A hub-page is a free, simple website you can build as a means to add exposure to your web presence and business.
Even if your main website is a personal one, you can still create a hub-page to bring people’s attention to it. The more positive exposure your web presence receives, the better.
All you have to do is visit www.hubpages.com and get started. The layout is pretty straightforward, so even if you don’t have a lot of HTML experience, you should be able to put everything together without any problems. Make sure you use original content—don’t simply copy and paste something from another website or blog, including your own.
The idea is to get people interested in visiting your main site or blog, so don’t just use the same ole’ content.
Why are hub-pages so important?
Obviously, the main idea behind them is exposure.
What makes so many webmasters interested in creating this type of page, though?
One reason is because the site ranks extremely high in Google’s ranking, and the pages are indexed very quickly. Your hub-page will probably be indexed more quickly and ranked higher than your regular site or blog!
Since the site ranks so highly, the backlinks you get will help your own rank higher. The number of relevant backlinks you have influences the ranking of your website or blog, and hubpages.com is one of the best sites from which to get them. It’s better to have a few backlinks from these pages than a hundred at a bunch of worthless directories.
As long as your hub-page is well put together and informative, you can expect some visitors to click on your links. An average visitor will probably stay for three minutes or more reading the content. If it is all well written, the average visitor will more than likely want to visit your main website or blog to read more. Hopefully, you’ll see a huge influx of traffic and establish yourself as an expert on your niche.
Another great thing to note is that your hub-page will bring you targeted traffic. This means that visitors must actually search or browse for the topic in order to find your page.
If you’re trying to sell products, or at least earn revenue from AdSense, you could see an increase in the money you earn by having targeted visitors interested in what you have to say and offer. Ultimately, money is the one thing that all webmasters and bloggers want to get their hands on, and although they all use different techniques, everyone can agree that Hub-Pages are essential.
Since there’s a lot of competition out there, you need to make wise decisions in regards to your search engine optimization techniques. Sometimes, though, it can be very difficult to get your website to rank highly in Google, no matter how hard you try. This is why hub-pages are so important—they are indexed very quickly, and no black-hat SEO methods are used. This means you can have backlinks from a trusted, safe source, thus increasing the value of your web presence.
Sites where you can create free hub-pages include:
How have you used HubPages to benefit your blog? Share your views in the comments below.
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(1 comments) February 21, 2010 at 10:19 pm
I like your post, it’s extremely help me to encrease my backlink
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(18 comments) February 4, 2010 at 11:05 am
I have not considered hub pages, time is the major constraint. Maybe i prefer wasting my time on social media.
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Nice one Andrew, I appreciate the list of similar sites as well.
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Andrew from Blogging Guide
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January 13th, 2010 at 5:05 am
Dennis,
I hope they help!
Andrew
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(176 comments) January 12, 2010 at 1:51 pm
thanks for bringing this to our attention i really believe that the traffic from these sites are really the ones we need which are targeted and for ranking this can only be of benifit to us and last but not last welcome to the club
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Andrew from Blogging Guide
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January 13th, 2010 at 5:07 am
Thanks, lawmacs.
The traffic does depend upon the quality of what you write, the niche and how enticing your link back message is!
Andrew
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(5 comments) January 12, 2010 at 3:22 am
It seems these hubpages really do bring in alot of traffic! Haven’t had much success yet with mine. But I think I should actually add some content to it first
Thanks for the reminder
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Andrew from Blogging Guide
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January 12th, 2010 at 4:50 am
Bjorn,
It’s definately worth testing out. Add a blog post or 2 and a link back to your main blog. Not only can you get traffic but a nice back-link as well.
Andrew
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(150 comments) January 12, 2010 at 1:57 am
I’ve several hubs on hubpages, thanks for remind me about hubpages. I’ll try to create hubs again. Yes, I agree if a site like hubpages will help our blog index by search engine because its its backlink, but I’m not sure about traffic
About the money? I don’t think so you can get more revenue with hubpages
I’ll create at least a hub today to promote my new blog.
Thanks Andrew for the article, its great explanation and well written.
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Andrew from Blogging Guide
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January 12th, 2010 at 4:54 am
Thanks Latief,
Traffic really depends upon the topic your write about and the quality of the post. Some niches will get more than others but you will get a backlink whatever your write about.
On the money side, I meant vie your own blog. Get some targeted traffic from the HubPage and they are more inclined to buy when they visit your main blog.
Andrew
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chandan
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January 12th, 2010 at 8:04 am
Latief, I want to ask one question that how to can get backlink by hubpage as I think they provide nofollow backlink. People say that they use hubpage for making linkwheel, but as hubpage give nofollow link then how their linkwheel work?
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lawmacs
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January 12th, 2010 at 1:53 pm
Not an expert in seo are no-follow do-follow the truth is that we as bloggers benifits from these links whether it been do-follow or not it doesn’t matters this is just my opinion
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(62 comments) January 12, 2010 at 1:11 am
You have shared a good information…I have not tried this option yet.. I will try to make hub pages soon and inform you about it.
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Andrew from Blogging Guide
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January 12th, 2010 at 4:56 am
Deepika,
Please do. It’s worth spending an hour of your time and seeing what results you get.
And yes, please come back and tell us, although results won’t be instant!
Andrew
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(12 comments) January 11, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Thanks For Sharing this I have Already Started Work for this Project Make money While Building back links. Or we can say it a link wheel around our niche website
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(26 comments) January 11, 2010 at 12:45 pm
I have built many squidoo lenses but not any on hubpages, although I have thought of it many times. Thanks for the reminder of how important it really is for your site!
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Tom | Build That List
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January 11th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
I am exactly the same. I have written quite a few squidoo pages and they have been quite good. I might have to look into hubpages more. Do you think they perform better than squidoo?
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Andrew from Blogging Guide
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January 12th, 2010 at 4:58 am
Tom,
Some of my HubPages have performed better than Squidoo. It’s worth experimenting.
Andrew
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Andrew from Blogging Guide
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January 12th, 2010 at 4:57 am
Jenny
It’s definitely worth ’spreading’ your HubPages on different sites. I use all of the above.
Andrew
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(5 comments) January 11, 2010 at 11:24 am
Nice post, ive built a few hubpages in the past username:hobsdv . Not been on for a while even though i keep meaning too.
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Andrew from Blogging Guide
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January 12th, 2010 at 4:59 am
David,
Might be the right time to start again…
Andrew
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