Most of Q&A not in Google Index

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   Will Apseposted 9 years ago

   Below are the results of a not very scientific inquiry.
   
   I started on this page: http://hubpages.com/question/hot/?page=20 and searched for about three lines of text from each Q&A, just to see if Google would find the page.
   
   On page 20 I looked at 7 pages
   5 came up in search
   2 did not
   
   Page  30
   3 came up
   3 did not
   
   page 50
   1 came up
   5 did not
   
   Page 100
   1 came up
   9 did not
   
   Looked at page 200
   0 came up
   10 did not
   
   It seems Google has not indexed the majority of Q&A.
   
   On the other hand when I choose an article hub topic (holidays) all the hubs seem to be indexed, even the least popular.
   
   Is Google struggling to index Q&A? Or is the Panda component of Google's algos dumping out a lot of this content?
   
   Please feel free to repeat the experiment if you have half an hour to spare. The results would be interesting.
   
   If you have a couple of hours to spare and a statistical kind of mind, I would be riveted.

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   paradigmsearchposted 9 years ago

   Your post enticed me to check...
   
   The good news... My Q&A has averaged 5 views a day for the last 30 days.
   
   The bad news... My last AdSense click from that section is so long ago I don't remember.

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   Marisa Wrightposted 9 years ago

   I thought that's how it was supposed to work.
   
   HubPages did say it was no-indexing Questions if they hadn't had answers for a while, so most old topics shouldn't be indexed. 
   
   I think it's because there's no quality control over Q&A.

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      paradigmsearchposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      It appears you are right. Some of my Q&A are indexed, some are not.
      
      Rant time...
      
      Damn it, HP.
      
      I posted questions for the purpose of getting traffic, etc.
      
      Should I give up on that?
      
      I could probably come up with a couple revenue generators today, if fellow hubbers answer them that is.

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         Marisa Wrightposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         The purpose of Q&A is not to get traffic, it's to inspire people with ideas to write Hubs. 
         
         I always thought it was a mistake when HubPages added Adsense to the Q&A, it just encouraged people to post there for all the wrong reasons and therefore waste their time. 
         
         The "no-index" thing has been around for over two years:
         
         http://hubpages.com/community/forum/109 … ost2326242

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            paradigmsearchposted 9 years agoin reply to this

            The purpose of Q&A is wrong.
            
            I don't care. Oh well.

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            Will Apseposted 9 years agoin reply to this

            Thanks, for that link.
            
            I feel better about Q&A now, given that there are not huge numbers of them live and they probably do not outnumber articles.
            
            It is hard to judge the quality of the pages themselves unless you are interested in (or knowledgeable about) the subject. Only dwell times will tell you if they work for readers.
            
            I imagine staff keep an eye on this.

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      Will Apseposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Surely a page that get visits on a regular basis will be kept regardless of when the last answer was posted?
      
      If they are dropping Q&A's it must be on the basis of traffic.
      
      Also every Q&A even the most neglected seems to be open to new answers, like this one: http://hubpages.com/games-hobbies/answe … hower#open
      
      Having said that, I just checked the page source for that particular page and it has a 'no index no follow' tag.
      
      So, it seems that when they say that there are '189,000 questions' only a small fraction appear in Google search. Why do not they not tell people this stuff?
      
      This is one weird thing:
      
      site:hubpages.com/question/
      
      900 results for questions -- all on the old subdomains.

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   makingamarkposted 9 years ago

   It's always struck me that HubPages could improve the quality rating of this site with Google in an instant if it got rid of Q&A.
   
   Stick it on a different domain name if it's that important to keep it.

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      Will Apseposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      I must admit, having looked more closely and only at the indexed stuff, most of it is in decent English. I did not read enough to be sure that any of the pages really anwers the question posed or makes a genuinely intelligent stab at a discussion.

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         makingamarkposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         Did you access content via Google or via the HubPages site?

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   paradigmsearchposted 9 years ago

   I just posted a new question...
   
   "A Re view of Hu bPag es."
   
   "Hell o, fell ow Hubbe rs. Got an opin ion abo ut any asp ect of HubPag es? Po st it h ere."
   
   Have at it. Make the critter supersede the other reviews.

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      paradigmsearchposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Someone else will have to post the direct link. I'm not allowed.

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      Will Apseposted 9 years agoin reply to this

      Sometimes I wonder if you are really on the side of the angels, lol.

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         paradigmsearchposted 9 years agoin reply to this

         I am.
         
         But I always state the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
         
         Lose your credibility, you lose everything.

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   paradigmsearchposted 9 years ago

   And my Q has had no response. Blank it, figures, q/a dead.

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   paradigmsearchposted 9 years ago

   HP TRASHED MY QUESTION!!!
   
   Why, on God's green earth, would HP do this? I truly do not understand!
   
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   paradigmsearchposted 9 years ago

   Q&A dead as far as I'm concerned. Given up.

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