How To Receive More Comments From Readers?
Dear Hubbers,
I have publish around 11 Hubs and my Hublinks are as follows:
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I have receive lots of traffic to my above Hubs but not receiving more comments from my readers. Anyone from Top Hubbers will help me to find the reason behind it?
regards,
GoogleCashMoney
I think there's no such rule. But, you can understand naturally a hub gets more attention when the comments section grows up. More visitors.... more comments.... more attention (if in hot & best sections) and hence you get more traffic
I hate playing devil's advocate, but... Mark has a little (eensy-weensy) point.
What I've learned (so far) is to keep improving your hubs. You've only been here for a short while (just like me.) Add more and more relative and quality content (including videos and pictures.)
It seems that your fan base is growing very rapidly. So you're on the right track. Don't get discouraged by negative comments. Understand and learn from them - even play along with them. Don't get jealous of them. We all have different expertise, writing styles and target audiences. Promote what you write to the right people and soon you'll be up there with them.
Artistically,
ProCW
PS. Once upon a time, there was a big, bad theatre director. He was VERY negative to everyone (even the audience.) He was a brilliant man (relative to theatre.) He struggled daily trying to get his actors to do what he wanted. He, so desperately, tried to convey all of his knowledge to his actors. He got through to some of them. One day he retired. The next day I took his place.
The End. Get anything from that?Yep, there's no reason to feel competitive, especially since the high hub scores are really only meaningful within Hubpages. Search engine traffic is not going to notice or pay attention to the scoring. There is some internal linking juice that comes with having high scores, but I don't think it is as significant as the internal linking juice that would come from publishing a lot more hubs.
Writing good content and publishing frequently is really the key... unless you are Misha then you only have to write a hub every six months or so
Also, like Mark, the majority of my traffic and the comments left in my hubs come from search engines, not Hubpages.GCM:
I was not telling about keywords. Mark has his own blogs and I found his HP profile page while I was searching for something else in google, may be it was just a coincedence.
If you want your profile page to be popular, you can post it to sites like mixx, digg or some other social discussion forums. I mean, not bookmarking...those sites allow you to place your site's link in your profile there, so you can put your HP profile page url there, Got it?
You can track the traffic source using google analytics. I also get some traffic for my profile page from external sources as told above.
- Siddhu
No offence taken.
Well, I have a few ideas, but if you think the way hubscore works is unfair to new hubbers, I suggest you take that up with team@hubpages.com
Personally, it took me some time before I became one of the "top hubbers" and if you are looking for an instant solution, I can't help. I wasn't trying to do this.
As far as I understand it, the individual hubscore has very little to do with the writers personal score.
I have looked at your hubs, and the only advice I can offer is to write more relevant information for English speakers. Your Ambani brothers hub for instance. Most American, English and Australian readers (My guesstimate of the most traffic from countries) will not have heard of them. Quite apart from the fact that this is very old news, who is going to comment on something they have not heard of?
If any English speaker has heard of Mukesh Ambani, they will know he is building an extremely expensive house in Mumbai. Apart from that - nothing. Not that his daddy left him a lot of money or that he argued with his brother for a while. No offence.
Not remarkable to most of us. The only reason I know about him is because I have written about his exploits.
Keep responding for every comment, I hope that helps. I think you can refer to the hubs by SweetiePie, Amy Jane and some great authors to see how they keep in touch with the comments section. You may get some idea there
GoogleCashMoney:
I'll tell you something. I wonder, you've got more than 100 fans in just 2 weeks of hubbing. I know, mostly everybody thinks simply adding on fans will help in some way.
But, tell me...if every hubber in your fanclub is reading your hubs and posting comments, Won't you be having around 100 comments in every hub? Atleast, say 25 That is the point, I never find something good in meaningless addition of fans.
They don't admire you, they simply want you to replicate. Some of them leave your fan club if you don't join their club...Have you seen?
This is just my opinion. Don't get offended
- SiddhuMarisa is Right. As long as you are in HP, you need not worry about SEO (Search Engine Optimization) because HP team works better than us in bringing our hubs in better search engine rankings if our hubs are worth it.
Try promoting your hubs, if you have time to do that it's worth to get lots of traffic from sources other than HP.
- Siddhupatience is a virtue
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