QAP Update: Improving the quality of ALL Hubs!
This week we will begin assessing older Hubs that haven't yet gone through the Quality Assessment Process. Instead of only holding newly-published Hubs to the heightened quality bar introduced in March, ALL published Hubs will need to meet minimum quality requirements in order to remain or become Featured.
More information on the update can be found on the HubPages Blog. This update is part of our ongoing effort to improve the quality of Featured Hubs on HubPages and make it the best place to publish original, in-depth, media-rich content!
UPDATE 05/31/2013: The new de-Featured icons have changed: Hubs that not Featured for quality are identified by a white circle. Hubs that are not Featured for engagement are identified by a half filled circle. Should be much easier to tell the difference between them!
For sure. Editing and updating older Hubs will improve their chances of staying Featured. Adding high quality photos, more relevant text, and proof-reading for grammar mistakes are a few great ways to spruce 'em up.
For those that haven't seen this LC entry yet, Simone, Robin and I did just that: we turned what were previously OK Hubs into glorious works of art.
That is a very good question! It would help to know when to breakout the map for the nearest cliff.
The QAP is an ongoing process and may never end
. In all seriousness:
-it is a costly program to maintain
-there are over 1.1 million published Hubs
-newly Hubs are published and edited each day
Thanks for the feedback on the icons. I will bring that up with the rest of the team.
We introduced the new icons because many Hubbers requested to know why their Hubs were no longer Featured. We received a lot of feedback on the [suboptimal] design of the icons and we are working on fixing them so that they are easily distinguishable from one another on ALL screens.
...so you added an icon which looks almost the same as the Featured one, so that hopefully most Hubbers wouldn't notice ???
Seriously, I assume what you mean is that without an icon, you couldn't offer a hover-over explanation? It just needs a contrasting color, then.
I don't spend a lot of time in the forums - it could be months before I pop by .... then I'll hang out for a week or two .... meaning I could have overlooked this.... luckily I was here and with an empty day ahead of me to fill my time.
However, I have, just this month, already been tweaking.amending hubs - probably about 30 of them.... it's such a moving target isn't it!
Just read the new "rules" - had to click through two links to get to the actual rules: http://hubpages.com/help/hub_hop_table#informational .... hoping not to fall foul of that lot too often
Some of my "most successful" aka "high traffic" hubs are based around one date each year. A week before the date they go crazy, then nothing for a year. Financially, these hubs can often outperform my evergreens.... so I do need to probably revisit those a month before the date for each one from now on and update them.Noted! We're looking at ways to make the icons more easily distinguishable from one another. Thank you for the feedback!
Yeah!! I was looking forward to this, it's great news
At least now related hubs that are low quality won't be linked from my hubs and yeah some of my bad hubs will go down too. Some of them which I didn't want to take down myselfI'm glad to see that creative writing has a separate scale. I saw Randy Goodwin's question on the blog and the answer to address it. I hope that it works out well for us, as creative writing is so subjective. All in all, I'm glad that more is being done to increase quality overall on the site. I will continue to tweak, revise, add, subtract, write, tweak, revise, add, subtract, write, tweak, revise . . . . .
Looks like the symbols have been eclipsed ( full and half )
It was brownish or if you want to call it orange, brownish orange? lol
That was shown for hubs that didn't meet quality requirements. I saw the entire list from the bottom of the page so I know
You two are both crazy! Judging from past hate posts in HP forums, some hubbers may be quite capable of flying out there and torching the place!
Neither do they need a reason to complain: A top of the line, wondrously written hub (in their opinion) that gets a 5 is all that is needed to set the forums on (virtual) fire. Look around the forums; we're already seeing it when the hub goes unfeatured; give them a reason for that in a low score and the berserkers will come out of the woodwork.
- DigbyAdamsposted 11 years ago
0 I like this change though it does sound trouble for my hubs. No more shallow hubs for me.
Appreciate the mention
I do think outgoing links to authority sites are important, but my theory was more to do with:
- the ratio of sales pages to info pages on a subdomain, and
- keeping affiliate links (ebay/amazon) either completely off of info pages, or reducing them to just a couple of well placed ones.
Personally, a 60/40 split has worked well for me. 60% info pages and 40% salesy pages. My sales pages also tend to be in the same niches as my info pages which I think helps with authority.
I also drastically reduced the overall number of affiliate links within my subdomain by taking out all the referral trackers.
Maybe it was overkill, maybe it was simply about quality issues, but my account has been relatively stable since I did that back in August 2011.
Thinking about other big content sites, I couldn't say without analysing their monetisation methods whether the affiliate link ratios are an important factor or not. It's definitely worth thinking about how Google would algorithmically determine a thin or fat affiliate - what signals it would be looking for? I guess that would be Paul's job though, lol
Very true. My hubs written for hubbers, one written on the side effects of a specific drug, etc. get very little traffic. Because there are very few searches for them, not because they're poorly written (at least I hope not!
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