There are several mantras for becoming a successful hubber. If you follow the suggested  steps sincerely after understanding the things properly, there is nothing that can stop you from becoming a top hubber.Before revealing the secrets for improving  scores, let me tell you that hubpages is a site where you can utilize your potential  to the full as a writer, as a online cash earner and as a promotor of your sites hosted on other platforms (though overpromotional hubs are not allowed here).

Hubber and hub score:

Hubpages use hub score to determine the quality of individual Hubs and they take several factors into consideration for determining the hub/hubber score. Hub score is determined on a rating scale of 0 to 100, with 100 being the top score and 50 being the lowest score (it may begin at 50 or less or decline below 50).  A Hubber Score is used to determine the status of a hubber.

Method of computation:

The most important Hub Score components that one should be concerned with include the following:

• Amount of traffic (number of visitors), including percentage from sources other than HubPages
• The length of the Hub: This is the most important criteia to determine the hub score. A good hub usually must have 600 to 1000 total word count (the more unique writing, generally, the better)
• Type of content (original or copied content)
• Uniqueness of content (whether routine type or unique)
• The number of thumbs-up votes from unique users
• The overall quality (layout & design) of the Hub (it should have a nice mix of all capsules) (Hint: Always include Amazon and eBay capsules even though you may be confident that you are not going to gain anything from these capsules but remember you're not losing also besides gain of few hub score points).
  

How to improve your hub score: It takes some time to understand the matrix of hub score. Generally when a new hub is saved as unpublished it is assigned a hub score. A hubber may take a clue from it after publishing a few hubs. The topic of the hub (Title) has a great influence on your initial hub score. If you have prepared a hub on a process or methodology and your hub title have the words like "How To", "What are the ways" "Earn Online Cash," or some refernce to a new technology, such type of hubs are assigned generally a hub score of 50. General topics are generally awarded a hub score of 49 or so.

Next to the topic is content of the hub:

It should have sufficient text material and should answer the question asked in the title if your hub is related to methodology, process or procedure.

Tips to improve your hub score:

Here are few tips to improve and maintain your hub score:

1. Create hubs using your knowledge and experiences

2. Try to research the topic well but don't copy material from the net.

3. Write in simple language

4. Keep the hub unpublished for sometime and keep it revising.(If you publish your hub immediately, your hub score will decline in the begining and pick up later on with increase in traffic).

5. Change your title and see its effect on traffic. You will notice that traffic will either increase or decrease with each and every change. Select appropriate title by observing the traffic flow.

6. Create blogs on other sites providing links to your hubs on hubpages

7. Update your hubs regularly and keep changing tags and sometime title also but it should always match content of the text. While selecting tags, its better to take a clue from Google Suggest. It provide you phrases related to your tag those were searched by visitors in the search box. Select the phrase that was input in the search box by maximum number of people. However, take care in selection of phrase. It should not be irrelevant to your hub content.

8. Submission to bing is also useful.

9. Try other social networking sites and bookmark your hubs with these sites.Mixx.com and Digg.com are good social bookmark sites and all hubbers should submit their story to these sites.

10. Always add news items with your hubs and try to add all capsules including photo, video, links, News , revenue capsules. News feed from yahoo may help you attracting some visitors from yahoo search engine.

11. Submitting free to search engines really does not yield much. Learn to subscribe your hub's RSS feed to blogline, newsgator, atom and yahoo etc. Remember, as many as links you place to your hubs on the net, visibility of your hubs to the search engines will increase traffic to your hubs.

12.Always keep updating your hubs. If any of your hubs has no visitors, revise it adding more content. If you don't have time to revise the entire hub, please try to revise introductory paragraph. Search engines will crawl it again.

13.Take care to create a hub answering a request from "request section " of hub pages, You may have temptation to reply a request but give a thinking to it. Some of the requests may be interesting to few people only. Furthermore, hubs answering requests may not generate revenue if these hubs are viewed only by hubbers. Main reason for this lies in the fact that hubbers are reluctant to click an ad on a hubpage. However, hubpages now gives option to answer a request in short. In this manner, you can provide link to your already published hub if it provides suitable answer to a new question.

14. When you have created sufficient number of hubs, make a blog on other sites like blogger or wordpress providing inks to all of your hubs

15. If you are getting zero traffic, join getfreetraffic or linkreferral sites. Of course, they will send traffic to your site but keep in mind that clicks from such traffic have very low monetary value. Hence take advantage of these sites to streamline your traffic but don't continue for a long time. Also take note of the fact that you may risk your google adsense account as affiliation with these sites violates policies of adsense.

16. Provide links to your other relevant hubs in all of your hubs

Make your introductory paragraph in the hub as much interesting as you can do. This introductory statement of the first paragraph of your hub is the most important part of your hub both in public and search engine's eyes. So don't write it in a casual manner and keep it modifying till you find it most suitable.

Tips to improve your hubber score:

• Quality of the published hubs of a hubber always influences the individual hubber score
• There are few other tricks to improve your hubber score. These tricks demand active participation in forums (hubpages), visit to the hubs of other hubbers, joining fan clubs, placing comments on hubs, asking questions and replying to other's questions etc.
• To maintain a good hubber score, one has to publish new hubs at regular intervals (2-3 hubs/week)
• Visit hubpages regularly and spend considerable time on the site
• Spell check your hubs in leisure time and share these on other networking sites
• Subscribe to RSS feeds