Your First Hub Part 4: Attracting Readers to Your Hub

Once you've published your Hub you can promote it. Using social bookmarking and networking services, your own blogs, and a variety of other sites can expose your Hub to a human audience. These backlinks can also help search engines find and index your page more quickly and may help your visibility in search results.

We don't recommend spending a lot of time promoting your Hub. If you write a great piece of content, hopefully others will link to your site promoting it for you. However, a small amount of promotion at the beginning can help. Hubs can be easily shared on HubPages, Twitter, Facebook, Blogger, Digg, StumbleUpon, and Reddit using the "Share" button, which is near the bottom of every Hub.

The main thing to remember when promoting your website is to be a good Net Citizen. Follow the rules and guidelines of the sites to which you post. Promoting Hubs on sites where you are not an active participant can get you in trouble. Also, if you only share your own work, it will raise red flags. Think about how you would like someone to share their work and go by those guidelines.

You may also share your Hubs with family, friends, and co-workers, but do so with caution.

Don't ever have friends or family members click on your ads and don't ever click on your own ads or those of people you know. This will quickly get you banned from Google's AdSense and it's very difficult to be reinstated.

Share your Hubs in moderation. Hitting a website with too many links to the same domain, or sending out too many emails inviting people to read your Hubs is considered spamming and can result in being banned from a community or ignored by your friends.

A great way to gain readership is to become a strong member of the HubPages Community. Follow other Hubbers and leave insightful comments on their Hubs and they might follow you back and read your work!