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Hubpages – Benefits of using Hubpages

Hubpages provides many benefits. Web Design Companies and Search engine marketing experts have been talking about the advantages of using Hubpages for quite some time now. A recent report published by an independent Web Design Company in London found that a large percentage of successful search engine marketing strategies utilise popular networking websites such as Hubpages or Squidoo.

About Hubpages

Hupages is a popular networking website used for sharing information with others. Hubpages allows you to write articles on anything that if of interests to you. You can create a page on any topic you like and want to share with others. Hubpages also provides a number of tools knows as capsules that you can add to your page to improve its features and usability. This includes RSS feeds, Images, Links and even revenue sharing widgets from Amazon or eBay.

Hubpages is popular with internet users and is among the top visited websites. Its user base is increasing every month as more and more users create pages as well as use it as a source of information. A recent study has revealed that hubpages receives over 12 million visits per month.

How to use Hubpages

Creating a page on Hubpages is very easy and can be done in a few simple steps.  Registration on the website is required in order to publish content. Registration is free and quick.  Once you have registered on the website, you can log-in and create as many pages as you wish, ideally one for each topic of interest. A page that you create is known as ‘Hub’.

Main Benefits of using Hubpages:

• There are many benefits of using Hubpages. Some of them are discussed below:

• Hubpages provides access to a large audience as it is popular among internet users. It receives more than 12 million total monthly visits worldwide.

• Hubpages provides back linking opportunities for your website or blog. It is a common practice to place links to your other websites or blogs on the hubs you create.

• Increased traffic to your website or blog from links on Hubs. If you provide quality content on your hub, readers are likely to click through and visit the links to your website or blog.

• Hubpages can also be used to influence the Pagerank of your main website. Web designers and search engine marketing experts often use cross linking to pass link juice and page rank between sites.

• Hubpages are an excellent medium to promote your products or services.

• It can complement your existing search engine marketing campaign or strategy.

• It is easy to track your daily visitors and traffic on your hub.

• Hubpages is also beneficial for Affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketers can create and publish free content promoting affilliateproducts. Although this not particularly encouraged by Hubpages, it is certainly possible.

• Hubpages uses a unique scoring system for pages where points are awarded for originality and length of the content. The higher the score, higher is the rank within Hubpages. The score system is useful as it provides users with an easy to use and readily available performance or quality metric.

• Hubpages makes is easy for users to flag a page as spam or unoriginal content. Although this presents a challenge for page owners, it also ensures the quality of the site.

• Google likes Hubpages. A page created on Hubpages are indexed by Google quite easily. In fact my first Hub was indexed on Google within an hour of creating it.

• Hubpages shares its revenue with page owners. If you have created a Hub, Hubpage will share its revenue from Google Adsense with you. Payouts will be made once you reach the minimum pay-out threshold.

Conclusion

As we have discussed above, Hubpages offers many benefits for content writers as well users searching for information. The true benefits will be evident only once you start using it. In order to start benefiting from the advantages of Hubpages, you should start using it.

My Experience with Hubpages

As a conclusion to this post I think it will be appropriate to post my personal experience with using hubpages. I have an active strategy for promoting my company’s website on the internet. I use a combination of methods. I use other sites such as Squidoo, Twitter in addition to maintaining a profile on Digg, Delicious, Blogger, etc. I have however not used Hubpages untill recently. When I created my first hub, I was quite amazed to see my new page be indexed on the first page of Google within 45 minutes of being published. Within a week, I had 4 hubs on hubpages, each on a different but related niche. Out of that 2 hubs were indexed on Google within the first hour. I have links back to my site from each of my hub so I am confident that I will receive link benefits in addition to the additional exposure I get as a direct result of visitors to my hubs.

My primary reason for using Hubpages was for increased exposure of my website and any SEO benefits as a result. The true benefits will become evident only with time. The initial response has been better that what I had expected. I will try and put another update here in a fortnight or a month’s time. By then I would have some figures in terms of direct click-troughs from my hubs to my website, and other benefits.

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