Hubpages Back Links How To Establish A Backlink Strategy to Increase Traffic
83Link building, getting links or backlinks back to your hubpages hubs, is a very useful method to ensure that your hubs receive the best possible volume of traffic for the subject matter covered and keywords contained. I have been a member of the HubPages community for a little over three months at the time of writing. I have been trying to learn from other, more experienced Hubbers and to read articles and glean information from elsewhere on the web. After what felt an eternity of ‘dithering’ when I could not make up my mind what was the best way to do things, I have now developed a clear strategy for Keyword Research and for Back Links Building. I now feel a lot happier because I have a strategy that seems to work (for me at least) and I am seeing my traffic steadily increase, week on week.
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Get Organized And Get On With It!
The thing about link building is that it can be incredibly time consuming. I have had to refine my method as my number of hubs increases as I want to spend time researching and writing hubs, not doing boring bookmarking!
So here is what I do to promote and build links and backlinks to my hubs - I needed to get organized, stop 'faffing about', getting nothing done, get a system together to semi-automate my link building and GET ON WITH IT!
My Backlink Strategy
1. First of all, I have now decided that I will not publish a new hub immediately I finish it but will take time refining it, going back and editing it and getting it to be as good as I can get it before publication. The added benefit of this is that a Hub published immediately starts out with a score of 50, if I can keep going back and editing that Hub, I can get it’s starting hubscore up before it gets published, thus giving it a bit of a head-start.
2. Secondly, I use the share this button at the bottom of each hub, to promote the hub on twitter when I publish it. If it is a topical article, or becomes topical (like my hub on the link between gum disease and heart disease), I put out several tweets a day about that hub which has produced good results for me. I was bookmarking to Reddit and Stumbleupon and Digg too - now I just usually use stumbleupon and the Tweet and Like buttons at the top of the page under the title.
Save Time, Get Organized!
USE A SPREADSHEET TO SEMI-AUTOMATE YOUR LINK BUILDING
I have now set up a spreadsheet to semi-automate my link building and speed up the process of submitting to other sites. I have set it up like this:-
a. Put the URL of each new HubPage in the first column, (the URL of each Hub is the http:// followed by hubpage.com/hub/your-new-new-hub-name and this appears in your browser window at the top of your screen when you are on the page of your hubpage hub. I use this URL when submitting to sites that will not accept a URL for a Hubpages page with the Referral code (your Hubpages URL tracker code) inserted.
b. Put the URL of each new Hubpage in the second column but this time including your tracker code as some bookmarking sites will accept it. See my hub Generate Income with Your HubPages URL Tracker Code for how to do this. I do this because, if a visitor comes to my hub from this bookmark including the URL tracker code, then goes off and joins hubpages or clicks on an ad in another hub they choose to visit, I will get the benefit of the new signup and a share of any adsense revenue for the first 120 minutes of the visit.
c. I then put the title of my hub in column three, a brief description in column four and the tags (keywords to help visitors find my hubs) in column five. I do try to vary the title and the description in my manually submitted bookmarks, but having a template like this, saves having to start from scratch every time. Make sure not to copy something directly out of your hub to use as your description, try to have somthing unique.
d. Then, I put the name of the Bookmarking sites I want to submit to as the column headings and use the ‘Lock titles function’ to keep these column headings and my first five columns with all the information in, visible all the time. This is easy to do in excel and if you are not sure just type lock titles into the help section and it will show you exactly how to do it.
e. Then, each time I add a bookmark, I just mark it off as done on my spreadsheet – which is very satisfying and you can just copy and paste from your spreadsheet into the bookmarking sites which speeds up the process. NOTE be careful about the keywords though, some sites only take space separated keywords, some comma separated.
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Great New Free Bookmarking Tool
Update: I have come back to edit this hub to let you know about this great tool I have come across that lets you submit 25 FREE Backlinks a day.
There is also a paid service for a one time fee of $47 that gives you so much more but for now, I am just glad of the 25 Free links.
Social Monkee is easy to use, especially if you have Firefox installed and download the plugin which is a cute little monkee face you click on when you are on a page you want to bookmark.
Updated Bookmarking and Backlinking Strategy
Update 17th November 2010
Since I originally published this hub, I have changed my strategy a bit and made some refinements.
What I am trying to do now is to bookmark ALL my hubs, but put the most effort into the ones that appear in the top twenty of Google after a few days.
So, what I do to start with is to put bookmarks on the following sites:(If you want to read a hub that has an exhaustive list of social bookmarking sites, go to The Top Bookmarking Sites That Can Drive High Traffic)
1. My first site for bookmarks is She Told Me. This is a site well worth using as not only is the site a 100% adsense sharing site so you can pick up a little extra income, but also gets great rankings in google for hubpages hubs. Please see my Hub - Increase Traffic to Your Hubs, Create Links on She ToldMe.
2. My second site is Xomba, this is also an adsense revenue sharing site and some days, this gives my adsense earnings, a nice little boost.
3. My third site is Delicious which is not a revenue sharing site but being a PR8 site, is a good one to get your hub a link from.
4. My fourth site is Snipsly which is a revenue sharing site and again has brought me some income.
5. My fifth site is Seekyt this is growing all the time and you can now set it up so that your RSS feed from Seekyt automatically publishes your posts on Digg which is absolutely brilliant - two for the price of one - and, as everyone knows, a Digg backlink is quite valuable!
Now, what I do next may have purists throwing up their hands - and if the idea of any sort of article spinning upsets you, do not read this next bit!
I have downloaded a free spinner from the internet - you can get it here http://www.spinningwizard.com/
What I do with this is two things
1. For the short bookmarks above, I write a one paragraph bookmark in short sentences. I paste this into SpinWizard and use this to rewrite each sentence twice. I then spin this to vary the text that I put into each of the sites above and IMAutomator (mentioned below). I also vary the titles for each one and use my spreadsheet just to paste in the keywords I have saved so that I do not have to keep doing this each time.
Now, for the Hubs that are doing well in the rankings to start with.
For Hubs that show promise (in other words, I have got my keyword research right!), I write a completely new article based on my Hubpages Article. I post this to Ezine with links back to my hub - if I have written more than one article on a similar theme, I use the Ezine articles resource box that allows you to have two links to place one link for one hub and one for another.
Now, I edit this article, changing the sentence structure (making sure my sentences are short) and change the paragraph order to make it different. I then use SpinWizard as above to create a spun article with each sentence rewritten twice.
IMPORTANT UPDATE ABOUT BUKISA December 2010
Bukisa has now changed from paying by page impressions (which in my case resulted in only a £2 or so over several months) to an adsense revenue sharing scheme like HubPages. I added my adsense details a couple of weeks ago and have already earned more than in the whole of my time under the previous scheme so Bukisa could well turn out to be a nice little earner too!
I use the spin feature on SpinWizard to create a new article which I submit to Bukisa. I may also use this longer article instead of a bookmark on any of the bookmarking sites mentioned above. if I have time, I may also use this method to submit to GoArticles and any of the other higher PR article directories.
Why I joined ArticleRanks for Article Submissions
I have joined an article submissions service called ArticleRanks (update 16th February, I am no longer using this paid service for article submission - however the articles I created are still in the system and still being trickled out to blogs and sites, earning backlinks for my hubs and other pages) go to www.articleranks.com to check them out.
I have found Article Ranks excellent, I submit the article I have spun with spinwizard with about ten different titles (you can also spin the titles in spinwizard or you can add the extra ones in ArticleRanks) and include links back to my hubpages articles. I think this service is well worth the small monthly fee (doing it this way is much cheaper than the pay as you go method. I like it better than Unique Article Wizard which I have also tried and it is cheaper.
Article Ranks trickles out your articles (so link building is more natural and not all at once!) and goes on doing so until you tell it to stop. It even goes on doing so with articles you have submitted if you cancel your subscription for any reason.
I use the Rank Tracker section of Market Samurai - mentioned below, to see how my hubs are doing in the rankings for the keyword phrases I am targeting.
