Using Hubpages For Internet Marketing

HubPages.com is another free and effective tool in the internet marketing arsenal. Hubs are a great tool for many purposes including: SEO, making money, building brand recognition, article marketing without a website, and more.

The search engines seem to have a fondness for this site at the time this article was written and it can be used to help you build your business.

Anyone with a free account can make a HubPage and as it helps you build SEO and your brand, it can earn you money through Google Adsense and other programs as well.

HubPages are built by modules, much like Squidoo lenses, so you can dress them up and customise them. They are very easy to put together. If you start off with a great article and then add pictures and resources, you can make a fantastic HubPage.

Building A Great HubPage

Building a great Hubpage requires that you follow a few key rules. Here they are:

Make Friends On Hubpages

You can become ‘fans’ of other HubPage authors and vote on hubs. Like any social networking community, this can help you get more exposure and more out of the tool. Hubs with plenty of votes get more exposure in the community and because your votes could result in returned votes for your Hubs, this is a good thing!

When someone chooses to befriend you on this site, they see your latest hubs when they log in and get e-mail notification of newly published hubs so they can become frequent viewers of your pages! Visiting other hubs and commenting can help bring other ‘hubbers’ to your hubs!

Make Use Of Your Profile Page

People who read your Hubs will check out your profile to learn more about you and may click through to links you post in your profile.

Hubpages Widget

Make use of your Hubpages widget (http://hubpages.com/yourusername/widget) on your other sites to draw traffic to your hubs. If people like you they could even display your HubPages widget with direct links to your articles on their site!

Linking

Link to your Hubpages from other sites. Article directories, for instance that don’t let you link to affiliate pages can use HubPages that contain affiliate links. Don’t forget to blogroll them, social bookmark them, and blog about the new hubs you create as well on your niche blogs.

Self Promotion

Don’t use any more than 2 self serving links. If possible, include an authority link that’s not self serving. Too much promotion may get your Hub deactivated. Adding an authority site (such as Wikipedia) could help you get better rankings in search engines and high quality and helpful hubs will get you optimum results.

Use Your RSS Feed

Don’t forget to use RSS feeds for your blog and article directory feeds in your HubPages. They dress up the page, don’t get you in trouble for too many self-serving links but they do self-serve because they provide more chances of readers clicking on your links to exit the page. Use a partial feed as a teaser and a reader might click to your site to find out more information.

Use Original Content

HubPages is a site that likes original content so don’t use this site for anything you’ve simply spun from another article. The search engine ranking results tend to be worth the effort of writing something original and valuable.