Other people read all of these services, and so they will be able to find you.

2) Google ranks your site or hub or post-on-your-blog, or blog as whole, or page within your site, ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF LINKS POINTING AT IT. In other words, you are contributing to your own hubs', sites' or blogs' LINK POPULARITY.

What could be better: you are increasing the places people can find you on the web AT THE SAME TIME AS YOU ARE MAKING YOURSELF LOOK GOOD FOR GOOGLE.

One final gem of information -- SOMETIMES GOOGLE RANKS THE PAGE YOUR LINK IS ON HIGHLY!

In other words, let's say you have links to your site at Hubpages, Squidoo (which you should also check out) and Digg. I have seen the pages at THOSE sites, which are linked to my blog rate on pages one or two of Google WHEN THE BLOG ITSELF IS NOWHERE ON GOOGLE AT ALL.

For example, I once posted on IndianPad (hint hint), that is, I bookmarked a link to my blog on that site, and THE PAGE WITH MY LINK ON ranked higher than the blog itself!

So, in a nutshell, I have only this to say -- it is tedious, hard work to do all of this, especially if you do it for each hub you own, each page on your website and each blogpost on your blog -- BUT DOING THIS WILL PAY OFF.

For more information on getting traffic, please email me: I will give you my professional address: ProfessionalFrenchTranslation@gmail.com

HAPPY TRAFFIC-COLLECTING!

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Comments

raguett 4 years ago

Thanks for the tips...good stuff

AdsenseStrategies 4 years ago

No probs!

2patricias 4 years ago

I have just found Stumbleupon, and think there is some potential there. But have not quite worked out how to make the site work to our advantage.

AdsenseStrategies 4 years ago

Yes it is really a pain trying to figure out all of these "social bookmarking" sites.

Stumbleupon is a very famous one.

Perhaps one approach is to treat that site (and all the others) a bit like a search engine. All of these bookmarking sites do work like search engines. Make sure you have a lot of relevant keywords in your title and site blurb or comment. Also, make the tags function work for you, as it is often through the tags that people will find you (people do searches for keywords, that are linked to your site via the tags, much like on Hubpages).

Stumbleupon seems to be poorly constructed to me. It is difficult and fiddly to figure out how to add tags.

One hint is not to worry about the tags, submit your site with a blurb full of relevant keywords, and then submit the tags AFTER the site appears in your Favourites on your personal Stumbleupon page.

Even then I think it limits the number of tags you can use.

Once you get the hang of it, submit EACH INDIVIDUAL page of your site to Stumbleupon. The key is to get links pointing to your site, because Google loves that. Even if you make a hash of it, at least make sure you get a link to your site from the Stumbleupon site somehow or other.

ALSO, don't be discouraged, some of these social bookmarking sites are fiddly, but they are well worth the work.

At first, focus on the most famous ones: Stumbleupon, Digg, Technorati, Del.icio.us .

The key point to remember is that these sites are all ranked highly by Google already. So you are getting links to your home site from high-ranking sites, WHICH GOOGLE LOVES.

Also, if you put lots of relevant keywords into your title and blurb or description (or sometimes it says "Write a review" or something like that), then often the page your link is on will score high on Google.

Check out also Squidoo, if you get the chance.

The important thing is not to give up on these social bookmarking sites (you should at some point open accounts on Myspace, Facebook and MyYahoo, and then use the green ShareIt button at the bottom of each of your hub -- you don't necessarily have to do anything to any of these new accounts you are creating, just make sure you have accounts with them so that you can submit your hubs with the ShareIt button.

In short, don't worry about doing things wrong, just try -- and most important, remember that the most important thing is to try and get a link of some kind or other somewhere and somehow on these HIGH-RANKING AND FAMOUS social bookmarking sites.

Hope this helps!

Catherine Behan 4 years ago

Wow! Thank you oh wizard of OBS (on line business success) I appreciate your help from the bottom of my heart. I am so passionate about my new project and eager to get word out there! You Rock!!

Gratefully,

Catherine

mdtabish 3 years ago

Great work, David. I absolutely loved this hub. Very informative.

I am on stumble these days. If anyone would like to add me as a friend there, here is my information:

http://mdtabish.stumbleupon.com/

AdsenseStrategies 3 years ago

Thanks so much for the encouragement! Don't forget to rate this blog (thumbs up, at top of comments section, or very top of hub, where it says "rate this").

Thanks again (and I will check out at Stumbleupon - I am there too:

http://adsensestrategy.stumbleupon.com/ )

Isaac Kwan 3 years ago

I'm so glad that I have found your site through others blog information you have a great information in your blog.

GoodRead 3 years ago

good read

Mark Pearson 3 years ago

Ton of great information. I have already started following your advice

terrowhite 3 years ago

Thanks for sharing this info :)

myownworld 2 years ago

this is just great stuff! very comprehensive and informative., esp. for people like me who are still struggling to make sense of all this. Can I ask you a rookie question please? if I post links to my hubs on these different sites, does google recognize that as 'duplicate' content? (I'm assuming the sites just ask for the 'link' only leading back to a hub published on HP). thank you anyway, for posting all this!

AdsenseStrategies 2 years ago

Hi myownworld. I am not sure I understand the question, but each of these sites is independent, so I am not sure why Google would view links from them as duplicates...

I am, to be truthful, no expert, but I would say that Google does not like it if there is any "smell" of automatic posting done with software. In fact, each of these sites is a pain in the ass, if you'll pardon the expresison, because you have to go through the process of signing up, and sometimes of re-signing in, each time you go to that site.

However, I guess this "proves" to Google you are a real person, and not a " 'Bot ", so that must help.

You can also participate IN THOSE communities, of course (though we'd miss you here, of course :-) ). But this will drum up fandom, contacts, and so on, also...

Rebecca E. 2 years ago

thanks for more tips i never even thought of for myself!

nicomp 2 years ago

"Google ranks your site or hub or post-on-your-blog, or blog as whole, or page within your site, ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF LINKS POINTING AT IT. In other words, you are contributing to your own hubs', sites' or blogs' LINK POPULARITY."

Nope. A link from a link farm means almost nothing to Google when it comes to calculating a site rank. From day 1, when the Page Rank algorithm was first designed, Larry Page and Sergey Brin accounted for diluted backlinks in their algorithms. You can backlink to yourself all day long and it will make almost but not quite no difference at all.

Anyway, HubPages already has a killer Page Rank.

AdsenseStrategies 2 years ago

So (response to nicomp), do social bookmarking sites count as illegitimate "link farms", because they are more than that; most of them are respectable, and huge, sites in their own right.

Any thoughts?

John Kounoupis 2 years ago

Excuse me, where is the bookmark button at addme.com ?

John Kounoupis 2 years ago

A little help for a helpless hubber?

nicomp 2 years ago

Any site that lets you add (nearly) unrestricted numbers of links is a form of link farm. The purpose of backlinks is to allow web pages to accumulate 'votes' from other web pages solely based on merit.

As soon as you can go to another site and link back to yourself at your convenience, the voting becomes tarnished. Google accounts for that by mathematically diluting links coming out of a site. It's analogous to going into a voting booth and voting for yourself a million times; you might win the election but it's common knowledge that you didn't earn the votes. Google isn't perfect but they work to stay one step ahead of efforts to game their algorithms.

suiteorchids 2 years ago

Hey thanks for the tips, I look forward to reading more of your work..

Harish14dec 2 years ago

thanks dude

agvulpes 2 years ago

As I know little about RSS feeds I will devour this Hub and bookmark it for future reference. Thanks for the tips and you now have another Fan :-)

magkouin 11 months ago

great article!very informative..thank you very much

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