IMAutomator
I have become a member of IMAutomator. If you read my hub (see link below), you will know about IMAutomator. You can still have a free account there and you get your bookmarks submitted to randomly selected sites from their list of submission sites. The full list is currently at 31 (as at 17th November 2010 and ). If you are a free member, you get ten bookmarks a day so you could put ten hubs on each day or ten other web pages or URL addresses or blog posts ..... The great thing about IMAutomator is that it trickles the links out at a rate you choose, one a day or one every few days, you don’t get all your links going out at once and this is a much more natural link building profile from the search engine point of view. This is important for small sites just starting out but for hubpages articles I usually choose the links over 6 days option.
Do Follow and No Follow Backlinks
Obviously, the most valuable backlinks are Do Follow as they link back to your site (although I have read that some No Follow Backlinks in the mix make the links you have created look more natural). However, when it comes to commenting on Blogs, or Forums or Social Bookmarking sites in an effort to increase the rankings of your hub or other webpage, there is not much point spending too much time and effort creating links that turn out to be nofollow! I recently downloaded Mozilla Firefox as an alternative browser to Internet Explorer and have found that there are quite a few addons. One useful one is a little extension that you can install and turn on or off in the toolbar as you wish. What it does is highlight links on a page and if they are pink, they are no follow, if they are blue, they are do follow - so for example if you go to a forum and want to know if the links in posts are do follow or no follow, turn the tool on and they will be coloured. If all the links in replies are no follow, you would probably be better spending your time leaving a post on a forum that has do follow links. The tool is called NoDoFollow and you can download it to your Firefox browser from the link provided.
GET FREE BACKLINKS, PROMOTE YOUR HUBS WITH ARTICLE MARKETING
See the 17th November 2010 update above on Article Marketing.
Article marketing to promote your Hubs involves writing short articles about the topic of your hub and submitting it to an article directory with your keywords (tags) as backlinks. Make sure you write UNIQUE content, do not, whatever you do, copy a portion of your hub as a short article. It MUST be original content. If you can then submit to Ezine, Squidoo, Info Barrel or similar, you will be getting what is basically a free advertisement for your hub. Leave the reader wanting more information so that they feel they want to find out more – although the article must be complete in itself.
Ezine articles is an example of a directory that does not allow you to put your links in the body of the article. Instead, you must create your links in the resource box and to do this, you must create an anchor text html hyperlink - which is a lot easier to do than it sounds - if you click the link you will be taken to my hub which has step by step instructions on how to create one and use it to promote your hubs!
I have created my own article directory How Do I Find Out How To (named because 'how do I' has become a sort of nick-name for me - especially since I started trying to make some money on the internet!) Any Hubber who would like to submit articles with links back to their hubs are very welcome to do so (you can read the article submission guidelines on the site). My thanks to those hubbers who have supported my site and now have articles there, linking back to hubs.
USE IMAutomator
If you are a paid member of IMAutomator, you get your hubs submitted to all 47 sites and can submit 25 bookmarks each day. There are so many new features coming to IMAutomator that I definitely recommend you check it out. It cost just under $25 dollars a month (about £18 at the current exchange rate) and new members joining now will have this price frozen for the lifetime of their membership, no matter how many new features are added or how much the price goes up in the future. I wrote a Hub about IMAutomator earlier this year which is now a little out of date.
Update on IMAutomator 14th August 2011
I decided at the beginning of this month to stop my paid subscription to IMA because even as a paid member the number of bookmarking sites submitted to had dropped down to 27 (most of these not well known 'mainstream' sites - I felt that I now get better results using a combination of the free bookmarking from IMA, paid bookmarking from SocialAdr and using SocialMonkee (www.socialmonkee.com). SocialAdr is a very clever concept as you can get your bookmarks posted for you by other people which makes for greater diversity.
SocialAdr can give some benefit for free as if you sign up and link your social bookmarking accounts with other sites, you just need to press one button for quick share, to get five free credits and you can do this every day. Then you can exchange these free credits for getting your own bookmarks posted. In practice, I buy 1,000 credits at a time for what I feel is a very reasonable price and top this up with my 'quick shares'. You can read about the free and paid accounts and top up credits by using the link provided. This is my affiliate link so if you prefer not to credit me with a sale, go direct to the socialadr site.
USE RSS FEEDS TO PROMOTE HUBS
The next way I use to drive traffic to my Hubs is with RSS feeds. Hub pages automatically gives you an RSS feed for your latest hubs, you can access it on your profile page by clicking the subscribe to link next to the orange RSS button. The address of the RSS feed comes up in your browser window.
Mine is http://hubpages.com/author/Alison+Graham/latest/?rss
If you use IMAutomator as a paid member, you can submit this RSS feed there. In which case, it is submitted to 10 RSS feed sites. If you do not subscribe to IMAutomator, you can manually submit it to RSS sites.
If you want to include an RSS feed in your hubs, you can link a group of hubs together by using a keyword common to the group. For example, I have some hubs on lawnmowers (yes, really!). Because lots of other people probably have hubs on lawnmowers too, I do not want to include their hubs in my RSS feed so I need to make sure it is specific to me.
My lawnmower RSS feed will be http://hubpages.com/author/Alison+Graham/petrol+lawnmower/latest/?rss
So if you want to do one for yourself for a group of your hubs, use
http://hubpages.com/author/yourusername/yourkeyword/latest/?rss
Not forgetting to put in the + sign if your user name or keyword (tag) is more than one word.
There are many benefits to linking hubs this way – read Edweirdo’s brilliant hub about it
http://hubpages.com/hub/Promote-Your-Older-Hubs-Using-Tags-To-Create-Custom-RSS-Feeds
It’s all about promoting your older hubs/under performing hubs by linking them with newer/better performing hubs!
If you create some RSS feeds this way, you can submit these too, but don’t go mad and submit loads at once, trickle them out!
If you want to know where to submit your RSS feeds once you have made them, go to the EPIC Hub by Sunforged who always writes such brilliant and helpful information. In this one, (see link below), he has made it even more helpful by producing a huge list of links to the actual page on the site where you enter your RSS URLs!!
RSS Submission Sites list - Use RSS submission sites to get traffic
Time-saving Tip
When you create your RSS Feed URLs, paste them all into an application like notepad and save it on your computer. Then, what I like to do is to go to one of the addresses on the list by Sunforged and copy and paste them one at a time into that submission site. It saves so much time! Then, after a day or two, I do the process again with another site on the list!
Update 30th September 2010. I have come back to this hub to add that I have now got my http://www.feedagg.com account for RSS feeds set up to publish all new posts to my Twitter account. I have done this for my other sites too and I like this option.
COMMENT ON OTHER HUBS
Leaving comments on hubs you have enjoyed reading is another great way to promote your own hubs. How? Your user name is a clickable link back to your profile page. Other people reading the comments and the author of the hub may very possibly click on the link to your profile and have a look at your hubs. They may decide to link one of their related hubs to one of yours which is great.
PARTICIPATE IN THE FORUMS
Leaving a comment in the forums on HubPages has the same effect as commenting on other hubs.
Leaving a comment in forums on other sites may also provide you with the opportunity to link back to your hubs. I have only done this once, so far with hub on car boot sales where I put a single comment on a forum on a site called Car Boot Junction. This site has sent 70 visitors to that Hub alone since I did so and the visitors have looked at my profile and some other hubs too.
You can also comment on blogs on relevant topics. This is not a strategy I have exploited yet as I just have not had time to do so. However, provided that you are polite, leave a relevant comment that adds something to the article itself, your comment may well be approved and give you the opportunity to gain a link back to your Hub(s).
CREATE LINKS TO OTHER RELEVANT HIGH QUALITY HUBS
If you do this, you not only increase the likelihood of other hubbers linking to your hubs, but you also get the opportunity of inserting your URL tracker in the link which enables you to benefit from a share of any adsense revenue generated by the visitor who clicks that link during the next 120 minutes.
I am sure that there are lots of other things I could be doing as well as those outlined in this Hub. I am also certain that there are things I am doing wrong. But the important thing from my point of view is that I am doing something. It is so easy to get so 'bogged down' with all the information that there is available. Much of it is conflicting and I was feeling that my head was going to explode with trying to assimilate it all.
So, I decided that I would just have to make up my mind, decide what to do, devise my own strategy and stick to it. Of course, I am learning how to work smarter, not harder, not to spend time on things that do not get me anywhere. I have a few Hubbers whose work has inspired and informed me - I have my heros but won't embarrass them by mentioning their names here!
