SEO Tutorial For Hubpages Startups

This tutorial is a simple, easy to follow guide for hubpage startups. If you are stuck for content ideas, you can use the hubpages 'hot topics' to give you some ideas.

This hub will show you how you can easily use simple seo (search engine optimisation) techniques to help boost your chances of getting good traffic to your hub and, hopefully, a great hubscore.

Search Engine Optimisation, often called SEO, is a series of techniques that website creators use to boost their chances of getting higher positions on search engines like google. When using a site like hubpages to host your content, much of the work has already been done for you - including a ready supply of visitors!

My hope is that new hub startups will be able to use this tutorial to improve their own hubs. I'm no expert, but after just a short space of time I've already had some great results with hubpages. You can read my Hubpages hub achieves top Google positioning in just 2 days page to see what I mean.

Combining the seo tips below with a great source of content (read on to see more) will help you get great results too.

By far the most important aspect of search engine optimisation for your hub, the title has two functions.

The first of these is hub's title itself, the wording that will appear on the sites listings. A good title will get peoples attention and persuade them to read your hub and not someone else's. You should try and put as many of your keywords (or tags) into the title as you can, while ensuring that it remains readable and makes sense.

The second function that your title has is that it forms the url (web address) for your hub. If your hub is titled my hubpages hub, then the url would become;

• http://hubtopics.com/hub/myhubpageshub

The url is another of the ways in which a search engine will rank your website. The use of keywords, or tags, helps improve the rank of the site because you are showing that your keywords are relevant to you website.

Another way for you to use SEO techniques is within the main content of the hub. There are three things to look for here;

1. bold text formatting
2. underlined text formatting
3. relevant links

When you use bold text you are showing the visitors, and the search engines, that the bold wording is important to your site. It is important to use this technique only for important information and keywords, otherwise you are going to dilute the effect.

In a similar way, underlined text has the same reaction. It shows visitors that you want them to see this text, makes it stand out from the rest of the page.

The last of the three tips is relevant linking. Some people will tell you not to link to other pages, but a high quality link to a relevant site will actually help you. A great example would be something like;

• search engine optimisation definitions from wikipedia

This link gives useful information to your visitors and shows the search engines that you are linking to other relevant pages.

If you're stuck for ideas on what topic to write about, and what keywords to use, try using the hubpages topics section. This section of the sites shows users what is hot in each of the different categories, helping you make an informed decision on what topics to chose.

Another option is to answer some of the requests that are posted. These are topics that people want to know about, they must do because they are asking for content in this area!

You could use these simple steps to produce lots of great, in demand, content without ever leaving the one site.