New Hub layout live in Fashion, Food & Tech
Hi all,
We've just rolled out a new Hub design in 3 categories - Fashion & Beauty, Food, and Technology - that builds upon the previous design that Simone announced a few weeks ago. Here are the changes:
1. The breadcrumb now displays the total number of published Hubs in each of the categories, to demonstrate the wealth of coverage in each of those areas.
2. The author attribution has been moved to the right, has added a profile picture, and number of followers.
3. Below that, we inform readers how many times a Hub has been viewed since the date it was published, which is also displayed.
4. In the floating share box to the right, we mention that over 50 million visits that the site as a whole enjoys monthly. The popularity of HubPages is one that tends to impress readers and conveys authority.
5. Near the bottom before the comments, we repeat the number of views since publication, and the date the Hub has been updated.
6. We've reintroduced the "previous" and "next" Hubs in a Group, along with a thumbnail of the first picture, to encourage readers to read more in a series.
7. Related Hubs have a similar graphical treatment, with photo thumbnails.
8. Comments reintroduce commenter levels and a photo of the commenter if s/he's a Hubber.
9. We've introduced a second ad in the footer, raising the number of ads from 4 to 5 in this design.
This current design will run for a week or two in these categories, as we find and fix any bugs, and gather data on their performance relative to other layouts.
Check it out!
It do look nice.
Not sure what I think about the inclusion of the dates and traffic stats. I checked 2 competitor sites at random. One had the update date on their articles; one did not. BTW, I have a hub with 610,843 views. Can anyone top that?
Well, since I just talked about one of my hub stats, I guess I don't mind the traffic numbers either.
I kinda want my subliminal door avatar full-size and clickable. But I'm not losing any sleep over it.
Looks good. Looks good.It's popularity has come and gone and is now but a distant memory.
Haha
Was it a time based topic?I'll never tell. You'll have to wait for the site-wide update.
Haha
Stupid forums I'm not going to copy it Anyway its cool that you got that many views on a single hub.
I don't understand why you guys who hate hubpages so much stay here whining and complaining.
My 500+k hubs have already been copied to death. Have you found the hubs you plan on copying yet? Will they be more "five best amazon wotsits I have never touched," hubs, because I just checked your stats and I am not impressed?
You hubpages haters need your own forum or something.
Oh - and Google is out to get you, because I only get my search query stats for hubs with over 800k page views blocked. Or is it from logged in google users regardless of the page views. Hard to tell..........................
It is no more serious than the issues that other people have had. I do find it funny that when you were fine with those issues you called people who were not "hub-haters," and I do believe your advice to them was that if they don't like it - instead of complaining - they should leave the site.
Now you are a hub hater yourself and instead of leaving the site - you are here whining..
There is a word for this....................
I like this-- just went through and tweaked a couple of my old food hubs to make them more friendly to the new layout and cleaned them up a bit as well-- now they really pop and I'm keeping my fingers crossed for more traffic.
I like the author and profile pic over to the right, very nice..... and I'm also pleased with the re-introduction of the " previous" and " next" hubs which gives us a chance to keep readers on our stuff rather than sending them off to other hubbers.
Of course I like having the extra ad and I like the info about when the hub was originally published and when updated and how many times it has been read. I know some people want to keep that info private, but I think it is really helpful to the reader to know when the hub was written and how recently it has been updated. I think this is a great feature.
So far, so good. Onwards and upwards for one and all :-)
Ironher. We live in a very sad world. I've come to realize that it really doesn't matter if I have good writing skills or not. Wanting to do the best one can, and wanting to provide other people with quality information, doesn't pay financially. And in the end, I have to start thinking like someone who needs to earn money...
So by that same logic, a newspaper in the gutter press category, such as The Sun here in the UK, has more authority than The Times, since it is certainly read by more people
Rebbeca Black's "Friday" YouTube video has been viewed more than George Micheal's Faith.
This has been fixed.
Thanks for the prompt fix! Appreciated.
- DigbyAdamsposted 11 years ago
0 "disaster!"
love that word.
- DigbyAdamsposted 11 years ago0
I really appreciate how you guys continue to improve the layout for the test categories. If you asked me (which you really didn't
) I would give this round of features a 7/8; -1 for displaying "number of times a hub has been read."
These are the things I like:
- Author avatar
- Commenter avatars
- First hub image for "previous" and "next" hubs
- First hub image for "related" hubs
- The blurb about 50 million HubPages discoveries a day
In my opinion, the commenter avatars, and using images for other hubs helps break up the text links and plain comments that previously created a sea of text. All these images seem to breathe life into the hub, giving it a more polished, professional and finished look. Additionally, I think the author's avatar, number of followers and the 50 million discoveries line, give each hub and HubPages plenty of credibility. Bravo!