I am not just burying my head in the sand now that I have a strategy though. I am open to new ideas and am trying to spend some time each day reading some information, or watching a video that could help me to do better. I am hoping for some excellent critical comments on this hub from other Hubbers! I am serious about building an income online and am loving HubPages as a place to do just that!
On thing that is brilliant about hubpages is that if you work at the backlinking and your hub has good information and is viewed by Google as being somewhere that a reader is going to get great value and information, you will be rewarded with good page rank. This hub, for example is currently at pr 5 - what this enables you to do is to use the hub to provide a link to help other hubs or other sites you are building. I am currently trying to improve my ranking for the phrase pop up displays on my website about trade shows and trade show stands so a dofollow link from a pr5 page is going to help me out there!
UPDATE
I just wanted to let you know that I have started using Posterous to creat backlinks too. I have been doing the Challenge 2010 and this is one of the methods they have taught this year. I have found it quite easy to set up with the excellent video instructions and can send an email to Posterous to autopost my content with a backlink (or backlinks) to wherever I choose (hubpages or other web pages) - anyway, I hope you will check it out, it is FREE!
I also wanted to tell you that I am using Shane Melaugh's Backlink Battleplan. This is a course I have purchased, I think it is excellent value for money as it shows you how to get all your backlinks using only FREE resources online. It has easy to follow video tutorials and helpful stuff to download and I have found it very user friendly as he explains everything really well. It really is very good and there is a link on my profile page if you want to find out more. The link I have provided is my affiliate link so you could go direct to Shane's website, imimpact.com if you prefer.
My latest Hubs about HubPages
- How To Insert Links In Your HubPages Hubs
How to insert links in hubpages to other hubs, to an external webpage using either the links capsule or anchor text and how to use the "suggest links" option to find other hubs to link to. - 9 months ago
- HubPages The Next Step, Three Things You Need To Start Earning Money Online
HubPages is a brilliant place to earn money online. - 14 months ago
- Hubpages, the Next Step, Building a Niche Wordpress Website, Some Tips on Building A Website From Scratch
If you would like some help getting started building a niche wordpress website, here are some tips and a free pdf manual to download that will help you to get started! - 14 months ago
- Hubpages How To Add Anchor Text Html Back Link
Article marketing is a great way to get free backlinks - here is how you make your anchor text backlinks where the article directory requires you to create them in html in your resource box. - 18 months ago
- Hubpages Back Links How To Establish A Backlink Strategy to Increase Traffic
Link building, getting links or backlinks back to your hubpages and webpages, is important but time consuming. - 19 months ago
- Hubpages Keyword Research Strategy for Google Adsense Revenue
A keyword research strategy designed to help you select keywords that pay more per click and have a good volume of searches to enable you to increase google adsense revenue. - 19 months ago
- HubPages, Increase Traffic To Your Hub Pages, How To Add links On She Told Me
She ToldMe is a very useful site to use to create backlinks (links back to your HubPages and other web pages). - 21 months ago
- Drive traffic to your HubPages - How To Use IMautomator To Automate Link Submissions
IMAutomator is free to join and autosubmits your Links, Backlinks and Bookmarks for you. - 21 months ago
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Do Not Let The Huge Amount Of Information Available Overwhelm You
It is easy when first starting out to get overwhelmed by all the information available - especially as quite a lot of it seems to be conflicting. Work out what you want to do and formulate your own backlink strategy do your keyword research and make the most of the wonderful free help and advice that is a tremendous resource in the forums here on hubpages from people who have probably forgotten more than I will ever know and are 'walking the walk', not just 'talking the talk'! I have been really grateful for all the help I have received.
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@vox vocis, thank you very much for the update regarding seekyt
I've had this page in my bookmarks for quite some time now and never got the chance to read it in detail (which I finally did :)) I appreciate people who take the time and effort to write really useful content and help other writers in the community. I'll check out your article directory any time soon. I just wanted to add that Seekyt is no longer a bookmarking site; a few days ago the admin informed everybody that external links are turned into nofollow links because people continued using the site for easy backlinks (which produced a lot of low-quality content on the site and a regular flow of spammers). I'm OK with this decision because I think that Seekyt is worth the time and effort to write original content and make money while doing it!
Excellent source of info! I wondered about the tracking referral code. I'll bookmark this and come back later. Thanks.
WOOOOWWW! Tons of information, so of course I bookmarked the hub and all of the incredible links and referrals to other hubs. Your are so efficient with your rhythm as far as linking, back linking and so on.
I really can't thank you enough for all this great and forth right information.
geezum lice....Awesome Hub! Probably one of the best that I have read. I am such a lazy back linker that I'm starting to find that I should spend about 50% of my writing contebnt, 25% backlinking and the rest broken up between research and stuff.
Thanks much for this!
Wow there is a lot of information here on marketing your hubs. I will definitely have to do these. Thanks!
Wow, you do have quite the backlinking strategy! Thanks for sharing what you do so thoroughly.
Thanks for this! I am just beginning the process of trying to set up a plan myself and this gives me quite a few pointers. Will be reading more of your hubs to get more info.
What a wonderful hub!! Truly it is one of the most useful and complete hubs, i have come across... Loved it..
I love this hub page though it is very lengthy yet very informative. I will start to follow the spreadsheet and I forsee that it will benefit me. Thanks for the nice post.
Thanks Tarun, your site is lovely!
Thanks very much for providing useful information.
I will use this techniques to optimize my site named
Thanks Joe, it is a bit of a 'work in progress' and I am making changes all the time - but it is great to have a plan to start with!
Hands down this is the best article that I have read on setting up a backlinking strategy. The information presented is very understandable, especially for beginners like myself. I can't wait to put your technique to use. I'll most definitely be bookmarking your hub.
Great information Alison. I could definitely use this as I just started out. Thanks!
Great advice for someone just starting out. Thanks so much for sharing!
Very informative hub, well written. As a newbie to all of this, I will try some of your suggestions.
Hi Romano, you are absolutely right! I have facebook and twitter incorporated into my posterous autoposting so my accounts there get updated with whatever I am promoting!
How about Facebook and Twitter? I can't stop sharing it or tweeting it. It's the best back links, so far!
Thank you Greg, I really appreciate you leaving a comment here. Rhisam, thanks too for leaving a comment - I am sorry for the delay in replying.
Voted up.
Some of the most solid info I've found.
great hub alison
Good luck with your hubbing, glad to hear that you have drawn the same conclusions as myself with regard to backlinks building. With regard to choosing niches or micro niches, I have chosen to build websites rather than creating them here on hubpages. So far that strategy is turning out to be more profitable - but a lot of work!
Excellent hub, I have learned all of this through experimenting myself and stealing snippets from other experienced hubbers like yourself.
It goes without saying you really have to productive and be prepared to do a lot of writing and reading. I love the spreadsheet idea and in fact I though about doing this for myself just to keep track and record my backlinks.
I love seekyt, mainly because the content gets indexed within 24 hours and provides an unusually high serps
ranking for new content.
The only thing I would add is that you be selective with your chosen nich, or rather micro niche. Hubpages is a perfect platform for micro niche marketing where you target very narrow niche markets which don't have overwhelming competition, of course this means selecting the right keyword phrase.
After reading your hub I feel I'm travelling in the right direction.
All the Best!
Hi Deidre, welcome to HubPages and I look forward to reading more of your hubs as you publish them.
Brilliant tips Alison - bookmarked!
Thanks for your comment on my backlink strategy hub Philuc
I have bookmarked your hub as it is full of information - I also like the fact that you add updates. Please continue to do so and thanks for sharing.
Hi Patkay, I would be interested to hear what you think of Social Monkee and the results you get as I only know a few people using it so far. It seems good - although I only have the free membership at the moment.
Thanks alot Alison Graham. I have started experimenting on Social Monkee. Hope it works fine.
Thanks Patkay, hope you find it useful.
That is great information you have offered. Thanks for sharing.
Saving this one. Valuable info. Thanks.
Wow! You offer a wealth of information! Thank you for sharing. I have bookmarked this...looking forward to future blogs.
Very comprehensive, informative article. Thanks!
Thank you onenewbrazil, you have some really great hubs - I am looking forward to reading more.
