SEO: How to Increase Your Hub Score
79SEO is something that all website or blog owners should learn about and one excellent way to do this is with many of the social networks such as Squidoo, StumbleUpon and HubPages. Although traffic from these sites can be great, we really need backlinks that don't have the "no follow" attribute. This means that Google will follow these links, pass on page rank and give your site a boost in the search engines. Getting links is probably one of the most important things you can do in terms of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).
Although getting backlinks with HubPages does work well, it's important to realize that it is a social site and not simply an article directory such as EzineArticles.com or Buzzle.com. Article directories are amongst the easiest ways to get SEO-friendly backlinks. In order to prevent spammers from abusing the system by creating dozens or even hundreds of accounts, a scoring system has been put in place.
When you first join you'll given the status of Prodigy which means your backlinks will be followed (which is great for SEO). However you will notice that within just a matter of days your status may drop to Average or even Novice. When this happens your links will have the "no follow" attribute (very bad for SEO).
How to Use Hub Pages For Search Engine Optimization?
First of all, I'm no expert in HupPages and I'm just learning myself but from what I gather you need to take part in the community and basically be an active and good quality HubPages user. If you want to increase your score you should start doing the following:-
- Comment on other pages. Don't leave junk "nice page" comments. Actually read what was written and mention specific points. Say that you didn't know this information before and how useful it was.
- If you like a particular page make sure you give it a thumbs up and join that person's fan club. Hopefully they will reciprocate which in turn gives your score a boost.
- Driving traffic to your pages via various sources will help a great deal. One of the easiest ways to do this is by using StumbleUpon. I have a fairly strong StumbleUpon profile which means I can usually get in the region of 80 visits with my thumbs up alone. If you want consitent search engine traffic then you should be getting "anchored backlinks" to your hubs. To do this you need to read up on some basic SEO. The best sites I can recommend are Griz's Make Money Online For Beginners, Court's Internet Marketing School and Vic's Blogger Unleashed. What I will often do is some article marketing with anchored backlinks to the hubs I want to promote. This will help with getting higher in the SERPS and therefore traffic, but it will also help to give your Google PageRank (PR) a boost which will then help your own sites.
- Keep updating your pages. You can do this by adding videos, amazon and ebay units, add in photos and make changes to the text.
- Look through the Requests and search for some questions that you can easily answer. This is what I am doing with this particular hub. Obviously I'll have to wait to see if it works. UPDATE: I don't feel that this is too important. Getting traffic from the search engines and creating multiple quality hubs will increase your score better.
- UPDATE: As of 25 June 08 I haven't created a new hub in quite some time and as a result my overall score as dropped from the mid-ninties to the mid-eighties. It seems that HubPages likes you to create hubs on a regular basis. As long as my hub score stays above a certain amount that is all I care about at the moment.Many HubPage users create hub purely for fun, for me I use HubPages more because I'm an Internet Marketer.
Hopefully this guide will give you an idea of how to increase your score and get backlinks from your pages, giving your sites a boost in SEO. Please also note that your writing should be for the reader and it shouldn't simply be to get people to buy stuff from you or to get backlinks.
I think that's pretty much it. HubPages have implemented this rule to prevent spammers from setting up dozens of accounts. Remember the site is a social site so you need to take part. By doing this you'll increase your score and ensure that all outgoing links are do followed. There is no reason why people into internet marketing cannot use HubPages as long as we all follow the rules.
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nice hub
Thanks, this sort of information really is very helpful.
Thanks-- I needed that:-)
This kind of hub has sure helped me as I roam these pages. Keep writing.
I discovered some things in your hub I didn't know,Thanks. One question tho, what is the fasted way to get a strong profile on StumbleUpon?
BoCat, you need to stumble lots of sites and get stumbleupon friends, do reviews of stumblers and hope they do a review of you. The more active you are the more your thumbs up count. I don't do much stumbling now but I still can get OK traffic even if I'm the only one to stumble a post.
Well that's what Social Networks are all about. "Share what we know!"
Great work and exactly what I needed to hear tonight.
Cheers, Marcus
Thanks for the tips. Been searching for a while!
Thanks, I'm new and all this about hub scores is a wee bit confusing. :)
I thought that you as the hubster, (is that a word?) would need to have a certain score as well as the individual hubpage for you to have a nofollow link?
Hi i am new to this site, but found out your column very educaitve, i will try those tricks soon.Thanks.
very helpful post! I just joined hubpages yesterday and i'm looking forward to adding a bunch of content. I have been wondering what to do about the no follow curse but seems like if you simply partake in the community you reap the rewards. Thanks for the insight!
i'm also a newbie here... and i need as much help as i can... :) this hub has helped me alot... um... question though, will other network sites like friendster be of help? :)
Just the info I was looking for, I was wondering why I was stuck with no follow links on my page...
