Increase Your Traffic by Being a Solid Member of the HubPages Community

There are four ways to enrich your HubPages publishing experience, and all of which will help you, directly and indirectly, get more visitors to your Hubs (both from HubPages, and from search engines like Bing, Google and Yahoo) and more traffic means a chance for more ad revenue!

Socialize and get your content read....

Being part of the HubPages community allows you to easily publish your content and gives it the chance to be read both by other Hubbers and the millions of outside readers that visit HubPages each month. As Larry wrote in our blog, when you publish something here, your content has a better chance of being read than if you were to publish it on many other popular sites. And whether your Hubs are getting read by Hubbers or outside visitors, it's always great when someone checks out your stuff. As you begin to meet other Hubbers, answer Questions, gain fans and chat in the Forums you will find that over time more and more people are reading your Hubs.

In the Learning Center we've already covered three of the four ways to interact with the community: Answers, Forums and Following other Hubbers. The fourth way to interact is something you'll love getting so you shouldn't be a stranger to giving it: feedback via the Comments

It’s always gratifying, as a writer, to know you’re being read. One of the most important forms of feedback to online writers takes the form of comments left at the end of a Hub. We all like to receive them so why not leave them, too!

A short "nice", "good work" or "very informative" doesn't quite cut it, and refrain from asking for the Hubber or other visitors to visit your Hubs. It's gets very old very quickly and it won't take people long to notice if a track record of mindless copy and paste commenting is happening, and respond accordingly (with the deny and spam buttons).

The best approach is to leave feedback that is relevant to the topic of the Hub. Ask questions if you feel more clarification is needed, make suggestions if you feel that a valid point is missing, disagree if you feel so inclined but do so civilly.

The more thought provoking a comment is the greater chance that the hub author and also other visitors will want to find out more about you.

Let Hubbers whose Hubs you respect know it, they’ll likely return the favor when it’s your turn to publish!