What's best: Long Hubs or sectioned hubs?
Do you think it's best to divide a long hub into 3 or 4 parts that can be published at intervals, or is it better to just cram it all into one BIG hub?
I think Hubs can definitely be too long so I'd have to vote sectioned off ones. My patience grows thin if they wear on like a newspaper article does for me.
I personally prefer shorter hubs than one huge long hub. I think they are easier to read and honestly I tend to start skimming about halfway through a long one unless it is extremely interesting.
The challenge in creating sectioned hubs is to create an engaging hub that will make readers want more. Moreover, it is important that each hub can stand alone.
There is something my speech teacher once said about speeches that can apply to hubs. make your hub like a womans' skirt. Long enough to cover everything but short enough to keep someone's interest.
It's ok to section a hub. I've done it and so have others.
I love your comment Daffy Duck. I also love short hubs.
Long hubs are too boring to read. Sectioned hubs are the best because they're easier to follow and understand
Looks like the consensus is shorter! Thanks everyone, this helps a lot! And Daffy Duck, great analogy, haha!
by James M Becher 10 years ago
I have 4 hubs that are unfeatured, and no matter how I try imporving them, they remain unfeatured. Some of them are high scorers: One of them scored 88 today and yet it is still unfeatured. I can't understand this. Can anyone clue me in.
by Seth Morgan 12 years ago
What's the best day of the week to publish hubs?I've been noticing some differences in traffic to my hubs depending on the day of the week that they are published on. While a general trend seems to show late weekdays, like Thursday and Friday, to be the best time to publish these articles, I'm not...
by Elisabeth Sowerbutts 16 years ago
I notice that some hubbers will put out a burst of hubs - 3 or 5 say one after the other and then nothing for a week or so - others do a more regular posting pattern? What works best - I tend to publish then promote and then publish the next one a few days later but I wonder if there is...
by M. Toni 10 years ago
I've been on here for a few years, and I guess I never really understood the point of these scores. They don't seem to provide any real value to the user and I can't convince myself that they add value because they fluctuate so much.What's the point? Am I supposed to use these scores to tell me...
by Disillusioned 10 years ago
I took my 30-days page views count; divided it by 30 and further divided it by the number of published hubs. Thus I got a fair representation of my average number of visitors per day per hub. It comes to a whopping 1.6! How about yours?
by Sally Gulbrandsen 9 years ago
I like the new improved look of the stolen hubs link. Thanks, HubPages.I just wish it were more helpful sometimes! It can be so difficult to file a DMCA. It can take so much effort to track down the thieves, Sigh!
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