My HOTD hub has a hub score of 68

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   paradigmsearchposted 8 years ago

   Anybody got any ideas?
   
   http://hubpages.com/food/How-to-Make-St … Tea-Recipe
   
   It's already been edited to a fare-thee-well.
   
   Kind of getting tired of it dragging down my profile score.
   
   Meanwhile...
   
   Happy Monday morning!

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      Stacie Lposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      You may want to start out explaining what it is and why you take it. I think you  can switch the capsules around.

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         paradigmsearchposted 8 years agoin reply to this

         Thanks! You are right.

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      Will Apseposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      Are you sure you want a genuine response?

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         paradigmsearchposted 8 years agoin reply to this

         My original intent was indeed to mostly poke HP with a stick.
         
         However, the responses here have been incredibly productive and awesome!

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      Sherry Hewinsposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      Hub of the Day seems to have no relation to score. In fact, on of my HOTDs was later unfeatured for Quality.  I'd be more concerned whether it gets traffic than what the score is. Some of my best hubs have low scores.

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         paradigmsearchposted 8 years agoin reply to this

         Well, that pretty much confirms my then-and-now theory.

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   jansharesposted 8 years ago

   Happy Monday to you para. I remember this hub, saw my congrats comment to you 21 months ago! Time flies here at HP. Here are my suggestions:
   
   1. Title: Choose one or the other between "with" or "from"
   2. Remove the subtitle "Introduction." Replace it with "Make Your Own St. John's Wort Tea"
   3. Make all images full width; change up repetitive captions ("These beautiful flowers make a great tea," "This medicinal plant has helped many people overcome depression.").
   4. Read the entire article slowly and check for small typos - they add up.
   
   If your hubscore does not go up at least 7 points, I will eat my hat. No, maybe I'll help you edit another hub.

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      Will Apseposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      I have never trusted people who wear hats, or simply have access to them for eating, but that is pretty good advice.
      
      It is a friendly, easy to read page but a little eccentric. I remember Simone Smith once talking about 'over-caffeinated, hyperactive titles' and at the time I was pretty sure she sure she was thinking of PDS, lol.

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         jansharesposted 8 years agoin reply to this

         LOL, chuckle. I miss Simone. Thanks, Will.

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         paradigmsearchposted 8 years agoin reply to this

         I wear hats and am proud of it, caps actually.
         
         It's what I do, but I'm getting better.

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      paradigmsearchposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      Thank you, Janis! I shall implement every one of your suggestions.

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   paradigmsearchposted 8 years ago

   This has become an excellent morning, off to do some editing.

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      paradigmsearchposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      An update. All changes successfully perpetrated. I anxiously await HP's and Google's verdicts.
      
      Thank you again, everyone.

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   Will Apseposted 8 years ago

   You now have a pixalated image.
   
   How about this:
   https://pixabay.com/en/photos/?q=St+Joh … in_height=

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      paradigmsearchposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      You are right and HP agrees with you. With my eyes I am unable to tell which one; first, second, or third from the top?

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   Will Apseposted 8 years ago

   The first one is a little fuzzy, the second one is entirely pixalated, the third one is fine.
   
   Past midnight here. My final contribution. Best of luck...

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      paradigmsearchposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      Thanks. May awesome dreams be yours.
      
      Update. Pics all better now, leastwise the HP warning has gone away. How'd the heck did I miss that anyway? Oh, well.

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         Jesse Drzalposted 8 years agoin reply to this

         That's what friends are for here at the Hubpages.

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   DreamerMegposted 8 years ago

   Are the photos all of the same plant? One typo in first pargraph, "you" instead of "your". What about a photo of a capsule in place one of the flowers or even a video showing a capsule being dismembered or whatever you do to them?

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      DreamerMegposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      Lol, I see I have a typo in my response!

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   Jesse Drzalposted 8 years ago

   Little Tuesday morning slow jam for my Hubpages peeps..
   
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyTpu6BmE88

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   paradigmsearchposted 8 years ago

   Well, sports fans... It's been 10 days and the aforementioned hub now has a grand slam hub score total of 69. If the thing wasn't getting decent traffic, it'd be out of here and on my website. I might just transfer the critter anyway.

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      Jesse Drzalposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      When I edit, or get Mturk views,  my scores go up 5 or 10 points. They end up usally in the same range anyway in the end.

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         paradigmsearchposted 8 years agoin reply to this

         Yep, editing for the purpose of raising a hubscore truly is a waste of time; which means our profile scores are pretty much locked in as well, leastwise as to the upside.

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            jansharesposted 8 years agoin reply to this

            Sorry to hear it didn't help, para. I was so sure it would, maybe because it usually works for me. I think the algo for hubscores changed after subdomains were eliminated, even more so after the new sites launched. I used to have a lot of hubs in the 90s. Now most of my hubs are in the 70s, my HOTD included. So I don't think editing doesn't work; it just doesn't work like it used to with the new algo. [If I'm wrong, HP staff please tell me]

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   paradigmsearchposted 8 years ago

   There is also another factor to consider; what was considered an HOTD back in the day is now considered a PoS in year 2016. After all, the critter didn't make it to the niche site while my other hub did. Then again, maybe they never bothered to look at it because of its crummy score.

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      Jesse Drzalposted 8 years agoin reply to this

      Hard to say. One of my beverage articles has not been selected but my three pet ones were..they just have not gotten to some perhaps. These sites are flying out right now. .I do know that you don't need an extremely stellar score to be picked. Mine that did hover in high 70 low 80's. I think I have some dud hubs dragging my overall score down. Whatever. Me not's terribly concerned over it.

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         paradigmsearchposted 8 years agoin reply to this

         Me neither, I just felt like ranting about something.

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            Jesse Drzalposted 8 years agoin reply to this

            Oh I know that's cool! I just like the good convo..

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               paradigmsearchposted 8 years agoin reply to this

               There used to be a lot of that around here. Seems like nowadays anything on the main page not strictly business has pretty much disappeared.

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                  Jesse Drzalposted 8 years agoin reply to this

                  We're bringing it back then.

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