Most people will have heard of Hubpages but what are they and how can they be used to promote your website. Hubpages are basically articles that people have written on just about anything and everything. They can be about anything you like including promoting an online business.

Your hubs as they are know are made up of capsules that can include many different things from images to RSS feeds and links to other websites.

The benefits to using Hubpages

• They allow you to link to your blog or other websites.
• They can improve the page rank of your website.
• They can be used to promote affiliate products.
• They can improve the search engine ranking of your website.
• They can be submitted to sites such as Digg and Blogatiser.
• They track your daily visitors and the source of traffic.

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Today we are pleased to announce the launch of the latest addition to our blogging group. Blogatiser.com is a Digg style website where bloggers can submit their posts for others to vote on.

Why use Blogatiser? Well unlike a lot of Digg style websites we do not use redirects for your links and all links are followed so you are benefiting from getting free back links, and as the website grows you will also be receiving traffic from it.

We also share 75% of the Adsense revenue with our members.

So come and join Blogatiser and advertise your blog posts.

One of the most important things when it comes to blogging is search engine optimization. Without it your blog is not going to go very far in the search engines which means your traffic is going to be drastically reduced because of it.

The following 8 SEO suggestions can and will help you place better in the search engines and as a result will bring you that extra traffic you are craving.

1) Your Main Keywords in The Posts Title.

This is a must in SEO and already setup with most blogging platforms. As you can see in the browser this post is titled `Improve Your Blogs SEO in 8 Steps - General Marketing Blog`

2) SEO Blog Categories.

It is important that you put your keywords in your categories Title. If your post is relevant to more than one category on your blog then post it to multiple categories this will increase your search rankings with more keywords.

3) RSS Feed Your Blog.

Sign up to FeedBurner and place a link on your blog for people to receive your RSS feeds..

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I have noticed when surfing around various blogging related forums people asking advice on this and that. So i thought i would start a post on our blog to ask our readers what they would like to read about here.

We will look at answering as many of the suggestions as possible. This is an idea i think most bloggers should apply, not only can it get you some interaction with your readers but also keep them happy it will also help out bloggers when they cant decide what to write about..

So if you have any questions or anything you would like to read about on this blog leave us a comment on this post and we will see what we can do.

Many bloggers will know about sitehoppin and the benefits and traffic it can bring your blog. Well today they finally released their toolbar to a selected few. The only way you can get this toolbar at the moment is for one of the lucky few to give you an invitation code. And we have the code for you.

The toolbar makes sitehoppin ten times faster and far better then using the current method. Believe me you will not be disappointed. Well no more messing about lets get to it.

To download the toolbar click here. Your invite code is generalmarketing.

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