My Rollercoaster Hubscore

Well, for past three days or so, I have been struggling to find out why my hubscore has been behaving this way. I then went to the forum only to find people asking the same questions. Plus, truth be known, I like to promotethe article which is having this rollercoaster score. There, I said it!

I have to know. For me, hubscores are important. It's like a grade given to me by my teacher during my schooldays. I was proud to have a high score, embarrassed to have a low one. Maybe some of you experiencing the same rollercoaster ride will be relieved that someone else is experiencing the same thing. Maybe you could get some helpful ideas here to boost your score.

BTW, I've written this page some time in February. The article I have been referring to have since reached the score of 100 several times. However, that didn't stop it from going back down to 87 *sigh*. I've come to realize that hubscores, like real life, experience its ups and downs too.

1. The Number of Thumbsup being clicked.

This would mean that a lot of people agree with you.

2. Fans

This means a lot more than thumbsup. This could mean that your article is helpful or entertaining in a way that people would want to hear more from you. This could also mean that you've done exceptionally well in one or more articles that some people are impressed enough to be a fan.

3 Traffic

The more people that gets to read your article, the more people have the chance to give you a thumbsup. Even without those thumbsup, I think hubpages rewards people if they drive traffic to the site.

4. Content

If you could furnish your article not just with texts but with good pictures and videos relevant to the article, your score could go up.

5. Answering Requests

Answering requests is like helping somebody. And that's good for hubpages. That could affect the starting point of your hubscore. You have to be careful in answering a request though. If the question is not popular enough, there might not be enough traffic going to that page. If there's no traffic on that page, that score could go down.

Don't pick a question where the answer is just one paragraph. Unless people give you a lot of thumbsup for that or unless lots of people become a fan of yours because of that, that score could stay low and it might pull your overall score.

Of course, the opposite of what drives it up and...

1. The number of people that you have pissed off.

Let me explain. The other day, I was so eager promoting one of my hubs in a certain forum to a point that another member got so pissed we started having flame wars. All the while I had my hubpage link there. We were able to clear the air since then, I removed some links which he thinks violate the forum rules. We chatted in google for a while, he seems like a nice guy and we might even be friends now.lol I then realized that during those times, my hubscore had gone down quite fast>> 92-86. Maybe I've annoyed a lot of people, although only one openly admitted to it. Maybe some went to my hubpage and gave me a thumbsdown. I don't know.

Later in the day, I told another guy who was asking for opinion about his website that "his website sucked". Not that his website really sucked, but I was tired of him always asking quesions and not taking a wee bit of advise. Was he pissed! I did not know he took my comment very seriously until I got his response, of how moronic I could be.lol

Well, after careful thought, I had to apologize. I admit I was a bit harsh with my comment to him. I shouldn't have said that at all. His website is good. It just have too many visual effects that distracts the attention.I told him that. Our email exchanges have stopped since then.

I did notice that during the time I told him his website sucked, my score drastically dropped to 81!! Coincidence? Bad Karma? I don't know. But my guess is he could have gone to my hub and gave me the thumbsdown. How many, I don't know.By the way, my email to him had my hub URL, that's why I thought he could be the cause.

2. The competition

I have entered the hub I am referring to in a contest in another forum. Of course, other people who spent days making their hub will want their hub to win. WE don't know how the entrees will be judged. I guess it might be based on our score. I don't do this myself but if somebody is keen on winning, that person or persons could just go to my page and give me a thumbsdown. I'm not saying all people who are keen on winning does this, but some definitely could. There's no rule to this.

So, even if your hubpage is good, if it faces a bad competitor or one with similar article, you could still get thumbsdown that could pull your score.

By the way, hubscores usually starts in the 50's.

1.Strive to have quality hubpages. The more quality hubpage you have, the more people will give you a thumbsup. The more people will become your fan.

Quality would mean something that is very informative, clear, entertaining, helpful with lots of links to outside sources (not just your own website) , lots of pictures and videos if you could.

2. Participate in discussions. Give quality comments to people. When you comment another hub, people there see you which means they could click on your avatar to go to your hubpage. Those who give helpful comments are also noticed by hubpages and could help you with your score.

When somebody comments on your hub, try to answer them back. This encourages more people to give comment. This I feel is also noticed by the hubpages people.

3. Be a fan to people who you think is doing a good job. Some people automatically "fan" those who "fan" them. It's just a way to support each other.

4. Some people are annoyed easily with wrong spellings and grammatical errors. If they find several after reading your first paragraph, they stop reading it right away and find something else worth their time. Read and reread your articles. If you could, run it through spell check and phrase/grammar check.

NOTE: I'm not sure if I'm done with this hub. But I tend to remember things a few days later and just edit my hub to add the rest. Do come back to see if I've added any more.

I don't know for sure what hubpages use to determine the score. What I noticed from my scores is that an article's score could go down with 10 points at certain times of the day. It also goes down if a certain article similar to yours is more favored at that time. A personal score is more stable. The more articles you have, the more fans you have, the more stable your personal score is. Experiment! See for yourself what works best.

In the end, as long as you try your best, not just self promoting your product(hubpages know that), your personal score (the one below your name) could go up, even if some of your articles are not doing very well.

Oh, look below! I looked at the HELP section and look what I found--- Hubscore information and more!

1. What browsers will work with HubPages?
2. I'm trying to sign up, but the form doesn't accept the funny characters I type in. What can I do?
3. Where do I get support?
4. What's a Hub?
5. What's a Hubber?
6. How do I make a Hub?
7. Do I own a topic?
8. What should I name a Hub?
9. What's a capsule?
10. How do I add or edit a capsule?
11. How do I move a capsule?
12. What are tags?
13. On the HubPage's home page, why are Hubs designated Hot, Best, and Latest?
14. What's a HubScore?
15. How is HubScore computed?
16. How does HubPages determine an author's Status?
17. What are Fan Clubs?
18. How do I join a Hubber's fan club?
19. What are Requests? What can I ask?
20. What are Hub Groups?
21. Do you have any banners or widgets for HubPages that I can embed in my blog or website?
22. Who owns the content that I post on HubPages?
23. What do those little red and blue triangles mean?
24. What is Hubtivity?

HubPages "Royalties"

1. Can I make a living with HubPages "Royalties"?
2. How does the program work?
3. What are impressions?
4. How do impressions generate revenue on HubPages?
5. How do I sign-up for Google Adsense?
6. How do I get an Amazon affiliate ID?
7. How do I get an eBay affiliate ID?
8. How does the Traffic Referral program work?
9. How do I check how much money I've made?
10. How do I track the performance of Google AdSense on HubPages?

Account Administration

1. I'm not getting HubPages emails. How do I fix that?
2. How do I stop getting email from HubPages?
3. How do I close my account?
4. How do I change my username?

Hub Rules

1. Generally speaking, what am I allowed to put into a hub?
2. I want to write about adult topics, what is allowed?
3. Am I allowed to create hubs about gambling?
4. My hub was flagged as substandard, what does that mean?
5. My hub was flagged as overly promotional, what does that mean?
6. My hub was flagged as deceptively tagged or titled, what does that mean?
7. My hub has been flagged for duplicate content, what does that mean?
8. Why don't you allow hubs in languages other than English?
9. What does commercial mean?

So there! I hope this hub could help you in your quest to better your hubscores and hopefully give you other information you could use as well.

Good Luck!