How to link your Hubpages account to Google webmaster tools

One of the nice things about Google webmaster tools is that it allows you to better optimize your website traffic. It tells you which keywords are currently bringing traffic to your site and the ones that still shows up in search results.

You can better optimize your website traffic by monitoring the keywords that still remain opportunities for you if you try and dominate it. A particular keyword or group of keywords may be highly trafficked but you could be losing out simply because you are not listed on the first ten pages of Google. So knowing your opportunities is one good thing the webmaster tools offers you.

Even if we are not talking about your own website or custom domain yet, you can still make use of this online tool to optimize traffic to your Hubpages sub domains. Yeah, Hubpages accounts now offer writers with their own sub domain account and you can better optimize traffic to your website by making use of

1. Setup a Google analytics account and get your analytics code

2. Link webmaster tools: Go to Google webmaster tools > Add a site > Enter your Hubpages url > Submit.

Choose alternative methods > Enter Google analytics code > Verify it

Your hubpages statistics should start showing up.