Are you frequently checking your statistics page on hub page traffic?

After you publish a hub do you frequently check for fellow Hubpages user comments?

Wonder why your fan count isn’t going up very quickly?

Thinking of logging onto your Hubpages account whenever you possibly can?

Do you login to your Adsense or Amazon account many times per day to see if your revenue is going up?

Then you most likely have a Hubpages Addiction!

The following steps will help you curb your Hubpages Addiction:

1. Limit yourself to one Hubpages login session per day.

By limiting yourself to one Hubpages login session per day you reduce the anxiety of not seeing any rapid changes. If you limit this login to the end of the day or the start of the day at approximately the same time then you will have a whole 24 hours of data to process. This way you should be able to better manage comments left, comments that you wish to leave etc etc. Of course if you are interrupted while publishing a hub or need time to come back to the hub before publishing it, then you may need to login a few times during this period.

What you should try and prevent yourself from doing is logging onto Hubpages many times throughout the day.

2. Limit yourself to one Adsense or Amazon login per week.

Like owning shares on the stock market, don’t frequently check the results. Adsense has a sort filter , “last 7 days” and you should take advantage of this to judge your daily traffic. (Just divide the result by 7) When you first start out on Hubpages your Adsense revenue will be very slow, so there is no need to be disappointed by checking your results daily.

What you should try and prevent yourself from doing is logging onto your affiliate partners many times throughout the week.

3. Separate your personal home email address from your Hubpages alert email address.

You should generate a new email address specifically for receiving Hubpages alerts. That way your home or work account won’t be bogged down by messages that let you know when your favorite hubbers have published a hub. By setting up a separate email account you will reduce the tendency to click on the email straight away, as soon as you receive it.

Also limit yourself to checking this email account to once per day, either at the beginning or end of the day. This is because you will have the urge to want to login to your Hubpages account and leave comments on the new hubs that you are reading.

This is a pro tip from Larry in the December 2009 Hubpages weekly newsletter:

"Get Less Email

Did you know that you can cut down on the amount of email you receive by changing the settings in your profile.
You can receive a single digest email that lists all hubs recently published by your favorite author instead of receiving an email for every author.
Go to my profile and change your email setting from Immediately to Daily Digest and then save your changes.

Larry"

4. Keep an electronic or paper notepad for any new Hubpages ideas.

Instead of regularly logging into Hubpages to tweak your hubs or to save new hubs as unpublished (to finish them later) you should keep a “things to do” list in an electronic or paper notepad. You can jot down your ideas throughout the day and leave it till your afternoon or morning login to implement these changes or save new hubs to unpublished.

What you should try and prevent yourself from doing is logging onto Hubpages many times throughout the day for little updates, thus feeding your addiction.

5. Know why your fan count isn’t going up quickly?

Don’t be worried about your fan count. This will grow over time and as you publish more good quality hubs. By checking it regularly your will build up anxiety and start to wonder if anyone thinks that you are a good writer. No doubt you are a good writer but your Hubpages fan count will grow slowly over time.

What you should try and prevent yourself from doing is logging onto Hubpages many times throughout the day to check your popularity.

6. Give yourself time to develop, write and finish a new Hub away from the Hubpages environment.

This point won’t suit everyone, but I find it works best for me. Give yourself time to develop your hub away from the Hubpages environment. Write your hubs in a software package like Microsoft Word and collect your photos in a directory with your written document. Search for various articles or websites that you would like to link to keep these in your explorer favorites directory.

By assembling all your data away from the Hubpages environment you will save time and find it will be easier to create your hub with some organization.

What you are trying to do here is limit any distractions that you may get by being in the Hubpage environment and by publishing your hub more rapidly.

7. Hubpages Forum advice.

I am no expert on forum usage but to prevent yourself from checking your posted comments or your started forum topics a million times a day you should reduce the time that you spend within the Hubpages Forum community.

Once again I’d restrict the use of this platform to once or twice a day in order to reduce your addiction to Hubpages.

8. Keep work, rest and play separate.

To limit your addiction to Hubpages, don’t logon during work times and don’t logon while you should be sleeping (i.e. burning the midnight oil). By using your playtime only to enjoy Hubpages you will reduce your “dependency” on needing to be involved in Hubpages 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

9. Read the signs.

The signs may not be as subtle as a smack to the back of your head by your partner, but there will be signs that you are spending too much time worrying about Hubpages. Are your dishes stacking up because you are on the computer checking your hubs? Is your dog chewing your best plants because you haven’t taken it for a walk in ages because you have been busy updating your hubs? Is your partner concerned that you are documenting obscure topics like “The growth rate of toenails of the Mongolian goat herder”?

Answer yes in your mind to these and you my friend may be showing the signs of a Hubpages addiction.

10. Give yourself a break, enjoy life.

Take time off Hubpages for a while, enjoy the outdoors, travel, relax or do nothing. You never know this time away from Hubpages may even inspire you to write more hubs. But please don’t take this time off with the intension of documenting your break. The last thing you want to do is whip out a camera and notepad while on your break purely to write a Hubpage on your experience. This is still feeding your addiction.

Final Word…

Like every addiction you have to keep things in moderation to reduce the desire for that addiction. You may not know that you have an addiction so read the signs around you. Above all keep a happy balance with work, rest and play. Let your Hubpages develop over time and sit back and watch the rewards.

Life is not meant to be rigidly controlled, so take any tips from this if you will and please remember to enjoy Hubpages!