Yes, I really liked what you said about "your writing should be for the reader" after all that is who will be reading it!.
I really like hubpages because it allows everyone to share tips and info that is helpful as well as your personal experience.
great job - thanks
Just the kind of info in need. I just started a business directory and need some good SEO to beat out some of the bigger business directories that are around.
extremely useful stuff. Will try to get this hubs works asap
Thanks for the tip!
Great hub!
You say: "Look through the Requests and search for some questions that you can easily answer. This is what I am doing with this particular hub. Obviously I'll have to wait to see if it works."
Just out of interest - what's your verdict? You certainly seem to have a lot of comments!
Personally I don't think answering the requests made much of a difference. I think traffic and creating lots of hubs is more important.
Thanks april kerr. I think reading other peoples hubs, posting in forums, commenting, etc, will improve the hubbers scores whilst the hub score seems to be determined mainly by traffic.
Thanks for this hub. Good advice for us to follow
Great points and advise. I do have to say that we could only wish that officla Hub Guide would include this information. Since the score is a measuring sustem provided by the system - all new users should have an introduction to it.
Thanks again for the guidelines.
Thank you for your advice. I was looking for it on google and glad that i found this. Thanks!
Thank you for your advice. I was looking for it on google and glad that i found this. Thanks!
By the looks of this hubs score it doesn't look like this is how you raise "the score":(
You tell people to comment on hubpages and here they are, commenting. :) I read basically the same thing in another hub as well as through a blog outside HubPages. I do believe generating traffic helps more than anything, and your score will likely rise, as I found your hub in a Google search _ first page!
s. hope comments are best way to thrive traffic i think
before reading this article i was confused with hubscore .
but now it's clear.
I came across this hub today and this hub is useful Thanks
Thank you. I am new to the Hubpages seen and need all of the advice I can get!
These are all great ideas for making money online I just posted a new hub explaining how to make a ton of easy cash on the internet using directory script.
HI , GREAT INFORMATIVE ARTICLE .
this is very nice will put in effect now
Thanks a lot for this hub. It was an eye opener to me ;-)
I agree to each and every point mentioned by you. Great one! Cheers
Hi April! Thank you for your informative article and the links to the SEO sights. I, too, am an Internet Marketer (new) and chose HubPages for my place to write and post articles. I'm looking forward to checking out your other Hubs!
Until next time...Annie
I didn't know how Stumbleupon worked. Thanks for the info.
Rick
Some very useful points there, I have now adopted StumbleUpon and will be making updates to my Hubs. Thanks :)
Thank you this was pretty helpful. Much appreciated, as i am new to hubs. And glad to know i was not alone.
Thank you for posting such a helpful post. I am currently trying to use hubpages to help with SEO, but I am not trying to be deceitful in my tactics, I really am trying to get exposure on some important information. Thank you for your help!
Great tips! I'm sure this information will help me increase my scores.
I have been getting a low quality score. Am now happy that things are going to get better. Thanks for the great information.
good information so pretty much basic SEO principles. I also red somewhere that you need good content, lots of it but obviously that is not the golden rule.
This is useful information. As a new hubber it was a good read. I guess once the score is up I'll have to make sure to add a new hub every month at least.
I really like those sites that you linked too. They are very useful, especially Grizz's site, and have taught me a lot about SEO and making money online. Congrats too on getting this hub to number 1 on Google (it was how I found it).
Hi,
Thanks for the information! I was wondering why my score wasn't getting higher. I don't create Hubs on a regular basis, something I will work on for the future.
I don't understand on how Hubpages.com examine amount of links, few hours a go I was trying to publish my hubpages, but each time I click "publish" button, a message appears telling me that there's an excessive links point to one site...that's not true, I only put ONE LINK in that unpublished hubpages.com, but when I see yours now there are 4 links, that's more than number decided by Hubpages.com which is only 2 links. Therefore I canceled to publish it.And thanks for the above hubpages, it's really the tips I've been looking for...Abi
Perfect and great example as i actually found this through google when searching for how to up my hub page score.
Thanks
I was trying to figure out how to become a high scorer and you have provided some details on how I can start. But am I right to think that it has a lot to do with being a consistent contributor in terms of new and useful hubpages that will provide a higher overall score?
Thanks!
Thanks for the information
Yahoo Answers and Question Answers sites are also great tool to drive traffic to your website.
This article is very helpful. thank you.
I just enjoy writing, and I don't have the foggiest idea what the scoring system is all about. I just started 2 days ago on the Hub and though I have good traffic my numbers go up and down during the day. I wish you had included the basics of scoring...is there anyone to ask? I'm sure the tips you give will be helpful to me as I get more experience here.
