Why is it when I do a search on Google for my Hub Page profile, the number one result is another Hubbers profile?
Is this a Google screw up?
On Yahoo, the number one result IS my profile, but on Google it's someone else's Hub Page profile.
Good question. I am hardly in your category as an experienced hubber who knows what he's doing. However, if I had the same question in mind as you my first thought would be "POOP!"
by Baimezan 11 years ago
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by Shadesbreath 15 years ago
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by barranca 16 years ago
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by John Coviello 12 years ago
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by Alison Graham 12 years ago
I am looking for some advice. I am trying to improve the quality of my hubs old and new. As part of this, I have been going through them, taking a snippet from the beginning of the hub, pasting it in "..." to Google search.This gives me one way of telling if my hub has been copied....
by A. Bove 12 years ago
Newish to HubPages and noticed one of my hubs "Sweet Potato-Carrot Soup" has received over 30 hits today, yet if I do a search for it on google, I don't come across it. I was futzing around with linking soup on another hub and accidentally clicked the sweet potato one (not sure if its...
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