Over a 100 Hubs Target to Increase Traffic?

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   johndwilliamsposted 9 years ago

   Hi All,
   
   I heard a rumor here that having over 100 hubs here increased Google traffic. With so much content Google gives you a  thumbs-up and starts pushing more traffic towards the Hub-pages Sub-Domain...
   
   Is this plausible?

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      Maina Ndunguposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      This could be partially true. I don't think it's about the numbers, but rather having many hubs on one subject.
      I've seen that if you have many articles in one site, search engines can isolate keywords that occur frequently in your pages and give you priority on the same.
      Look into your Google webmaster tools account and you'll find which keywords have a high priority.

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         NateB11posted 9 years agoin reply to this

         I agree. It has more to do with keywords. A person can bring in decent traffic within a few months, with maybe about 20 or 30 articles, if the keywords are right.

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            sandybrownpopposted 9 years agoin reply to this

            yup!! good idea to to increasing traffic.

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      peachpurpleposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      writing more useful content hubs, 100 are good to promote traffic. you should try

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         johndwilliamsposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         I am on it - before new year! A tough task, but I am finding Google Trends slightly interesting too.

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      mio cidposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I think you are right.By simple observation I have noticed HP puts a lot of value in quantity ,both in the amount of activity,the number of hubs and the length of the hubs ,and in numbers over all .

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      sandybrownpopposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      i also agree Hubing is good idea to increase your traffic

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   johndwilliamsposted 9 years ago

   Thanks Maina,
   
   Yes it makes sense to create a dominating Niche writing cave as such.....
   
   I just had a look at the Webmaster Tools for my Hubpage - so much interesting info there...
   
   One thing that made me curious though - When I looked at Search Traffic>Search Queries and then selected the Table with Change ALOT of the keywords had an Infinity symbol next to the results....
   
   
   
   What does this infinity symbol mean?
   
   Also I assume a positive Change is a good thing??

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      suramyakhposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      The infinity symbol, mathematically, means something is divided by a zero. So, if that search term wasn't bringing you any clicks some period ago, but it's bringing you 8 clicks now, the change is divided by zero. Anything divided by zero is infinity.
      
      There should be a number instead of infinity if you choose another period, or after webmaster tools automatically updates to include stats for recent times. Good progress!

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   johndwilliamsposted 9 years ago

   Thanks Suramyakh, that helps me understand.
   
   Cheers

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   Rock_njposted 9 years ago

   I don't think 100 is a magic number for Hubs in Google's eyes, although more published materials centered on a topic helps with Google.  More importantly, establish Google authorship for your Hubs and other online writing.  Google will rank known and active writers higher than ones they do not know, I believe.

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   psycheskinnerposted 9 years ago

   There is nothing magic about the number 100 -- it is just an arbitrary number people use as a goal.

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      mio cidposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I agree it's not the 100 per se  but a large number of hubs is looked on as positive by HP

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      FatFreddysCatposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      ^^ What they said. I have more than 100 hubs, and most of the time my traffic is mediocre (at best)....

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   tedwritesstuff24posted 9 years ago

   Google authorship is apparently dead.. http://searchengineland.com/goodbye-goo … hip-201975

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      Rock_njposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      That's interesting.  My photo still shows up with search results in Google.

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         suramyakhposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         No, it doesn't show up anymore.

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            Rock_njposted 9 years agoin reply to this

            I just Googled, "Is An English Degree Worth Getting?" and saw my picture next to my article about that topic.  It's from a link posted in Google+ that showed up in the Google search results.

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               suramyakhposted 9 years agoin reply to this

               Weird! Cause it doesn't show up when I do.
               
               
               
               And oops, I don't know how to make the image larger.

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                  johndwilliamsposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                  Do you reckon it has something to do with being logged into Google+ when conducting the search?
                  
                  As in if you're logged into your account any searches you do bring up your Google+ Posts? Let's test it....
                  
                  If I search my post "what are GIR greens in regulation" (with quotes) I am second in Google, but I am LOGGED into Google+
                  
                  When I log out of Google+ and search for "what are GIR greens in regulation" I am certainly not on the front page!

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                     suramyakhposted 9 years agoin reply to this

                     Yeah. When I search logged in, the posts I have +1ed or my friends have +1ed come front, but author picture does not show up.
                     
                     Actually, this is why +1 was brought (so that people get recommended results first).

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