Ever had a three way? If you have, then
chances are you noticed something. They're only good if you know what you're doing.
The hub and spoke strategy is your
internet orgy. If you do it right, you'll soon be seeing multiple
climaxes in multiple areas. If you do it wrong, everyone will be
flopping around, self conscious and there will be one guy with his
dick hanging out, not doing anything at all. No one will get off.
If you want to get off, you need to
know your internet erogenous zones. i.e. niche topics.
A hub and spoke works like a bicycle
wheel. There is one main page, or hub, that all the other pages, or
spokes, branch off of. For example, this page, The SEO Slut, is a
spoke page to my main page, Essa on Everything.
The hub and spoke works really well if
you can break your topic down into niches. On my main page, I write
humor on a very general range of topics, from sex to internet scams.
However, my target audience there generally doesn't have the desire
or the knowledge to care about SEO. So I turned that into a niche
page and started writing here.
This is the first spoke in my hub. This
gives me multiple benefits. I get more incoming links for my main
page. I get internet traffic and I get my name out there. In
addition, its not hard, or expensive to do.
I run my main page off a wordpress.org
platform hosted by Blue Host. However, for my spoke page, I have a
100% free blogger account. When I set up another spoke page, I will
do it on a web 2.0 platform like Squidoo...also free.
This gets my name in multiple platforms
as well. When you get started on any platform, the majority of your
initial followers will be from that platform. If you can get multiple
followers on multiple pages, you're going to climb in the rankings.
Eventually, your page get most of its searches from organic traffic.
Plus, with a niche, you can really
target your SEO.
Finally, these free websites are pretty
easy to maintain. I'll post generally 1-2 times per week on this
page, and 3 times per week on my other one. And I don't interact on
my spoke page. On this page, I have comments disabled. This is for
two reasons. One, answering comments on multiple pages would be too
much and I'd soon be ripping my hair out. Two, anyone who is
interested enough to try to contact me will head over to my main page
and I stand the chance of getting a high quality follower.
High Quality Follower = someone who
actually reads the shit you write.
I would recommend starting off one
spoke and adding on as you get more time. Take a look at your general
overall topic and break off one small, specific piece of it. If you
run a dating site, create a spoke page just about dating online or
something like that. This will allow you more target SEO and will
expose you to a new audience.
God knows how I love to expose myself
to audiences.
