I am major curious about the answer to this mystery.... just how much traffic are those Hubs who make it to the HOT HUBS actually receiving?  I know that most likely nobody is going to give this up with specific numbers.... but how about some averages as to what kind of traffic brings a "HUB" up to the HOT HUBS List?

I have a few Hubs doing amazing... or at least for me.  I have had more traffic in  a few of my Hubs recently and they are not making the first pages of HOT HUBS nor is my score even budging when these hubs are moving up in score and traffic. (majority of traffic coming from Google and NOT HP...

What is the formula for this so I understand why certain Hubs that don't really seem all that HOT (imho) are on the list and one that I know about (my own) is actually HOT...  or at least Google thinks so???

Go to google and search "David Archuleta Mormon" and BAM top page of GOOGLE!  AND I ONLY CHANGED THE TITLE AND UPDATED THIS ONE ABOUT AN HOUR AGO AND GOOGLE ALREADY HAS IT IN THE NUMBER ONE POSITION...  completely updated!

WHY IS 'IT' NOT HOT?

LdsNana-AskMormon

I know that most likely nobody is going to give this up with specific numbers

So how much is your hub getting that didn't make it to hot hubs? (Mine got 135 over the last 7 days)

I've given up on trying to figure this one out Nana.  This hub got over 400 hits the first hour after it got stumbled and I never saw it on the hot hubs page (I'm not saying it wasn't there, but I didn't see it).

http://hubpages.com/hub/Funny-Hebrew-T-Shirts

On the other than, this hub did well in the HubLove contest and got a lot of HP traffic over a day or so and did make it (not 400, but 100-200).  So I have no idea how it works.  I'm just grateful when one does make it.

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LdsNana-AskMormon wrote:

WHY IS 'IT' NOT HOT?

Cause nobody is searching for those words, Kathryn

To answer you title question - it takes thousands pageviews per day, day in and day out, to get to the first page of hot hubs. And hundreds - if you talking hot hubs for a specific tag.

Nana - using capital letters is the online version of shouting

I too am mystified as to what qualifies as hot on the hot hubs list, but I think it has to do with the amount of traffic it gets, and being on the first page of google does not mean it gets any traffic

This is one of my "Hot Hubs" recently:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Five-Best-iPhone-Earphones

Which gets 70-80 views a day and has had 432 views in the last week, but it is now down on the 5th or 6th page.

Hope that helps.

Hot hubs are hubs with otherwise good HubScores that are showing recent *increases* in traffic and/or comment activity.  There is also a slight bias toward newer hubs.  It's not so much a question of total traffic level (although more is better), but of a recent upward trend in traffic.

The idea is that no hub should stay near the top of that list for too long, it should cycle through stuff fairly quickly so that it remains an interesting place for regular visitors to browse.

Oops, I stay corrected

Thanks, Paul

I think Paul is closer to the right answer. I have had 3 hubs in and out of the top 10 hot hubs over the past week. Each of the three hubs hit the top 10 at least 3 times each and 2 of them dropped in and out at least 8 times.

None of these hubs got 100s of page views a day. They got close to that, but not 100s or 1000's. One of those 3 hubs reached a hub score of 100, but is now down to 96. Another of those hubs is in the mid 80s and made it to the 2nd hottest hub position. But again the traffic, in my opinion, is nothing special.

Here are the 3 hubs:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Day-1-of-19-Day-Fast
http://hubpages.com/hub/SEO-Optimizatio … d-Research
http://hubpages.com/hub/Prevent-Sagging-Man-Breasts

Jonathan

It is really a guessing game, I believe.  Yesterday, Peter posted a HUB that bombed for him in a forum and today it is amongst the HOT HUBS.  So one must imagine it is much like a roller coaster, up one minute, down the next. Good job, by the way, Peter, the HUB is HOT!  I guess that would be considered a shout out, right Mark.  lol

Funny.... I just posted a fairly lengthy response to all, right here and it is now.... GONE.

IN IT.... I gave my numbers and traffic etc....  and according to everything said here already.... we are dealing with a very arbitrary machine on this one....

