Is it better to have comments on or off money making hubs?
I love feed back from my hubs that are my pure expression or thoughts. But ones I use to keep me in the life of poverty I have become accustomed to, is it better to keep Google happy and switch comments off?
Why would switching off comments make Google happy? I'm confused?!
LOL! I've read some people who claim that they get adsense clicks from the adds at bottom by eliminating the comments. . . .so if you aren't running the Hubpages ad program then it might be a good idea to kill the comment capsule on some hubs.
I do run the HP ad program - and so, I figure that if someone can't comment - then they are that much less likely to hit a "tweet" or "share" button, and so I'm that much less likely to get income from the HP ad program through social networking sites.
Social networkers sometimes click Adsense ads too, you know.
It's really hard to say - it's all a gamble outside of writing a good, thought out hub about something.
I was just rummaging through the forums last night and reading the "combat Panda" style threads. Someone mentioned about things like Google down marking a hub if it had "spam" or what it considered to be on a hub comment area.
Sometimes I feel like I am not doing anything to help myself and other times I feel I am over thinking and should just write!
I think I only have one hub with the comments off and the rest are all on. Sometimes when I read a hub the comment section is just as good as the hub was. Whether or not it matters to google or not is a good question and sorry but I don't really know if anyone has an answer to that.
by Liz Elias 8 years ago
Recently, I've learned that "The Big G" considers comments as content, this being the reason HP is going in to edit comments for proper spelling & grammar. Also, along these lines, I've seen it said in these forum posts, that because it's content, comments that are very short...
by Dolores Monet 14 years ago
Will having too many comments posted on a hub be a cause for concern? Could too many comments make a hub less google worthy? I have one hub with over 200 and that seems excessive.
by Susan Ream 12 years ago
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by Sheila 15 years ago
I spent 25 years grading papers in undergraduate university classes. Sometimes, in the comments sections after hubs I read, I catch myself leaving "professor-type" comments ("Excellent!" "Good work!" "Keep it up, semester's almost over!")Sometimes I...
by Shauna L Bowling 9 months ago
I just sat in on an "emergency summit" held by AWAI (an organization to which I belong and from which I've taken many writing courses) which discussed the latest Google algo update, why sites' rankings are falling, and what can be done from a writing standpoint. I found this discussion...
by mega1 14 years ago
This has probably been addressed elsewhere but I haven't found the answer yet. Is it ok to post a link to your own hub in the comments section to someone else's hub on the same or similar subject? I just found such a post in a comment on one of my hubs and don't know whether its a good...
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