Excellent post! I recently joined and was looking for recommendations on increasing HUB score. This answered my question
Wow thanks for the mention!! I actually need to improve my score quite a bit. I haven't used HubPages a ton in the past and have almost always used EzineArticles and Squidoo. It seems like HubPages is getting to be a lot stronger though so I'm going to start using it quite a bit. Thanks for some good advice!
Hi April,
Oh how terrible your one of those internet marketers.
Just kidding. Yes it's frustrating to boost your score here high enough and then come back a month later to relize you've dropped below the threshold. They do want you to be consistent here for sure.
So what do you market. If you'r in health and fitness I've got a great affiliate program coming online hopefully in the next few days.
Phil
This information really helped, I was wondering how the score was calculated. By the way, how did you get such a strong stumble upon profile? Did you do that just by being an active SU user?
Thanks for the information. Although I have been studying SEO for some time, I am just now starting to use the web 2.0 or social side for getting backlinks.
thank you good read and just what i was looking for as i am having trouble getting my hub score out of the 60's. I think i need to participate in the hub community a bit more.
I was wondering about the scoring system. Thanks for the info.
Big fan of Grizz and Court/Mark as well. Thanks for the info. I was wondering about my weak Hub score.
This was very helpful to me. I have so much to learn, but it is fun stuff. Please keep writing more good articles. Thanks.
excellent work! Just the information any newbie would be looking for. I can't wait to join the social community!
Nice, this is exactly what I was looking for, I already added a bunch of content yet when I added more my score dropped by one. I think I just need to give it some time first and see if it settles or keeps dropping.
extremely useful stuff i didn't know before! Thanks for the share!
Thanks, this article was very helpful to someone (like me) who is new to HubPages.
Good info April. It's always interesting to try new things like hub pages and incorporate them into your MMO portfolio.
Thanks for the information on increasing hub score. I've just recently started using them an this helps alot
good work on how to increase hub score
some simple SEO can improve ur page ranking dramatically, try it... http://hubpages.com/hub/Search-Engine-optimization
You do have a good number of comments here. Earlier in the comments you mentioned that building Stumbleupon friends is important. Maybe a Hub on this topic would be in order?
thanks so much for this article. I have been trying to increase my hub score as I have only been a member for 2 months and have noticed my score going up and down. I would love to be above 75 but it seems to be a work in progress. I also do internet marketing and find this type of marketing very interesting. If you have any more pointers to help me get my score up, please let me know! Thanks again.
thanks for this article - have voted up. i'm still lacking clarity on how the author score operate (like how to exactly increase it by 5 pts, 10pts, etc), but this article is giving me some direction to work in. thanks! voted up
Good information to know , thanks for clearing the score issue up for me . I am new to this site and was wondering how that worked
Great hub! I'm kind of new and didn't know how everything worked. I'll be researching the ESO. Cheers.
Thanks for the info! Very useful to HubPage and internet marketing newbies like me. I didn't know about the "no follow" attribute but its effects on SEO make sense. Thanks again!
Hi, thanks for the information but I am still a little confused. Is all that's required is to comment on hubs and build more hub pages?
recently my hub score dropped a little and you article has removed much ambiguity, thanks for the article
Thanks for the great tip, my hubscore has feel recently, so I appreciate the information you have provided.
Ive just posted my first hub so i looking for was to hit the top rankings. Ill take note of what you said seems to make a lot of sense thanks.
Extremely helpful...Hopefully my scores will go up as a result of this article. Thanks!
nice read for a beginner like me , constructing a 1st hubpage!
Awesome few tips to take into account when you are on Hub Pages.
Thanks for this, it was a good clear read on SEO and increasing your hub score.
You should come back, traffic's really skyrocketed since you wrote this....
All the best!
Thanks I had no idea what that score was or how it was calculated, I just noticed mine was really, really low. Boy, I have some work to do...;(
Is there a specific list of what drives your points up by what amount?
Being new to Hub Pages and trying to figure out the scoring is really helpful. I really like the scores but then again I am new and I have only one way to go - up. Please keep posting more imformation on this hot topic. I am eager to learn.
This kind of hub has sure helped me as I roam these pages. Keep writing.
this hub is really helpful for beginners like me.
My hub score dropped a TON after I become more active to raise it. WHAT"S UP WITH THAT?
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pjdscott says:
2 years ago
And a big thumbs-up to you! Being a newbie, your observations have made a lot of sense. The "nofollow" attribute is annoying, but at least one generate s 'site-love' at the expense of 'link-love' through HubPages and others. Thanks aprilkerr