Get Different Traffic Sources and Increase Your Traffic

Where do you get your business or traffic from? Is it hubpages? It is search engines are there ways you can get traffic from many sources-- of course you want a massive increase in traffic-- the type that makes you money.These are all great questions which new hub writers ask and ask again when they want to grow their business, or better yet expand their business on hubpages and the online world.

You want to build traffic and build up your business and write and enjoy what you do on the Internet but you also know you need to write great content and then build some links to your work. This is why you want to be writing for a living, by this I mean your hubs and your other articles make you enough money that you do not need to have the dreaded "day job."

With online work and if you want to succeed, your business needs traffic and you need to build it to the point where people will find it and find it useful. Again not everyone will like your work, but some will find it and help you grow your business, and make you money.

A Note: Write naturally and do not keyword stuff your writing. After all content is important but so are the links you get. Again do not keyword stuff (this means if more than say 4 percent of your hub contains the same "keyword" you have a problem)

Traffic can begin by adding links to your hubs: There are a few places to start getting traffic but one of the easier ways is by using a social networking site ( Stumble Upon, Digg, Facebook are a must). Now, of course this being a business and you want to grow your business to the point that you will make money and that money is based upon passive income, then this is a foundation, but not a end.

Social networking sites do create some traffic, and to this end need to be looked upon as the basis for building traffic. Start by brainstorming a few places: some of the better ones are Stumble Upon and Digg as more people use them. Again careful choice needs to be made when picking a subject ( Such as writing or making money or business).

If you want traffic from these sources you must be aware that they are also a bit of a popularity contest so the more people you know the more chances that they will add a link as their favorite as so on. There are drawbacks, as if you get "too popular" you will not make money, but will get a lot of traffic.

This however, does not mean you need to avoid these sites, in fact social networking sites are great for traffic (and links). So use them to your advantage to grow your business. You need these sites for basic links, and any link to a hub is better than no links to a hub. Again this is a beginning.

The foundation for traffic also comes from online articles you write with a link to a hub, but they also come from the search engines and these are important... they are built on links and keywords.

Fine I did that... but no traffic (or hardly any!) why? Look at your networking sites as a business opportunity for your business and that it is a means to make you some money, with the correct links in the correct spot. This does not mean that traffic will come to your hubs. The main reason you are not getting traffic can be your keywords that you have used in your hubs.

This requires a bit of detective work into the mind of a reader. People want something, your hub or site needs to give them that something. You had better have some knowledge of what people are thinking about.

Use the hubpages keyword tool as a starting point, see if you go to your stats there a tab there called keywords. This lets your see who comes in and reads your hub on the search engines. Now, this is important as sometimes you can edit your hub as add a keyword or phrase that people are searching for in your hub. this does take time, and you will need to publish very high quality hubs.

One thing to remember you want to get traffic from the search engines? make it natural and do not keyword stuff. ( this means that if you look at the persons keywords "tags" you will find this far too often in the hub...) Do not keyword stuff, bad practice and you do not want to make the golden source of traffic mad.

The Golden Traffic Source?

Google and other search engines are vital in two ways, one people are more likely to go to Google or MSN or yahoo and look up a topic. The idea is that you should have a few keywords that you think people will go for and have your hub on the first page.

The reason these are called the golden traffic sources is that you will have more potential to make money with them.  They are the ones where organic searches are based upon "Search queries" that real people will type into the search engine to find websites and blogs.  You need to be found there.

Why would you want to do this?

Simple Google and other search engines put the best up on top (now, this is not dealing in what we personally think is the best, but what the search engines think are the best...) So add the right content with the correct keywords and chances are you will get traffic coming to your hub. Still you also need links as the more links you have the better the chance of getting traffic from the search engines.

What is number two?

Money and making money-- search engine traffic is what makes you the most consistent money. See, the more people find you on Google the more likely they will come and read and click on an ad that they think will help them as well.

The key to writing a good hub is to make sure your content is original and helpful to others. The more links your hub gets the more "helpful" the search engines are to you.

Added links Still No Traffic: The you need to check a few places both with in your hubs and in your links you have placed. Below is the list of ten things that will make or break your traffic coming to your hubs, or better yet coming back. in No particular order:

1) Content-- A 400 word hub without pictures or links or anything won't get people, or will not get links from others. Your content needs to be useful.

2) Presentation-- It had better look good right away

3) Did you Actually go and Add the Link or expect others to do so for you?

4) Lack of any promotion.

5) The If you build it they will come... if they can not find you they won't!

6) Not being helpful... if your hub is about say writing and you do not talk about writing...

7) Not Adding Links between hubs.

8) A Big level of competition. ( ie making money there is like a zillion websites, blogs, hubs, Lenses, online articles and the like about making money... you have one hub...)

9) Attention to where your traffic is coming from, you have a traffic sources under my account for a reason.

10) Not understanding where to focus your traffic. Some people will add links to a poor preforming hub, which is great-- but older hubs with a lot of traffic over time are a better bet to getting more traffic.

The last word-- do not be afraid to link to the social networking sites or other sites such as your blog or Squidoo lenses you have. However, at the same time, do not focus only on these sites. Traffic is important and you need to get readers to come site down and read something that they find well written and informative.

Traffic should come anywhere. Personally I use RedGage, and Stumble Upon, Digg, Facebook, e-zine articles, and Squidoo as my main source of getting traffic to my hubs, I also interlink my hubs, with the idea that people will go to another hub that they think will be helpful to them in the same topic. Some work better than others, and some I am still working on but you need to put a link in. Google and the other search engines like to see links to anything on the web.

So, add a link or two and publish a hub that relates to the topic.

To your success.