Nice content. I hope it help me grow my hub. Thanks.
bgamall, thanks for your comment, pleased to hear about your success with twitter - I always publish comments! (unless they're spam!)
FYI, and you don't have to publish this, spinning is just now frowned upon by Google, FYI. Also, I have a better success with twitter with hashtags and with posting on a high traffic site (I write for Business Insider) than I did with IM Automator. I think it helped some but I don't use it any more out of the fear factor. Nice reading your information, Alison. Take care.
thank you saintodd for your comment. I am very behind with my hubpages writing and will be getting back to writing more very soon. I hope that the information here will be helpful to you as you grow your hubpages presence.
Voted up and ranked. It took me twice as long to get to the bottom of the comment link then it did to read your article. What an amazing response. I enjoyed your post, I've book marked it and will continue to use it as I build my hubpages. I've been trying to come up with a system to stream line my backlinks etc. I've just recently joined HubPages and I've come to learn that it's the Hubbers who have a long term focus that are successful. Thanks for giving me a great tool, this hub, to work from. Keep writing. saintodd
Excellent hub! I really thank you for sharing these important IM strategies. I must admit I'm kind of lazy to put important IM notes in a notepad, word, or spreadsheet. Thanks again, I think I really have to fix my IM strategies.
Thanks Doc for your comment, as mentioned above, there is an update in the pipeline! Alison
This was the hub I kept returning too when trying to get my head around the basics of backlinking. I'm not there yet but at least I've made some progress. Thanks Alison.
creating backlinks is something that I have been doing a lot of lately, there is a new hub in the pipeline! Thanks for your comment Donna.
Thank you for the helpful link on creating backlinks. I also use a spreadsheet to organize my backlinks, and I am always looking for more ways to promote my articles. Thank you for your insightful hub.
I have not heard of Seekyt. I hope this site can last long, so that it becomes an authority site.
wow, great hub with lots of interaction. I have been trying to find places to post my links and decided to make a forum to post free links to all referral and affiliate sites. Thanks for all the Info.
Treasuresofheaven, thanks os much for your kind comment - hope you get lots of increased traffic - don't forget to check your article stats to see where your traffic is coming from and use the information.
Loads of good information here. Thanks, I will bookmark this. I am working on increasing traffic to my Hubs.
bitzli, you are very welcome and, WELCOME to Hubpages too!
Thanks for the hint on the Firefox add on. Great tool. I heard about it but never got to try it.
thanks creativelycc. With regard to the spreadsheet, I am now experimenting with using the spreadsheet in google docs - this way I can access the information from any computer. Another good thing about using a spreadsheet is that it is really satisfying ticking things off as you do them. It's a nice feeling!
Excellent hub Alison, I learned much. Particularly liked the idea of using a spread sheet for organization. That is my number one problem, not having a good organization system with my hubs. I'll refer to this hub from time to time to get on gear with organization. Thank you very much!
Thanks cillam, hope you find it helpful.
This is really good info thanks.
Thanks fresh2def05, that's very kind of you, thanks for the follow too!
This is probably the best hub I've read on back linking. A wealth of information and very well put together. Voted up, bookmarked and I'm now following you! Thanks again.
thanks Kirt, let me know how you get on with your backlinking strategy.
Sorry, realized I wasn't signed in....Still my hero. You have really great content and I am learning from each of your hubs. Thank you.
You're my hero.
Hey thanks Ironracer - you are very welcome. Let me know how you get on! :0)
What a wealth of great information! Thanks for putting all this together in such a clear and thorough manner. You rock :) Cheers.
Thank you Roffi, let me know how you get on - it would be great to hear. Alison
this is a very informative hub! I guess i should try steps above to increase traffic to my hubs. Thanks!
Thanks Autumn Lynn, the thing is to just try and do a little bit at a time, I found that I got overwhelmed and ended up doing nothing but as soon as I started taking a little step forward, everything started falling into place. I cannot recommend Shane Melaugh's Backlink Battleplan too highly if you want sound advice (link on my profile page and this hub)
This hub has great information. A little overwhelming for me still but you are the first person to break it down so completely which is so helpful. Thank you. I am hoping as I start to develop a backlinking plan everything will start to sink in. Best of luck to you with all your projects.
Thank you Tammy L, glad you found the information useful, I can definitely recommend Shane Melaugh's Backlink Battleplan Course if you want to learn more about building backlinks without having to spend more money on software as the course only uses free resources.
Very informative, Alison. Thank you. I knew backlinking was quite a bit of work but you make it not so overwhelming.
Thanks Katie, will take a look at Free Traffic Systems - thanks for the tip.
Great information that you have shared with us all here, I will like to send you a special "thank you". The internet is a great tool and I appreciate all of us that are able to give eachother a helping hand, as well as some great tips. I use IMAutomator and love it. I also use Free Traffic Systems which is rather very similar to it. I am going to give a few of the other things a try here that you have suggested. Thanks again
thanks aneesharyan, from looking at your profile and who you are following, it is certain that you have learned a lot here on hubpages already - but you do not have to be perfect before you write your first hub, you can always go back in and edit it when you learn something new that will improve it or a new tweak that might help it to do better in the search engines or with adsense. I am eager to read your first hub and I look forward to you publishing it!
Outstanding hub, this is indeed a Mecca of information for the newbies like me.
Thanks a zillion
swoopo, thanks for your comment, please see my reply chinemeremz above regarding twitter - I have not used voonee (yet!!!!)
Chinemeremz, thank you so much for your lovely comment - a great suggestion to create an ebook, thank you.
There is another update to this post, talking about using Amplify. I have created an Amplify account, set up other accounts within it, including Friendfeed and my Posterous account - I share the hub URL with Amplify and then it automatically shares with the other accounts, shares with Posterous and all the accounts I have got set up to autopost with posterous (including twitter) - this method has really given my traffic a big boost!
also register on twitter and voonee that way your twitter and voonee account will be indexed into search engine make sure you add your links in your profiles
Hi Allison, there seems to be nothing to say as regards how excellent this hub is, one of the best I've read in a long while.
It'll take me a couple of months to assimilate everything.
If I might add or is it suggest, don't you think you should compile this info in ebook format and place it on ebook directories where users can download it for free?
This is so because this info can go more viral, and come to think of it useful information like this written in clear terms are hard to come by these days.
One more thing, you did not add friendfeed.com's service, where you can parse multiple feeds from sites where you write on a single interface.
Thanks Allison, you are one hell of a genius.
Hi douglas, I use IMAutomator to automate the social bookmarking side of things - everything else is done manually by me. I prefer to remain in control of the process - the brilliant thing is that I have found is, that some of my hubs have been linked to by other sites and articles promoting my hubs have been republished, gaining me links I did not have to create myself!
great article I to use the spread sheet. I find by using the spread sheet i can accurately keep track of what i am doing but i am not in to the automated process i still spend lots of time looking for good places to link from. thanks for the the info
Hi Rebecca, you beat me to it, I have been planning an update to this Hub to include Bukisa as I am now posting to Bukisa and getting good rankings (and a few pennies!)
Alison-- I found that works well for bukisa and it is quick, and you do make money as a result ( per qualified page impressions...) great idea.
Thanks Indika for your kind comment, glad you found the information on creating a backlink strategy to drive more traffic to hubpages articles helpful.
Very valuable information. Bookmarked for further reference. Thank you!
Good hub.
A few months back I replaced all my affiliate links with direct links as I had reason to believe that Google would not favor affiliate links well enough to index them. Of course I could be wrong.
If I find any info on this topic I shall be back.
Cheers. :)
Gratitude for so much info, loads of beneficial words.
Good tips upon back linking.
Thanks so much cluense,glad you found the information useful. I have been away on holiday and have got some catching up to do with my hubpages writing!
Awesome Hub! I rated it up a notch! Keep on writing! This information was so useful! Thank You!
quicksand, I have to be honest and say I am unable to answer your question as I do not have enough knowledge. I do not think that this would be the case but I cannot give you hard facts to verify this - it would be a good question to ask in the HP forums!
AllieRambles, thanks for your comment and sorry for the delay in replying, glad you have found the info helpful.
eddgrr, thanks for your comment, glad you found the nodofollow addon useful.
