And so does (in my opinion) all the social bookmarking stuff. I mean, if it works for you, great. But I haven't social bookmarked once, and my hubscore has dropped by 20 points despite my average hubscore increasing by 2. And my traffic has gone from 500-600 a day to almost 3500 per day in the last month.
The key: Find a niche with information that is in high demand, and then provide that information before anybody else does. Without giving away too much, it's almost a surefire way to shoot your hub to the top of Google for keywords that get a ton of traffic.
There are some pretty good points here. I try to look for gaps in information, and that's where the traffic flows. "Gaps in information," and "what we don't know" is the basis of all scientific inquiry. And Google is a rather scientific and analytical enterprise, is it not?
I agree, all the "tricks" are not worth as much as good quality writing on topics that people want to read. But the tricks can help those hubs that need help, helps with the Google indexing and promotes, which is never bad. But if you are promoting crap, in the end nothing will really help
by Paul Odien Pruel 13 years ago
Does Hubkarma affect our profile hubpage score?I am just wondering...when I first received my first hubkarma my profile score has increased from 45 to 53. Today I received additional 3 hubkarma - that makes them a total of 4 but my profile score has decreased to 49. Does it mean the more hubkarma a...
by ryankett 14 years ago
If it has negatively affected your hubscore... is to link to your other hubpages accounts I don't actually use any other accounts right now, and have a decent Hub Karma already, but just pointing out the obvious flaw in that system!
by P. Thorpe Christiansen 14 years ago
Can someone explain why a Hubscore goes down 2 points but the Hubkarma goes up?And of course they will no doubt close this question as someone out there flags all my questions and they get closed.....oh well
by Jeremy Gill 7 years ago
While we Hubbers often tell each other not to worry about each other's scores, and we really shouldn't, here's a quote from an official HubPages document (regarding the Quality Assessment Process) that shows scores have at least some practical value:"Articles written by authors with very high...
by Kate Swanson 11 years ago
I'd like to suggest we get rid of Hubber Score - and perhaps even Hub Scores. They:- are constantly misunderstood;- cause a lot of upset and grief in the forums; and- encourage newbie Hubbers to direct their efforts in entirely wrong directionsFor instance, I've known newbie Hubbers stop...
by Bill Yovino 13 years ago
I wish there was a way to turn it off. It goes up and down without reason, and it can be very distressing.
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