Not this kind of traffic, please!

Gaining Traffic Without Google

WryLilt's Tips for Diversifying Your Hub Traffic

The latest HubPages Blog post covered increasing traffic to your Hubs without having to rely on Google, and I think it's such an important topic for writers on HubPages that I want to mention it in today's Newsletter as well. Most of us depend heavily on Google for traffic, and when things change with the big G, we all feel it, for better or worse.

Veteran Hubber WryLilt has kindly written a Hub sharing her tips for diversifying and increasing traffic to your Hubs without Google. Here's what she has to say about it: "After learning the hard way about the risks of using just one source of traffic (thank you  Google Panda), I have spent the last several years finding as many ways to diversify my traffic sources, income sources, and content as possible. During that time I’ve tried dozens of ways to build incoming traffic; some have worked incredibly well while others were were a waste of time. I know that many Hubbers are suffering at the hands of Google’s regular changes, so I decided to combine a list of my tried and tested tips for building up traffic from multiple sources."

I highly recommend reading her Hub in its entirety, which can be found here: 50 One Sentence Tips to Increase Traffic Without Google

Christy Kirwan
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WryLilt's Top 5 Tips

WryLilt also generously compiled a short list of her top 5 favorite tips out of the 50 from her Hub. If you're inclined to take her advice, these are a great place to start:

1. Jump on a new trend or topic before major websites see, research, and write about it to get a quick viral Hub.
2. Create Hubs that answer dumb questions in competitive niches, as larger sites don’t notice or bother with those topics.
3. Don’t spam people with your own content; your content should make up between 1:4 and 1:10 of your social media posts if you want to build social media engagement.
4. On Google Plus, search “[topic] circle” and click on “Add People” to add people in your niche and encourage follow backs from a targeted audience.
5. Use a Made for Pinterest (MFP) image in your content to increase the shares both directly from your hub as well as on Pinterest itself. I’ve created a list of 50 tips, including some awesome free sites and cheats you can use when promoting on social media.

To see the full list of 50 tips check out WryLilt's latest Hub:
http://wrylilt.hubpages.com/hub/Ways-to-Generate-Traffic-Without-Google

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