Thanks Alison. What I meant to ask was, do you think search engines will identify them as two different links although they both will cause the very same page to launch?
quicksand, you are no doubt referring to redirects. Many sites will not allow the inclusion of your referrel code in a link as it is viewed as an affiliate link so for this reason, I usually leave it out now when backlinking except when bookmarking on some social bookmarking sites.
I am new to hubpages and your article has helped me to learn : 1. I am not the only one that feels overwhelmed by backlinking, whoo! and 2. how to organize my sites and backlinks. Thanks for all the help.
Thanks for this well detailed article. However I have been under the impression that it was unwise to forward the link that points to a particular hubpage with the referral element, when attempting to build backlinks.
Amazing article. Very useful especially the note on the firefox addon!
Thank you stazstaz, glad to hear you found the info. helpful.
Great hub I found it very helpful, thanx!
I must say thanks for this hub. I am researching on how to increase traffic and I found your hub interesting. I have posterous and digg too. I will try shetoldme one of these days.
Thanks so much Grills Guy for the vote up and glad you found the information useful.
Awesome hub. Bookmarked and voted way up. Thanks for the useful information in this hub.
Hi AliciaC, thank you for your kind comments. Having recently read a Hub by Misha, I am now starting to backlink some of my back links so I may have to update my hub in light of this!
Thanks for a very informative article. I've bookmarked it so that I can read it several times and try to assimilate all your hints! I'm looking for additional ways to promote my online writing, so this article will be very helpful. I do use a spreadsheet to organize my backlinks, but you've given me ideas for improving it.
Thanks melbel, glad you found it helpful.
I am going to do this with each of my hubs. I appreciate the information you've offered. I see that the sites you recommend have a referral url attached to them, thus I WILL be joining under you... it's the least I could do for the advice you've offered. I'll be checking back for updates to this post. Also, thank you for the spreadsheet advice. I usually do the spreadsheet thing as I am an ummmmm stickler for keeping things on my computer organized. I have developed a similar system for back linking when I do this with my blogs. Thanks again!
Great information but very annoying adverts!
Nikki, thanks for your comment, glad you are enjoying using posterous - I love the fact that I can just email my post in and automatically add other sites and blogs to put the same link back to my hub on too! WoodsmensPost, you are going to love Posterous! Congratulations again on your 30 hubs in 30 days, you have shamed me into trying to increase my output!
Hi Alison, I came across this hub doing a search for ezine, much to my surprise there was a lot more information. I bookmarked Posterous to look at later. Thanks for writing and such a very helpful hub!!
I saved this hub as a reference for me as I endeavor to build backlinks. Thanks to you I'm loving Posterous!
Thank you for your comment Bladesoul. I have listed hubs on jumptags in the past but I have had to restrict the number of places I link to. I am now looking into building links to my links to make them a) more credible and b) permanent!
Great info in here Alison, makes learning much easier for the rest of us newbie’s. Will definitely fellow many of them and you got yourself a tossup fan too. I also found jumptags very helpful with my big portfolio of 3 hubs;) both for backlinks and in google search results as well, I don't know your opinion on that. Again thanks for the great tips.
Thanks for your comment theinfoninja, glad you found the info helpful.
I'm new to hub pages and this is just what I needed. Thanks for so much information.
Thanks for your comment, hope your hubpages promotion goes well, I loved the hub on halloween face painting.
Very useful information, thanks for putting this together and sharing with us, Alison. I'm really working on my promotion and this has given me some helpful additional pointers.
Hi Pro Design Source. You could include your URL tracker in an external link to your own hub in case there was an opportunity to earn if the person who used your link then went on to other hubs and generated revenue through adsense there.
With regard to the URL tracker in an RSS feed, I think that is a question for the forums - I think you could but wonder if it would be rejected on submission as this could be seen as a 'redirect'
Alison - Is there a way to insert your URL tracker to an RSS feed? (if you have more than just your articles in the rss feed)
Is it necessary to use your url tracker to link to your own hubs?
Thanks for publishing these awesome articles!
wow, this is really helpful
hi wicklesscandles, thanks for your comment, I will be revising this hub many times, I think, as my strategy develops.
This was very helpful. I tried to put a strategy together, but it was kind of hit and miss. This is much better and keeps you focused on what works.
Hi Cemil thanks for your comment and I just read your first hub - great information and a good read, thanks.
Hi Alison, thanks for the detail provided and also the great tools to help us newbies. I will be checking each one out to get some traffic.
Ella, thanks for your comment, glad you found it helpful, let me know how you get on.
Great information, a lot of help, thank you
blastoffgirl123, good luck with your site, hope the link helps! mcwriter, hitalot and sid_candid, thanks so much for taking the time to leave a comment, it is really appreciated and encourages me to write more!
Enjoyed the article great ideas for backlinks. Thank you Alison.
Hi Alison,
Great article. I can't wait to follow the steps for my own projects.
Thanks.
Thank you I have much to learn !
A really helpful and informative hub. Thanks a lot Alison.
thank you alison I did just that, we shall see...lol
Thanks Cy, glad you found it helpful
Excellent information!
Thanks for your comments Les Trois Chenes and Top Icon. Starreviewer, I had not heard anything like that about Delicious, thanks for your comment.
Looks like delicious has stopped taking new accounts. The information provided here is excellent. Will try some of the info. provided here. Thanks for sharing.
What a fascinating and useful hub! I am doing some of the things you suggest, but I am now going to improve them, as this sure is like a Battle!
Style is very impressive, I like your sharing. Thank you
Feel as if I need to do a degree in backlinking! Many thanks for all this information.
dawnM, I have not written an article on backlink checking but you can go to www.iwebtool.com/backlink_checker and put in the address of your hubpages URL as it appears in your browser window (without the http://) and it will tell you how many links you have and where they are but this can be misleading as links sometimes take a long time to show up.
Thanks for sharing,,, i like your way to promote your hub, it is briliant.
thank-you great information, i dont know how to do the tracking of the backlink do you have an article on that?
Thank you Pamela, I am glad to hear you found it helpful and thanks for the follow!
Yours is the most informative and easy to read hub I have read here with all the information I need for now in one place. And you're pretty new here so it amazes me. Thank you for all of this information. Rating this up and I'll be following you. Aloha.
Wow, thank you Bard of Ely for your kind comment and the encouragement.
MKayo, thanks for your comment, the brain cramp sounds familiar! Glad you found the information helpful.
Alison, this hub is so informative and well put together, it is easily one of the best I have seen on this topic! I think I need to sit down and start applying some of your tips here that I am not already using! Voted up of course!
Just started my own blog,hubpages and more so i need to get building some backlinks ASAP and this hub offers some great advice on doing just that!
great hub!
Lee
So sorry - I just realized I misspelled your name in my comment - only one "L" - Thank you, Alison.
Allison, great Hub. I think I have a severe brain cramp after trying to cram all that info into my head. I have been on HubPages for about 5 months, but only started making Hubs in the last 2-3 weeks. Your Hub was just what I needed - Thank You!
M
Thanks chardee and Mr Wine, please check out the update I have just added about using Posterous for backlinks.
Great tips here Alison and thanks for showing some great examples. Being a newbie its good to get some real info on how to improve hubs.
I really like the diversity of your backlinking plan. I've joined some groups that use a spreadsheet to keep track of their backlinks and it can be very effective.
Thanks so much for your comment and the encouragement. Funnily enough, there is such a hub in the planning at the moment and it should be ready in a couple of weeks! I wish I had thought of calling it a cyber-dictionary though, that's brilliant!
Many thanks Alison - I'm completely new to all of this - basically just wanted to write hubs but now realise that without taking certain actions no-one will read them! Simply writing hubs doesn't do it.
Your information is excellent and excellently presented - many thanks - don't suppose you've written a 'cyber-dictionary' as well for help with terminology!!? Yeh ok, enough already!!
Great hub alison. Writing hubs is only part of the battle, but what people don't understand is a hub ranks high on it's own but with the right number of backlinks to them you can get your hubs on the first pages of the serps.
Thanks Revrave - you will find some really useful hubs on RSS - I especially encourage you to read the one by Sunforged - and Benjamin, thanks for the vote up and glad you have found the info helpful.
