After writing and having your hub approved you are given a score...is this pertaining to quality or traffic?
The score is achieved through a rating system called the Quality Assessment Program. It is both actual readers through Amazon's MTurk human outsource and through HP bots guided by algorithms. They combine for that rating. At question and in dispute at times are those readers with their subjective views influencing their opinion.
In contrast is their objectivity of the structure and quality of content with focus on language usage, substance, and mechanics like grammar. Admittedly my experiences leave me guessing many times. Traffic influences rating much latter with its gains and losses. When the Hub reaches a point of stable sometimes 6 months to year later that fluctuation is up or down 2 or 3 with my experience. But, like LeanMan points out low scores do receive at times immense traffic. That leads to SEO techniques and principals that I am still learning. There is good advice here in the forums and hubs available on that to receive greater traffic.
The thing to keep in mind is that the hub scores are in no way equivalent to school grades because improving the hub will not necessarily improve the score and may make the score worse. It threw me at first because anything less than a 95 in school was a bad grade, one that required study and effort to fix and improvements in my work invariably produced improvements in my grade.
They have very little meaning because a hub with a score of 100 can have a score in the seventies in a few days without any changes made to the hub. Editing out a typo may drop your hub score significantly even though the hub is better rather than worse after the typo has been fixed.
I guess my point is not to worry about the scores unless they are so low the hub loses its featured status.
Both by all accounts if you read the learning center.
These scores have been long disputed and discussed by Hubbers and the consensus of opinion generally seems to be - "who cares"..
People have low scoring hubs that get loads of traffic while hubs that score highly are completely ignored by the search engines - at the end of the day the only real measure of your hub is if you get readers...
I think the high scores have something more to do with how unique the content is. You know, if you're writing very thorough pages about a very obscure subject you will likely get a high score on the page....but think about that, very obscure subjects don't get much traffic - so having a high scoring page is in no way a promise that the page is 'good' insofar as earning money from goes.
I think the initial one is for quality because you normally receive it even if you have zero views on the same.
I want to thank everyone that commented-I have always been curious about this.
by Kate Swanson 11 years ago
I'd like to suggest we get rid of Hubber Score - and perhaps even Hub Scores. They:- are constantly misunderstood;- cause a lot of upset and grief in the forums; and- encourage newbie Hubbers to direct their efforts in entirely wrong directionsFor instance, I've known newbie Hubbers stop...
by Faith Reaper 11 years ago
I am just curious, all 92 hubs of mine are featured. In your opinion, should one delete (although Featured) any hubs where the score on a particular hub has eventually dropped way down from when it was initially high at one point? Or would it be better to just unpublish and later...
by Palis Pisuttisarun 10 years ago
Hello guys!I just started HubPages less than a month ago so I'm fairly new and might not understand the way HubScore works like you do.I have published 5 hubs and I published my 5th hub yesterday. My fifth hub is called "Everything You Wanted to Know About Whole Grains", by the way. I...
by Writer Fox 12 years ago
I would like a better explanation of the Hub Score. I have a Hub that I uploaded on May 12th, it's ranked #2 on Google search results for its main keyword phrase, it's getting 175 visits per day sent by Google, but the Hub Score is only 78. Is that because someone at MTurk didn't like...
by Marina 9 years ago
A month ago I announced some updates to HubScore: raw traffic is deemphasized, reader satisfaction is emphasized, and overall, the scores are a more accurate reflection of the quality of Hubs than they used to be. Today, I'd like to talk about the subsequent update to Hubber Score — the score...
by Catherine Giordano 9 years ago
My Hub "People Almost Met: Lily at the Pool" recently had a hub score of 100 and stayed at the level for about two weeks. Now it is in the 60's. It has lots of comments and about average views (for my hubs). Anyone know what I can do about this?
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