What's the Current Nofollow Threshold?

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   TiffanyDowposted 3 years ago

   I noticed in an old forum searchable thread from 11 months ago that Paul mentioned, "Currently we apply a nofollow meta tag to hubs with a HubScore below 40, but we may adjust this threshold in the future."
   
   I also saw a thread in the Warrior Forum where someone claiming to be a Hub Pages employee mentioned that the nofollow was now in the 70s: "Yes, to clarify nofollow - links are FOLLOW generally, but are limited to NOFOLLOW if you've published 2 or fewer Hubs, and if your HubScore is below a certain threshold (I believe 70 or 75)."
   
   Can you clarify what the current threshold is? The FAQ page didn't have it on there.
   Thanks!
   Tiff

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   Inspirepubposted 3 years ago

   I'm sure it written somewhere, I have seen it.
   
   And it is sure to be on one of Darkside's Hubs.
   
   But anyway, it goes like this.
   
   If your PERSONAL Hubber score is below 75, then all links in all your Hubs plus any links you post in comments or forums will have "nofollow" applied.
   
   For any individual HUB, if the HubScore of that Hub is below 50, then any links you have put on that Hub will have "nofollow" applied.
   
   Now, my own observation, which I have not seen written anywhere, is that when I first publish a Hub it often publishes with a score in the 40s. When that happens, the links still appear to work OK and don't have "nofollow" on them. It may be that there is a "grace" period after publishing for those whose personal scores are over 75, before "nofollow" would be applied to a low-scoring Hub. But that is pure speculation.
   
   Jenny

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      TiffanyDowposted 3 years ago in reply to this

      Thanks, Jenny! It was a bit confusing with two competing statements - especially with it coming straight from HP staff, but that clears it up - they didn't previously clarify the individual Hub verus personal hubber scenario as well as you did!
      Tiff

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   First_home_buyerposted 3 years ago

   I second that, I wasn't aware of the difference between personal hubber score and the score of an individual hub being treated seperately regarding the nofollow tag. Thanks for the info.

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   pauldeedsposted 3 years ago

   The HubScore threshold used to be 50, but it's now 40.  The user score threshold remains at 75.

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      TiffanyDowposted 3 years ago in reply to this

      Thank you SO much Paul - I appreciate hearing it from the horse's mouth so to speak

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      thisisoliposted 2 years ago in reply to this

      Oops, didnt see this, thanks for the clarification!

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   Wonderbaumposted 3 years ago

   Does this mean that once the user score rises above 75 the previously no-followed links will become followed or will the user have to go edit individual links afterward?

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   britneydavidsonposted 3 years ago

   yes the user score 75 and above the links will be dofollow...well just now my score gone below 75....and now all the hubs links have become no follow....

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   buzzybloggerposted 2 years ago

   I was confused too. I thought the scoring system related directly to the hub score. I found people saying that all over the web. Now I see it is related to the profile score. However, why does the profile score fluctuate so much? Is it worth the risk of writing all this content, to only have your links nofollowed. I am not here to make money from Adsense. I never even got the Adsense code to work on Hub Pages. And I would go broke relieing on Adsense to make any money.

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   SamSurvivorposted 2 years ago

   To see whether or not a link is nofollow, you can use a FireFox plugin like SEO for FireFox. No follow links will be highlighted in Red when this plugin is activated.

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   relacheposted 2 years ago

   If your HubAuthor score drops below 75, it's an indication that you're doing something wrong with your Hubs, or you're not doing enough that's right.
   
   
   http://hubpages.com/faq/#authorstatus

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    PromoTomposted 2 years ago

    Thanks for the info.. I had heard a lot of different things as well.

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    babychingposted 2 years ago

    When I first started writing for hubpages, all of my links were nofollow.  Now my hubscore is about 80.  I just went back and checked my articles, and the nofollow attribute has been removed.

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    thisisoliposted 2 years ago

    Yeah it is the Hubbers score not the individual Hubs Score.
    
    I believe it is also 75, however that could be hearsay!

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    Will Apseposted 2 years ago

    You can always use seo quake to check for nofollow/follow links.

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    Dzierbaposted 2 years ago

    I don't think hubpages allows any dofollow links any more because even hubs with a score of 100 have nofollow tags attributed to their links according to the firefox addon that Mark Ling made.

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       thisisoliposted 2 years ago in reply to this

       Just checked my Hubs for Do Follow and they all seem to be in order, check the source, it's not unknown for addons to mess up sometimes!
       
       See cut and paste from an outgoing link on my site below, have just cut out the url and the opening html brackets to make it forum friendly!
       
       a href="xxx" target="_blank" title="Make Money Online">make money online /a>

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