No Hubs Older than Sept 2012 in Topics - Is this Fair?

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   janderson99posted 12 years ago

   On a quick stroll through the topics I can't find any hub older than Sept 2012. I guess this means that HP has already implemented a Policy of only showing hubs that are "Featured" and have a QAP score, that is used to assign merit. I guess that means that authors with older hubs, should edit them, so they go through QAP and so have a chance of being listed in the topics. Otherwise there may be a long wait for hubs in the backlog to be processed and have a chance to shine.

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      wildernessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

      It won't bother me any - the only hubs I've ever had that got any traffic from HP are a few that made HOTD (and traffic soon died) and the handful written primarily for hubbers. 
      
      A searcher isn't going to scan through the topics anyway, so I don't imagine it will affect my traffic at all.

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         janderson99posted 12 years agoin reply to this

         The links are valuable.

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            wildernessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            Not very.  While there is some link juice from them it isn't much.  Nearly all my hubs have dozens if not hundreds of links from HP - another one isn't going to make any difference.

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               janderson99posted 12 years agoin reply to this

               topic pages have PR values of 4 and 5   - hubber articles 0-3

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                  Jenn-Anneposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  What do you mean by topic pages?  You mean if you go to the explore hubs page and then select a topic?

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      diyomarpandanposted 12 years agoin reply to this

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         janderson99posted 12 years agoin reply to this

         Yep I could be wrong.
         
         What was the "Last Updated" address at the end of the article?

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            Jenn-Anneposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            One of my hubs is there and it was last updated in August 2012.

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               janderson99posted 12 years agoin reply to this

               It raises the question about when HP began to collect QAP scores, maybe before MTurks.
               Anyone have a page in the topics that was update prior to July 2012?

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            wildernessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

            On topic I specialize in is showing 18 of my hubs, assuming I'm understanding what "topic" means - I clicked the category at the top of the hub.
            
            I guarantee that most of them haven't been touched since well before last September.

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               janderson99posted 12 years agoin reply to this

               Looks like I was mistaken - I did not look on page 4 & 5 - some older ones were there.
               My apologies for raising undue concern.
               Cheers,

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                  wildernessposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  Don't feel bad - I didn't realize there was even a page 2!

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                  Simone Smithposted 12 years agoin reply to this

                  No worries! To be fair, we do account for newness when ranking Hubs on Topic Pages to keep the choices constantly revolving and to give everyone a shot at getting some traffic through them (if we didn't do this, we'd be stuck looking at the same high quality Hubs on Topic Pages for aaaaaages).

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