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Establishing Your Online Brand

Improve Your HubPages Traffic by Being an Online Expert

Is there a subject you just love to write about? For most of us, the answer is an emphatic yes. If there's a subject you're particularly knowledgeable about or experienced in, you owe it to yourself to cultivate that expertise as part of your personal brand both on HubPages and elsewhere. And in fact, being active elsewhere online can be a great way to drive traffic to your Hubs. Here are a few things you may want to try:

• Become an active  reddit user and participate in subreddits related to your subject.
• Give advice and leave helpful comments on online forums related to your subject.
• Participate on community sites about your subject.
• Join and be active in Facebook Groups, Google Groups, Pinterest Boards, etc that focus on your subject.

Always remember to be helpful, not spammy! See our etiquette tips below.

Christy Kirwan
Marketing & Community Manager

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Don't be a spammer!

Etiquette Tips for Posting on Other Sites and Communities

If you decide you'd like to try branching out to create a broader audience, make sure you follow these tips when posting outside of HubPages:

• Always follow the rules of the site or community you are posting on. Read the rules carefully before posting.
• Don't spam links to your own content. Sharing content should be done at a rate of about 1/3; share one of your Hubs for every 2-3 articles you share by someone else.
• Be helpful and demonstrate your authority. Help other members and demonstrate competence; don't just expect them to care about your content when they know nothing about you.
• Stay on topic. If another member is asking for cat grooming tips and you wrote a Hub about it, by all means share it. But if members are just talking about cute cats, a link to your grooming Hub is probably not appropriate.
• Be attentive. Don't neglect comments and threads you're participating in. Other users will trust and rely on someone they know will see their comments, answer additional questions, and generally be engaged.

More on creating your online brand:
http://hubpages.com/learningcenter/How-To-Build-Your-Online-Brand