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50 Tips to Get Massive Traffic to your Hubs and Blogs:Part 2

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By shailini


This section is called "Viral Marketing". Many of these tips do not need much efforts, but if you implement them, they attract viral traffic. Your traffic will grow rapidly as a virus spreads and multiplies itself. If you have just landed in this page, you should know that this is a second-part of a 5-part article series "50 Tips to Get Massive Traffic to your Hubs and Blogs".

Here's all the hubs written in the series.




50 Tips to Get Massive Traffic to your Hubs and Blogs: Part 1 - How to write hubs for traffic

50 Tips to Get Massive Traffic to your Hubs and Blogs:Part 2 - How to do a viral marketing campaign for your hubs

50 Tips to Get Massive Traffic to your Hubs and Blogs:Part 3 - How to free your content by releasing ebooks (without writing anything new)

50 Tips to Get Massive Traffic to your Hubs and Blogs:Part 4 - How to use social websites to get traffic

50 Tips to Get Massive Traffic to your Hubs and Blogs:Part 5 - How to promote your hubs to attract traffic from real-world (offline traffic)



OK, I would like to tell one thing to my fellow hubbers. When I joined hubpages in 2007 December, just after I had published 10 hubs, I received a fan mail which asked me "How did you get so much traffic in such a short time?". To which, honestly I didn't know the answer.

Later, I found out that my content marketed itself. If you create a compelling content, readers will follow. With HubPages as your platform, this is 100% true as there are plenty of readers waiting to read your hubs. If you were blogging alone on your own, you can not get even 0.1% of this traffic. In my case, the content was high quality photo galleries. I do not reccomend that every hubber should go creating photo galleries (they do NOT earn money). Follow your readers, follow the Hot Hubs - learn from them. That's another secret of my success.


If you like this hub, you might also want to check out other hubs of similar theme. Subscribe to my Latest Hubs RSS feed or join my Fan club so you will be notified as soon as I publish new hubs.


Yes, what you heard is right, you CAN make money blogging. Not millions but a few hundred dollars a month. If you would like to know how, I would highly recommend this Blogging to Bank tutorial.



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Section 2: Viral marketing for HubPages

15. Create short videos and publish them on MetaCafe, Vimeo and YouTube. You may use just pictures and texts if you are camera-shy like me. Include links to your hubpages.

16. Convert your hubs into power point presentations and share them on Slideshare, Scribd and Issuu. Make it simple and attractive. Pull out only the essential tips and headlines from your hub, and at the end of the presentation, adk viewers to visit your hubpage article to read a detailed account. Your URLs will be still be clickable in the presentations.

17. Use your hub page profile URL in your Email signatures and Forum signatures. Check out MySpace forums which is a great place to hang out. I use my profile pagelink in my signature wherever I go. This attracts curiosity among forum users and they will surely will check out.

18. Submit to your "latest hubs" RSS feed to RSS directories. In this way, whenever you publish a new hub, all the directories and search engines will be update its viewers.

19. Use free blog pinging services such as Pingomatic or Pingoat to ping all web directories when you publish a new hub.

There are some paid services available that promise you that they will submit your hub URLs to 100s of web directories. I doubtif they would do it really. So, do not waste your money on those services.

20. Host a contest and give away a $10 or $20 Amazon Gift card and ask people to comment on one of your hub. You can reward one of the them by choosing randomly (Use a automatic program). You do not need even spend $10 for a prize. Look in your house for a small toy or even your autographed picture / postcard will be a nice giveaway. Just make it special adding a personal touch and post (just standard Internation Post) it to your winner.

21. Add your Hubpage "latest hubs" RSS feed to your Facebook profile. There is a facility to add your blog to facebook (use your RSS here) and whenever you publish a new hub, your facebook profile will display a note. You can check out my latest notes on face book. You can add such thin in Orkut, MyBlogLog and so on. By doing this, you are not going to do any extra work for updating (or pinging) those social networks. The RSS service will take care of updating your friends about your new hubs. How cool is that?

22. Write for Ezine articles, Helium and Associated Content. Link some of your hub page URL with your unique tracker in Author's Bio-pages. People who follow those links may even signup for hub pages. Ezine articles give you a chance to write 10 free articles and if you include yoru hubpage profile in the Author Bio page and Resource box, you can attract a massive flow of web traffic every hour. If your article gets featured in the front page, you will get 10 times the normal traffic flow.

23. Take part in Yahoo answers. Add any relevant hubs (do not spam) that you have written to support your answers.

24. Use microblogging tools such as Twitter, Plurk. Because, your hubpage URLs can be converted to tiny urls, you can instantly attract lot of attention from your followers.

In case, if you were wondering why do these numbers (bullet points) start at 16 and end at 24, this hub is part of a 5-part article series.

Go here to read other hubs in this series.

50 Tips to Get Massive Traffic to your Hubs and Blogs: Part 1 - How to write hubs for traffic

50 Tips to Get Massive Traffic to your Hubs and Blogs:Part 2 - How to do a viral marketing campaign for your hubs

50 Tips to Get Massive Traffic to your Hubs and Blogs:Part 3 - How to free your content by releasing ebooks (without writing anything new)

50 Tips to Get Massive Traffic to your Hubs and Blogs:Part 4 - How to use social websites to get traffic

50 Tips to Get Massive Traffic to your Hubs and Blogs:Part 5 - How to promote your hubs to attract traffic from real-world (offline traffic)

If you like this hub, you might also want to check out other hubs of similar theme. Subscribe to my Latest Hubs RSS feed or join my Fan club so you will be notified as soon as I publish new hubs.

If you like this hub, please do me a favour by clicking "Share it" below and vote in your favourite social network. Thanks a lot and I am grateful to you for doing it.


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glycodoc profile image

glycodoc  says:
18 months ago

This is a big help - thanks for all the suggestions.

Adam York profile image

Adam York  says:
18 months ago

Yes, thanks for the suggestions. You gave me some ideas. The contest idea is very interesting as well.

GK16 profile image

GK16  says:
18 months ago

Thanks for sharing valuable tips with others. May this hub attract all the traffic in the World Wide Web! Well, don’t blame me if there is a traffic jam

balaji153 profile image

balaji153  says:
18 months ago

Thanks i think i will follow you suggestion's

jGaunt profile image

jGaunt  says:
10 months ago

I found this to be a very useful Hub. There are some of this that I knew already, but you managed to teach me a little something about driving traffic and that doesn't happen every day.

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