List of FAQs in Hubs?

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   eugbugposted 5 years ago

   The editor who made a premium edit to my triangle article over a month ago, added a list of FAQs to the end. There are 10 questions.
   A good or bad idea? Is it duplication since there's already Q&As, plus I have a table summarising formulas used. Would it be better to put these questions in the Q&A section?

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      TIMETRAVELER2posted 5 years agoin reply to this

      I took a look and it does seem like overkill.  However, your article is extremely complex, so it is likely the editor was trying to provide clarification.  Not being a math person, I would find it very difficult to understand.

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         eugbugposted 5 years agoin reply to this

         Oh dear, I thought it was easy to understand. Do you think I've failed to explain things properly? The article is geared towards high school students and younger.

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            TIMETRAVELER2posted 5 years agoin reply to this

            No...you explained things very well.  The problem is that for someone like me the article was overwhelming!  I am terrible at Math.  Personally, I'd like to see it broken down into several hubs that explain one concept at a time.  However, I suppose most people would like it just the way it is.
            
            One more thought I had was that this is information one can find in any math textbook, which makes me wonder why anybody would want to go online to read this info.

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               eugbugposted 5 years agoin reply to this

               Hopefully they'll continue to do so. It gets 2000 views per day.

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                  TIMETRAVELER2posted 5 years agoin reply to this

                  In that case, forget everything I said.  I wouldn't touch a thing!

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   DrMark1961posted 5 years ago

   That sounds like a great idea. I have received the same question three times in one of my articles. (I do not think the readers are looking at all, or even most of, the questions. Maybe just those at the top of the list.)

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   eugbugposted 5 years ago

   I've applied the same idea to another hub that gets lots of repetitive search queries (from looking at GA Real Time)

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   Natalie Frankposted 5 years ago

   I think with Hubpro editing they are trying to rank for additional keywords adding definitions or questions which may or may not be actually related to the hub.  I figured if you can't beat em join em so I have started adding a bunch of additional info at the end under "Related Questions" to see if it seems to help them get traffic.  I have added this type of section to several older hubs to see if this might increase traffic - two where traffic has stalled or dropped off significantly and two where traffic is high but which doesn't seem to be going much higher.  So far the trend seems to be more down than up with a couple of slight bumps up after three to four weeks but then downward but it's really too soon to tell.  The one concern I have is whether Google will see this as something similar to trying to rank for unrelated keywords and penalize the articles.

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   eugbugposted 5 years ago

   My greatest fear about breaking down articles is that they won't do so well individually. Then I'll have to go to the trouble of republishing again and it'll take ages for views to recover.

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   lobobrandonposted 5 years ago

   Firstly in response to TT2 and also to help Eubug answer the question on why people would continue to go online rather than refer a book.
   
   I am working on my PhD right now in the field of aerodynamics, but I still look online for the simplest of things, to better understand Eigen Vectors for instance. I learned this in school. But in school, I was thought to "solve math problems". Give me a question and I most likely would be able to give you a solution. But, how do I use this in real life? Math textbooks do not tell me this. When I look at tutorials online, there are so many "Aha!" moments that I have, where I learn something new regarding the most basic of concepts after reading just one paragraph of a certain concept or watching an introduction into the topic on the Khan Academy.
   
   What I'm getting at is that textbooks are good, really good as references, but you find a lot of real-life applications online, usually videos, but also articles, with one simple search. I'd have to look through plenty of textbooks to find the equivalent.
   
   Most students, such as me move around for education and don't always have their books with us. All my math textbooks are back home in India, for instance, and I don't have access to a library at all times. For all these times, the internet helps And to be honest, the library here has books in German and it's more of an effort. I love the internet
   
   Too much off topic, now my reply to the OP:
   
   As some have already said here, most readers do not look at all the QnA's. If you really want to help your readers, having them within your text or the FAQ section is the best option. Having a question and answer the same as the FAQ question and answer is duplicate content, but you should really worry about this only if the QnA has its own URL.
   
   Right at the start when this feature was introduced, I remember pointing out that HP should include the questions in some sort of FAQ section at the end of the hub, but they chose to go the separate URL route. Some things have changed now, though.

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      TIMETRAVELER2posted 5 years agoin reply to this

      I didn't realize that students turn to the internet to much to enhance their knowledge.  We didn't have this amenity when I was i college, so it is kind of foreign to me...thus the comment.  I see your point, and it's a good one!

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