Yesterday, I decided to change some of the summaries on my hubs. I changed them from automatic to a summary I wrote. I then pinged the sites. The search engines are still showing the summary I used to have. How long will it take before the search engines start to show the new summary?
How long should a summary be in order to maximize SEO or traffic? Is there a rule of thumb, or is it just a quality summary?
Thanks.
It may take upto 7 days or sometimes even little more for google to get it noticed.
by Jean Bakula 13 years ago
All of my 82 hubs are marked with this. Do I have to write a summary for all of them? I never heard of this. Isn't the first sentence available, or a few more lines if you set it that way? If I have to do this, how long do I have? I had more views that ever today, now I am really bummed again.
by Geri McClymont 6 years ago
The character limit for our article summary is 300 characters, yet only a portion of those characters show up beside our article on our profile page. Does anyone know if it is advantageous --in terms of generating more views--to leave our article summary at 300 characters (and not worry about a...
by Jason Courier 14 years ago
With your hub you always want to stand out in Google, so more people will visit your hub. Key factors here are your titles and summaries that you use. I found a great tool that you can use to see how your Google result will look like and how you can format your title and summary in such a way that...
by kelleyward 12 years ago
Just wondering if it is spamming to submit your hubs to the same social networking sites more than once? For example, if you wait a week or so between and you are trying to get your hub more traffic can you submit it again to Twitter or Facebook? Or is this a bad idea. Also if so then how long...
by Wesman Todd Shaw 13 years ago
I'm finding that the Custom Summaries do improve traffic as they were said to do.I want to know, however, from the folks who do get good traffic on their good hubs still, that recently created a custom summary - how many words should this summary have? Of course putting search terms/keywords...
by The Green Baron 14 years ago
How do i promote my hubs? to get followers and some google traffic??this whole backlinking things is very confusing...and although i would like to write more hubs...i don't really see the point if i'm the only one reading them :-(Please help me.
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