The things I don't like are:
- The breadcrumb font size
- Displaying the number of times a hub has been read
- Placement of number of times hub read beneath the hub's title
The larger font for breadcrumbs, combined with the addition of number of hubs in each topic causes many breadcrumbs to take up two lines. Oftentimes, titles take two lines. With the further addition of the new line about the number of times a hub is read, all beneath a banner ad for signed-out readers, I feel that the hub's content starts way too far down the page.It's a bit small. Maybe make it the same size as the images for the 'next' and 'previous' hubs.
I like everything, but agree that the date published and page views aren't necessary. When I first looked at it, I wondered about it, but saw the reasoning since hub scores are no longer shown.
But won't having the published date posted possibly hurt with ranking if it's an older hub?
Highly viewed hubs are already an issue with being copied, etc. It doesn't take much for someone to figure out high traffic hubs, especially since we know it happens even with hubbers copying hubs/hub topics. No reason to make it easier.
But otherwise, thumbs up. It gives the site a needed polish. I love the update to the comments section. It gives a nice social feel.I hope none of my hubs are the other two that come below yours
Mr Stick calling my hubs crap!Haha I have to agree with you at least in most cases
I was just kidding anyway. Never had a chance to say anything on the forums in days Nothing interesting
- EmpressFelicityposted 11 years ago0
The layout is more viewer friendly than before. The images are great for the next/prev hubs but the postage stamp size of the author is a bit small.
I agree that the number of views should not be made public. I find that it is useful for the numbers as a reference -- perhaps limit the information only to the hub author?
The date and last update are good. I agree that these should be here -- how else would the reader know if the info is current or not. I have left pages when uncertain of the currency of the info, and know that readers of my article will do the same.
So far, no bugs that I have experienced.Ok I get it
That's true
Idea.
Authority is conveyed by this view number being shown.
I mean, "is it bollocks" is one response which UK readers would be familiar with.
Although, I do tend to view the YouTubes with the higher views so maybe there's something in it.
IF that really is the case then why not just put a really large number on all pages? Something 123,456 views.
Then we'd be really authoritative.
Just a thought. Always trying to help.
Here is a picture I have been trying to upload all morning to Facebook and Blogger. It is in honor, homage, whatever to Keith Haring. No, it has nothing to do with the thread. But he's a cool guy, and dead now, and I missed him first time around.
That's a smart idea
And just hubbers would know about it
Also, the published date should be like a calendar changing as the days go by - that would be awesome.
I know Lobo but I want to like the posts direct. HAlf the time I'd be +1'ing and the post's three above, or the page before. Misses the point then. I like to hit the Mark, know what I mean?
Ya I get it
But, the fact is it's never going to happen. They'll say Q&A's are meant for that. So you'll need to make do with what you've got
*sighs* oh well.
Guess we better stop our little tête-à -tête, otherwise we're going to derail the OP+1
Of course most viewed does not mean anything in terms of quality or being best! To think it does is a reflection of the shallowness of Internet "culture", which unfortunately also permeates the rest of modern society.
A hub will get more views if its author:
- is active on HP forums, makes thousands of comments on other people's hubs in order to get reciprocal views and comments, participates in one of the "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" HP-related Facebook groups that serve the same purpose
- endlessly spams his or her Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus accounts with notifications about hubs
- additionally announces the hub on Pinterest, Tumblr, Digg, Stumble and all the other self-promotional pseudo-social cesspits of the Internet
- has the knowledge and means to use keywords in a way that suits Google's current preferences and to produce backlinks that Google accepts as being genuine.
None of this activity in any way relates to the author's level of qualifications, knowledge, experience or capacity for research with respect to producing a quality hub (unless it is a hub about SEO and other ways of gaining hub views )
I've looked at a number of hubs that are being paraded as high-view, quality hubs. Yes, some are good (laws of probability mean that a few good ones must turn up in the sample), but many are full of vapid, ungrammatical drivel of little interest or value.
It can get worse though. And probably will until the search engines are penalized for promoting the thieves. Ain't gonna happen though.
My theory is that high-traffic hubs have lots of backlinks as a natural result. Thus they should be immune to being outranked by the thieves.
@Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. If that's not the case, then you guys need to work on that.It isn't unusual for copied articles to outrank the original, even if the original has better photos and advice. It's a game being played by thieves with Google not caring until it is reported to them. They are the "pawn shop" of search engines.
I think I'll sue them for selling stolen merchandise! Any other business would be charged with selling stolen property by now. Google needs to go down.
Another lively day in the HP forums.
While I'm at it, I'd put this, "This Hub has been read 2,041 times since it was originally published May 14, 2010. It was last updated by the author on May 27, 2012." at the top of the hub, not the bottom.
In other words, have both dates at the top.
