Uh-Oh, Hubber Score IS Important
We've been telling each other for years that our Hubber scores are not important. We were wrong. From HubPages Weekly:
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Congrats, Your Article Is Featured! Now, Here’s How To Keep It That Way...
So, your article needs to have some search traffic to stay Featured. The amount of traffic it needs and the length of time it has to accrue that traffic is determined by your Hubber Score. Usually, an article will have a full year to spread its wings and start raking in the dough.
New Hubbers are given a generous grace period, even if they have relatively low Hubber Scores, as we acknowledge that it can take time for new Hubbers to get their bearings and for their Hubber Scores to normalize.
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Apparently, newbies don't have much to worry about; but us old timers beware. Personally, I already consider myself a candle in the wind; so one more thing to worry about ain't going to hurt. However, I will continue to try and behave myself.
Me being me, I'd probably remove a non producing hub long before HP got around to it. As for micro managers; yep, I've had a few of those in my time. I'd make a few succinct comments about those managers, but I don't want HP thinking I'm talking about HP.
I remember when our only concern was whether the Hubber Score was above or below 85. That was the demarcation point for whether links in hubs were follow or no-follow. What with HP exterminating all personal site links when the niche sites came along, that's when the old timers started telling the newbies that the scores didn't matter whenever newbies asked about raising their score.
Based on previous threads. That grace period thing didn't happen until sometime between now and 3 years ago; I have no idea when. Be interesting to use the wayback machine to try to find out (I'm assuming the Learning Center doesn't require sign in, too lazy to check).
And I'm bolding this just for HP:
I remember Google taking 1-2 years before making up it's mind about new hubs. Has that changed? If not, then HP may be killing hubs just before the hubs are about to prove themselves.
Just a thought, not my problem.
Hubber score doesn't matter unless it's low, as far as I am aware. The thing's worked out using an algorithm incorporating a variety of factors and a fluctuation seems built in. HP are just trying to encourage "good behavior", I believe.
What constitutes "good" traffic is relative, as it depends on the keywords, some keywords will attract a hundred views per month, some a hundred thousand. If you get 95 views per month out of a total of 100, to me that shows popularity in that (narrow) field!I recently unpublished a number of low scoring hubs to see what would happen. If anything my overall Hub score dropped. I once stayed around 99 or 100 for several years, but now I'm confused as to what happened. It doesn't seem to relate to traffic in my case. Perhaps I'm simply a dumb ass?
Thanks GA, it's good to get solid info into my problem.
Like my dad often said, "Two heads are better than one, even if one of them is a goat head.
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