Can you change the url of your Hub?
I have recently heard that hub urls play an important role in determining page rank but because I didn't knew this earlier some of my hub urls are not optimized with keywords. can they be changed? or is their something lse I can do with it ?
Your hub's URL cannot be changed once created. I have on several occasions tweaked or greatly changed the title and that has had a positive effect on SEO.
It is not possible to change url of hub. Anyhow, you can change title of your hub.
The person that told you that hub urls play an important role in determining page rank is wrong.
Google PageRank only reflects incoming links to your Hub so, no, your specific URL has no bearing on PageRank because it is the URL to your Hub and not a link to it.
I think you probably want to know if the URL can affect the search ranking of your Hub. The answer is yes, it can. How important a role it plays depends upon many things, such as your competition for search query results. You can read more about how this works in my Hub: http://writerfox.hubpages.com/hub/SEO-Tutorial-Guide
Go to this section from the Table of Contents: III. A. 1. Keywords
Unless your URL is totally unrelated to the content of your Hub, don't worry about changing it and just change your Title and on-page optimization if you need to.
The only way to change the URL on HubPages is to unpublish the Hub and start over again with a new one.
by SarahSilver 11 years ago
Im posting this question separately so It doesnt get lost in the other threadhow do I change a URL on a hub? Can't see where to do it when editingthanksSar
by Jackie Lynnley 10 years ago
I know we can completely change our hub titles but I wondered if the first title we used is still ours or any there after for that matter even though we changed it?
by Jennifer Suchey 10 years ago
I know that once you publish a hub you shouldn't change the title because it affects . . . well I don't fully understand it, but I know it's not a good idea, especially established hubs. However, if I did change a title shortly after it was published, would that still not be good for some reason?...
by Sanjay Sharma 10 years ago
After changing the title of the hub, the URL remains the same. Does it affect the existing traffic or the position on Google ? How often the title could be changed ? Is it advisable or not ?
by Escobana 13 years ago
When I start a new Hub, I pick a title and sometimes change this before really publishing my Hub.After publishing I sometimes want to copy and paste my Hublink into a message and found out it shows up with the URL and the first title I chose.Can I change the URL and how?
by Andrew Nuske 11 years ago
Yesterday, I created a hub on a specific topic and I only wrote in the title and put it in it's category. I got tired and saved it as it was. I planned to start back on it today. Today I changed the title (and topic) of my hub to a completely new subject and re-categorized it. The URL is now the...
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