Does it seem like the spammers are getting smarter?
91- C.M. Vanderlinden
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relache wrote:
When someone starts whipping out huge Hubs, and they are published only a minute apart, it's often a big red flag that the person is just a copy-paste thief.
And then there's the UK promotional company which has now made about 388 Hubs and has a rating of 18 overall. Now that's some world-class spamming.Yep, there are plenty of those copy-paste thieves on here. I logged on yesterday and the entire first page of the "Latest" hubs was all one hubbers hubs. And part of the second page, too. And he had something like 88 hubs up in only six days.
89- pauldeeds
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relache wrote:
And then there's the UK promotional company which has now made about 388 Hubs and has a rating of 18 overall. Now that's some world-class spamming.
That author has been technically within our guidelines but isn't likely to be getting much value out of their efforts. When the Hubber score is below 75 all links in all hubs by the author will have nofollow applied (which means no, or very little benefit in search engine rankings).
We've made pretty good strides in identifying problem behaviors and feeding that back into the HubScore and Hubber Score. In some ways that is easier to do than actually removing the content.
However, we do still very much appreciate all the flagging. We look at every hub that has been flagged and determine whether it meets our (admittedly somewhat low) standards.
Hub production and new user signups are at record levels right now, so there are a lot of new HubPages users in the mix these days. There is a bit of a learning curve for them as to what is allowed and what works (despite are best efforts to educate them).
85- coolbreeze
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Thank you Paul You have cleared up alot of issues I was wondering about.
I wasnt aware of the no follow rule. I see it used on many networks.
If this rule was published and people knew about it might it deter people from creating undesirable hubs?- 91
- C.M. Vanderlinden
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Thanks Paul!
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- pauldeeds
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It is covered pretty well in the FAQ. We have intentionally avoided drawing firm lines in some areas because all that tends to do is cause people with ill intent to tread just on one side of the line.
The guiding principle is -- if you are making a genuine and positive contribution to the community you shouldn't run into much trouble. If you are exploiting HubPages for your own gain and to the detriment of the community then you will run into trouble. - 85
- coolbreeze
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Makes sense Thank you Paul
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- C.M. Vanderlinden
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So, it sounds like the solution on our end is to keep flagging if we want to, and then give questionable hubs a thumbs-down as well (Jason suggested that when I emailed him about an iffy hub). I think I've only given two or three thumbs-down since I've been here. Maybe I'll start using it more now.
92- William F. Torpey
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Paul, you mention here that a hubber score below 75 is, in effect, punished. I know that scores on hubs themselves reflect several factors, but what is the relationship between a hubber's score and the scores of individual hubs. Many of my hub scores are below 75; how much significance should I attach to that?
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- pauldeeds
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William -- hubs with a score below 75 are nothing to worry about. Hubs that aren't getting much ongoing traffic are likely to fall down there, but that's ok. HubScore is determined primarily by the hubs themselves -- the traffic, the content, the links, the thumbs up and down, etc. Your Hubber score considers many factors about your hubs in aggregate, plus other contributions you make to the community (such as forums, comments, etc.).
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- William F. Torpey
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Thanks, Paul. You're always johnny-on-the-spot!
