Using HubPages and Squidoo is a great way to start and grow business today. Whether you want to make a lot of money or you have a small blogging site set up to make a bit of cash, you can generate traffic with a few simple steps. In fact, even if you have a non money-making site and just an informational site where you want people to see what you have to say, you want to bring in a lot of traffic and this can be done easily, as well. 

1) Register for free at HubPages (hubs) and Squidoo (lenses). Don’t worry about filling up elaborate profiles at this stage. Just set up shop and start writing content.

2) Add quality and fresh content to your hubs and lenses site, and keep your site pages maintained (i.e. remove dead links, update info there from time to time, add fresh photos, etc. If you publish your content and just leave it there to do its own work, with luck, you might bring in a small amount of money. However, if you keep it fresh and up to date, you will have a better chance of bringing in the big bucks.

3) Using keywords is one of the easiest ways for a search engine to pick up your site and bring you more traffic. Keywords should be placed near the beginning, the end and sprinkled throughout the content. And note: you do not want to over use your keywords, or search engines will drop your page due to what these engines call cheating the keyword Internet rules. Also, you do not want the reader to find your information boring due to reading the same keywords too many times rather than absorbing the intended information.

4) You can bring in more traffic by adding outgoing and ongoing links from your pages. Adding links that have the same information or theme as the content on your page will increase your traffic. If you use other links that have the same keyword usage, people will tend to keep clicking through, following each link.

Who knew how easy it is to jump-start traffic to your Hubpages and Squidoo by following a few hints and tips that really do not take long! Hint: you can also use the words "bookmark this page" on your site pages to help your traffic remember to bookmark the content and keep them coming back.


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