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By premsingh



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 Generally when a new hub is saved as unpublished it is assigned a hub score.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.


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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

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daghfal profile image

daghfal  says:
18 months ago

great hub premsingh.

very informative

Sonni  says:
18 months ago

Hi

I'm considering joining hubpages and wonder if you could tell me the benefits of writing hubs. I like your article it's very informative for new comers like myself.

Cheers!

Sonni

premsingh profile image

premsingh  says:
18 months ago

Thanks dagpfal for nice comments. You are most welcome Sonni to hubpages and I;ll be happy to render all kinds of help to you.

BeatsMe profile image

BeatsMe  says:
18 months ago

Hi premsingh, good hub. Now I know why you always have good hubscores. ;)

Juliet Christie profile image

Juliet Christie  says:
17 months ago

Thank you for this page it is very informational

premsingh profile image

premsingh  says:
13 months ago

Thanks beatsMe and Juliet Christie for nice comments. BeatsMe, its easy to achieve high score for hubs if you follow the guidelines.

weblog profile image

weblog  says:
13 months ago

Great tips. What do you mean by google suggest?

premsingh profile image

premsingh  says:
13 months ago

google suggest is a google tool. As uou start typing any word in the search box, it suggests different phrases indicated by the number of search made by different phrases. It helps you phrase your keywords. Earlier this tool was known by "google suggest" but now you have to input "google suggest" in search box and click on "google' listed on search page.

bhoge profile image

bhoge  says:
13 months ago

Thanks for these tips very helpful. About the 4th option if you unpublish the hub for some time, is that hub get the hubscore greater than 50

weblog profile image

weblog  says:
13 months ago

Thanks Prem. I think 'google insights' is one more powerful tool.

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premsingh  says:
13 months ago

bhoge, what I mean by "unpublish" is - don't publish your hub immediately. Just "save unpublished" initially and keep revising (adding & editing) for few days. You will observe an increase in the hub score. This happens because your own visits are counted and there is something like "bonus points though not officially" for revisions. But it does not mean that you keep it unpblished for months.

Thanks weblog for comming to my pages after a long time. I didn't use google insights so I can't comment about it.

Milange profile image

Milange  says:
13 months ago

Good one hope this is gonna work for me as well!!!

Thanks,

Milange

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earnestshub  says:
11 months ago

hello Premsingh, Thank you for another very useful and sharing hub.I hope many hubbers see this and employ your suggestions.

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Paula Andrea, MA  says:
10 months ago

Another informative, enlightening hub. I enjoy reading your generous and helpful information. Although I have been on hub pages about 3 1/2 months, I am really 'in the dark' when it comes to understanding and applying all of "linking stuff". I appreciate your supplying the much needed guidance. You write with such clarity and appeal. Thanks, again!

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premsingh  says:
10 months ago

Thanks Milanage, earnstub and Pauls Andrea for nice comments.

Typhoon profile image

Typhoon  says:
7 months ago

#7 is a great tip (and missing the number). Thanks! :)

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deepestwisdom  says:
6 months ago

Thanks so much for the really useful ways of improving our score. Definitely helpful for those of us who are new!

krisdmd  says:
6 months ago

Thanks alot premsingh for the good tips. I will use your tips on my next hubpages i will create.

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aoiffe379  says:
6 months ago

Thanks. At least you provided a starting point. I will incorporate some of your ideas and test them.

digitali  says:
6 months ago

Thanks for these tips - they will be very useful as I develop my hubs.

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CorinneM  says:
5 months ago

This is a really great hub - thank you for the tips & techniques to improve a hub score. This is a very comprehensive list.

david-n profile image

david-n  says:
5 months ago

Thanks, I'm new to hub pages and appreciate the information on how to write a quality hub.

juhi basoya profile image

juhi basoya  says:
4 months ago

A really useful hub. will definitely try to improve my score using your tips. All the best

gamerjon profile image

gamerjon  says:
3 months ago

I have been wondering how I can increase my hub score, with your detailed explanation, it get much easier, thanks.

PegCole17 profile image

PegCole17  says:
3 months ago

Thanks for so many useful tips to help become a better hubber. I can put many of these ideas to use. It's good to know that the title can be changed after publication. I learned important info here. Peg

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MelodyRuto  says:
2 months ago

Thanks for the helpful information.

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create a page  says:
2 months ago

Thank you for so much useful information. These tips will come in handy before I publish my next hub.

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premsingh  says:
2 months ago

thanks a lot to all. Your comments will inspire me to add more useful tips.

First Aid Doc profile image

First Aid Doc  says:
5 weeks ago

Useful information, especially for a beginner!

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premsingh  says:
4 weeks ago

thanks weblog, I just tried 'google insights' and found itvery useful. thanks for the information.

First Aid Doc profile image

First Aid Doc  says:
4 weeks ago

Thanks, your hub is accessibly-written and very useful, I can already inspect positive dinamics in my hubs.

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premsingh  says:
4 weeks ago

thanks First Aid Doc. I'm glad to know this hub has been of some help to my fellow hubbers.

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JosephRanseth  says:
3 weeks ago

This is great, thanks for posting it... very helpful! :)

premsingh profile image

premsingh  says:
3 weeks ago

Thanks JosephRanseth, please keep visiting as some of the viewer provide good feedback that could be useful to others.

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Kmadhav  says:
3 weeks ago

Hello premsingh ,

Very effective tips you mentioned in this hub and I tried some points already which show positive result for my hub score and traffic.

Best Regards

Kmadhav

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HubCrafter  says:
3 weeks ago

Hi premsingh:

Great and very informative Hub.

As a newbie, I really appreciate the advice.

HubCrafter

http://hubpages.com/profile/HubCrafter

gramsmith profile image

gramsmith  says:
3 weeks ago

Hi Premsingh,

Amazing tip to improve our hub and hub score.Your giving information is very helpful for everyone..........Thanks.........

RosieQ profile image

RosieQ  says:
2 weeks ago

Hi - I am so very new. Your hub is exactly what I need to know. Gosh Thank you so much. I published and quickly got taken down, so now I am working on it before publishing again.

thanks http://www.RosiesFreeBay.com

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jenniferhughs  says:
30 hours ago

Your hub is very well organized and helpful to those looking to master the hubbing system. Great information. Thanks.

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