Great hub Alison! I'm definitely bookmarking this to run through it many times over.One of the best I've seen on breaking it down to understandable terms for us beginners.Rated up and useful and becoming a fan. I'm sure I'll be able to find many more nuggets of wisdom in your works!
I...have...so much to leeearn. I'm going to really need your hubs.I basically press on the rss submit and i don't know where that mystery button go or does. I'm going to book mark your hub and learn off of it. Cross my fingers, Great hub by the way:)
Kiwi91, thanks for the info and your comment.
I use a lot of these same methods. I don't spend a lot of time social bookmarking just because in the years I've been doing it, rarely does it pan out. It's more of a "who you know" type of thing with most of those websites.
My biggest sources of traffic have been from outside links linking into the hub from blogs and other web 2.0 sites. Good advice!
good info
thanks seller35, I am glad to hear you found the information helpful.
Thanks for a great article. I am using the info!
Thank you dana, you will find hubs by sunforged, Ryankett and edweirdo hugely helpful.
I am excited to read all your hubs (this is the first one I've been to). I am in the process of trying to absorb as much as I can about backlinking and promoting!
Thank you Medical Writer.
Very good set of tips. I must read and then join some of these sites.
hi Alison,
Thanks for your reply. I'll have to take another look at bookmarking, and at the specific sites you mention.
I agree that some bookmarking is of low value but on the other hand, it does have benefit from some sites - for example shetoldme and xomba where a) it is likely to get you a google ranking b) there is revenue sharing from adsense or c) from sites like Redgage and Delicious that bring quite a bit of traffic. I have also been reading that there is merit in getting no-follow bookmark or comment backlinks as if every single link you ever got was do-follow it would create an unnatural profile - but I am still trying to work that one out(?)
hi Alison,
Wow. Monster size hub!
I've read that bookmarking doesn't have much effect (of course, I know one shouldn't believe everything one reads on the internet), but you list is as one of your main methods. How effective do you think it is (compared to other methods) and have you ever been able to measure it's effectiveness? Thanks for a great hub. Steve
Hi Don, I have emailed you about this.
Thanks, Alison and Sylvie. I'll read the Hub, Alison, but it also sounds like each individual Hub can be submitted. Correct, I understand that once a url has been submitted it cannot be re-submitted. I appreciate the time you've taken both in writing this Hub and answering comments, Alison.
Thanks for that Sylvie, that's that misunderstanding cleared up!
Every page of your website will also have a different URL so u can submit each one. What I thought Glassy was suggesting was to submit each URL 15 times by changing the title and description. That won't work but it sounds like I misunderstood.
Hi Don, once an RSS feed has been submitted to a site, you usually cannot resubmit it (it comes up already in directory). Your new hubs will be inside the RSS feed when anyone looks at it. A way of using RSS to promote old hubs is to take a look at this hub http://hubpages.com/hub/HubPages-Promotion-RSS-Fee - create topic based RSS feeds, use that topic as a keyword in each of those hubs and use that keyword in a new RSS feed to submit (dont worry, the hub explains it much better than I just did!)
I'm going to ask a dumb question -- but I'm asking!!! I've submitted to a few of the RSS sites that Sunforged has listed. Do I have to resubmit each time I publish a new Hub, if I originally submitted my profile? Maybe I've missed the answer here or on his . . . and it might have to do with the way to submit old Hubs on the RSS feed.
Goodpal thanks for your comment, glad you found it helpful. Emma, glad to hear the spreadsheet has speeded things up for you too, it also means that if you have a spare moment you can add bookmarks to other sites quite quickly.
Alison, I had to come back to let you know that I followed your advice on making a spreadsheet with the list of hubs, URLs, and so on. I have no idea why I haven't made it earlier or come to that idea myself. But, it made my job lot easier and submitting my articles to bookmarking sites is now so easy.
Thanks once again!
I think I am still under a heavy dose of information overload. But your suggestion on "having a plan" is the real antidote to confusion and mental paralysis.
Incidentally, just last week I started to use facebook and linkedin networking sites and am still trying to understand the best ways to use such sites for marketing hubs.
Many of your suggestions in this hub have given me much clarity and a "plan" to get started with link building. Being an absolute dummy in the art of link building, I will be keenly following your hubs.
Thanks very much.
Hi Glassy, I think we all agree with what you say about 'spam' - I think Sylvie has been talking about hubpages and of course each hub only has one URL so can only be submitted once via IMA.
In response to some comments here about SEO, yes im sure that when you bookmark your site, it will count as a link in some way or another, even if its - no follow or takes forever to get indexed, but i just wanted to recommend participating in these sites, even if you just do it once after you leave your bookmark.
This very site is a perfect example of a site which you must participate in to have a high score and keep those backinks, or am i wrong here?
I encourage Sylvie Strong to try and submit another page other than the index page in Im-Automator and tell me that it doesn't work. It works but some sites - not all, say duplicate url if it has already been submitted before and it wont go through for that day. Remember that there are 53 sites that the automator submits to and if it tries to submit to the same site and doesn't work, then it will move on to another site the next day.
And i agree that submitting your site to the same bookmarking site can be spammy, but if you use another page with a different description, then this makes it less spammy. Mixx is a perfect example of a bookmarking site that allows multiple pages of the same domain but not the same page twice.
Ok, i have fired the debate on this, correct me if im wrong, im learning just like everyone else.
thank you evilia_lim for your comment, glad you found the info helpful, wannabwestern, thanks so much and if linking to my hubs brings you some revenue, then I will be VERY happy too!! I don't think anyone could do better than to read the hubpages hubs of sunforged, ryankett and edweirdo also has a great hub about RSS
Sylvie, Glassy may have a strategy for IMAutomator, but it is not mine - I set it, forget it and treat it as a bonus - because of the weak dollar I have got it locked in at a price of £18 per month and this seems good value to me, especially as this price is going to remain at that for the lifetime of my membership. With regard to editing submissions, if you try to submit the same URL again, as you know, you get an error message but you can edit both the title and the description - I don't bother with this at the moment but there is going to be a 'spinner' function in the future that will allow titles and description to be changed for each submission. I also agree with you about the bookmarks - it is not the case that they 'disappear' - although I have not been able to establish whether any revert to 'no follow' - however, many of the early sites that IMAutomator submitted to are now no longer in existence. Thanks for your great comment and I absolutely agree the strategy for IMA should be absolutely that, submit, forget, move on!
Thank you Rudra, I agree with what you say about the sites that IMAutomator submits to at the present time but, they are investigating submitting to what they term 'more mainstream' sites as part of the coming improvements to the service.
This informational article has inspired a lot of newbies, but it has helped me, a "seasoned" hubber too. I must confess I had been thinking of writing a similar article covering the basics of using RSS feeds, but your information and research on the topic is so well-done that I think I'll just skip it and send folks to you, using my URL tracker, of course. ;) I'm glad to have found your very informative articles here and will be signing up as a fan at once! I'm going to give some of your backlinking strategies a try, and re-read Sunforged's hub on RSS feeds. Regards!
Thank you for such a wonderful article. You are so generous in sharing your knowledge to all of us, which is very helpful and informative especially newbie like me. This article has opened my mind indeed :) All the best !
I must question Glassy's SEO advice. On what basis do you say that a bookmarking site will not provide you a backlink or make their site no-follow unless you get a vote from another member? I have never heard of any site doing that. Many of them certainly tire of people that spam them with bookmarking lots of their own sites, but they do not turn your backlink credit on and off for each particular user. I think the reason you are not seeing your backlinks appear is because they have not been indexed...that has nothing to do with whether someone else votes for your bookmark. They might ban you altogether...and this is why some hubbers suggest bookmarking sites you don't control as well.
Getting a friend to vote for your bookmark can be a strategy, but not for backlinks. The reason you might do this is to increase the bookmark's prominence on the site and drive traffic to it. People do this on Digg sometimes. The disadvantage of this strategy is that traffic from bookmarking sites is of low quality. This is why we generally use them mostly for the backlink. And for that purpose, having a second vote makes no difference. I also don't entirely understand Glassy's bookmarking strategy with IM Automator. That doesn't mean it is wrong...I just don't get it. IM Automator restricts you to one submission per URL. So if you change the description of a page, and submit it, IM Automator will not accept it. It is also an incredibly bad idea to try to submit the same URL more than once to a bookmarking site. Most will not even allow it but even the ones that do will see it as the spam it truly is. So IM Automator's restriction on multiple submissions of the same URL is really saving you from yourself.
