I'm just wondering.... My Hub score for an unpublished article dropped about 5 points in the last hour since I started editing it (it had sat for about a week prior to that). Not that it really matters. Just curious....
Steph
What I have noticed is that the hub score goes up the older the hub is. When you first write it (even if you do not publish it) the hubscore is usually around 50. Then if you let the hub sit for a while (whether published or not) the score will slowly rise over the next day or two.
If you edit the unpublished hub, I think hubscore considers the article new and so sets the score back to the beginning. It should rise over the next day or two.
HubScore depends on a lot of factors. There is no direct cause and effect between editing a hub and the score going down (in fact to a minor extent the opposite should be true). You're probably just noticing normal fluctuations. New hubs do start with a score around 50, and can take a day or so to settle into their "proper" range. I don't think that means you should wait to publish them, but that's up to you I guess.
by Liam Hallam 9 years ago
After 6 months on the site i've started the really wonder how many backlinks is a reasonable number to any hub, and really to a hub becoming successful? Or is it simply a lottery.What kind of figures do other hubbers consider?
by LauraGSpeaks 13 years ago
Why does an unpublished hub have a hubscore?Does anyone know why my unpublished hub that I am still working on has a score already? I am new to HubPages and still trying to figure it out.
by Spradle 13 years ago
Hi, I am just wondering, I started a hub just so that I wouldn't forget the topic I was writing on, but i didnt have enough time to finish it, so I left it unpublished. Now, a day later the score of the hub has gone down! Why is this? Will it effect my author score? Should I just publish then...
by Stacie L 12 years ago
Its funny to me that a new 1400+ word hub is still low in ranking than an unpublished hub...
by Susannah Birch 14 years ago
I thought I knew the answer to this question. But something interesting happened in the last week which I found it hard to explain. I'd be interested to hear opinions.I have a hub which is nine months old and had just reached 250-300 hits per day.I was experimenting to see how many tags I could use...
by fireatwill41 14 years ago
This really isn't a problem, but rather something I am interested in finding out. I have a few unpublished hubs with little to no content in them, and the thing is, one of these hubs outranks one of my published hubs! I am wondering why that happens and if it is any indication of how good the hub...
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