Do I lose points in hubscore if my lists are cut & pasted from previously published stuff on my other blog site?
It is still my original work but I won't have to type it again!
Does hubpages know to check to see if it was YOU that you copied from?
Thoughts..
You might lose points in your hub score because of duplicated content. Check How Hub Score Works?. You will know what I mean. HubPage.com should have some capability to check the duplicated content. I am not sure how strong is the ability.
Actually, your hub score is not that important. Rest of world don't know or care about that. If you do want to make some money from Adsense, Google and other major SEs is very stringent about the duplicated content issue. Your copied content will not rank high SEs. That means you are going to make little or no money from Adsense.
You will have a lower HubScore if you use any duplicate content whether it's your own content or not.
I think people are missing the point on duplicate content. It's not some arbitrary hurdle that the Hubpages folks thought up to keep people from cranking out content as quickly as possible. The rules for Hub submissions are written to ensure that the search engines (read Google) will consider content on Hub to be unique quality content, and will rank well in the search engines. In some ways it is simply to protect the authors from themselves. I'm sure that drives not only the duplicate content rules, but the number and types of outbound links as well. I assume it's why longer articles are get higher hub scores as well.
So, if you were to somehow mask some duplicate content (BTW, the easiest way to do that would be to submit it to Hubpages first and then put it on your own site or another content sharing site) it will eventually get filtered by the search engines, and only one will rank. Probably the last thing you want is to have you Hubpages outranking your own site for the content on your site. It's a great way to kill your own site.
Bottom line, just rewrite it. If you are the original author of something like a 400 word article, to revise it shouldn't take more than about 15 minutes. Get in the habit of writing two versions of your articles, and then run them through copyscape.com
by Kim Morgan Gregory 13 years ago
Grrrrr! Not happy! Perhaps I am making a BIG, mistake, but the hub I just wrote says it is duplicate material...NO WAY! This is a personal story about me and my aunt making bread with references to MY web site! Help???? I see that lots of folks create hubs referencing their...
by feelhungry 13 years ago
Hi all,Initially I was not planning to publish the information of my hubs here because I think it is somewhat personal. So, I have sent a message to the hubpages support about 24 hours ago. But since I haven't get back any reply and my hubs are all still unpublished, I guess I have to do more to...
by Pamela Kinnaird W 15 years ago
I've received a warning on one of my articles that much of it is duplicated on another site. I then remembered that I had it posted 1.5 years ago on a site for writers, but not a blog kind. I hadn't visited that site all this time as it didn't interest me and I'd forgotten about it actually. ...
by Misbah Sheikh 3 years ago
So, they claim that my poem is a duplicate content. HubPages, are you serious? I hope no one on the internet is taking and stealing my fantasies and creative ideas. Nobody has a cable attached to my brain. The only thing is that I put a quote in a callout capsule and the poem was about 260 words in...
by Gary Anderson 14 years ago
First, can I change or modify the hub and will that make it not original? Second, I have other hubs that should be certified original so what should I do?
by bangawking000 15 years ago
yeah thats right, some of my hubs are labeled duplicate. whenever i put Bible verses (specially those famous ones like John 3;16) after publishing. its a duplicate. . . . . .sometimes i just need to change it.
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