Follow to gain followers?
I've seen many Hubbers follow people for the sole purpose of gaining followers. How effective is this method in gaining followers and does it have any significant effect on traffic and therefore earnings? Want to follow me? lol
From viewing some members here who have been here for quite some time with avlow count of followers, they have had some extremely good traffic. I would say a "small" amount of traffic comes from hubpages.... the traffic that generates you the bucks comes from elsewhere and they could care less who follows who and how many follow how many. My observations anyway.
Highly ineffective. Bear in mind you're going to earn between $1 and $5 per 1,000 views, so you need thousands of visitors to earn income - which you won't get from within the HP community, which is actually quite small.
If you follow someone and they automatically follow you back, chances are they're not really going to "follow" you anyway - they are probably following too many people to have any chance of visiting all their new Hubs.
If you follow too many people, your Hub score will drop dramatically.
Also, be careful. I thought I was being nice and following people who visited my hubs and whose writing I liked and I was actually setting off the ranking tools. My rating went down to a ONE and it took a long time to come back up. Plus, my home page was going nuts with following all those pages.
We are happy if someone follows us because we know our hubs might be useful for them and interesting. If someone follows us we are encourage because we know we did a good job. But for other reasons; what are followers for? What benefit can we get from them? They will not click on our ads and give us earnings. Why bother?
But if you like to to gain followers, there is one effective way to gain them legally... write a useful and informative hubs for other hubbers to benefit, because they like to learn more and they are thankful that you helped them, chances are there that they will follow you.
Followers are just people who decide they want to follow your writing. You don't need to follow people to get them: I follow about two dozen people but have many more followers than that. Over time they tend to become inactive and have no effect on your Hubs.
If you are here for earnings, you want search engine traffic as that's who clicks on ads.
Relache answered it best, but I thought I'd chip in and say, don't follow anyone unless you like what they write. I don't hunt for followers and won't follow anyone I don't want to read. Otherwise your feed is just full of crap from people you have no interest in.
by DdraigX 13 years ago
Just a quick question, as above, does having followers help your hubs/hubscore?
by Shawn May Scott 12 years ago
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by Missing Link 13 years ago
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by healthmunsta 3 years ago
I am literally sick and tired of people who follow you, and then, when you follow them back, they promptly unfollow you. Really, people? What do you do when someone unfollows you shortly after you follow them? Do you hunt them down and unfollow them as well? Do you send them mail saying what they...
by rexrider 12 years ago
Can I follow everyone in the hubpage? what was the use to follow or they follow me?if i have none means 0 zero followers my hubs can be viewed or not?????please help me.
by dutch84 13 years ago
When I first started out with hubpages I followed hundreds of people, because I wanted them to follow me back, because I though that's how you get readers to come to your hub. I recently found out that following a lot of people reduces your hubscore, plus I cancelled my updates on the hubbers I...
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