I apologize if I misunderstand your strategy though...maybe you are suggesting something else. I think people sometimes put disproportionate effort into strategies that do not give them much link juice. Use IM Automator to get your free backlinks and move on. Don't waste a lot of time fine-tuning descriptions or anything else. That is time you can use getting other high quality backlinks from article directories or other social bookmarking. You could also just write another hub.
Definitely the best article I have read so far as link building is concerned. I had a look at some of the sites imautomator send to, it seems of low quality and it seems expensive. But its definitely worth exploring the idea.
Thank you writing comprehensively about this.
Thanks Patrick, thanks Dee for the follow, pakpub, glad you found it useful and Shawn,thanks - I did not know that IMAutomator were not taking any new paid members at the moment - you may be interested in trying out Backlink Battleplan though - see the link in my hub above. I have learned so much from Shane Melaugh, the author - he is brilliant!
This is an awesome hub packed with great information on back linking. I am bookmarking this hub for sure. I use the free version of IMAutomator and it is excellent. IMAutomator is probably the easiest and most effective tool I use now. I wish they were accepting new paid members because I would sign up for the service. I haven't used Xomba or She Told Me yet, but I am going to look into these services as well. Thanks for sharing this valuable information.
This hub provides a lot of helpful information. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Alison for such a well written and informative hub. I am in the beginning stages looking for information and often feeling over whelmed. I so appreciate your not using techy type lingo and speaking down to earth to us beginners and taking the time to share such a wealth of information. I have paid you back in the best way I can. I am following you and will start to add links to other "high quality hubs" immediately. lol Once again tu. Dee
Allison, You have a wealth of information here. It's making my head spin with information overload. I'll have to come back and go through it again when I have more time to digest more fully.
I commend you for applying yourself as you have. Glad it's paying off for you also.
I'm editing my first hub so I"m hoping to see some traffic. I'll include you as one of my favorites.
All the best
Hi Don, Thank you for your comment and your encouragement which I value greatly coming from you. Secondly, the reason I go into such depth is that I am a complete Newbie to all this and I found it hard to understand things. My career experience has taught me that the saying 'if you do not understand something, it is not your fault, it is the fault of the person who explained it to you' really holds true - so I try to break things down step by step so I could understand it if I was reading it for the first time!!
Alison, you cover some basics that I've read times before . . . but you go to such wonderful depth!!! Thanks so much for writing this. For us writers who are looking to write and do backlinks for companies, i.e. commercial!, this is quite a useful Hub. I've been wanting to do a directory specific to SoCal . . . and you've inspired me. Nice theme on your article directory. Thanks again for the wonderful info.
Andy, thanks so much for your comment and the encouragement.
That I have to say is one awesome hub and made me realise that I not only need to get up of my backside when it comes to promoting my hubpages, but also articles I write on my own site. Many thanks ... Andy
Thank you Jill and prasetio30, hope implementing the system brings you good results.
Thanks for share this information, very informative and valuable for me. I learn much from this hub. Excellent, my friend. You brought happiness to us. Vote this Up.
Prasetio
Wow! This is so thorough and helpful. I am coming back to read more so I can start using your system.
Rated up and useful!
Thank you very much for sharing!
thanks pt21 and glassy - thank you for your further comment and clarification. I will investigate!
Some of the bookmarking sites are trying to stop spammers from just posting their link and not interacting in the site in any way and i have noticed that some don't show up as backlinks unless there are more then one vote.
Some are also nofollow and the reason they do this, is because they get fed up with the spam.
So in order to maximize your chance of getting your link counted and to make sure it stays that way for some time, i would recommend trying to get more than 1 vote, or voting on other peoples bookmarks so that you are more active in the site and have a less chance of being cleaned out if the webmaster gets sick of the spam, because after all, quality websites want active users and not one off spammers who drop their link and never return.
Great hub and thanks for the information, there are a lot of things to keep me busy here!
Emma, Lionel and Steph, thanks so much for commenting - Glassy thanks for this insight but I am intrigued by what you say about the more votes your bookmark has, the more likely you are to get a backlink. Surely if your link is on the site, it is a backlink however many votes it has (or do they revert to no-follow if no-one votes for them?)
This is very informative and useful for newcomers like me. I am looking forward to read all your related hubs.
Awesome job..
It seems that some people here have no idea on how to submit their sites properly to IM Automator. The system is great, you just have to know how to use it.
Write a title and description for your home page, then do the same for 10 other sub-pages, making sure that the titles are all different.
Select the submit once per day over a period of 15 days (Don't get greedy and try and submit the same title over and over to all 15 at once) this wont work because the titles are all the same and its duplicate content all at once (Google hates this)
Now, every 24 hours, go into your descriptions and change the titles of all 10 of your pages and do this for 15 days.
Oh and another tip, go and log in to these bookmarking sites, using your own password and user name, so you can vote on your own site. The more votes a site has, the more chance of getting a backlink.
Well researched and explained - you have some excellent tips on creating backlinks that should definitely help people drive traffic. It does take some work, true, but the end result is that more people will read your hubs - what we all want, right?
Thanks Alison. This is a great and informative overview of the reasons that we need to back link and work the Hubs that we write. It's work! But I agree with you that organization and strategy is key - a plan is almost never a bad thing!
Alison, this is great and very useful hub. I also use those bookmarking sites you mentioned and I will use your too.
Thank you for sharing your personal experience with us, this is very valuable information which I hope will help me have more success with what I do right now.
Thank you for your comment rcmwealth2day - I think that was the trouble with me too, I got so overwhelmed thinking there was so much to do, I found it hard to get started - it was much easier once I had a plan!
Great Hub. I bookmarked it for future reference. Too much good info to take in all at once. I need to organize my back linking process because sometimes I just get so overwhelmed.
Keep up the great work!
kiigeorge, I have not investigated Facebook biz - it is now on my list! I agree absolutely with what you say about information hubs and selling hubs being very different and yes, I am depending on adsense revenue almost exclusively. I have tried to write a coupld of selling hubs but find it very hard!
Thank you Boomer and Besthubs. Ingenira, I am absolutely delighted to hear this, well done!
I followed some of your tips, and the traffic to my hubs have really increase immediately. Thanks !
Wow, I want to start a hub similar like this but you make the good hub already, so I had no choice and find a new subject to write. Thanks for sharing.
Super Hub Alison! Definitely worth bookmarking. Your backlink strategy is one that I definitely plan on using. Thanks so much for explaining how to create the RSS feed for certain keywords. I was lost as to how to do this. You explained it perfectly. Thanks again!
Hi again Alison. Ive just voted you up .. you definitly deserve it for this effort.
Ive also noted you've said " but I am not getting that many clicks - I will keep working at making my hubs better!"
wonder what you can do about that. Nelle and others distinguish between "information" hubs, blogs, websites etc, and "selling" hubs, blogs, websites.
For information hubs all your going to earn is adsense revenue. For Selling hubs, one has to actually learn how to write to sell, from what ive read on the subject, which is another skill again.
Excellent article Allison. Full of precise info. and outline of the process. Im too new to contribute much in the way of experience but wanted to say how much i appreciated this hub. How are Facebook biz pages working for you as a promotional strategy by the way? ive just been reading about that aspect of Facebook.
Nice hub!
Thanks for the information. I am going to try some of the stuff you mention.
Thank you Andrew - Sunforged has so many interesting and informative hubs.
Well written hub. I love your outlined HubPages Backlink strategy to drive traffic especially using RSS Feeds, your recommended link on the same by SunForged is quite useful about RSS Feeds. I've heard a lot good about She Told Me, I've got to start using it now. Thanks.
multimastery, thank you so much for the encouragement!
Wow Alison, you really put your heart & soul into writing this hub! You might be relatively new here, but you have a wealth of knowledge to share. I will bookmark this hub and Rate Up. You have just earned yourself an instant fan!-)
Thanks for your comment TattoGuy, I have just spent a good part of the morning practising what I preach - catching up on my backlinking!
Voted up and awesome, I use a lot of these but as I always say, you learn something new everyday and I have, am printing this out as I type, cheers moi friend for sharing yer tips !