If Hubs are getting around a 1000 hits.... don't we all think, that is HOT?  I don't care what you are writing on... when Google sends that much traffic... that's HOT!

I don't like guessing "why" I am there or anyone else... What is HOT should be recognizable to most people.... give me a break!

I write when I get frustrated... I am frustrated now:-)

tDMg
LdsNana-AskMormon

1,000 + hits a day is great! I have hubs like that. They were once on the 'Hot Hubs' list, but not really anymore because they average 1,000 hits a day.

Reread what Paul said.

I'll paraphrase- Hubs that see an increase in their average traffic or an increase in the average hubscore gets you to the 'Hot Hubs' list.

So it you average hundreds to thousands of hits on the regular, then it's not really a new hot hub, but a regular hot hub, and it wouldn't be fair to list the same hub on the hot hub list daily when there are other hubs that are hot in regards to today versus yesterday.

Hey Nana- as for googling and being on the top,  I actually think your computer is archieving, or chashing or something and it brings it up on your computer, almost like it is showing you what you are most active about.  Get it, don't get it?  Doesn't matter. 

As for hub pages,  I hardly get any traffic some days, but a lot on others,  I think it also has to do with how active you are on hub pages.  Or that the mysterious hub pages machine, is calculating the hubivity and tracking words or themes at any given time, and calling them hot, because the subject is hot. 

Who knows for sure but the machine it self. muhahahaha. 

I don''t know what your trafic is like, but maybe you can consider (with all respect Nana) a different topic, or a different approach or, just chalk it up to whateva.

I have read some hubs that I don't find very interesting at all but they get good scores, and I have seen really great hubs recieve really bad scores. 

I could say it has to do with your tags as well, the ability to generate comments, adversity, creativity, and suggestability.  It's like ending a question with a question.  If you end with a good question, then expect to get a response.

But really,  I don't know how it works.  I just like hub pages. 

And Nana - if we just took that criteria, I have a feeling that all the hot hubs would be "Hot pictures of Indian chicks in their underwear" or "How to cheat at Halo." LOL

As you can see, hot chicks  are slighly more popular as a search term at google:

I have been reconsidering what you mentioned about searching "David Archuleta Mormon."
1. How many people search that topic? Probably not many.
2. How many other sites did it bring up besides yours?

I looked the exact phrase on Yahoo, and found David's Myspace as the top; yours wasn't on the front page at all. Yahoo results- 608,000

In Google, your hub was the top. Google results- 10,700.

In both searches thats a relatively small number of sites that they pulled.

It's always about the Hot chicks.  Darn them!  I think I need a makeover.  I wonder what would happen if I put hot chicks in all my tags?  lol.

You are a pretty hot chick yourself Darn you

I don´t understand you Nana , you have this hub in the first page of hot hubs right now! I wish I got one of mine there

Congratulations with the success of this HUB.  I think all the views alone would suggest it is certainly a HOT topic in today's news.  Perhaps next time you could reword your title to be, "There Are No NUDE Photos of Mormon David Archuleta, He Is Simply Not A HOT CHICK With BIG BOOBS."  Just a suggestion. : )

In The Doghouse wrote:

Congratulations with the success of this HUB.  I think all the views alone would suggest it is certainly a HOT topic in today's news.  Perhaps next time you could reword your title to be, "There Are No NUDE Photos of Mormon David Archuleta, He Is Simply Not A HOT CHICK With BIG BOOBS."  Just a suggestion. : )

LOL - thats a good one.

Here is a hub whose appearance on the front of the topics page looks like it was the result of manipulation: http://hubpages.com/hub/www_friendster_com

Notice all of the comments that make it look like there is a lot of interest and perhaps debate going on. The hubpage algorythm seems to have loved this hub. But note that almost all of the comments are from unregistered users (probably the same person or the author's friends) and are generally meaningless.

And the hub got a score of 95 on top of everything.

I hope hubpages will look at how their rankings are being manipulated and take steps to prevent this.