How to drive traffic to your website with Hubpages

When it comes to driving traffic to a website, a lot of things matter. Things such as incoming links, high ranking in search results as well as community traffic all have the potential to increase traffic to a website. So if you have a highly trafficked Hubapges account, you can rub on a little of that traffic on your website.

I recall a situation whereby I had a popular forum in an education niche and also had over 2000 subscribers. The traffic was mostly organic and didn't really care much about subscribers. I was able to use that traffic from the old website to create a new website with more organic traffic. So you can make a relatively new or lowly trafficked website popular by simply taking some magic from a more popular website like Hubpages.

2 Things you can get from Hubpages
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- Dofollow links
- Nofollow links

Dofollow links
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Since Hubpages allows you to include links when writing and publishing a hub, you can include links to external websites such as yours but there is a limit to it. For such links to be dofollow, ie. rankable by search engines, you need to have a high Hubber score(around 75+) and this is practically easy if you write a good number of hubs with high traffic.

The benefits of dofollow links are that search engines like Google would see it as a valid incoming link and would rank your website higher in search results.
So, Hubpages allows you to include backlinks in your hubs and this can help improve your traffic over a small period of time.

Nofollow links
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These are links to your website you can add on Hubpages which would not be crawled by Google as a valid backlink since they are marked nofollow to search bots. Nofollow links are commonly the case with links you add to your Hubs if you have a hubscore below 75.

Even if the links on your Hubs are nofollow links, you can still utlize it to boost more traffic to your site from human visitors. So, unlike dofollow links which focuses on appealing to search engines, optimizing your nofollow links is focused on appealing to humans.

When focusing on human action rather than search engines to improve traffic to your Hubs, you should make use of links that can attract human visitors to your site. For example, if you are writing a hub about Movie legends, you can include a link like "See the complete list" rather than just hyper-linking the word "legends".

Your should be able to encourage visitors to your hubs to click on links that actually go directly to your blog and this helps your traffic even if they were nofollow links.

Other tips
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Include your blog url on your Hubpages profile to also boost your traffic.