Fix it 303: Social Networking Sites and Hubpages

I've written at length on my hubs about the social networking sites such as Stumble Upon and DIgg, and Face Book and what they can do for traffic. I'll be expanding on this one in this hub. There is a vital link to hubpages and social networking sites.

There are also many myths about social networking sites. So How should you fix you hub to make it better on a social networking site? This is the Internet and on the Internet we a social people want to connect with each other. The simple answer is: content content content and interactivity.

Now I am being a hopeful realist with this one, and saying that hubpages makes it easy to write a hub and then even easier to send it to social networking sites. Hubpages is a business and they know that people are here for many different reasons, so they offer a lot of choice.

Yes, you can make money and get traffic through social networking sites, and hubpages helps, but the results are up to you. Set a goal and stick with it, and you will see traffic and good comments on your hubs.

Share It: first you need to get an account with the following, FaceBook, Digg and Stumble Upon. This is pretty easy, they require your name and email address and you give it to them and set a password. Make sure you remember your password, or you won't see benefits to this.

Once that is done, scroll down on each of your hub and hit the share it button, from there fill in the correct category and what each will do it put a link (using your title) on their system. This is important for both traffic and money. A link avoids duplicate content, which isn't good, and also helps people see your title.

It's a business and this is, for many, the easy part. I prefer Stumble Upon since they have more choices as to a category and you can edit it at anytime. Still having several links to several social networking sites are important. You need to "share your work." you don't need to share each hub in one day, and get to know each site before getting too worried about traffic.

Content and title are king on any social networking site. As people will only see a link on your account, this means that the title needs to be good, or easy to remember and find. You also need other people to share your sites as well, so good content will help encourage them to do this.

This also helps search engines, since the more links you have with reputable sites the better your ranking. (This being google the rules can change in an instant) Still this will increase your flow of traffic to your hubs, and if you have back linked correctly between your hubs, this will give more traffic to all of your hubs.

If you think of Social Networking as A Business.. think "corporate social networking": Okay big title, but we all love fancy titles, and what do corporations do best? They get their name out to the world. You need to get your name out to the Internet community, essentially be everywhere. One way is to think of social networking as "corporate social networking" the corporation is you, and your business are the hubs and blogs and websites you have. now your corporation can have "free" publicity with help from another corporation: the "corporate social networking" sites.

You are a business, and this means that there are many aspects to it, and social networking is one, but still, you won't make money now or even make money today, but you will make money if you think of using the Web 2.0 in this way, it's not a hobby it's a business.

Even as a hobby thinking big will help you make a bit more money, still it's a bit more relaxing than a business. One of my followers said think corporation... well it got me thinking, maybe we need to think this big to see our hubs improve in terms of content and traffic and google.

If you do it, for fun, this will get traffic, i have found that for me personally traffic is from Stumble Upon, and there are many hubbers that I find on Stumble Upon, and just like on hubpages, you can "follow" others, this will increase your traffic and visibility on the social networking sites.

First you need to publish a good hub and have some links to it, and then share it. Link carefully as linking to a bad site is not what you need to do, so look for great hubs along with your own to link to. Okay big leap but think big and enjoy it!

How Does Social Networking Sites Help you in Terms of SEO and Google and making money: No you won't make money today you might make money now (a few cents at least) but the real benefits are in the long run.

To fix you hub to make it more appealing to social networking sites is simple, just put them out to these sites. This adds a link to your hub. If you do this and do this for at least ten other hubs that are not your own, people will notice.

Still a goal should be to get "noticed" by google, and with reputable social networking sites, the links you create between your hubs and others will help. I like to find other writers who have added a link to one of my hubs and Stumble Upon that hub. It is important as well to let people know you've done this.

There are good links and not so good links, so by using Stumble Upon or Digg correctly google will notice your sites. it's all about category on social networking sites, but like SEO the right category is everything.

Again making money is a slow process, and there are days when even social networking sites are slow, but this is a learning process.

Hubpages makes it Easy to use Social Networking Sites: Look at the Share It (above the comment section on a hub) section on your hub, you can put a link as a blog, you can add it to FaceBook, and Digg and Stumble Upon, and all other types of sites which add your hub as a link.

Take advantage of this. it is far easier to add a hub through hubapages than say manually doing the same on any of these social networking sites. again write excellent well written hubs, as people can and will like it or hit the I don't like it buttons.

The better quality your hub is the better traffic you'll get but the first step is up to you. You need to write content rich hubs. Comment back and comment on others hubs. Be Interactive. Spend the time improving older hubs and linking between them, and improve your profile. Also, be passionate and have fun. Social Networking Sites will improve your hubs, but also show you where you need to fix one or more.