Grate hub. Bookmarked for further reference
Thanks for your comments Sylvie - with regard to my article directory, I only registered the domain at the end of May and started work on it about a month ago so it is PR0. I want original content because I cannot cope with a large quantity of submissions and want to retain editorial control to accept or reject.
dubturbo, thanks for your comment too and I would say that the backlinking is vital, it may be boring but it has to be done and I have found little and often is the best way!
I signed up for the free IMAutomator service. It takes only a few minutes to schedule submissions to 15 random social bookmarking websites. But the bookmarking sites are relatively unknown at least to me. The only exception was Mister Wong but that was in beta testing so I think there is no chance it will be one of the random sites picked. I guess one would have to submit that one manually for now. The service also does warn or indicate the limits to the length of the title and the description fields. So I think lengthy text might get truncated at the bookmarking sites without you knowing. If you knew in advance, you could at least change or adjust your title and description.
Thanks Alison for recommending this service so I can backlink my first hub automatically. I find the manual process boring and time consuming.
Alison, I looked at your article directory and it looks promising. I am curious about the PR of the domain. Your submission of the articles to 47 sites using IM Automator is a good service for sure. The one downside for me is that you require original content...I normally publish my original content on Ezinearticles or Buzzle and then syndicate it to other directories that accept duplicate content if you are the author. Good luck.
Alison, thank you for an informative hub. I too have been using ImAutomator (the free version). I believe the service is currently closed to new paying members. But before I become a paying member I would need to have a better understanding of the benefit from the site. IMAutomator is incredibly fast and easy to use, and you can throw 15 bookmarks at anything...your hubpages, your websites, your articles on article directories, etc. But IMAutomator will not tell you the PR of the sites they are submitting to. They say this is because PR is a constantly shifting metric...but that isn't precisely true. PR remains static until the next big Google revision and it would not be hard for the site to disclose the PRs of the sites it is currently submitting to. I like using IMAutomator because it takes little effort and I might as well because it is free...but am glad to see that you see some benefit from it. Good luck with your article directory...I will go check it out. BTW, what is the PR of the domain of your directory? Thanks.
Thank you Alison for this nice hub. I am new here and new in SEO. So this hub definitely will help me a lot.
You are invited to my first hub. Thanks again.
I'm so with the Twitter thing, besides commenting part as a part of an enjoyment to check out other cool hubs. Yours is cool too, hub up.:)
This hub is an awesome resource! Perfect for beginners like myself, especially those interested in driving traffic and backlinking. Really appreciate this info, thankyou Alison.
You do pretty well writing interesting hubs too.
Thanks Duane, glad you found it useful. Your blog is great too, will be checking back there. I am glad someone is promoting 'real' books - there is nothing like a good read - I am a Sherlock fan myself!
Your article is just...well, just so informative I can't even begin to think how to comment on how good it is, just such useful good information.
I especially like your beginning where you speak of getting the difficult,tedious tasks in a manageable context.
The excel spreadsheet to keep track of your links is awesome. What you reveal is subtle but very much a part of running any site and it can leave you frustrated and ultimately neglect and procrastination can set into this one "niche" of running your site or hubs or whatever kind of online presence you are maintaining.
I call all of this the "Social Tech" that so many do not like to deal with. I am a big champion of organization, especially on the net; you have to be...you just have to be.
Anyway Thanks for such a helpful article. I have definitely bookmarked this in my SEO file.
Uzdawi and Keith, thanks so muh for your kind comments, keep me posted on how you get on!
I love an action plan and you have the best one I have ever seen for backlinking. This hub is now bookmarked.
One of the best articles I have red in a long time:).Thank You very much for this great hub!
Thank you for your comment - onwards and upwards then!
You are so smart by having a plan. It makes a lot of sense. Like you, I felt so bogged down, but not that a plan is in order, things are going much smoother. Thank you for sharing and the tips too!
lender3212000 thanks for your comment which I value and am glad of the encouragement!
Richard, thanks so much for your comment, it means a lot coming from you! Thanks too for your great blog which is so packed full of useful information including the free backlinking guide pdf download!
Outstanding hub! This is one of the better resources I've seen on the topic here in a long time. Nicely done!
Wow, lots of good stuff here. I've bookmarked this hub for future reference. I plan to apply some of your strategy to my hubs. Keep up the good work!
Thanks for your comment dubturbo. Regarding IMAutomator, and duplicate content, they are working on an upgrade that will allow submission of different titles and descriptions that will be rotated but as far as your creating links for your hubpages content is concerned, you should ensure that you do not copy a paragraph out of your hub as your link description. I have read lots of conflicting things about duplicate content so I would not be able to advise you either way.
I normally don't use bookmarking sites as I find the process rather dull. But I found your description of IMAutomator informative and might try it out, especially the free service because I can't seem to earn any decent income online. Thanks Alison for the recommendations.
I just saw the short video at IMAutomator and I think I will definitely try it out. But I guess as a free member, it will only submit to low PR social bookmarking sites. Do you know whether there is any problem with duplicate content using this tool? Because the title, description and tags are all the same for the sites submitted to. I think I read somewhere that you need to change or vary these when you submit to bookmarking sites to avoid duplicate content.
Thanks so much for the encouragement raisingme, it is really appreciated. All I need to find now is a magic formula that will make all these extra visitors decide to investigate the adverts and earn me some money! I try to make my content interesting and useful but I am not getting that many clicks - I will keep working at making my hubs better!
Wow, this is a great hub! You have come much farther than I have in my three months of "dithering around". Very impressive and I agree with growithyou that you have put a lot of effort into the writing of this hub. I have rated it up to. It is one of the best hubs on the topic of back linking that I have read to date. Well Done!
Alison your Hub is amazing. I think you've done a lot of effort writing it. Thanks a lot for sharing your marketing strategies. I rated it up.
Regards
thanks simonsofia, I read you first hub and found it helpful so glad to have been able to help you a little too! I look forward to reading your next one.
Hi Alison, thank you for such a great hub. I am just starting out and really required all this information. Thanks!!
Thanks Peter, I have found that the spreadsheet saves me a great deal of time (and typing!).
Thank You Alison, I enjoyed that. Some intersting avenues I have not explored at depth. I really will give the spreadsheet a go.
Thanks as your hubs are very informative and are helping me to get on my way here at hubpages. Sooner or later I guess I will find my own strategies.
Thanks so much for your comment KoffeeKlatch, I am glad you found the information useful. Since writing this, I have come across another great hub on the subject, with loads of useful links that you may find useful - http://hubpages.com/hub/Traffic-Websites - enjoy!
You have published this at just the right time for me. How did you know? Actually you have answered a lot of my questions and put new ones in their place. I am bookmarking and rating useful. Thanks
Thanks Billy, the spreadsheet idea really speeds things up, especially using it to copy and paste everything in to the bookmark you are creating. As I mentioned, I do try and vary my title and description a bit but it still saves a lot of time!
Alison there are so many great ideas here that I didn't know about - excel is a great idea.
Thank you fetty, hope the information is helpful.
I am in real need of all of this information. Your presentation is thorough and extensive. I thank you for your tips and the time it took to inform other hubbers. Great Hub!
Wow, Alison you really have put some thought into this. Hubbers should really take notice of this article. Why, because the more traffic you recieve the higher your conversion rate.
Well done Alison.
Here is my tip:
Create some free press releases,,,these are awsome traffic generators and backlink builders!
Marty Ware
The SEO DAD
Hi 5institutes, thanks for your comment, I agree that it is not easy to measure that metric on a site such as hubpages. All I can report is that my traffic is increasing and that I have checked a random selection of the sites for different submissions and found that my bookmark is there and that the links work. With regard to the spinning of content for submission, I believe I am correct in saying that this is one of the things that is 'in the pipeline'.
Your information is spot on. I've used IMAutomator on a website or two - I can't share your same opinion on the service (I was in on the Beta). There are a few things they could do to increase indexing, such as spinning content for submission.
I didn't see any backlinks generated from their service after using them for a month.
I wanted to ask you how you check your backlinks, if your hubs are actually getting any?
Do you check that metric? It's easy to do with a website that's self-hosted, but not on a web 2.0 property.
Anyhow, great tips, definitely educational!
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